AMD Catalyst 11.1

[Mustang]

WHQL 11.1's available now

 

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx

 

 

Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix Jan26

 

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst111ahotfix.aspx

Edited January 26, 2011 by Mustang

[Mustang]

Some info from release notes:

 

 

Catalyst 11.1a Hot-Fix

The latest Catalyst Hot-Fix; (11.1a) offers increased performance brings a slew of new features and should be the driver used for any performance testing. Below are a few of the highlights from this driver:

 

Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon HD 6800 & HD 6900 series include but not limited to:

 

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%

· 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.

[celticcoho]

TY Mustang, hope for an improvement over 10.12a Hotfix, Cheers, Jim

[159th_Viper]

Ta :)

[Mustang]

Bumping thread to signal official release of 11.1 and 11.1a Hotfix, check first post for link.

Edited January 26, 2011 by Mustang

[Mirtma]

New ATI 11.1 drivers

 

Just installed and find out that there is hotfix 11.1a.

[Mirtma]

So far so good. Some more control over AI settings.

[Silent Warrior]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=65889

 

No beating our Mustang! :)

 

You know, ever since I started using my new-ish GTX 460... I kinda wish I'd have sided with the red team for this hop. Won't hijack this, though. Glad you're satisfied.

[Le0kong]

From the last couple of change logs it looks like there is not going to be more performance improvements for the 5xxx series. :(

[hassata]

any word on performance?

[DocSigma]

From the last couple of change logs it looks like there is not going to be more performance improvements for the 5xxx series. :(

 

Yeah.. it does look that way, but you never know.

[Mustang]

All working fine here on my HD5770 for the past week with Cat 11.1a, in both DCS A-10C and FC2.0/DCS Black Shark.

[zangler]

few strange issues with my 5850 in eyefinity in terms of performance drop...i need to test more and make a few changes in CCC.

 

*update:

 

frame rates with 11.1 were literally horrible...rolled back to 10.1 and insta 30fps+

Edited January 28, 2011 by zangler

[hassata]

TweakTown analysis. Summary: m'eh.

 

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3803/amd_catalyst_11_1_windows_7_driver_analysis/index.html

[Kuky]

these give me heavy flickering of the water if water is medium or high

[DocSigma]

I've installed the 11.1a drivers, and in CCC under product summary/information these drivers are registering as 10.12 drivers. I'm sure I installed the correct driver, and just want to make sure I'm not the only one seeing this. Thanks