Catalyst 9.12 / 9.12 Hotfix - Eyefinity and Crossfire!!

[McKie]

Yeah, It is.

at some point I will clean drivers again and try it once more. but for now I'm just giving it a break.

[thenjwaslike]

yeah works fine for me, i got about a good 15-20fps boost in dirt 2 with my 5970, only minor problem occured when installing 9.12 with eyefinity enabled, just disabled eyefinity and disconnected 2 monitors and worked fine - no biggie though.

[McKie]

I cant remember. Did that hotfix contain the whole enchilada. driver/ and CCC ??

[McKie]

Ok, here I go again. :| . I just cant stand it. I got to try once more

[McKie]

Ok , sorry for the triple post, but just want to report. what i have done.

Disabled Eyefinity/ unplug DP/USB and 1 DVI.

I uninstalled from control panel first through Catalyst Install manger. /Rebooted / Driver and CCC still present after going though Uninstall manager through windows ? weird.

Use driver sweeper mark and remove all ATI driver files listed. / Reboot / drivers are gone now/ prompted that no ATI drivers present. and should install drivers.

Look in all programs and still see CCC listed. also see Catalyst install manager listed in add/remove programs in windows. I go ahead and run through uninstall process again through Caytalyst install manager/ successful uninstall of CCC and catalyst install manager / reboot / Run driver sweeper again./ remove last 2 remaining things from list. /reboot/ absolutely no more ATI stuff left behind. Clean as a whistle.

Install Catalyst_9.12_Hotfix_Win7_Vista_8.682.2RC1_Dec15.

Looked at ATI overdrive/fan control. Leave it locked for the moment.

Looked at CPUID Hardware monitor. shows both card fans /temp running at same value.



looked at GPU-Z Sensors for both cards Temp and fan speed RPM are not matching CPUID Hardware monitor. must be application error??

Card 1



Card 2



Look at GPU-Z Card Information notice it lists driver as Catalyst 9.10. Was this hotfix built off of the 9.10 drivers ?? I downloaded the hotfix that Dave provided at the start of the thread. is this right?




I think now Instead of unlocking the ATI overdrive in CCC. I am going to Install MSI afterburner and give that a try

[Tamlin]

Looks like your install failed.

I would do as following:
Run ATI catalyst install manager and uninstall everything ATI.
Before you restart, open device manager and set your GFX drivers as standard VGA manually.
Restart and install the 9.12 fix. Remember to right-click on the file and choose run as admin. Its a standalone, so you don't have to install anything else. :)

[McKie]

my GPU-z showed 9.12 drivers before i did all this. after the install it showed 9.10. I never have had 9.10 installed. I started at 9.11?

[McKie]

according to the device manager I have the right one. Right??

Catalyst_9.12_Hotfix_Win7_Vista_8.682.2RC1_Dec15

[Tamlin]

Its weird. I ran GPU-Z and on my machine it shows the correct Catalyst version (9.12) with the hotfix drivers. But, the atiumdag is the same number (8.14.10.0716).

In ATI property as picture above, my driver number is the same as yours. Does it say 9.12 in CCC?

[McKie]

Here it is

[Tamlin]

Weird! Everything is the same except the catalyst version. :?

Now we know at least why GPU-Z reports it as 9.10 for you.

[McKie]

Strange? Yeah. I thought maybe GPU-Z was wrong. but it's only showing what it sees.

Well , I just ran a quick benchmark in dirt 2 . and with it set at 2XMSAA and settings on high. This is what I have in crossfireX eyefinity 5760X1200

FPS

high 53.8
low 43.2

Just for kicks I reinstalled hotfix again. This time I saved the Installation log. and made sure I ran as admin.

