ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released

[EastCoasthandle]

Cat 9.12 hotfix is out! Includes support for OpenCL!

Symptoms:

"No compatible hardware found" error message when attempting to install the ATI Catalyst Drivers directly from the AMD Download Home Page for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 or ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of AGP video cards.

All published AMD drivers have passed Microsoft's WHQL certification tests. A WHQL driver for ATI Radeon HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000 or ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of AGP products is not currently available.

Resolution:

This hotfix resolves the following issues:

* Fix for problems with DirectX and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000 or ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of AGP Graphics cards.
* Fix for "No compatible hardware not found" error message.

To download the Catalyst AGP Hotfix, please click on the links below:

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The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream 9200 Series of products.

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ATI Stream SDK v2.0
hotfix drivers

 

[Polarman]

Looks like the TVwonder 650 has Win7 support finally. That took time!

 

[wolf]

In terms if vantage performance, these are as good as the 'leaked beta's' we had our hands on 2-3 days ago.

pity about the delay, but I have yet to have any bugginess or instability, keepers for now.

 

[DRDNA]

source
ATI Stream SDK v2.0
hotfix drivers

Nice ...very nice!

 

[DonInKansas]

not noticing any real fps improvements in games, but they seem smoother. Looks like it's just an epeen extension for the Vantage crowd. pshaw.

 

[Binge]

not noticing any real fps improvements in games, but they seem smoother. Looks like it's just an epeen extension for the Vantage crowd. pshaw.

got a 9% overall increase in frames in the games I play.

 

[Kreij]

My 4870x2 gets a about 161,000 on the DirectComputer Benchmark

OC'd to 800(GPU) x 1000(Mem) and am getting a little over 170,000

Don't have the OpenCL SDK yet. Too lazy at the moment to get it

Can't test CPU as all 4 cores are running 100% crunching and I don't want to suspend the work units.

 

[AsRock]

drivers suck went through the hoops of installing multiple times but still results in sumpreme commander forged alliance not running properly guess its back to 9.11 at least then i didnt bsod

never mind seems forged alliance runs just fine in god damn windowed mode why cant i get 1 just 1 solid driver release for my new gpus at this rate ill probably go back to nvidia this sucks

Will have to try them now lol.. See if it messes up with SupcomFA.

Did you uninstall 1st or just install over the last ones ?.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I look forward to the day we see developers using OpenCL/Direct Compute

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

i uninstalled ran driver sweeper w/e dbl checked all remains of previous driver were gone installed new driver same issue

supcom and supcomfa are screwed with crossfire on and off after mulitple driver installs

supcom the units just stall they dont move in large battles in supcomfa units are fine but everytime u leave a skirmish or complete a mission etc i crash to desktop 9.11s dont have this problem so the 9% perfromance increase i get in Dirt2 isnt worth the loss of 2 games i have a blast playing sorry Ati back to the drawing board for you

 

[stanhemi]

 

[scope54]

there is a new version of the directcompute benchmark out: http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/16920-directcompute-and-opencl-benchmark.html

 

[Kreij]

Something completely different with lastest beta. GPU score around 2300.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

hot fix drivers are much better no issues with supcom or supcomfa and i saw a 15% improvement in Devil May Cry 4 bench and 7% improvement in RE5 bench

 

[Zubasa]

hot fix drivers are much better no issues with supcom or supcomfa and i saw a 15% improvement in Devil May Cry 4 bench and 7% improvement in RE5 bench

At lease ATi acts fast this time

 

[wiak]

there is a 9.12 hotfix out
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx

ATI Catalyst 9.12 Hotfix
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Last Updated
12/16/2009
Article Number
GPU-42
Hotfix that resolves the mouse being enlarged under Windows® 7, improves performance of OpenGL games, Provides CrossFireX™ support for Eyefinity & Provides support for OpenCL

Problem Description:
· Performance drop is observed with a supported ATI CrossFireX™ configuration when using the thermal scope while playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare
· Performance drop during the opening cinematic of Resident Evil 5
· Wheelman freezes while loading the game menu and can't play further
· The desktop mouse cursor becomes enlarged at random while using Windows 7
· Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, Riddick
· Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flickers and white boarders observed around the edges
· DTS-HD and Dolby True-HD not working properly with certain receivers while using HDMI connection on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Hotfix release include:

1. Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0

§ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream™ SDK v2.0.

