[Grall]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Their 4000 series was pretty popular.

No shit, and for good reason too. They were absolutely terrific value for money. The 4890, the top of the line flagship card at the time (not counting the dual-GPU 4970, built on an older GPU) could be bought for less than SKR2000 towards the latter half of its product life over here. It was an absolute bargain for the power it offered, it was nearly as fast in many games as the NV GTX280 after all and cost considerably less.

These days, the 7970 sells for around SKR4000, and typically a lot more. GPU prices are way too high right now methinks...

[Frank]

Does anyone have a recommendation on which Catalyst I should install to get rid of the "'HDMI [Sound] Output Device not connected' after resuming from sleep" issue? I'm currently using 11.5.

The amount of serious bugs reported with 12.x scare me, and I haven't seen a post that reports that issue fixed anywhere. Just many people complaining about it, and recommendations to roll back to 10.x.

Perhaps easier to keep using my current workaround: put the computer to sleep again, wait a bit and wake it back up. But it's irritating. I mean, it's only the same cable they use to display the picture as well, right? And they do understand when that's plugged in.

[Grall]

Isn't the 12.6 beta said to be pretty good from a stability POV? I believe the HDMI issue was listed as fixed in the release notes, and I haven't seen anyone here complain about this driver release breaking any games or such. I don't play very many games myself these days, but I haven't noticed anything myself, it seems to work fine from what I can tell. GPGPU computing works fine through BOINC as well.

I think you should just go ahead and try it. You can always roll back if you hit a snag...

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Originally Posted by Frank

Does anyone have a recommendation on which Catalyst I should install to get rid of the "'HDMI [Sound] Output Device not connected' after resuming from sleep" issue? I'm currently using 11.5.

12.6 beta just released fixes that.

Originally Posted by Frank

The amount of serious bugs reported with 12.x scare me, and I haven't seen a post that reports that issue fixed anywhere. Just many people complaining about it, and recommendations to roll back to 10.x.

Don't be scared Frank. People are always going to complain about the problems they get.

Personally I haven't seen anything significant for me since they got the Rage issues fixed at the beginning of the year, but then I don't run Crossfire or any exotic multiple screen hyper resolutions. YMMV, as with everything.

[Davros]

I had massive problems with 12.3's and 12.4's
bsod's in atikmapg.sys so much so i really thought I had a hardware fault
going back to 12.1 and i havnt had a single problem

[Babel-17]

The newest betas might be a little unstable.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33991260

The 12.6 betas fixed my HDMI audio issues but left me with another issue, that of the ITC processing setting not sticking.

So I'm using the betas from June 4. They seem to be working fine. I only have one videocard, a HD 6870, but the 12.6 Beta CAP1 is supposed to help even single card users with Max Payne 3 so I'm using that too.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...-profiles.aspx

I linked to rage3d and guru3d because that's where I found them and the discussions were useful.

[homerdog]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Perhaps, but I'm not sure how to tell when the 8800GT that I have runs everything I throw at it. 38x0 has not been so fortunate. I imagine the fact that a bazillion G9x cards are out there has an effect on this.

Yes the 8800GT is still a quite capable gaming card at lower resolutions.

[jakobx]

Originally Posted by Grall

Isn't the 12.6 beta said to be pretty good from a stability POV? I believe the HDMI issue was listed as fixed in the release notes, and I haven't seen anyone here complain about this driver release breaking any games or such. I don't play very many games myself these days, but I haven't noticed anything myself, it seems to work fine from what I can tell. GPGPU computing works fine through BOINC as well.

I think you should just go ahead and try it. You can always roll back if you hit a snag...

Nah. Its buggy. If i enable sleep for my monitor i get at least one driver crash a day. In release notes it says they fixed this issue. Other than that i didnt have any problems so far. Hopefully the real 12.6 really fixes this problem. I guess its caused by zerocore.

