ATI Catalyst™ 10.8 released

[Mustang]

Fresh out today :)

 

all OS's http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

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Release notes:

 

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_108_release_notes.pdf

Edited August 25, 2010 by Mustang

[159th_Viper]

Excellent - just in time for the new 5870 arriving tomorrow :D

[hassata]

I got a case of the shimmers with 10.7, rolled back to 10.5. If anybody tries these, please report back.

[Mustang]

I got a case of the shimmers with 10.7, rolled back to 10.5. If anybody tries these, please report back.

 

What do you mean by "shimmers"?

 

Do you mean the black vertical lines on the hills/terrain?

 

If so, thats a common issue for all, regardless of graphics card, you can get a "no cloud shadows fix" for that.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Mustang

[hassata]

Nope-it was a horrible case of 'sparkling' city textures. Really ruined immersion for me. Pretty sure going back to 10.5 fixed it, although I did force triple buffering as well, so could have been that.

 

Edit: Now that I think about it, it kind of looked like your avatar lol

[rapid]

So soon cheers Mustang

[Mustang]

Nope-it was a horrible case of 'sparkling' city textures. Really ruined immersion for me. Pretty sure going back to 10.5 fixed it, although I did force triple buffering as well, so could have been that.

 

Edit: Now that I think about it, it kind of looked like your avatar lol

 

Ahh i know what you mean now.

 

I think you'll find that nVidia users are equally affected, this isn't something driver based, more something ED did with the mipmap LOD's of certain textures.

[Blaze]

Thanks for the heads up Mustang. :)

[Gadroc]

Aggh. 10.8 seems not to enforce AA settings in window mode anymore. FSX before flight does not anti-alias anymore, nor does Black Shark which I always run in window mode. FSX once i start flying in full screen works just fine.

 

Anyone else notice this?

[Blaze]

Nope, but I am noticing some better performance all around here. :)

[leafer]

Is it necessary to uninstall the my current version first and if so which program do you recommend?

[Blaze]

No need to, just run the new installer to update to the current version. If you have problems that way then you'll need to run the ATI driver cleaner tool to remove everything and install 10.8 fresh. :)

[Chicki]

Hey guys. I dl'd and installed the full 10.8 suite. Now, Flaming Cliffs 2 won't run. I get a "LoadLibrary failed with error 998: Invalid access to memory location" error message. It did the same thing to my Track IR software ver. 5. ??? This is a new install of Win 7 64 bit OS. I didn't have sys. restore turned on so have no way to rollback. I tried to uninstall via control panel but sys. crashes. Seems like I'm stuck. I'm new to ATI. My first card. Had Nvidia before that. Any help? Thanks.

[Kuky]

Always uninstall graphics driver before installing new one... built in uninstall utility does the job

 

Also forgot to say, once you uninstall the driver best thing is to go into windows registry (regedit) and delete old entires for the graphics cards/drivers, and after that you install new drivers.

Edited August 26, 2010 by Kuky

[hassata]

Hey guys. I dl'd and installed the full 10.8 suite. Now, Flaming Cliffs 2 won't run. I get a "LoadLibrary failed with error 998: Invalid access to memory location" error message. It did the same thing to my Track IR software ver. 5. ??? This is a new install of Win 7 64 bit OS. I didn't have sys. restore turned on so have no way to rollback. I tried to uninstall via control panel but sys. crashes. Seems like I'm stuck. I'm new to ATI. My first card. Had Nvidia before that. Any help? Thanks.

 

Try this:

 

Download Sweeper (http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745)

Unistall ATI drivers via uninstall (skip if sys crashing);

Restart in Safe Mode;

Run DriverSweeper and choose to uninstall all ATI Video Drivers

Reinstall 10.8

 

Edit: Also make sure you have downloaded the 64 version of the drivers

[BaD CrC]

Better performances with Black Shark?

[Ramstein]

These 10.8 Cat drivers seem to be working great in IL-2 and FC and BS.. veyr happy with them so far!

;)

[hassata]

Good news

[Chicki]

Thanks for the reply hassata. Hey, after using sweeper in safe mode, do I restart in normal mode to install 10.8? Actually, I've tried it and it's not working in safe mode. Won't detect the hardware. So, if I restart in normal, what runs vid card if drivers gone? I'm so confused. Thanks bud.

[hassata]

yup-restar in normal, cancel any auto driver installations, then install 10.8.

[Mustang]

Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix released today, supposedly good improvements for 4850/4870X2 users

 

http://support-prod.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst108bHotfix.aspx

 

 

ATI Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix Features:

• ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 use both Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for high performance
  
  
• Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2 with forced on Anisotropic Filtering (AF) using ATI Catalyst Control Center can improve performance
  
  

Applicable Products:

 

This article applies to the following configuration(s):

• Hardware
  
  
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 series of products
    
    
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 series of products
    
    
  [*]Software
  • ATI Catalyst Control Center
    
    
  • Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2
    
    
  [*]Operating System
  • Windows 7 32-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows 7 64-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
    
    

[Moa]

Chicki, I'm still running Win XP 32-bit on one machine. Yes, I know your platform and problem are possibly different - but the solution I used for my problem just may help you.

 

I had problems with TrackIR and the ATI drivers (since 10.3) and found that if I ran the TrackIR5 software in "Compatibility Mode" (for me, compatibility to Win 2000 worked) then my TrackIR worked fine with FC2. This was a known problem on this platform for ATI drivers past 10.3 but NaturalPoint have not yet fixed it.

[hassata]

Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix released today, supposedly good improvements for 4850/4870X2 users

 

http://support-prod.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst108bHotfix.aspx

 

 

ATI Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix Features:

• ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 use both Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for high performance
  
  
• Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2 with forced on Anisotropic Filtering (AF) using ATI Catalyst Control Center can improve performance
  
  

Applicable Products:

 

This article applies to the following configuration(s):

• Hardware
  
  
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 series of products
    
    
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 series of products
    
    
  [*]Software
  • ATI Catalyst Control Center
    
    
  • Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2
    
    
  [*]Operating System
  • Windows 7 32-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows 7 64-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
    
    
  • Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
    
    

 

4870x2 here. This hotfix is essential-gave me higher fps and a smoother ride.

[Chicki]

Anyone having problems with Su-33 cockpit textures missing with 10.8?