Safe AMD/ATI drivers list

With all of the issues with AMD/ATI drivers I thought it would be nice to list which drivers are good and which ones are bad.
Most of the issues were hitting people with 64 bit windows OS.

I have the following cards to test with 4650, 5750, 5770 and 6870

Good
10.6 (5xxx)
10.8 (5xxx)
10.9 (5xxx)
11.2 (5xxx, 6xxx)
11.3 (5xxx, 6xxx) <---recommended
11.4 (5xxx, 6xxx)
11.9 (5xxx, 6xxx) <---recommended
11.10 (5xxx, 6xxx) (people report issues with crossfire)
12.1 (5xxx, 6xxx) (good but some reports of crossfire not working) <--- works good
12.4 (5xxx, 6xxxx, 7xxx) been working fine, crossfire still an issue.

Bad
10.10
10.11
11.1
11.5
11.6
11.7
11.8
11.11 (reports have been mostly bad need confirmation that its truly 11.11 and not an update or preview)

Unconfirmed
10.7 (it should be good)
11.11a (mixed reviews, need more testing)
11.11b (no data)
11.11c (no data)
11.12 (mixed reviews, some have said it works fine, others say it crashes)
12.2 (works, but some claims of issues with multi-instances)
12.3 (serveral complaints that this one isn't good, I used this driver and I had no crashes. adds support for 7xxx)
12.5 There is no 12.5
12.6 Its out, I'm going to test it

I'll update the list and add more based on feedback. Please help fellow AMD/ATI owners.

I am hearing that 4xxx models will soon be going onto "Leagacy" support.

Taken from Je_saist's Ultra mode posts - I added new cards as it appears he is no longer making posts.





















For the AMD architecture then, cards that will run Ultra Mode Graphics Options include:

• RadeonHD 4730**
• RadeonHD 4770***
• RadeonHD 4850
• RadeonHD 4850x2#
• RadeonHD 4860
• RadeonHD 4870
• RadeonHD 4870x2#
• RadeonHD 4890
• RadeonHD 5750
• RadeonHD 5770
• RadeonHD 5830
• RadeonHD 5850
• RadeonHD 5870
• RadeonHD 5970#
• RadeonHD 6750****
• RadeonHD 6770****
• RadeonHD 6790
• RadeonHD 6850
• RadeonHD 6870
• RadeonHD 6950
• RadeonHD 6970
• RadeonHD 6990#
• RadeonHD 7970
• RadeonHD 7950
• RadeonHD 7770
• RadeonHD 7750
• RadeonHD 7870
• RadeonHD 7850
  

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I have a Radeon 5850 and have been using the 11.10 drivers for the past two weeks with zero issues. That includes several 4+ hour gaming sessions, three Hamidon raids, three Rikti mothership raids, and numerous Incarnate trials.

I'd be willing to remove it from the bad list but one user saying its good isn't a big enough sample. I recall others trying 11.10 and having issues. Was that with 64 bit windows 7 or Vista?

Anyone else have good reports on 11.10?

Maybe I'll try 11.10 and see what happens, the worst that can happen is the game crashes.

It's with Windows 7 64 bit. I realize that my experience is my own with no data to back it up, and there are a multitude of possible hardware and software configurations at play. However, I felt it worth reporting I've had no issues with the 11.10 drivers during extensive play over the past couple of weeks.

FYI, I was using 11.4 for most of the year on my 5850 card.

It never caused crashes for me, but I did get occasional corruption of certain textures (for instance, sometimes the letter "w" wouldn't show up in peoples' chat bubbles), and sometimes buildings in the BAF trial weren't rendered. These problems were few and far between though, and mostly encountered on the BAF trial (and only about 1 in 10 times there).

The game was otherwise very playable and performance was comparable to the other good drivers in your listing.

On the other hand, I DO recall reading that users with 6800 series cards had issues with the 11.4 drivers.

(11.9 seems to be the way to go at this point, regardless.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

I am certainly one of the 6800 people who had issues with 11.4 but other people said it worked ok for them, but others with 5xxx card had issues. If I can get more data points it might help.