This feature is supported on the following Products:

o ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series
o AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series

For more information about ATI Stream™ Technology and OpenCL, please visit http://www.amd.com/stream.

§ Supported operating systems: Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, Linux


2. Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations

§ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional graphics cards for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups.


3. Support for DisplayPort audio

§ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels


Recommendation:
A hotfix has been created to resolve the issue.

2. To install the Hotfix, complete the install wizard

Note! This driver is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing, and is only recommended for users experiencing the particular issue described above.

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configurations:

Software:
o Call of Duty Modern Warfare
o City of Heroes
o Resident Evil 5
o Enemy Territories: Quake Wars
o Heaven benchmark
o Wheelman
o Riddick
Hardware:
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
o ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series
o AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series
Operating System:
o Windows® 7 32-bit Edition
o Windows® 7 64-bit Edition
o Windows® Vista 32-bit Edition
o Windows® Vista 64-bit Edition
o Windows® XP Vista 32-bit Edition
o Windows® XP Vista 64-bit Edition
o Linux Vista 32-bit Edition
o Linux Vista 64-bit Edition

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea thankfully the hotfix drivers were the cure i needed
very happy with them altho i find it comical they have a screw up on DAY 1 of a driver release that needs a correction that they already had they would have at least seemed more hmm adequate reliable on the ball damn it the word i want escapes me but eitherway they should have waited the extra 10hrs and released the hotfix driver as the actual 9.12 driver. they would have looked a bit less incompetent (found the word i wanted) anyway we have a good driver finally time to start benching

 

[Perra]

· The desktop mouse cursor becomes enlarged at random while using Windows 7

This part is just hilarious, how the hell did that get through QA-Testing?

 

[shevanel]

i only score 4k in directcompute bench.. wtf

 

[kenkickr]

Looks like the TVwonder 650 has Win7 support finally. That took time!

Were did you see a new Win 7 TV Tuner driver? game.amd.com doesn't show any drivers for either Win 7 32/64-bit and www.amd.com states drivers will come out soon,"http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU39_ATITVWonderDrivers.aspx."

 

[F430]

How is the driver for my 3870 what is the improvements? I am not in my home....

 

[W1zzard]

is anyone else having issues running 3dmark06 cpu tests under windows 7 64-bit using hd 5000 cards? tried 9.12 and the hotfix drivers. on core i7 (doubt that makes any difference)

I keep getting d3derr_invalidcall even before any testing starts. the normal tests work fine, seems to work fine with non-hd5000, seems to work fine with cat 9.11

 

[Mussels]

drivers suck went through the hoops of installing multiple times but still results in sumpreme commander forged alliance not running properly guess its back to 9.11 at least then i didnt bsod

curious... must be 5 series related, my cards work fine on supcom FA

(yes, i read your latest post that the hotfix fixes it - just pointing it out)

 

[Binge]

is anyone else having issues running 3dmark06 cpu tests under windows 7 64-bit using hd 5000 cards? tried 9.12 and the hotfix drivers. on core i7 (doubt that makes any difference)

I keep getting d3derr_invalidcall even before any testing starts. the normal tests work fine, seems to work fine with non-hd5000, seems to work fine with cat 9.11

No problem here W1zz. Just did a run @ 6:10AM 12/18/09 with 5870/i7 OCed/9.12 WHQL

 

[Mussels]

No problem here W1zz. Just did a run @ 6:10AM 12/18/09 with 5870/i7 OCed/9.12 WHQL

we narrowed it down to a bug between these drives and the EDID info from his monitor. for some reason it removed the resolution of 640x480, which the CPU tests use.

edit: i'm about to test the beta/openCL drivers


9.12 WHQL without stream SDK installed (no change with SDK):

9.12 Hotfix with stream SDK installed - custom version of GPU-Z from w1zzard

but the benchmark works fine