AMD Catalyst 11.6b Hotfix Resolves BSoD and Screen Flicker Issues
AMD Catalyst 11.6b Hotfix Resolves BSoD and Screen Flicker Issues
Posted 07/07/2011 at 6:33am
| by Paul Lilly
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Try not to look smug as you reach around and pat yourself on the back if you're the type of user who, come hell or high water, absolutely refuses to touch new driver and software updates with a 10-foot pole until they've been tested downloaded by others and verified to work. Also get ready to welcome a few more to your ranks after AMD's Catalyst 11.6 driver caused some systems kick it old school with a blue screen of death.
AMD just released another hotfix -- Catalyst 11.6b -- with this latest one intended to resolve a few hair pulling issues Radeon HD graphics card owners may have experienced when using Catalyst 11.6. These include:
- Blue screen errors (BSOD) seen when connecting a HDMI and DisplayPort based display to an AMD Radeon HD graphics product when using AMD Catalyst 11.6
- Screen flickering when the system is idle
- Mouse point corruption found in previous AMD Catalyst release
The previous hotfix added driver support for systems running one of AMD's recently released accelerated processing units (A6-3600 and A6 3650 with Radeon HD 6530D, and A8-3800 and A8-3850 with Radeon HD 6550D). If you already have Catalyst 11.6 installed, you can jump straight to the 11.6b hotfix.
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jwiltonjones
July 10, 2011 at 11:51am
ATI drivers have been a nightmare since day one. How many times have you had to completely uninstall and reinstall ATI drivers while trying to fix some unexplained problem, it's at least a thirty minute proccess. Everytime I run into ATI cards with problems there seems to be no fix. I don't see how ATI has made it passed 2002, it should have gone out of business a long time ago. And AMD hasn't done anything to make it a better product.
I wouldn't ever buy an ATI card for any reason.
MrPC2010
July 07, 2011 at 9:05am
Hm, well, like a week ago, I tried to update my catalyst drivers to 11.6 and it failed, tried to return to a previous save of windows, the pc crashed and whenever I tried to start it it would reboot non-stop with bsod. I had to reinstall windows... Redownloaded AMD drivers today and it seems to be working, I guess they also updated the ones on their website.
Big fail release from AMD... completely unprofessional.
blkpanthr
July 07, 2011 at 9:10am
sounds like you had some conficts with your hardware/software. Thats hardly AMDs fault.
My install was flawless, right over the 11.5 cats. Same with the 11.7 preview.
big win for AMD in my book.
haboh
July 07, 2011 at 7:55am
I've had some hard lock ups recently, in games only. But not able to pin down the cause. Maybe I should give these drivers a spin, but from the notes it does not sound like what I'm seeing. I also did a new win 7 install so way to many variables to deal with:) (Manually setting RAM timings seemed to keep BC2 from hard locking after 45 min though so maybe (hopefully) it's not a GPU issue..)
khalladay
July 07, 2011 at 7:08am
Download links coming up as leech protected. Heres the download page:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116bHotfix.aspx
Enjoy!
blkpanthr
July 07, 2011 at 7:52am
You should take a look at the 11.7 pre-release. AMD has been ignoreing DX9 improvements for the last few catalysts. The pre-release has some serious DX9 improvements.
I droppped 20% usage from 60% to 40% on Divinity II (gamebryo engine) with lockstep mode 30fps and everything maxxed out and MMAA forced on my 6950.
Also some nice IQ improvements
I realize its an old engine, but there are still allot of DX9 games out there.
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