I'll be testing 11.10 this week and see what happens.

Edit: Well 90 minutes of gameplay so far and no crashes.

Edit2: Well 3 days on 11.10 no issues. I already added it to the good list, so will keep using these in the meantime.

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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man FYI, I was using 11.4 for most of the year on my 5850 card. It never caused crashes for me, but I did get occasional corruption of certain textures (for instance, sometimes the letter "w" wouldn't show up in peoples' chat bubbles), and sometimes buildings in the BAF trial weren't rendered. These problems were few and far between though, and mostly encountered on the BAF trial (and only about 1 in 10 times there). The game was otherwise very playable and performance was comparable to the other good drivers in your listing. On the other hand, I DO recall reading that users with 6800 series cards had issues with the 11.4 drivers. (11.9 seems to be the way to go at this point, regardless.)

I've been using Catalyst 11.10 since shortly after it was posted with few issues. Mostly I've had the game crashes that a lot of people were having regardless of driver version. It almost only hit me when dual-boxing and happens a lot less in the current game patch.

Windows 7 64-bit, Phenom II x4, Radeon HD 5570.

I also had good luck with the 10.8 drivers. Nothing I tried before that was bug-free.

10.11 and 11.1 were extremely unstable and locked the game up repeatedly.
11.7 locked the game up a lot and frequently the driver itself would crash, causing all OpenGL programs I was running to stop responding and have to be killed.

I have been using the 11.4's on a 6870 with issues what ever.

In fact it runs so smooth I won't update unless a feature is required.

I added 11.4 to the list of good drivers. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to test out a 4650 card (but I don't expect ultra mode)

Anyone running UM with a 6670 or 6570 with at least 1280x1024 or higher?

There's no point to this list i'm afraid. Different users have different experiences with every driver. For me for example, none of them are "stable" as far as CoX are concerned, though the ones where it ran better didn't run at all for others - Read up on the old Cataclyst threads and you'll see why this thread is pointless.

I'm afraid there's no shortcut to stability here, you'll have to figure it out and try drivers on your own.

Well it will be interesting to test the 4650 then. The processor can certainly make a difference, what CPU you using Hericane?

I have the 5700 series and found this link
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...w_vista64.aspx

But I'm seriously debating whether I should do it or not, just out of principle I don't feel like I should have to downgrade my driver.

Are you running 11.11 and its stable?

Running 11.11 and I get periodic lock-ups. Not fun when you have to run Windows Task Manager just to get out of game.

Then its not really a downgrade if it makes the game stable.

I have been running the 11.11a drivers with a 5850 and have experienced no issues since they were released. I updated to see if they would help my framerate in Skyrim, and so far that game runs smoothly as well.

Intel I5 2.7 proc OC'd to 3.2...

I'm still in the process of verifying that 11.10 are stable. I could try 11.11a next. Knowing of course that using some of the "updated" drivers such as 11.11a and 11.11b require more searching by the user and many people will just assume 11.11 = 11.11a or 11.11b

For me, I had zero crashes with the 11.10 Preview, but 11.11 has been crashing me nearly every hour on my 6870. I'm installing the 11.12 drivers now to see if it fixed anything, since the OpenGL version changed, if I remember right.

Edit: And crashed. Back to 11.10 I go.

I have antique dual HD 4850s and I am having issues with lag and crashes, Especially after the patch on 12/06/11. I have 11-9_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl installed.

Guess i should go to 11-10?

W7(64) / HD5770 - I had no problems until Tuesday's patch. The problems I am experiencing are rendering (like missing heads body parts during character creation) / game will inexplicably crash with no error other than application hang (usually while zoning). Originally I had 11.5 (which I had no problems with) I've tried 11.11 and 11.9 with no success. I've completed uninstalled all ATI / Catalyst software and have installed 11.10. I'll try it tonight when I get home which I hope will resolve my issues. Thank you for for this thread and maybe my feedback will help someone else.

Crossfire 6970's. I had 11.11 drivers and experienced lockups. Game would go unresponsive and would require the task manager to quit. Rolling back to 11.10 gave me no relief. 11.9 resolved my issues.