Essential Links for Downloading Nvidia and ATI Graphic Drivers

Adds support for NVIDIA TXAANVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter. The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA (support will be enabled in an upcoming patch). TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
New SLI Support - Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

• The Secret World - added
• End of Nations - added
• Nexuiz (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier (also provided earlier via NVIDIA Update)
• Tornado Force - added
• Tribes: Ascend - updated

Key Fixes

• Fixed a compatibility issue with Civilization V and GeForce 400/500 series GPUs
• Fixed instances of flickering or missing mouse cursor when hardware cursor is enabled (reported with Aion, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and
• others).
• Fixed instances of very low frame rates in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11).
• Fixed an issue that caused a PC reboot instead of a PC shut down.
• Fixed an issue that led to a black screen after driver installation.
• Power management mode settings now persist across driver over installs.

New in R304 Drivers (Introduced previously with 304.48 drivers):
Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:

• Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
• Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)

GeForce GTX 560:

• Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
• Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
• Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
• Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

Key Fixes
Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

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Download the NVIDIA GeForce 305.53 Windows Vista and 7 64-bit driver. These where found at the developer zone @ nvidia.com. It's an OpenGL 4.3 beta driver (DriverVer = 08/02/2012, 8.17.13.0553).You will need any one of the following Fermi or Kepler based GPUs to get access to the OpenGL 4.3 and GLSL 4.30 functionality:

• Quadro series: 6000, 600, 5000, 410, 4000, 400, 2000D, 2000
• GeForce 600 series: GTX 690, GTX 680, GTX 670, GT 645, GT 640, GT 630, GT 620, GT 610, 605
• GeForce 500 series: GTX 590, GTX 580, GTX 570, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 560 SE, GTX 560, GTX 555, GTX 550 Ti, GT 545, GT 530, GT 520, 510
• GeForce 400 series: GTX 480, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 v2, GTX 460 SE v2, GTX 460 SE, GTX 460, GTS 450, GT 440, GT 430, GT 420, 405

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Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.8: Windows 8 support



AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8 production featuring support for the DirectX® 11.1 and the new WDDM 1.2 driver model:


•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 supporting applications.
•Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices.
•Improved sleep/resume performance.
•Optimized GPU power consumption.
•Support for AMD features
◦AMD Eyefinity
◦OpenCL™
◦OpenGL
◦UVD
◦AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire™ Technology
◦AMD Overdrive
◦AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center

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• Adds support for NVIDIA TXAA
  • NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter.
  • The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA. Link Removed
  • TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs.
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• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare – added
  • Borderlands 2 – added
  • Darksiders 2 – added
  • End of Nations - added
  • F1 2011 – updated
  • F1 2012 – added
  • Final Fantasy XIV – updated
  • Nexuiz - added
  • Orcs Must Die! 2 – added
  • PlanetSide 2 - updated
  • Saints Row: The Third – updated
  • Shogun 2: Total War – updated
  • Sleeping Dogs – added
  • Spec Ops: The Line - added
  • The Secret World - updated
  • Torchlight II - added
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier - added
  • Tornado Force - added
  • Tribes: Ascend – updated

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  • A New Dawn – rated Fair
  • Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – rated Not Recommended
  • All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – rated Good
  • ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead Fair
  • Bang Bang Racing – rated Excellent
  • Brave – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Devil May Cry 4- rated Fair
  • Dishonored – rated Good
  • End of Nations – rated Good
  • F1 2012 – rated Good
  • London 2012 The Official Video Game – rated Fair
  • Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – rated Excellent
  • Planetside 2 – rated Not Recommended
  • Prototype 2 – rated Poor
  • Raiderz – rated Fair
  • Roller Coaster Rampage – rated 3D Vision Ready
  • SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – rated Fair
  • The Secret World – rated Good
  • Sleeping Dogs – rated Good
  • Spec Ops the Line – rated Good
  • Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – rated Good

• Other Profile Updates
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

• NVIDIA Surround
  • Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.2 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

• AMD Enduro Technology for Notebooks delivers:
  • Long lasting battery life
  • GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps
  • A Seamless and automatic experience

• 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

• Up to 10% in Lost Planet 2 in single GPU configurations

• Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
• RHEL 6.3 production support

• Tri and Quad CrossFire+ Eyefinity configurations – Certain DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications lower than expected performance
• FireFox – corruption observed in CrossFire configurations
• Enabling Overdrive settings increased clocks in all power states
• Availability of AMD Video Converter support in AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Windows 7 and Windows Vista packages

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• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.

Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

• 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
  More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)​
• Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033​
• Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs​
• Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V​
• Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
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Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

• Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870
• AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
  • 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
  • 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
  • AvP – Up to 11%
  • Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
  • Crysis 2: Up to 45%
  • DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
  • ETQW – Up to 8%
  • Hard Reset – Up to 8%
  • Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
  • The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
  • Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
  • Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
  • Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
  • Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

Limitations:
Hardware: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

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[h=1]AMD Catalyst Software Suite Version 12.10[/h]

Package Content
The AMD Catalyst software suite 12.10 contains the following:

• AMD display driver version 9.002
• HydraVision™ for Windows Vista[SUP]®[/SUP] and Windows[SUP]®[/SUP] 7
• Southbridge/ IXP Driver
• AMD Catalyst Control Center version 9.002/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 9.002

Caution!

• The AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center requires that the Microsoft® .NET Framework SP1 be installed for Windows Vista. Without .NET SP1 installed, the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center will not launch properly and the user will see an error message.

Compatible Operating Systems
The latest version of the AMD Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft[SUP]® [/SUP]Windows[SUP]®[/SUP] platforms:

• Windows 8 32-bit version
• Windows 8 64-bit version
• Windows 7 32-bit version
• Windows 7 64-bit version
• Windows Vista 32-bit version
• Windows Vista 64-bit version

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.10 DRIVER:
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 Link Removed, 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 Eyefinity technology
  • OpenCL™
  • OpenGL
  • Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
  • AMD Dual Graphics
  • AMD CrossFire technology
  • AMD Overdrive
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center

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

KNOWN ISSUES

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 12.10 software suite.
Known issues under the Windows 8 operating system

• AMD Eyefinity portrait resolutions may not apply correctly when AMD CrossFire is enabled

Known issues under the Windows 7operating system

• Serious Sam 3 may crash when AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity are enabled
• May Payne 3 may experience flickering and ghosting when in DirectX 9 mode with Anti Aliasing enabled

Installing the AMD Catalyst Software Driver
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AMD ISSUE REPORTING FORM
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the appropriate form:

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New in R310 Drivers:

• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 680:
  • Up to 11% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Up to 6% in StarCraft II
  • Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
  GeForce GTX 660:
  • Up to 6% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Up to 3% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 4% in Dragon Age II

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
  • Assassin's Creed III rated Not Recommended
  • Bloody Good Time rated Good
  • Bullet Run rated Fair
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 2 rated Good
  • Carrier Command: Gaea Mission rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Dark Souls rated Fair
  • Dishonored rated Fair
  • FIFA 13 rated Good
  • Hitman: Absolution rated Fair
  • I Am Alive rated Fair
  • MLB 2K12 rated Fair
  • NBA 2K12 rated Good
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted rated Fair
  • Sniper Elite V2 rated Poor
  • Tiny Troopers rated Fair
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD rated Good
  • Total War Battles: SHOGUN rated Good
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Dirt: Showdown – updated SLI profile
  • Dota 2 - updated SLI profile
  • Dou Zhan Shen – updated SLI profile
  • F1 2012 - added SLI profile
  • FIFA 13 – sdded SLI profile
  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – updated SLI profile

• Other Profile Updates
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at CUDA Toolkit | NVIDIA Developer Zone

Additional Details

• Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0904.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

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FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:
This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.
Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

• 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases​
  • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)​
• Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033​
• Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs​
• Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V​
• Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

• Medal of Honor: Warfighter; AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 resolves an application crash found when running in AMD CrossFire mode with Anti-Aliasing enabled (This issue was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3 driver that was posted Oct 22 2012).
• Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
• AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
  • 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
  • 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
  • AvP – Up to 11%
  • Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
  • Crysis 2: Up to 45%
  • DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
  • ETQW – Up to 8%
  • Hard Reset – Up to 8%
  • Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
  • The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
  • Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
  • Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
  • Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
  • Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
• AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 resolves the issue with engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle. Clocks will now run at the proper level when the GPU is idle. This issue was only observed with specific displays and was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 and AMD Catalyst 12.10 drivers; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 driver that was posted Oct 23, 2012.

This driver can be downloaded from the following links:

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Download and install the Driver from the following location:

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Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.
Applicable Products:

This article applies to the following configuration(s):
Hardware:

• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

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• Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 306.97 WHQL drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

• GeForce GTX 680:
  • Up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  • Up to 16% in Battlefield 3
  • Up to 18% in Assassin's Creed III
  • Up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Up to 6% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  • Up to 6% in StarCraft II
  • Up to 6% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
  GeForce GTX 660:
  • Up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  • Up to 10% in Battlefield 3
  • Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Up to 5% in Dragon Age II
  • Up to 5% in Assassin's Creed III
  • Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City
  • Up to 4% in Medal of Honor: Warfighter

• NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
  • Dirt: Showdown – updated SLI profile
  • Dota 2 - updated SLI profile
  • Dou Zhan Shen – updated SLI profile
  • F1 2012 - added SLI profile
  • FIFA 13 – added SLI profile
  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – updated SLI profile
  • Hawken – added SLI profile
  • Hitman: Absolution – added SLI profile
  • Natural Selection 2 – added SLI profile
  • Primal Carnage – added SLI profile

