Wednesday, November 17th 2010

AMD Releases Catalyst 10.11 WHQL Driver Suite

Nov 17th, 2010 13:16 Discuss (65 Comments)

AMD is teasing us with its latest Catalyst driver suite. Catalyst 10.11 WHQL from AMD has come after no less than five hotfix updates to the previous version Catalyst 10.10. The new version of Catalyst is reported by many to have been added to Windows Update late yesterday (11/16), but wasn't backed by any release notes document then. The driver is now uploaded on AMD's Game website. AMD Catalyst software suite includes drivers for all current ATI/AMD Radeon GPUs, AMD integrated graphics, and other ATI multimedia products. This version of AMD Catalyst brings a small number of game-specific performance enhancements, as well as fixes a few bugs. To begin with, performance is expected to go up by 3% for Battleforge, on Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, both single and CrossFire, with AA disabled. Up to 5% performance increase can be expected for STALKER: Call of Pripyat benchmark.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 10.11 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit

Highlights of changes follows.

Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 10.11 release include:

Battleforge

Performance increases up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing disabled.

STALKER - Call of Pripyat benchmark:

Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations.

Resolved issue highlights:

Enabling Overdrive through the Catalyst Control Center for single display systems no longer results in GPU clocks running at high levels in non-GPU intensive scenarios
Mouse cursor no longer flickers and disappears in World of Warcraft when hardware cursor is enabled when playing in Stereo 3D mode
Primary display no longer blanks out when playing World in Conflict Soviet Assault DX10 with Dual Monitor enabled in CrossFire mode
CrossFire no longer becomes disabled in Battlefield Bad Company 2 after performing a task switch
The "Contrast" value for the display is no longer set to zero after CrossFire is disabled for the first time
Alien blood is now rendered properly in Aliens vs Predator with Anti-Aliasing enabled

For more details, refer to the Release Notes.

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65 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 10.11 WHQL Driver Suite

#26

bear jesus

chaotic_ukstill got the overclocking clock speed bug here even though they say it is fixed

What overclocking clock speed bug?

#27

overclocking101

so is there a real benefit from this compared to 10.10 with a 5770??

#28

fochkoph

overclocking101so is there a real benefit from this compared to 10.10 with a 5770??

I still stand by the philosophy of if it ain't broke don't fix it. 10.9 was the perfect set of drivers for me. Games ran beautifully and no issues whatsoever. 10.10 was fine, games still ran great but then the driver started occasionally failing and recovering during YouTube videos which prompted me to reload the page to be viewable again. Installed 10.10e hotfix hoping for MLAA only to find out it only applied to Win7 afterwards. The hotfix also seems to exacerbate my driver crashing during YouTube playback as it happens much more often now. So I'm going to give 10.11 a try and see if all goes well, if not I'll be going back to 10.9 and staying with it for a long time or until MLAA is officially supported for Vista.

#29

bear jesus

fochkophI still stand by the philosophy of if it ain't broke don't fix it.

I have to agree on that, with my 4870 i would go months without a driver update as everything worked perfectly and the only reason i updated is for speed increases on games i played.

I'm more likely to update right now as the 6870's are newer cards thus there will probably be more speed upgrades to come and of course crossfire profiles.

#30

copenhagen69

has anyone tested these yet?
I know they cant be worse than the original 10.10 ...

#31

johnnyfiive

I want a 1,200 point increase in 3DMark06... so I can finally break 30k. :rockout:
Anyone want to test these out for me? :D

#32

erocker

chaotic_ukstill got the overclocking clock speed bug here even though they say it is fixed

Actually, I was coming into this thread to proclaim just the opposite. 2d clocks remain at 157/300 for me while overclocked now.

#33

CrackerJack

Everything works fine, but i'm having scaling issues... Mafia 2 is the only one that i've notice that is doing it. The CCC scaling setting keep reseting after i close game... looking into it.

update: fix, just simply restart

Games tested:
WoW= fps same
Starcraft 2= ~5fps increase
Mafia 2= fps same

I feel all my others will have the same results... btw any 6850 users having any major increase with these drivers? 10.9 was working flawless for me

#34

alexsubri

sapettoMorphological AA on HD5XXX Series now enabled ?

they have that in the 10.10e driver

#35

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

it should be noted that the AMD website has the rest of the 10.11 drivers too, including RAID/AHCI/SB for their motherboards, and the openCL download.

#36

AlienIsGOD

Vanguard Beta Tester

What is the Accelerated Parralell Processing d/l for?

#37

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

AlienIsGODWhat is the Accelerated Parralell Processing d/l for?

openCL.

#38

SUPERREDDEVIL

it lowers my FPS on Need for Speed Hot pursuit... the game lags itself sometimes but with this... omg... i´ll stick with the 10.10e hotfix for now. oh, and by the way the game need a PATCH a.s.a.p. badly optimized for dual and Quad core CPUS, hope ATI enhance performance for hot pursuit with 10.12

#39

erocker

SUPERREDDEVILit lowers my FPS on Need for Speed Hot pursuit... the game lags itself sometimes but with this... omg... i´ll stick with the 10.10e hotfix for now. oh, and by the way the game need a PATCH a.s.a.p. badly optimized for dual and Quad core CPUS, hope ATI enhance performance for hot pursuit with 10.12

I'm getting a constant 60fps in NFS. I hope there's a patch so we can force AA in game. I've tried every variant of AA in CCC and everytime I start a race I crash to desktop.

#40

wolf

Performance Enthusiast

plz, is MLAA aupported for 5k series in 10.11, i know its in 10.10e, but I cant use that since I use a mobility card, I can only use WHQL mobility drivers.

#41

erocker

wolfplz, is MLAA aupported for 5k series in 10.11

Nope.

#42

Athlonite

awe man I just got through installing the 10.10e hotfix drivers grrrr why did they even bother with them if they knew that the 10.11's were just around the corner

#43

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Athloniteawe man I just got through installing the 10.10e hotfix drivers grrrr why did they even bother with them if they knew that the 10.11's were just around the corner

because 10.11 are older than 10.10e, but passed WHQL qualification.

#44

Athlonite

ah so I'll be lookin at sticking with 10.10e then they seem to work pretty good for me even with MLAA on

#45

TheMailMan78

Big Member

erockerActually, I was coming into this thread to proclaim just the opposite. 2d clocks remain at 157/300 for me while overclocked now.

Same for me. These things seem to work great.

#46

adrianx

any one in BC2 see the dinamic of the smoke with 10.10.e ?

#47

MohawkAngel

So if I have an onboard video card Radeon HD4200 its useless for me to install it ?

#48

erocker

MohawkAngelSo if I have an onboard video card Radeon HD4200 its useless for me to install it ?

AMD updates the Motherboard/Integrated drivers with every release as well. Look on AMD's website for it.

#49

H82LUZ73

where is the 10.10e driver for vistax64?

dho they are for vista and win7 too.

Also you guys notice the ATI logos are now gone and they finally have the cat logo for CCC in systray.

#50

Unregistered

Sorry for asking again...So the 10.10e drivers are newer than 10.11, and also support BY DEFAULT MLAA for 5xxx cards???
Thanks for answering this again.

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