AMD Driver Update

_Thresh_

<div class="IPBDescription">Shadow Flickering Fixed</div>Not really official but for anyone having this problem:

New AMD Catalystâ„¢ Application Profile is now available:

This release of AMD Catalystâ„¢ Application Profile (Catalyst 12.1 CAP3) includes the following updates

Alan Wake: Improves CrossFire performance
Syndicate: Improves both single GPU and CrossFire performance
Darkness 2: Improves CrossFire performance
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Improves CrossFire performance for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series to avoid negative scaling at low resolutions
<b>Natural Selection 2</b>: Fixes shadow map flickering issue seen with CrossFire enabled

Edit: <a href="http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/02/16/amd-catalyst%E2%84%A2-12-2-pre-certified-driver-whats-new/" target="_blank">http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/02/16/amd-c...iver-whats-new/</a>

sheena_yanai

edit: oh wait, this is 12.3
now it finaly says my drivers are up to date, thanks

Crispy

These are the 12.2 drivers, only they haven't been WHQL-certified yet (hence why they're calling them 'pre-cert').

google

after trying out 12+ (with and without pcaps) and getting massive bsods (yes of course i did driver cleaner) i went back to 11.12.

And for those finding similar problems (im rolling with a 6990) with the newest 12+ catalyst drivers:
That classic fix for flickering:
1. go into catalyst uncheck surface optimization
2. end process on MOM.exe
3. Regedit in run box
4. Search regedit for catalystai
4.1 if CatalystAI_DEF change from 1 to 0
4.2 if CatalystAI value is (dec) 31 or 32, change to 30 (dec value for '0')
5. repeat until all values are changed, cause no game should have to use catalystAI (lol i have yet to see it perform better with it in any single way)
6. close regedit and restart MOM.exe

Problem solved. (this is assuming your tired of bothering with radeonpro which reverts the catalystai value to true or 1 after every reboot, even if you change the default profiles.xml, or particular game profile (another option on that is to load the xmls in notepad++ and make it read-only, making actual read only in windows file system prevents the game from starting with radeonpro))

Khyron

Cool. I have apparently endured about 190 hours of NS2 with the flickering. Apparently I'm just too lazy to even check these forums for tips heh. It wasn't too noticiable on summit but mineshaft has seizure inducing areas... I gather that once this is WHQL certified it will eventually be rolled out. Anybody care to estimate how long that will take?

Floodinator

12.1 with CAP 3 fixes the flickering problem and is WHQL. OP just linked a news site and meanwhile there sandst something about 12.3, scroll down to 12.1 CAP 3.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->New AMD Catalystâ„¢ Application Profile is now available:

This release of AMD Catalystâ„¢ Application Profile (Catalyst 12.1 CAP3) includes the following updates

Alan Wake:  Improves CrossFire performance
Syndicate: Improves both single GPU and CrossFire performance
Darkness 2: Improves CrossFire performance
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Improves CrossFire performance for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series to avoid negative scaling at low resolutions
<b>Natural Selection 2: Fixes shadow map flickering issue seen with CrossFire enabled<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
</b>
Downloadlink:
<a href="http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx" target="_blank">http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pag...p-profiles.aspx</a>

Khyron

Eh wasn't worried about installing non WHQL stuff... just wanted to know when it will be bog standard and therefore stop scaring new people off... Cheers for the link tho.