Catalyst™ Install Manager
Installation Report
12/20/09 19:32:10
--------------------------------------------------------------
Hardware information
Name ATI Radeon Graphics Processor
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc
Device ID 0x6898
Vendor ID 0x1002
Class Code 0x030000
Revision ID 0x00
Subsystem ID 0x0b00
Subsystem vendor ID 0x1002
Other hardware
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Existing packages
ATI Catalyst Install Manager
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable
Packages for install
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Catalyst Control Center
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 2009.1214.1801.32312
Size: 150 Mbytes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ATI Catalyst Install Manager
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 3.0.754.0
Size: 20 Mbytes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ATI Problem Report Wizard
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 3.0.754.0
Size: 20 Mbytes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ATI Display Driver
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 8.682.2.0000
Size: 90 Mbytes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
HDMI Audio Driver
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 5.00.7000.09
Size: 1 Mbytes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
AVIVO
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 10.12.0.41214
Size: 3 Mbytes
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HydraVision
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 4.2.128.0
Size: 6 Mbytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AMD Drag and Drop Transcoding
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 1.0.19
Size: 1 Mbytes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other detected devices
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc
Device ID 0xaa50
Vendor ID 0x1002
Class Code 0x040300
Revision ID 0x00
Subsystem ID 0xaa50
Subsystem vendor ID 0x1002
-----------------------------------------------------------
ATI Radeon Graphics Processor
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc
Device ID 0x6898
Vendor ID 0x1002
Class Code 0x030000
Revision ID 0x00
Subsystem ID 0x0b00
Subsystem vendor ID 0x1002
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Manufacturer
ATI Technologies Inc
Device ID 0xaa50
Vendor ID 0x1002
Class Code 0x040300
Revision ID 0x00
Subsystem ID 0xaa50
Subsystem vendor ID 0x1002

Error messages

[McKie]

I was thinking about it , and earlier I mentioned that I came in at 9.11 drivers. but I remember now. I actually did have the 9.10 drivers at one time.

I remember now because i had a strange refresh issue in the CCC were the menu would refresh every 10 seconds and i couldn't navigate in the menu because of it. the 9.11 drivers fixed that issue . So yeah, I did come in at the 9.10 drivers.

[Dave Baumann]

FYI - we have implemented a new Crossfire X power mechanism in one of the recent drivers, whereby the "slave" boards in a Crossfire setup exist in a deeper ACPI sleep state at the desktop in order to save power; they only "wake up" when a.) Crossfire X is actually enabled and b.) when a game comes on a Crosfire X is actually needed.

This will result in the seeming loss of fan control for the slave boards, because at the desktop its not actually "awake". I'm not sure what this will do to 3rd party apps - they probably need to be aware of this and at present they probably aren't.

[McKie]

Well, So far I have just left the ATI overdrive locked. Both cards I can tell are running on Auto. According to GPU-Z there is about a 7- 10 degree difference between the cards. and Hardware monitor reads the fans and temp the same.

Its all good for me though I haven't seen the cards get above 65 Celsius. and they Idle around 42. So, that's fine for me. so I'm not going to even download afterburner after all. Why mess with a good thing. right?

I'm still baffled about the driver version showing up as 9.10 though. everything about the driver I have installed acts and looks like the 9.12 hotfix. I know for a fact I really cleaned the old 9.12 driver out . Unless there were remnants of the 9.10 in the registry? that showed back up after the thorough cleaning of 9.12??.

I don't know. It's working that's all that matters to me.

[kondor999]

Its all good for me though I haven't seen the cards get above 65 Celsius. and they Idle around 42. So, that's fine for me. so I'm not going to even download afterburner after all. Why mess with a good thing. right?

The only reason I run Afterburner is to see (via OSD or my G15) how much/if the second card in my Crossfire setup is working. There's absolutely no need for fan control on these exceptionally cool-running cards. I've never seen them go above 65c or their fans go beyond 30%.

[stangflyer]

FYI - we have implemented a new Crossfire X power mechanism in one of the recent drivers, whereby the "slave" boards in a Crossfire setup exist in a deeper ACPI sleep state at the desktop in order to save power; they only "wake up" when a.) Crossfire X is actually enabled and b.) when a game comes on a Crosfire X is actually needed.

This will result in the seeming loss of fan control for the slave boards, because at the desktop its not actually "awake". I'm not sure what this will do to 3rd party apps - they probably need to be aware of this and at present they probably aren't.

Is this the same for the second gpu on the 5970? I use the msi afterburner app on my saphire 5970 and it seems like the readout does not match what I have save in a profile. Thank you for the reply.

[suiken_2mieu]

This is a repost, as it was never answered:

So just asking, does the new drivers still allow for the 4800 seies to use TH resolusions, because i've had the same drivers since I built my compy in the summer. I think I'm on 9.8 or 9.9.

[TwinIon]

[quote]The desktop mouse cursor becomes enlarged at random when using Windows 7

Sweet! Right now my mouse is extra large on both side monitors and regular sized on the middle one. It'll be nice to have that fixed.

Now that there is support for Crossfire I'll have to think about getting another 5850...

Well, so much for the fix. :( I'm running 9.12 (even confirmed with gpu-z), and I've got an extra large cursor on my center monitor. This is the first time it's happened since the update, so at least it's less common.

[Dave Baumann]

9.12 or 9.12 Hotfix?