11.4 Driver Officially Out

ChaosInMind · Apr 28, 2011

They are out, running them now. I haven't done any benchmarks but Crysis 2 and Portal 2 seem a bit smoother.

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx

vixro · Apr 28, 2011

Obligatory question: Is there a difference between these drivers and the pre-release? I am quite happy with the pre-release and haven't had any major or minor issues with them so I think I'll just hold on to them for now.

ChaosInMind · Apr 28, 2011

vixro said:
Obligatory question: Is there a difference between these drivers and the pre-release? I am quite happy with the pre-release and haven't had any major or minor issues with them so I think I'll just hold on to them for now.

I can't really tell. I'm sure some minor bugs were cleaned up. I also noticed in the CCC it has an option for auto updates now.

jsharpley · Apr 28, 2011

ty, was waiting for this release.

tool_462 · Apr 29, 2011

vixro said:
Obligatory question: Is there a difference between these drivers and the pre-release? I am quite happy with the pre-release and haven't had any major or minor issues with them so I think I'll just hold on to them for now.

CrossFire scaling in Rift went up a fair amount. I did also install 11.4 CAP1 at the same time so I'm not sure which did the trick.

jsharpley · Apr 29, 2011

Anyone else getting mad font corruption/blurring in firefox 4 since switching? I went from the 11.3s which had been giving me no trouble in FF4, to now needing to disable hardware acceleration with the 11.4s in order to have normal font once again.

deathman20 · Apr 29, 2011

I've been running the 11.4's pre-released ones for quiet a while now. Im happy with them til a newer version comes out. Been treating my card well so can't complain.

sprok · Apr 29, 2011

Are you kidding me? I still have to mess with installmanager.cfg just to install the driver. AMD, you're killing me here.

Janus67 · Apr 29, 2011

What are you talking about? I've never had to mess with something like that. I generally always uninstall -> safe mode -> driver sweeper -> load into windows and install the latest (or whichever) driver.

deathman20 · Apr 30, 2011

Janus67 said:
What are you talking about? I've never had to mess with something like that. I generally always uninstall -> safe mode -> driver sweeper -> load into windows and install the latest (or whichever) driver.

Heck I just uninstall, reboot, install new, and reboot or good to go.

Only use Driver sweeper if there is an issue with the newer drivers. ATI rearly needed Driver sweeper, nVidia drivers a few years back needed it among other things to get drivers stable, though newer drivers still really never messed with Driver sweeper much.

ChaosInMind · Apr 30, 2011

jsharpley said:
Anyone else getting mad font corruption/blurring in firefox 4 since switching? I went from the 11.3s which had been giving me no trouble in FF4, to now needing to disable hardware acceleration with the 11.4s in order to have normal font once again.

Not at all. Firefox4 is very snappy, and clean. :shrug:

I've also never had to run driversweeper, I just uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot.

doz · Apr 30, 2011

FF4 does have a different font by default. Its kind of annoying, not sure why they changed it by default but as far as font corruption, Im not getting it.

Mr Alpha · Apr 30, 2011

jsharpley said:
Anyone else getting mad font corruption/blurring in firefox 4 since switching? I went from the 11.3s which had been giving me no trouble in FF4, to now needing to disable hardware acceleration with the 11.4s in order to have normal font once again.

Make sure you don't have any anti-aliasing enabled universally or anything like that. That will blur the fonts.

vixro · May 1, 2011

ChaosInMind said:
Not at all. Firefox4 is very snappy, and clean.

I've also never had to run driversweeper, I just uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot.

I don't even bother with this process anymore since Windows 7. Not saying that changed anything but I just install right over my old drivers (unless I get a new video card or downgrade my drivers, then I sweep.) Been doing this since 10.1 without too many issues.

:salute:

Though I will say I installed the 11.4 previews clean since I just got a 6950.

Mjolnir · May 1, 2011

vixro said:
I don't even bother with this process anymore since Windows 7. Not saying that changed anything but I just install right over my old drivers (unless I get a new video card or downgrade my drivers, then I sweep.) Been doing this since 10.1 without too many issues.

Though I will say I installed the 11.4 previews clean since I just got a 6950.

I had issues with screen flickering as well as some random driver crashes here and there until I did a clean-install of my ATI drivers. All went away, far smoother now. I've been doing the same as you (writing over installs), but I will now probably do that for 2-3 updates, then do a clean one. Off to install 11.4..

bda1967 · May 1, 2011

I too usually just install over the old version unless i'm having an issue, then I'll run driversweeper in safe mode. I've been using 11.4 since release with no issues except I noticed on two occasions a 2-3 second freeze when starting up BFBC2 once I spawn into the map for the first time. I don't recall that happening with any other driver version so other than that slight issue, no issues here so far.

sprok · May 1, 2011

My problem is that the driver and the ccc wouldn't even extract from the install manager. It would say install complete, but when you check the folder there's nothing there. If I try to do a custom install, they don't even appear on the list.

This also happened when I tried to install 11.2 after I got the new 6950.

vixro · May 2, 2011

sprok said:
My problem is that the driver and the ccc wouldn't even extract from the install manager. It would say install complete, but when you check the folder there's nothing there. If I try to do a custom install, they don't even appear on the list.

This also happened when I tried to install 11.2 after I got the new 6950.

Definitely isolated and has to do with your setup and what software you have installed.

AngelfireUk83 · May 2, 2011

I'm sticking with the 11.12's everything is working ship shape at the moment and I only just figured out how to make the colour through my HDTV better and less brighter had to switch to RBG Full god I'm an idiot. :screwy:

jsharpley · May 18, 2011

Found out that my screen corruption was caused by enabling morphological anti-aliasing in the CCC. Disabling it cleared the font right up.

11.4 Driver Officially Out

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

High Speed Premium Senior

Registered

Benching Team Leader

High Speed Premium Senior

Member

Member

Senior Member

Member

Member

Member

Registered

Member

Member

Member

Similar threads