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7/6/2011
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AMD Catalyst™ driver 11.6b Hotfix Features:

• Resolves the following issues:
  • Blue screen erorrs (BSOD) seen when connecting a HDMI and DisplayPort based display to an AMD Radeon HD graphics product when using AMD Catalyst 11.6
  • Screen flickering when the system is idle
  • Mouse pointer corruption found in previous AMD Catalyst releases
• AMD Catalyst driver support for systems with the following AMD products installed:
  • A6-3600 - AMD Radeon HD 6530D

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Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.7 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• All issues experienced with mouse cursor lag have been resolved
• Resolves system hangs seen in the AMD Catalyst 11.6 driver on specific HDMI and DP displays
• Log event (Event ID 62464) issues when playing video content have been resolved
• Bluray playback using PowerDVD 10 under High Performance mode no longer randomly displays a blank screen.
• Bluray playback using PowerDVD 10 under High Performance mode no longer randomly hangs.
• Some Divx format files no longer display video corruption using WinDVD.
• AVIVO Video Quality settings are now correctly applied to Flash Video Content.
• AMD SteadyVideo is now applied to Home Video clips when using WinDVD 10.
• Random screen corruption is no longer displayed when changing desktop themes.
• Chequerboard corruption is no longer displayed intermittently when playing DirectX 10 titles in a Crossfire configuration with Eyefinity enabled.
• Shogun II now renders the cinematics correctly when run in various Eyefinity configurations.
• Video playback now works correctly when Hardware acceleration is enabled with VLC Player version 1.1.9.
• Crossfire now functions correctly when playing Hamilton’s Great Adventure.
• Video corruption is no longer observed when when using the Forward slider on 720P Divx format video clips using Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center.
• PowerDVD now correctly handles 3D Bluray content.
• Portal 2 no longer displays flickering on water surface textures with Medium and Low Shader detail settings.
• Image stabilization now functions correctly when playing Divx content using Windows Media Player.
• Wraparound corruption is no longer displayed intermittently after exiting a 3D application.

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• Enables AMD HD3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
• Improves performance:
  
  -Up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products
  -Up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products
  -Up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the Catalyst Control Center on AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products

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This is the first beta release from the Release 280 family of drivers. You can Link Removed.
This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.
New in Release 280.19
NVIDIA SLI

• Enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X, and 970.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

• With Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. This driver includes the 280.10 3D Vision Controller driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information.
• Adds support for viewing 3DVisionLive.com and YouTube 3D with NVIDIA SLI PCs. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on 3D Vision Window Mode.
• Adds support for Window mode for 3D Vision Video Player. This requires v1.7.2 or higher of the player.
• Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Acer X1111, BenQ W710ST, and NEC NP-V300W
• Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
  • Alice Madness Returns
  • Back to the Future (Episodes 1-5)
  • Chuang Shi Xi You (创世西游)
  • Dao Jian 2 刀剑2
  • The Darkness 2
  • Deep Black
  • Dou Zhan Shen 斗战神
  • Dragon Ball Online
  • Dungeons and Dragons: Online
  • Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising
  • League of Legends 英雄联盟
  • LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
  • The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
  • Mars
  • Might & Magic Heroes VI
  • Mount & Blade: Warband
  • Mount & Blade: With Fire and Blade
  • RAGE
  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
  • Rise of the Immortals
  • Rusty Hearts
  • Serious Sam 3: BFE
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
• Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
  • Crysis 2 – rating changed to Excellent. NVIDIA recommends using the v1.9 game patch.
  • Deep Black – rating change to 3D Vision Ready
  • Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition – convergence changes and rating changed to 3D Vision Ready

Other

• Installs HD Audio driver version 1.2.23.3
• Installs Link Removed System Software to version 9.10.0514
• Supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For GPU and system requirements, visit the NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.
• Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Link Removed - Invalid URL.
• Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash.
• Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Supports OpenGL 4.1 on GeForce 400 series and later GPUs.
• Supports single GPU and Link Removed - Invalid URL on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

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AMD Catalyst Driver 11.8 early Preview Features:

Delivers performance enhancements for the AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series. Includes enhancements to the AMD Catalyst Control Center. New task based Display Management controls

Enhanced support for generic read-write memory and highperformance atomics in shaders (EXT_shader_image_load_store and ARB_shader_atomic_counters extensions), allowing advanced graphics algorithms to be implemented. Increased flexibility in how texture memory is allocated and managed (ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage and EXT_texture_storage extensions). Improved control and access to geometry instancing for improved performance (ARB_transform_feedback_instanced and ARB_base_instance).

• Improvements to the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL).◦Added control over GPU optimizations related to depth testing (AMD_conservative_depth).Build InforiverVer=08/08/2011, 8.880.8.00008.88.8-110808a-123505E-ATI

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OpenGL Driver Support


Windows driver version 280.28 and Linux drivers version 280.10.01.02 provide full support for OpenGL 4.2 and GLSL 4.20 on capable hardware. This driver also supports several new OpenGL extensions for both 4.2-capable GPUs and older GPUs.

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Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 Windows release include:
New Features

• AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
• CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs

Performance Highlights

• Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the
  AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the
  Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

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Highwayman said:

hope they better than the 11.8 previews, cos they sucked for DIRT3 (at least pre 1.2 update edition, haven't tested since then)

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AMD Catalyst™
driver version 8.95.5
Last Updated
3/19/2012

This AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5 features support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series.
Windows 7 support for the AMD 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 been improved when enabling Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive
•Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
•Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the
•Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
•To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements
•Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
•MLAA now operates up 80% faster than previous versions of MLAA
•To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

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