Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.6 Windows release includes:
New Features:
Performance Enhancements
- AMD Steady Video
- Steady Video is currently an AMD exclusive feature based on AMD APP Technology
- By applying advanced algorithms behind the scenes, users do not have to deal with shaky or unstable video ever again!
- Capabilities scale with hardware and are end user controlled
- Image Stabilization brought to YouTube!
- Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content
- AMD has enabled decode acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content in Microsoft video player applications (through MFT support) for all AMD Radeon 6000 Series
Performance highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.6 release includes:
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
- Performance gains in Crysis of up to 7% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
- Performance gains in F1 2010 of up to 8% in DirectX 11 mode on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in Far Cry 2 of up to 5% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in HAWX of up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
- Performance gains in the Unigine OpenGL tests of up to 10% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.6 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Flashing titles are no longer displayed when playing F1 2010 in a Crossfire environment.
- Video playback no longer intermittently displays a black screen when using Windows Media Player.
- Graphics and Gaming scores are now correctly computed in the Windows Performance Index.
- A BSOD error is no longer generated randomly when Crossfire is enabled/disabled after video/LCD overdrive settings are changed on HD 6900 series products.
- Crossfire is now correctly enabled when playing The Witcher 2 on HD 6800 series products. (when used with AMD Catalyst 11.5 CAP 5 release)
- Screen tearing is no longer randomly seen when playing Riddick 2 at high performance settings and with Crossfire enabled.
- The game Kings Bounty now renders correctly.
- The game Empire Total War now no longer displays random flickering and in-game buttons display correctly.
- Google Earth now performs smoothly in OpenGL mode.
- Crossfire is now correctly enabled when playing Cars 2 on HD 6900 series products.
- Sid Meyers Civilization V no longer displays intermittent graphical corruption when played in DirectX 10 mode in a Crossfire environment.
- Heaven 2.1 running in DirectX 11 mode no longer displays intermittent graphical corruption in a Crossfire environment.
- Crossfire is correctly enabled when playing LEGO : Pirates of the Caribbean on HD6800 and HD 6900 series products.
- Poor performance is no longer experienced while Playing Heroes of Newerth and when the cursor is moved to the top right or bottom right corner of the screen.
- Mouse cursor corruption (in the upper right portion of the screen) should be resolved