AMD Catalyst 12.7 Beta

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A 6990 is basically two 6970s so I have 3x 6970s.

I posted this over @ sim HQ.

I was using the 12.7 beta drivers and it was really choppy at times and I would get huge drops in my fps.
I switched back to the AMD Catalyst 8.97 18 April drivers and a lot of the stuttering has gone away.
These drivers from the benchmarks this guy does scores the highest of all the AMD drivers to date.
http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-...il-benchmark/4

Link to the driver
http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-8-97-18-april

Link to the modded driver that unlocks the settings below.
http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-...april-7900-mod

Unlocked Temporal AA
Unlocked High Quality AF
Unlocked Geometry Instancing
Unlocked LOD option
Unlocked Test Custom Clocks and Auto-Tune options under OverDrive

I made a track and got hit in the engine early in one of the quick missions. My engine caught on fire so I had to fly towards land.
I notice my GPU usage was in the 20- 50% range during game play with vsync.
I then decided to play my track of the engine fire while tweaking settings.
The weird thing is during that track I was getting 60- 97% usage with multiple profiles settings I made. I play other tracks and my GPU usage is crap. I will only see the 60- 97% when I play my engine fire track.

I'm stumped? The 8.97 18 drivers seem to help a lot with hiccups and stutters during game play with vsync on & HT disabled in the BIOS.

Time for a few hours of sleep, then it's back to the drawing board.