Use 11.9 Not 11.10 for ati drivers! BIG FPS IMPROVEMENT

Post » Mon May 14, 2012 6:53 am

Just downgraded and my fps jumped up A LOT like at least 20. Let me know how it works out for you guys.
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Katey Meyer
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 8:55 am

Has anyone else tried this?
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Roberta Obrien
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 5:24 am

11.10 drivers just didnt work for me overall, I tried them a week ago before skyrim and it made my whole system bog down, those drivers are really bugged, I would suggest sticking to 11.9 until new ones come out.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 5:51 am

11.10 drivers just didnt work for me overall, I tried them a week ago before skyrim and it made my whole system bog down, those drivers are really bugged, I would suggest sticking to 11.9 until new ones come out.

Ok how do I get 11.9?
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Bereket Fekadu
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 10:21 am

The game comes out on steam in 30 mins for me i need to be ready, where do i get the 11.9 drivers?
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:01 am

Rolling back to 11.9 upped my framerate considerably (from the 30s to the 50s), and got rid of stuttering while looking around with the mouse.

I'm running two 6970s in crossfire, and it still only seems to be making use of one card though.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:32 am

The game comes out on steam in 30 mins for me i need to be ready, where do i get the 11.9 drivers?

http://downloads.guru3d.com/
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Chris Duncan
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:44 pm

http://downloads.guru3d.com/
Thank you! :rock:
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 6:24 am

Finally got it working on my 6870 / amd 955 be x4 @ 3.7ghz and the drivers make no dif

all high mix of ultra / 4 aa 16 af at 50-60 fps..regardless of 11.10 or 11.9
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 5:37 am

Finally got it working on my 6870 / amd 955 be x4 @ 3.7ghz and the drivers make no dif

all high mix of ultra / 4 aa 16 af at 50-60 fps..regardless of 11.10 or 11.9
Thanks for posting that.

Im hoping 11.10 work smoothly for me before I start messing with drivers.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:31 pm

I wouldn't worry about it FrozenAffairs.

Each chipset is different. It's like each CPU chip can overclock better/worse than the next. Some drivers fudge up on some, others don't. Could go either way for you. AMD definitely needs 11.11 out for skyrim though, to streamline these issues.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:10 am

Agreed I can't be switching between drivers to play skyrim, BF3, and Arkham city. Amd svcks, but their gpu's price per performance gets me everytime I think of going green again.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 1:26 pm

Yeah pretty annoying. I don't wanna have to switch to 11.10, restart, play BF3, switch to 11.9, restart, play skyrim. Luckily, 11.10 is working fine for me. AMD is so failsauce with drivers -_- 11.11 should have been out this morning.. not friggin two weeks from now like it probably will.
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