Catalyst 11.4

Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD Catalyst Control Center

• New task based Display Management controls
• Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings
• New Eyefinity setup group
• Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier
• AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)
• This feature notifies users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available

GPU Compute enhancements:
The OpenCL runtime (included in AMD Catalyst 11.4) includes performance enhancements supporting zero-copy on APUs and increased performance for PCIe transfers between a CPU and discrete GPU.

Performance highlights
The AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series of products will see the following performance gains:

• Call of Duty Black Ops – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single GPU configurations
• Battleforge – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Batman Arkham Asylum – gains of up to 20% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Aliens vs. Predator – gains of up to 8% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Civilization 5 – gains of up to 15% on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Far Cry 2 – gains of up to 6% on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Just Cause 2 – gains of up to 9% on single and multiple GPU configurations
• Lost Planet 2 – gains of up to 10% on single and multiple GPU configurations

Resolved issue highlights

• The GPU no longer shows high GPU usage after when running Firefox 4 with hardware acceleration enabled.
• Bioshock no longer displays random tearing and screen corruption with Vsync and MLAA enabled.
• Water textures no longer flicker in Two Worlds II in Crossfire mode.
• Bulletstorm lightshafts no longer appear broken when running on a HD 6970 series product.
• Bulletstorm no longer displays random texture corruption when running in Crossfire mode.
• FI 2010 no longer slows down intermittently when in Crossfire mode.
• PowerDVD no longer crashes if Crossfire is enabled / disabled during playback of a BD title.
• Running the Heaven benchmark no longer displays graphics corruption during DirectX 11 tests.