ATI/AMD Catalyst drivers approved for 3DMark 11

We have deployed a new update to 3DMark.com which allows the approval of new ATI/AMD Catalyst drivers for 3DMark 11. 3DMark.com can now verify new benchmark submits for the Tessellation Control settings used. All submits that have been run with SystemInfo 4.2 (or later) and with default Tessellation Control settings ("AMD Optimized"), without touching any of the tessellation controls should now show as approved. Old submits (prior to SystemInfo 4.2) unfortunately cannot be verified, so while they may stop complaining about unapproved drivers, they are still flagged with a problem.

There are now two new possible error messages in 3DMark.com for 3DMark 11 submits with ATI/AMD hardware. Quoting from the FAQ:

Benchmark tessellation load modified by AMD Catalyst driver, result invalid.

 

This message can appear only with 3DMark 11 results from systems using ATI/AMD video cards. It appears when the benchmark run was done with non-default Tessellation Controls in AMD Catalyst control panel, modifying the tessellation workloads and invalidating the result for benchmark comparison purposes.

 

By default, AMD Catalyst control panel is set to “AMD Optimized”, tessellation is unmodified unless a specific application is detected. 3DMark 11 will not trigger a modified tessellation profile as doing so would be against Futuremark driver approval policy. This is the approved method for benchmarking ATI/AMD DirectX11 video cards with 3DMark 11, any other setting of Tessellation Controls will invalidate the result.

 

To correct this error, return Tessellation Controls to default in AMD Catalyst control panel and re-run benchmark.

 

Unable to verify AMD Catalyst tessellation setting, result invalid

 

This message can appear only with 3DMark 11 results from systems using ATI/AMD video cards. It appears when the benchmark run was done with too old SystemInfo module and there is no way to verify if AMD Catalyst Tessellation Controls were modified for the benchmark run. Most likely the result is comparable with other scores, but there is unfortunately no way to tell.

 

This error should appear only with old benchmark results submitted prior to the introduction of Futuremark SystemInfo 4.2. To correct the problem, update SystemInfo module to the latest available and re-run benchmark. Latest SystemInfo installer can be found here.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/support/systeminfo-updates/

Catalyst 11.9 drivers are now approved for 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark 11. Also all previous Catalyst versions between 11.1 and 11.8 that were approved for 06 and Vantage are now approved for 3DMark 11 as well.

If you have any issues related to this update or ATI/AMD driver approval, please let us know. Happy benchmarking.

For those who have the first post bug with Internet Explorer:

http://www.hwbot.org/forum/printthread.php?t=32281

We have deployed a new update to 3DMark.com which allows the approval of new ATI/AMD Catalyst drivers for 3DMark 11. 3DMark.com can now verify new benchmark submits for the Tessellation Control settings used. All submits that have been run with SystemInfo 4.2 (or later) and with default Tessellation Control settings ("AMD Optimized"), without touching any of the tessellation controls should now show as approved. Old submits (prior to SystemInfo 4.2) unfortunately cannot be verified, so while they may stop complaining about unapproved drivers, they are still flagged with a problem.

 

There are now two new possible error messages in 3DMark.com for 3DMark 11 submits with ATI/AMD hardware. Quoting from the FAQ:

 

Benchmark tessellation load modified by AMD Catalyst driver, result invalid.

 

This message can appear only with 3DMark 11 results from systems using ATI/AMD video cards. It appears when the benchmark run was done with non-default Tessellation Controls in AMD Catalyst control panel, modifying the tessellation workloads and invalidating the result for benchmark comparison purposes.

 

By default, AMD Catalyst control panel is set to “AMD Optimized”, tessellation is unmodified unless a specific application is detected. 3DMark 11 will not trigger a modified tessellation profile as doing so would be against Futuremark driver approval policy. This is the approved method for benchmarking ATI/AMD DirectX11 video cards with 3DMark 11, any other setting of Tessellation Controls will invalidate the result.

 

To correct this error, return Tessellation Controls to default in AMD Catalyst control panel and re-run benchmark.

 

Unable to verify AMD Catalyst tessellation setting, result invalid

 

This message can appear only with 3DMark 11 results from systems using ATI/AMD video cards. It appears when the benchmark run was done with too old SystemInfo module and there is no way to verify if AMD Catalyst Tessellation Controls were modified for the benchmark run. Most likely the result is comparable with other scores, but there is unfortunately no way to tell.

 

This error should appear only with old benchmark results submitted prior to the introduction of Futuremark SystemInfo 4.2. To correct the problem, update SystemInfo module to the latest available and re-run benchmark. Latest SystemInfo installer can be found here.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/support/systeminfo-updates/

 

Catalyst 11.9 drivers are now approved for 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark 11. Also all previous Catalyst versions between 11.1 and 11.8 that were approved for 06 and Vantage are now approved for 3DMark 11 as well.

 

If you have any issues related to this update or ATI/AMD driver approval, please let us know. Happy benchmarking.

What about results on hwbot? Use only default tesselation or hwbot still rules without changes?