El día de hoy AMD ha estado trabajando arduamente en sus controlados Catalyst, primero ofreciendo sus nuevos Catalyst 12.11 Beta Never Settle que ofrecen mejoras de rendimiento de hasta un 15% en la serie 7xxx.
El día de hoy tambien ha publicado sus Catalyst 12.10 WHQL, los cuales a diferencias de los 12.11 Beta no traen mejoras de rendimiento en juegos pero si solucionan varios problemas y ademas da soporte de tecnologías como Eyefinity,Dual Grapics, entre otras cosas siendo estos drivers Ready for Windows 8.
Ademas de contar con mayor soporte de para su tecnologia AMD Enduro para gráficas de notebooks.
Los nuevos Catalyst 12.10 traen los siguientes cambios:
AMD Catalyst 12.10 – Ready for Windows 8
For AMD Radeon™ HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series users, Microsoft® has certified today’s AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 release as “compatible with Windows 8.” With this driver, these products offer full support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has developed to ensure smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.
- Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications
- Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications
- Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX® 11 API, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supported applications.
- Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices
- Improved sleep/resume performance
- Optimized GPU power consumption
- Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:
AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro™ Technology
AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro™ Technology. AMD Enduro Technology is currently supported on all notebook Intel® IvyBridge platforms and AMD Comal platforms that support the AMD Radeon HD 7900M, 7800M, 7700M – additional products will be supported in future Catalyst releases.”
AMD Enduro™ Technology for Notebooks delivers:
- Unbeatable battery life
- GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps
- A Seamless and automatic experience
New Enduro™ Technology features found in Catalyst 12.10:
- Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface
- View all profiled applications
- View recently run applications
- Profile applications based on power source
- Expert mode control and customization
- Performance centric AC
- Battery centric DC
RESOLVED ISSUES
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst12.10 software suite.
Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 Operating System
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars performance affected when run at high resolutions
- Wolfenstien performance affected when run at high resolutions
- System hangs when disabling Eyefinity
- World of Warcraft – Mists of Pandaria experiences graphical corruption when anti-aliasing is forced to 2X or higher
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
- F1 2011 : Vehicle textures flicker when game is run at low settings
- Dirt Showdown : Flickering seen when benchmark is run in DirectX 11 mode
- Battlefield – Bad Company 2 : Flickering textures seen in AMD CrossFire mode
- Alan Wake – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity enabled
- Portal 2 – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled
Ademas AMD tambien libero una nueva versión de sus Catalyst Application Profiles 12.10 CAP 1, los que solucionan problemas en Darksiders II y Max Payne 3 e incrementan el rendimiento en Crysis 2 y Fifa13 entre otras cosas.
Descarga Catalyst 12.10:
- Catalyst 12.10 Release Notes | AMD Catalyst 12.10 Application Profiles | AMD Stream SDK 2.6
- Catalys 12.10 Windows 7/Vista (32-Bits) | Catalys 12.10 Windows 7/Vista (64-Bits)
- Catalys 12.10 Windows 8 (32-Bits) | Catalys 12.10 Windows 8 (64-Bits)
- Catalys 12.10 Windows XP (32-Bits) | Catalys 12.10 Windows XP (64-Bits)
- Catalys 12.10 Windows 7/Vista Mobility (32-Bits) | Catalys 12.10 Windows 7/Vista Mobility (64-Bits)
- Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Win 7/Vista (32-bit) | Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Win 7/Vista (64-bit)
