ATI Catalyst 12.8 and Photoshop

[Noel Carboni]

I've been enjoying nearly flawless performance from the Catalyst 12.6 driver set for my Radeon HD 5670 on Windows 7 x64, but as I always need to test new driver releases for my own products, I'm about to download Catalyst 12.8, released on August 15th, and see how it works with Photoshop CS6 et. al.

The drivers are here (for Windows 7 x64):  http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

The release notes are here:  http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystSoftwareSuiteVersion128ReleaseNotes.aspx

I'll report back when I've got the drivers in and have done some initial tests. 

I invite and encourage you to post your experiences with Catalyst 12.8 here as well.

-Noel

[Yammer]

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/previous/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

[materialsguy]

The Catalyst 12.8 driver would not load my monitor calibration files (*.icm), so I rolled back to 12.6 which works fine.  One thing I noticed is that uninstalling the 12.8 drivers (using the install manager) was very slow; it took 5 or 6 times longer than normal. 

-materialsguy

[mitrofun]

with ATI Catalyst 12.8 (HD7970) Liquify filter not work (error message) and 3D (black screen)

[Noel Carboni]

Try uninstalling the driver then reinstall 12.8.  There are problems with the installer. 

-Noel

[mitrofun]

No effect

rollback to 12.6

[john worthington]

mitrofun,

When you say Liquify does not work, what exactly does that mean? Do you see a black preview screen. Do you drop back to CPU mode?

What is the text in the error message?

-John