Issue Description: We’ve recently identified an issue where some of our legacy graphics products are producing certain artifacts in Diablo III with our latest release of Catalyst™ 12.4. This issue only affects users of ATI Radeon™ HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cardsunder Windows® Vista® and Windows 7. Note: Users of these products under Windows...
New features Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality...
New features Catalyst 12.3 now fully supports the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 series of products Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/ delays have been resolved Tom Clancy HAWX: No longer crashes after task switching with MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing) and Anti-Aliasing enabled Furmark Benchmark: No...
This is the official launch driver for GeForce GTX 680 – the fastest, most efficient GPU ever built. Explore GeForce GTX 680 and its new SMX architecture on GeForce.com. GeForce R300 drivers introduce several new industry-leading gaming features and will be released using versions 300.xx to 301.xx. New Feature Summary: NVIDIA GPU Boost Technology – dynamically maximizes clock speeds based...
The OpenCL 1.2 beta includes the following OpenCL™ 1.2 functionality: Host access flags for memory objects enable more efficient buffer handling and provide added protection. For example, a buffer that is created as “write only” cannot be read from the host. Pattern based GPU buffer and image initialization can help eliminate need for certain buffer/image transfers Memory...
This AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5 features support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series. Windows 7 support for the AD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series LOD Image quality enhancements have...
Raffi Krikorian has made it public via a tweet that twitter supports the by google made “spdy-protocol”. With the “spdy-protocol” developed by Google web pages can be loaded faster and more secure. The protocol allows data connections to be multiplexed, compressed and encrypted automatically. Below are some of the spdy-protocol enhancements: Stream Control Transmission...
New features Support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and 7700 Series Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit. Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4. Improvements Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing for DirectX 10 and 11 applications Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series. Users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing...
See what games are using the Unity Engine. This is a show reel so don’t expect any technical updates just games made with the Unity Engine.
David Cage writer and director at Quantic Dream sits down for a Q&A about KARA. KARA is a technology demo show casing how far Quantic Dream has come technology wise since “Heavy Rain”. It has to be said that the KARA technology demo has nothing to do with a upcoming/future game of Quantic Dream. It’s just a show case of the new engine in development at Quantic...
So what has CryTek been up to with the CryEngine 3? Find out in this latest Tech Trailer. Not the best trailer as it’s captured with CAM but you will get the idea Get the latest look at the heavy hitting graphics made possible only by CryENGINE 3.
So what has been cooking at the Unreal Engine department? Find out in this Feature Highlights trailer. Catch a glimpse of the graphical powerhouse that is Unreal Engine in the latest trailer.
SYMPTOMS When you use a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the computer may stop responding. This issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true: You repeatedly open and then close a window. You move a Windows Media Player window. You extend the display to an additional monitor. CAUSE This issue...
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ driver for the Windows® 8 Consumer Preview: Release notes Full WDDM 1.2 Highlights include: Native Stereo 3D support: Windows 8 will natively support Stereo 3D for full-screen and windowed gaming, and video applications Unified Video API – Video playback is now integrated within the DirectX® 11 API; enabling simultaneous high quality Video...
According to The Verge Microsoft is scrapping two of it’s favorite naming brands with the next version of their OS preview release. The Zune Pass will remain but that shouldn’t be more than a re-brand in later update as well? Would be more that logical to merge it with the “Microsoft Account” (Windows Live ID). The Xbox team of Microsoft is handling the Metro...
Major New Features: DX9 Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) DX9 Screen-Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO) DX9 Particle Global Illumination (GI) New “Very High” graphics configuration Added Scaleform support (v3.9.93) Important Updates: Improved SLI/CF support Improved 32-bit Editor support Improved support for 5.1/7.1 surround sound setups Improved support for Windows font sizes Improved...
This is the first WHQL-certified driver from the R295 family of drivers. It is the recommended upgrade for all GeForce users, especially those playing the latest hot PC games like Diablo III, Mass Effect 3, or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These drivers come packed with GeForce-exclusive performance and quality enhancements and are nowMicrosoft WHQL-certified. Read the full GeForce 295.73...
If there’s one company out there at this moment that knows how to support their product and please their fans it’s Bethesda Game Studios. Within reasonable time they have ironed out most bugs of the game and released the tools to keep the game interesting by allowing custom content. Modders rejoice! We’re pleased to announce that the Skyrim Creation Kit is now...
This is a video preview for the Creation Kit and Skyrim Workshop! The creation Kit will offer the same suite of tools that “Bethesda Game Studio”s used to create The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the best part is that the tool will be free to download via steam. The Creation Kit has lots of new features, including the ability to build archives. The creation Kit comes with a well...
nVidia SLI Adds or updates SLI profiles for: 7554 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Mass Effect 3 Oil Rush Red Faction: Armageddon 3D Vision Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for: The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair Black Prophecy – rated Not...
In a new blog post “Steven Sinofsky” goes into depth on the “file management experience” and what has been changed since the developer preview. Aproxemately 2200 comments were made on the previous blog posts. Most users were/are not happy with the “Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon” that first made it’s appearance in “Microsoft Office.” due to...
The AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Preview includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 12.1, plus additional fixes that are not included in the AMD Catalyst 12.1 release. Please note that AMD Radeon HD 7900 users should keep using the 8.921.2 RC11 driver found here (the 12.2 preview does not supported the AMD Radeon HD 7900...
Improvements AMD HD3D technology support enhancement Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations Delivers a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a connections – 1080p at 30Hz is now enabled on supported displays AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver enables...
A new video detailing how Windows 8 is optimized for mobile networks. Windows 8 will have it’s own mobile driver that uses the Mobile Broadband Interface Model Specification or MBIM for short Windows 8 will recognize the mobile provider, automatically set the configuration options and when needed get the mobile provider’s app from the app store. The OS will also give details...
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