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles (new in 310.33):
  • Assassin's Creed III rated Not Recommended
  • Bloody Good Time rated Good
  • Bullet Run rated Fair
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 2 rated Good
  • Carrier Command: Gaea Mission rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Dark Souls rated Fair
  • Dishonored rated Fair
  • FIFA 13 rated Good
  • Hitman: Absolution rated Fair
  • I Am Alive rated Fair
  • MLB 2K12 rated Fair
  • NBA 2K12 rated Good
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted rated Fair
  • Sniper Elite V2 rated Poor
  • Tiny Troopers rated Fair
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD rated Good
  • Total War Battles: SHOGUN rated Good
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown rated Fair

• NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles (new in 310.54):
  • 007 Legends rated Fair
  • The Amazing Spider-Man rated Not Recommended
  • Bunch of Heroes rated Good
  • CABAL2 rated Good
  • Euro Truck Simulator 2 rated Excellent
  • Hawken rated 3D Vision Ready
  • Lucius rated Fair
  • Mabinogi Heroes rated Fair
  • Medal of Honor: Warfighter rated Fair
  • Metro: Last Light rated Good
  • NBA 2K13 rated Good
  • Novlum Demes Editor rated Excellent
  • Of Orcs and Men rated Fair
  • Painkiller: Hell & Damnation rated Fair
  • Planetside 2 rated Not Recommended
  • Prepar3D rated Good
  • Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 rated Poor
  • Unmechanical rated Good
  • War of the Roses rated Fair
  • World Rally Championship 3 rated Good

• Other Profile Updates
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Counter-strike: Global Offensive
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Cross Fire
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Darksides 2
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Dragon Nest
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Guild Wars 2
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Mechwarrrior Online
  • Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Meng San Guo

• NVIDIA CUDA
  • Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

• NVIDIA SSAA
  • Added negative LOD adjustments for NVIDIA’s full-screen sparse grid supersampling mode to improve image sharpness.

• Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031. This version fixes a bug that caused some applications including Unreal Tournament III, Trine, and Metro 2033 not to launch.
• Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0.
• Supports OpenGL 4.3 for GeForce 400-series and later GPUs.
• Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs.
• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

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[TD="class: body, colspan: 3"]Link RemovedFEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:
This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.
Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

• 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases​
  • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)​
• Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033​
• Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs​
• Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V​
• Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

• Medal of Honor: Warfighter; AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 resolves an application crash found when running in AMD CrossFire mode with Anti-Aliasing enabled (This issue was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3 driver that was posted Oct 22 2012).
• Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
• AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
  • 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
  • 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
  • AvP – Up to 11%
  • Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
  • Crysis 2: Up to 45%
  • DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
  • ETQW – Up to 8%
  • Hard Reset – Up to 8%
  • Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
  • The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
  • Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
  • Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
  • Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
  • Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
• AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 resolves the issue with engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle. Clocks will now run at the proper level when the GPU is idle. This issue was only observed with specific displays and was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 and AMD Catalyst 12.10 drivers; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 driver that was posted Oct 23, 2012.
• Additional update found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 2: AMD CrossFire performance has been improved in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7 release (especially at higher resolutions – such as 2560x1600)
  • Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 7 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta

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Applicable Products:

This article applies to the following configuration(s):
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• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

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AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta8 is now available, and includes the following updates:
(Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta8 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta)

• Improves performance up to 5% in Max Payne 3
• Includes single GPU performance updates for Far Cry 3
• Improves CrossFire scaling for Planetside 2 (Crossfire scaling is still limited to ~30% at 2560x1600)
• Resolves the Skyrim lighting issue (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• Resolves the hang encountered playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 8 for Linux includes significant performance improvements for Left for Dead 2

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• Call of Duty Black Ops 2: AMD CrossFire performance has been improved in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7 release (especially at higher resolutions – such as 2560x1600)

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA6 DRIVER

• AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta6 resolves the issue with engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle. Clocks will now run at the proper level when the GPU is idle. This issue was only observed with specific displays and was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11Beta 4 and AMD Catalyst 12.10 drivers.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:
This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.
Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver

• 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases​
  • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)​
• Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033​
• Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs​
• Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V​
• Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II​
• Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

• Medal of Honor: Warfighter; AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 resolves an application crash found when running in AMD CrossFire mode with Anti-Aliasing enabled (This issue was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3; The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3 driver that was posted Oct 22 2012).
• Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
• AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
  • 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
  • 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
  • AvP – Up to 11%
  • Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
  • Crysis 2: Up to 45%
  • DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
  • ETQW – Up to 8%
  • Hard Reset – Up to 8%
  • Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
  • The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
  • Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
  • Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
  • Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
  • Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

Applicable Products:

This article applies to the following configuration(s):
Hardware:

• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

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