I have been playing with 11.11c for a while now. It has been very good, except that when I reached about 140-150 saves the game started to crash much more than before (I hardly had any crashes before). It now crashes (CTD) about 3-5 times during say 4 hours of play.There is no apparent consistency to the crashes either. It can happen anywhere. Although I noticed it did crash several times during loading screen when loading a new area and when using the tanning rack to craft a huge amount of leather.

So yesterday I installed Cat 12.1. And the first thing I immediately notice is the flickering similar to 11.11a I think it was (might have been . Although not as bad.
Aaarghh! And here I thought we had moved past this sort of thing. Weird flickering in waterfalls, light sources and fog. Does anyone else experience this with 12.1?

The good thing is that it *seems* to crash less. I only had 1 crash in 4 hours and that was when I just was about to stop playing. Again on a loading screen. But I need to test more to be sure that it actually crashes less than 11.11c.

Anyway, I'm tempted to just revert back to 11.11c and live with the crashes. But first I will disable SkyUI and reset the inis just to be sure.

Let's hope that the flickering gets fixed in 12.2. Sigh! SIGH!


Mods:
SkyUI
A few edits in the ini files (like FOV and a shadow setting)

Rig:
Win 7 64-bit
4GB OCZ RAM
Intel i7 - 860 CPU 3.8GHz
ASUS P7P55D-Deluxe mainboard
HIS Radeon HD 5970

You left out the most important part: What's your video card? Anyway, with the 12.2 Pre-certs (which identify themselves as 12.3, oddly enough), I have no flickering with a 7970.

..no problems with dual 5870's on 12.1preview drivers, still.

Dang! So I did. Edited now. I have a HIS Radeon HD 5970. Sorry if it seemed like a whine post. It wasn't meant to be. More a resignation post.

Maybe I should wait for 12.2 and then reinstall the game. The 12.2 should be out this or next week, right?

The 12.2 pre-certs are already available, try using that. 12.2 pre-certs will be the same as the release drivers.

i know when my game was patched to 1.4, i got flickering water that i never had before, i had to delete my ini files and let the game create new ini's and that fixed it.
So making backup copies of your ini files and trying that may be something to try.

I'm also currently using 12.1 drivers with my 6950's with no problems.

Sounds good. Do you have a link? It's difficult finding things like this on AMD's web site.

Aha, good call. I'll try that and see if it helps. Should have done it in the first place of course, and also I should have disabled SkyUI, although I'm very reluctant to do so. That mod should have been part of the game in the first place.

Never mind. Found them. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst122precertifieddriver.aspx

FYI, some people have reported artifacts (http://i.imgur.com/4ASOF.jpg), BSODs, and other graphics issues in Skyrim, Crysis 2 and a few other games with the 12.2 pre-certs and 12.3 RCs. For that reason I don't really recommend using them. The http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst122Previewdriver.aspx are older than the pre-certs, but I'd suggest trying them first to see if it fixes your flickering issue.

Haha, I wish I had read your post BEFORE I installed them. I got exactly the same artifacts as in that picture. Completely awful. I certainly hope that those drivers don't get certified. Phew! I thought for a moment there that there was something wrong with my graphics card. I will try the preview drivers, thanks.

Ah, happy days. The 12.2 preview driver seems to work fine. No flickering and no artifacts. Let's hope I get fewer crashes with it than 11.11c.

Yep, I reported those artifacts while back...and issued a driver feedback to AMD. 12.2 Preview drivers work best for me.