Yup, thanks. There was no change in performance, and enabling crossfire still gave me a hit to my FPS, so I figured as much. No Skyrim CAP with 11.11, so fret not if it didn't give you a boost.

I tried the Steam AMD update after trying to force my hardware to search for new updates came back negative. I had hoped it would fix all the graphical crashes I was having with the game. Instead, it got worse and I ended up restoring my computer to how it was when I first installed Skyrim. Reset the audio setting to the recommended setting and the game worked perfectly fine. Well, until the next time I tried to turn it on and all the graphical/crash-to-desktop glitches returned.

Anyone having black water bug with new drivers? I rolled back to 11.10 and water is ok again.

Try going back to default graphics settings, then selecting your perfered settings. I had to do this with the DLL fix that is floating around for it to work correctly.

Direct link to the ATI/AMD catalyst 11.11 for windows vista/7 64bit

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/11-11_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

Direct link to the ATI/AMD Catalyst 11.11 Profile/CAP update version 1

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/catalyst_application_profiles/amd_catalyst_11.11_cap1.exe

Well aside from low FPS here and there I'm not having near the problems that I'm reading here on these boards. I hope that this PC patch Bethesda is working on fixes things for everyone.

So hows the new 11.11 drivers?. I can play the game in my Intel/Nvidia rig just fine (even tho there are annoying Fps dips to 40's in some areas), but my wife cant play it on her pc with a 4870x2 video card, just crazy lag. Hoping drivers would make a difference and make it atleast "playable".

So...the driver update link obviously updates your driver but what does the Profile/CAP update do?

It helps people with crossfire. 2 cards in their computer. Better performance.

Still lagging for me.
I have played all the Eldre Scrolls and there has always been a little laggin in the games. I hope that this can be solved

Surprising since the Skyrim CAP hasn't been released yet. https://twitter.com/#!/CatalystCreator

Does this work for the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series? Or is it a specific driver only?

Supported cards are 6800 as well.

Steam auto-detects your hardware then downloads the most recent drivers for you. The AMD 11.11 drivers are probably out, but they're just a preview version or a release candidate version before the official, final drivers are released on their website. Honestly, I'd wait to download drivers until you either have an official release, or you can get a link for AMD's website that has the download.

Also, your OS is Windows 7 Home Premium ~64 bit~ so you have a 64 bit system. So if you go to AMD's website (AMD and ATI merged a while back, so they're the same thing now) and mouse over "Find a Driver" near the top right corner, you'd enter this:

Desktop Graphics
Radeon HD series
Radeon HD 5xxx PCIe
Windows 7 - 64 Bit

6870 here, seemed to make things smoother with less stutter. Might not have though.

AMD owns ATI. The "ATI" name was retired and is now simply "AMD". It's the same company.

Is that the new CAP version for Skyrim?

Just hard crashed even with the new driver installed. No change whatsoever for me. Got a Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 on win7. Black screen --> unresponsive --> sound looping ---> need to reboot computer.

answer just a few posts above yours... http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1270321-ati-1111-drivers-released/page__view__findpost__p__19250704

Yup, still crashing. Didn't expect this to help though. Sigh...

officially released on amd's website now

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

Release notes don't show anything fixed or optimized toward Skyrim.

RESOLVED ISSUES

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst? 11.11 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

· Images and textures are no longer corrupted (Blue) in Rage.

· Bezel compensation now works correctly with Far Cry 2.

· Screen tearing is no longer randomly observed while moving a window on the desktop while in Clone mode or Eyefinity mode.

· A black screen is no longer observed when extending displays.

· Homefront no longer crashes randomly when Crossfire is enabled.

· DC – Universe Online no longer hangs soon after selecting a character and entering the game.



And for the new CAP release
New profiles added to this release:
- Battlefield 3: Tweaks to the CrossFire profile
- Global Ops – Commando Libya: Improves CrossFire performance
- Driver San Francisco: Disables CrossFire

Looks like we'll be waiting on Beth alone to make some changes.

Don't worry, in about 48 hours from a good source, they expect to have a "hotfix" set out for skyrim with full crossfire support and potentially some visual/performance improvements. (hotfix based on ATI driver set 12.1 beta)

Still black screen on 6870 win 7 64, now waiting for skyrim 1.2 patch

Steam will update your video drives. In the Steam Menu just click: - Steam-Check for Video driver Updates.