[Grall]

Not encountered that issue myself, then again I don't have a 7000-series card, so no zerocore support. Maybe that's why. Does it happen at monitor sleep/wakeup events, or is it (more or less) completely random?

[jakobx]

Originally Posted by Grall

Not encountered that issue myself, then again I don't have a 7000-series card, so no zerocore support. Maybe that's why. Does it happen at monitor sleep/wakeup events, or is it (more or less) completely random?

It doesnt wake up properly. (not sure if the crash occurs at sleep, wake or somewhere in the middle) Its a bit random. Most of the time it will wake up ok, sometimes it will wake up but there is some onscreen corruption visible and sometimes the machine is frozen. Its never a BSOD and no other problems during gaming or regular use. I have searched the forums for a solution and it seems to be a pretty widespread issue.

[swaaye]

I fixed a HDMI audio not connected on wake problem with a 4350 by disabling the onboard Realtek audio in the BIOS so that the HDMI audio is the only output. Windows now seems to always use the HDMI.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Babel-17

So I'm using the betas from June 4. They seem to be working fine. I only have one videocard, a HD 6870, but the 12.6 Beta CAP1 is supposed to help even single card users with Max Payne 3 so I'm using that too.

I wanted to add that even if you only have a single GPU part the CAPs are apparently needed now. I had nasty image corruption in Skyrim at area load screens which the CAP fixed (6970 2GB).

[Davros]

12.1's no caps no problems with max payne 3

[Unknown Soldier]

I get the BSOD with 12.4 and my 5870.

Annoying that such bugs get through AMD's testing phase.

[Davros]

Go back to 12.1 if you can
ive not had a single bsod with them

[Svensk Viking]

I cannot confirm this personally(am always skeptic of trying stuff like this), but I just wonder, how can something like this work?


http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=364945

[I.S.T.]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I get the BSOD with 12.4 and my 5870.

Annoying that such bugs get through AMD's testing phase.

Eh, a lot of people were reporting BSODs on the latest Nvidia driver set over at tech report's forums. It happens. So many configurations they(Driver programmers) have to account for, you know?

[swaaye]

WDDM was supposed to stop graphics BSODs and instead have the driver restart. I think I see that work about 25% of the time. I can kill Cat 12.6 quite often with the madVR video renderer + MPCHC.

[Grall]

Yeah, video drivers gotta be THE biggest source of BSODs in modern windows OSes by far, not counting outright hardware problems. Heck, maybe graphics drivers beat hardware problems...

[Davros]

12.6 beta (yes i know they are beta but you think being able to install a gfx driver would be pretty important for a gfx card driver installer)

[karlotta]

12.6...is not the good one. 12.7b xxxxx2.1 is.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33991594 is good.

I also had the lame no INF bs..(wtf) . The CCC installed but no driver..., had to manually (thru device manager) install, then reinstalled over the top. Best Driver from "ATI" in a long long time.

[Davros]

dont follow! you say its good but then say it doesnt install the driver, thats contradictory ????
and according to your link its the same as 12.6beta but with a hotfix for QQ Dancer

[Grall]

What the hell is "QQ Dancer", and why does a game with such a name warrant a 125MB hotfix?

[Davros]

From the publisher

QQ Dancer is a musical dance game which Tencent co-developed with Beijing Horizon3D, for 300 million QQ girls and boys. In addition to its freshest dancing model, most brilliant screen presentation and most powerful personalized functions, QQ Dancer has been effectively integrated with QQ to establish a richer and more convenient friends-making system. With dynamic music, fashionable dance, colorful costumes and romantic encounters, QQ Dancer will bring you the most fashionable and romantic game experience!

Driver needed to be updated to cope with "most brilliant screen presentation"

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Originally Posted by Davros

dont follow! you say its good but then say it doesnt install the driver, thats contradictory ????
and according to your link its the same as 12.6beta but with a hotfix for QQ Dancer

The installer from AMD site installed that newer hotfix driver for me correctly.