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Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 Windows release include:


New Features

• AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
• CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs

Performance Highlights

• Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the
  AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the
  Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System


This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• The option to “Apply current video quality settings to internet video" is no longer randomly missing from the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center.
• 3DMark 11 no longer intermittently generates a BSOD error when run using a standard user account.
• Playing HD video content overnight using Windows Media Center no longer causes the system to hang or generates a BSOD error.
• Random graphical corruption is no longer experienced when playing Crysis 2 in a Crossfire environment.
• Image stabilization is now correctly applied to DivX clips when using Windows Media Player.
• Enabling AntiAliasing when playing Starcraft 2 no longer causes random screen blackouts.
• Video corruption is no longer seen when scrolling through DivX 5 video files using Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.
• Menu corruption is no longer seen when running F.E.A.R 3 in DirectX 11 mode.
• Video playback now functions correctly after enabling hardware acceleration in VLC version 1.1.10.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System


This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• PowerDVD no longer randomly displays a blank screen when playing back BluRay content with Crossfire enabled.
• BSOD errors are no longer intermittently experienced after installing the driver with Crossfire enabled.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system


The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• STALKER - Call of Pripyat may randomly hang when entering a new or saved game.
• Random corruption may be observed when running the Unigine Heaven benchmark in Fixed High Performance mode.
• F1 2010 may randomly hang on application launch.
• Battlefield – Bad Company 2 may randomly hang after a period of game play.
• Dungeon Siege 3 may randomly hang on application launch.
• Dead Rising 2 may randomly hang on application launch.
• Random flashing may be observed while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2.
• OpenGL acceleration may not function within Photoshop CS5.

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System


The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• Windows Aero options may not be available after installing the driver.
• Doom 3 and Quake 4 may experience graphical corruption.
• Performing Bezel compensation in certain Eyefinity configurations may cause some bezel groups to not appear.

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xgt001

hey thanks a lot works like charm on my HP-G42 478TX based on Radeon Mobiltiy 6370

finally an upgrade after lot of googlind

Spaztic_Reaper

Installed these after getting Deus Ex: Human Revolution, because every time I started a new game I'd get an error about low resources for my card. Before the 11.8 I was back on 11.5.

After installing 11.8 and rebooting I'd get about half a minute with full use of my desktop until getting a white screen and the computer freezing up. Did a hard reboot and went into safe mode to roll back the drivers on both cards.

First time rebooting after roll back the windows 7 boot up screen was stuttering badly, and after entering my password for my account it froze during the welcome load screen. Did a hard reboot, started windows normally, logged in fine, changed the desktop theme back to the aero theme from the high contrast(no idea why it booted up with that theme chosen for the windows but still had desktop background from original theme), and then decided to start up AMD VISION, got another white screen and had to reboot.

Went back to safe mode and uninstalled all drivers and AMD VISION again and cleaned out my registry, also ran malwarebytes just in case, only caught a few minor viruses.

I just finished downloading the 11.7 driver and vision software, don't have much hope that it'll solve my issue, but I'll remove this post if it does. Otherwise, any advice would be awesome, thanks.

No go on the 11.7, tried downloading just the 11.8 display driver, and using omega's ati tray tools in place of vision(catalyst). Been using driver cleaner with the Ati filter and the Ati CCC filter following their steps in the help file. Neither updating the drivers through windows or through catalyst install manager has gotten me better results.
Still when I reboot and log in during the welcome load screen the loading symbol and welcome will stay but everything else turns white.

Usually within 5 minutes of being on the desktop it will either freeze with a screen of vertical uniformly colored bars, or the screen will go black, my fans will kick into high gear, and in either case I have to do a hard reboot.

Considering I've cleaned out all the driver files and CCC files on my last installs without any better results, I'm wondering, is one of my cards dead? While I do have the desktop running, my temp gadgets read 50C idle on the XFX card and 39C idle on the Powercolor. Normal temps on both, but the XFX usually runs closer to the temp of the Powercolor, which 39 is cool for it. Before today the summer heat was keeping them both idle around 46-48C.

I do remember my roommate had a similar issue with his Sapphire HD 3870 Toxic, though he'd switched the vapor-x cooler out with a large heatsink with two small fans that clipped onto the heatsink. Ended up replacing his HD 3870 since no matter how far back he rolled the drivers there was no improvement. Even though he didn't have two cards in crossfire, his symptoms are quite similar to mine right now, but I dunno which card would be dead.

If anyone's curious as to how I'm able to post this with these issues, I'm currently running in safe mode with networking enabled.

Think I found the issue, reposting this in ATI cards section.

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