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New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers

[Mar 28, 2012, 1:57 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

AMD now offers new version 12.3 Catalyst reference Drivers for AMD/ATI graphics cards. The new drivers add support for a number of new products, and include the following mostly game-related changes:

AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/delays have been resolved
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim : No longer displays flickering and texture corruption with Anti-Aliasing enabled
Alan Wake : A system crash is no longer experienced when running the game in DirectX 9 mode with Crossfire enabled.
Far Cry 2 : A random system hang is no longer experienced when running the game at high in game setting.
Tom Clancy HAWX : No longer crashes after task switching with MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing) and Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Furmark Benchmark : No longer crashes when launched in High Performance mode.
Quake 4 : No longer display corruption after task switching when run in High Performance mode
XPlane : Textures no longer exhibit flicker and corruption.

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Re: New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers

Mar 28, 2012, 20:03

Asmo

Dades wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 17:56: ochentay4 wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 17:51: Dades wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 17:41: Getting a little tired of these constant updates, can't they just work with developers like Nvidia does? Just dont update if the fixes do not affect you. It's the frequency. I have to update because otherwise many releases aren't very playable. I couldn't play RAGE at all for almost a month. Nvidia gets this right, I don't see why AMD can't. Indeed. I've had non stop dramas with my 5970 since about 11.6 with random corruption and tearing. Exhaustive testing of the card and system shows no physical faults, and endless web searches shows many people having the same issue with the newer drivers/ccc. Ati have a reputation for shoddy driver releases. I'd technically be an Ati fanboi given how many of their cards I've owned, but nVidia are much more renowned for stable working driver releases.

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Comment [quote="Asmo"Mar 28, 2012, 20:03][quote="Dades"Mar 28, 2012, 17:56][quote="ochentay4"Mar 28, 2012, 17:51][quote="Dades"Mar 28, 2012, 17:41]Getting a little tired of these constant updates, can't they just work with developers like Nvidia does? [/quote] Just dont update if the fixes do not affect you. [/quote] It's the frequency. I have to update because otherwise many releases aren't very playable. I couldn't play RAGE at all for almost a month. Nvidia gets this right, I don't see why AMD can't. [/quote] Indeed. I've had non stop dramas with my 5970 since about 11.6 with random corruption and tearing. Exhaustive testing of the card and system shows no physical faults, and endless web searches shows many people having the same issue with the newer drivers/ccc. Ati have a reputation for shoddy driver releases. I'd technically be an Ati fanboi given how many of their cards I've owned, but nVidia are much more renowned for stable working driver releases. [/quote]

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