AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

[Regenerati0n]

This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability. Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix brings the following features:

AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

? 3DMark Vantage improves ~7%

? 3DMark06 improves ~3%

? Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA

? Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%

? Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

? Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA

? Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%

? Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%

? Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA

AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series:

? Battleforge DirectX 11 performance improves as much as 6%

AMD Optimized Tessellation

The Catalyst Control Center includes an early prototype of some new tessellation controls. Our goal is to give users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications. The default selection ?AMD Optimized? setting allows AMD, on a per application basis, to set the best level of tessellation. The intention is to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the impact on performance. Currently no applications have been profiled, so the ?AMD Optimized? setting will be non-operational until further notice.

The ?Use Application Settings? option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level. Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control

The long term goal for the ?AMD Optimized? setting is to use the Catalyst Application Profile mechanism to control the AMD recommended level of tessellation on a per application basis. AMD?s intention is to set the tessellation level such that we will not be reducing image quality in any way that would negatively impact the gaming experience."

Grab it in NGOHQ.com.

[Ci7]

is that using CCC2 ?

edit: nevermind , apparently it does

[Brandon H Supervisor]

does it fix the green flash video problem some people (including me) had

[eilegz]

does it works well for windows 7 issue on my ati x600 where mi widescreen looks like a normal screen because the driver dont have an option to stretch?

[Athernar]

Everything is working fine for me, sans some sort of over-contrast/saturation issue I'm getting. (5850 over HDMI)

[Nagisan]

Hmmm....11.1 released? I haven't been paying enough attention I completely missed the release. :p

Thanks.

EDIT: Hmmm, is 11.1 released? It's not on AMDs site (at least not their primary download page) from what I can see...

EDIT: Ah, 11.1 hasn't released yet......

says the 26th......so consider the above 11.1a hotfix as an unofficial release.

[Regenerati0n]

Hmmm....11.1 released? I haven't been paying enough attention I completely missed the release. :p

Thanks.

EDIT: Hmmm, is 11.1 released? It's not on AMDs site (at least not their primary download page) from what I can see...

EDIT: Ah, 11.1 hasn't released yet......

says the 26th......so consider the above 11.1a hotfix as an unofficial release.

Catalyst 11.1 hasn't released yet.

All AMD's "Hotfixes" are "unsupported betas". AMD uses Hotfix naming scheme instead of beta for some reasons.

[Pupik]

Catalyst 11.1 hasn't released yet.

All AMD's "Hotfixes" are "unsupported betas". AMD uses Hotfix naming scheme instead of beta for some reasons.

They're not beta. They're just not WHQL signed.

[+John Teacake MVC]

does it works well for windows 7 issue on my ati x600 where mi widescreen looks like a normal screen because the driver dont have an option to stretch?

Yeah I had this. Look for the Overscan option. Works a treat!

[Nagisan]

Catalyst 11.1 hasn't released yet.

All AMD's "Hotfixes" are "unsupported betas". AMD uses Hotfix naming scheme instead of beta for some reasons.

AMD doesn't release beta's very often at all though. As mentioned, hotfix generally just means it is not WHQL. If this is the same exact driver as the official 11.1, but with WHQL, then it's a hotfix, but not a beta.

Usually AMD holds the hotfixes until after WHQL has released. And it appears they are still doing that, as they haven't released the 11.1a hotfix on their site yet (at least not that I could find). Therefore, as I said, consider this 11.1a hotfix an unofficial release, at least until 11.1 releases and AMD puts the 11.1a hotfix on their website....

[Udedenkz]

New drivers seemed to fix the corrupt SD h264 issue.

Also, you need them for MPC:HC anyway.

[ajua]

Since the official release date is near, I will pass on this one...

[qdave]

Since the official release date is near, I will pass on this one...

when is the official release date?

[ajua]

when is the official release date?

I've read on AMD forums and other sites that the date of release is the 26th.

[Ci7]

hope they release it already

Catalyst 10.12 BSOD my computer today :angry:

****ing pathetic they aren't suppose to BSOD W7 :s

[Pupik]

Since the official release date is near, I will pass on this one...

Why? WHQL signed drivers are always older version, as it requires too much time for them to get verified by Microsoft.

[Nagisan]

I've read on AMD forums and other sites that the date of release is the 26th.

See my first post in this thread, the release date is the 26th according to CatalystMaker (who works for AMD/ATI). So yes, the date you found is right, and I too will wait.

I have never had any issues with the WHQL drivers that were fixed with the hotfix drivers, so hotfix drivers are somewhat useless to me for the most part, might as well wait until they are official.