Radeon fallback to 12.6 from 12.8 Ultimate Edition 3.4/3.5

[pam]

Faced terrible problems with amdccc 12.8 on both crossfire and normal setups.
12.8 is very buggy and caused perpetual compiz/ sound/ flash and other GUI problems and is a nightmare.

Went back using 12.6 and everythings beheaving.

[mrLRB]

Had similar issues - primarily playing flash video with ccc 12.9 beta (very choppy playback).
I will try 12.6 and see if that solves this.
Thanks for the heads-up!

[pam]

Even 12.6 is faulty but not detrimental......unlike 12.8

12.8 would require 3-4 reboots just to load hdmi audio.
12.6 loads everything but compiz tears on the screen..........this again requires a reboot and everything becomes normal.

I Installed kernel 3.6.3 and problems are reminiscent of the default 3.2 kernel albeit system is more responsive.
When i used the default open source gallium driver present in 3.6.3 compiz and effects were awesome and buttery...BUT that hdmi sound thing needs to be taken care.
I dont know but if i read correctly hdmi sound code must be present....anyways..

The default gallium driver should be enough for most users and custom HTPC without hdmi audio out, but if you do gaming you "need" AMD's proprietary drivers as frame rates increase a 100 fold


some news
here is vrzone official fx 8350 gaming benches
http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-fx-8350 ... 17494.html

tech report
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd- ... r-reviewed

[pam]

here's catalyst 12.10:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l ... ng=English

ill check how this works out..................

Installed it ....A promise KEPT!!.
I would recommend anyone using Ultimate Edition with radeon cards to install catalyst 12.10 as its very stable and crash free with compiz

AMD shines overnight i guess.
fx-8350 delivers and catalyst 12.10 has bugs resolved.