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...
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...
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...
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...
nVidia SLI
Adds or updates SLI profiles for:
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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...
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...
The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1a Preview driver includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview.
Additional changes for upcoming update of Rage
Resolves some new texture corruption issues introduced by the latest version of the game
Improved performance ~5%
Smoother game play and reduces multicore sync points
Fixed mapbuffer failures when switching maps on 32-bit systems.
Fixed a...
The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 and also includes all of the latest optimizations found in the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance drivers (AMD Catalyst 11.12 does not include the latest 11.11c optimizations). It is highly recommended that all gamers use the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1...
Compatible Operating Systems:
The latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:
Windows 7 32-bit version
Windows 7 64-bit version
Windows Vista 32-bit version
Windows Vista 64-bit version
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Highlights of the...
AMD Catalyst 11.11b performance driver features:New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for (Elder Scrolls Skyrim and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations)
Elder Scrolls Skyrim
New in Catalyst 11.11c: Delivers AMD CrossFire performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossFire performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000...
AMD Catalyst 11.11b performance driver features:
New in Catalyst 11.11b:
Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for (Elder Scrolls Skyrim and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations)
Elder Scrolls Skyrim
New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossFire performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 CrossFire support will be supported soon in an updated...
AMD Catalyst 11.11a performance driver features:
Batman Arkham City
Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations
Rage
Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:
Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance
Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.
Fix issue with extreme...
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.11 Windows release includes:
NEW FEATURES
Adobe Flash Player 11 support
Enables full support of the GPU accelerated Stage 3D API and Stage 3D applications
Supported on the AMD Radeon HD Series of GPUs, A-Series APU and E-Series APU
RESOLVED ISSUES
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known...
New Features
AMD Eyefinity enhancements
Enables support for Eyefinity 5×1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations
Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)
Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.
AMD VECC/CCC...
AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver Features:
Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition
Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage
Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems
Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and...
So AMD did the obvious and merged the “Battlefield 3 – AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Preview Driver” and the “RAGE - AMD Catalyst™ – Rage Performance Driver”. By doing so they fixed a huge mistake of releasing two seperate drivers for two games that are being played allot at this moment. It was kind of frustrating to be swapping out drivers for most users to be able...
Many PC users are having visual issues with id Software’s RAGE. It seems mainly AMD GFX card owners are having the issues. AMD released a special “Rage Performance Driver” to hope and fix the “MegaTexture streaming” issues
AMD Catalyst Rage Performance Driver Features:
Significant performance gains for single GPU configurations
Compatible with AMD Radeon™ 6000 and...
New Features:
Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game.
Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on...
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