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AMD Releases Hotfix for 8-12
TweakTown News RSS Feed — ... I know that many of you were looking forward to the performance increases the ATi 8-12 drivers brought. But for a select group of users the new drivers only brought frustration. For many who had the combination of a pair of Radeon HD4850 in Crossfire Mode and Microsofts Vista these new drivers meant black screens at boot and BSODs if they got into the OS. ATi has now released a patch to fix all of that though. Read more here . ATI programmers have released a hotfix that corrects the black screen and boot OS failure when Catalyst 8.12 is installed on Windows Vista, and two ...

AMD Releases Hotfix for Catalyst 8-12 Drivers
TweakTown News RSS Feed — ... I know that many of you were looking forward to the performance increases the ATi 8-12 drivers brought. But for a select group of users the new drivers only brought frustration. For many who had the combination of a pair of Radeon HD4850 in Crossfire Mode and Microsofts Vista these new drivers meant black screens at boot and BSODs if they got into the OS. ATi has now released a patch to fix all of that though. Read more here . ATI programmers have released a hotfix that corrects the black screen and boot OS failure when Catalyst 8.12 is installed on Windows Vista, and two ...

ATI Catalyst 8.12 Hotfix Released - Corrects Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire X Mode in Vista
techPowerUp! — ATI programmers have released a hotfix that corrects the black screen and boot OS failure when Catalyst 8.12 is installed on Windows Vista, and two or more ATI Radeon HD 4850 video cards are working in CrossFire X mode. This issue only occurs when two or more ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphic cards are installed in the system with ATI CrossFireX technology. One single ATI Radeon HD 4850 card will not encounter this issue. To download the hotfix for both Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, please click here ...

ATI releases a new Catalyst 8.12 hotfix
Fudzilla — Image Fixes HD 4850 Vista Crossfire X ATI has released a new hotfix that should fix the HD 4850 Crossfire X mode issue in Windows Vista. This should fix both the black screen and boot OS failure with two or more ATI Radeon HD 4850 cards in Crossfire X mode under Windows Vista OS. Until now users with HD 4850 Crossfire running Windows Vista OS, had to stick to 8.11 Catalyst and according to some reports those that have two HD 4870 are still stuck with the previous driver. Catalyst 8.12 was something that we eagerly awaited, but it looks like major fixes and performance gains will come with version 9.1. You can find the new hotfix here ...

ATI Catalyst 8.12 hotfix for Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire in Vista
DV Hardware — ... ATI has released a hotfix for its Catalyst 8.12 drivers, this update fixes a problem with two or more Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards in Windows Vista. You can download it over here. ...

ATI puts out a new Catalyst hotfix driver
Neoseeker News Feed — HD 4850 CrossfireX Vista problems? Here's a driver for you... ATI released a new Catalyst hotfix driver today. This driver specifically address problems that people have been reporting with multiple HD 4850 / HD 4870's setup through CrossfireX, in Vista. If you aren't having any troubles, you might as well just wait until the next big release, Catalyst 9.1.

Catalyst 8.12 Hotfix
AMDZone Frontpage — AMD has released a hotfix for Catalyst 8.12. Here are the details on what it does. After installing ATI Catalyst driver release 8.12 for two or more ATI Radeon HD ™ 4850 graphics cards in a system with ATI CrossFireX™ technology, the system restarts and halts on a black screen. The black screen occurs prior to the loading of the desktop for the Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit operating systems. This issue ONLY occurs when two or more ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphic cards are installed in the system with ATI CrossFireX technology. One single ATI Radeon HD 4850 ...

ATI releases 8.12 Catalyst hotfix driver with support for the HD 4850 X2
Neoseeker News Feed — Good to see ATI released a hotfix, Catalyst 8.12 driver today. Besides the usual performance tweaks, most notably, this new driver officially supports the Sapphire HD 4850 X2. We reviewed the Sapphire HD 4850 X2 last week, you can read that review here if you like. Some hardware reviewers complained that the latest Catalyst driver did not support the HD 4850 X2, even though the card has been out for about three months now. Instead, users had to download the HD 4850 X2 driver directly from Sapphire, or use the driver on the driver CD. Supposedly this driver offers a 25% performance increase in Crysis , and a 10% performance increase to World In Conflict . We ...