AMD Catalyst bug reports [Eyefinity / Crossfire]

[Stu @ MSD]

Can't be. Ran Unigine benchmark for 8 hours last night at maximum OC (1200mhz) and no crashes.

Even ran Fraps and Radeonpro togather with it and no crashes.

It is very easy to fabricate the crash. OC the cards anything over 900mhz with Radeonpro OR fraps and 1 min in the game a crash occurs.

May I suggst you try Aidi 64 stability test?
When I was having trifire problems, I recorded only 800w or so from heaven 3.0 and similar tests, but Aida 64 takes me to in excess of 1100w. When my system is borderline, Aida will kill it, every time. the second best load was the 3dm11 extreme benchmark but still only in the 950w region.

[HK-47]

Well I got a hard lock in BF3 first one since the fix.

[HK-47]

For far cry 3 I found out disabling 2 cards by using the dip switches on the motherboard the hud is fixed(no longer stretched). Disabling crossifre does not work to fix the hud.

[Juanlo]

My system has been rock stable this christmas, and I have played a lot of Battlefield 3. However this is the second report I have got of this problem after the beta 11 drivers. Unless you are the same user that posted about it at Rage3D forums (Craz), the system specs are very similar, and so is the Eyefinity resolution (6000x1080). Is that you?

[HK-47]

Yes that is me.

My system has been very stable as well. This one lockup has been the only issue since the 12.11 beta 11. I am wondering if it is completely fixed or if certain circumstances can still cause it on rare occasions.

[Juanlo]

I've asked AMD about it and they haven't received any crash reports after 12.11 beta 11, although I have seen another user from wsgf saying that he got a couple of crashes in a week with an X58 and trifire, also in Battlefield 3.

Anyway today they will release the WHQL 13.1 driver, so please check it again when it's released. We should get new betas during the next few weeks, hopefully with the improved memory management that should get rid of the small stuttering that is present in some games.

[KaRLiToS]

Hey Guys,

I want to report back to you my experience with 12.11 beta 11 before trying the new WHQL today.

I had absolutely NO lockup since 12.11 beta 11 installation and played MANY MANY games. I'm pretty happy with the results. I have been running 1240Mhz / 1575Mhz on all four cards since then @ 8044x1440.

Hitman: absolution
Sleeping Dogs
Dead Space 2
Battlefield 3
walking Dead
Metro 2033
Crysis
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 MaldoHD
Borderlands 2
dirt Showdown
Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
STALKER Call of Pripyat
Doom III BFG
Duke Nukem Forever
Heaven
Assassin Creed III
I am alive
Dishonored
Singularity


I hope 13.1 WHQL will solve small stutter issue going over the net.

I'll report back later.

[Juanlo]

The stutter issues are not fixed with the 13.1 driver, AMD is going to fix them gradually within the next driver releases. The 13.2 beta will be the first step in that direction. By the way, I encourage you to use the new AMD driver uninstall utility, I have been testing it for a while and it works much better than the default uninstaller.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...l-utility.aspx

KaRLiToS, a bit off-topic but, can I ask you what monitors are you using? I'm tempted to get rid of my crappy BenQs and buy 3 2560x1440 monitors. I really like the new Dell U2713H, but the input lag (around 25 ms) is holding me back.

[KaRLiToS]

The stutter issues are not fixed with the 13.1 driver, AMD is going to fix them gradually within the next driver releases. The 13.2 beta will be the first step in that direction. By the way, I encourage you to use the new AMD driver uninstall utility, I have been testing it for a while and it works much better than the default uninstaller.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...l-utility.aspx

KaRLiToS, a bit off-topic but, can I ask you what monitors are you using? I'm tempted to get rid of my crappy BenQs and buy 3 2560x1440 monitors. I really like the new Dell U2713H, but the input lag (around 25 msQ) is holding me back.

Hi Juanlo,

The monitors I use are CrossOver 27Q Led-P , no dead pixel, no stuck pixel, only DVI-DL ports so input lag is very good.

Check the Vids in 1080p










On another note, what steps are you using for ATI uninstaller? I notice it doesn't remove the registry entries in "CurrentControlSet"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet2\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}


But, it does remove all ati dlls in those folders:
windows\system32
windows\system32\drivers
windows\syswow64

[Juanlo]

The monitors I use are CrossOver 27Q Led-P , no dead pixel, no stuck pixel, only DVI-DL ports so input lag is very good.

Thanks, I have read that lots of people are buying these kind of monitors on eBay, I'm glad that they worked so well for you. I'm not sure what to do. I have seen there are newer ones with even DisplayPort connection.

On another note, what steps are you using for ATI uninstaller? I notice it doesn't remove the registry entries in "CurrentControlSet"

Maybe those registry entries are automatically created by Windows when detecting the card, even without any driver installed. I don't think it's very important, what AMD improved is the leftovers of DLL files. I love the new uninstaller, it's so simple... just run it and it does it job.