Folgende Änderungen gibt AMD für den Catalyst 11.8 an:
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
Resolved Issues
- The option to “Apply current video quality settings to internet video" is no longer randomly missing from the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center.
- 3DMark 11 no longer intermittently generates a BSOD error when run using a standard user account.
- Playing HD video content overnight using Windows Media Center no longer causes the system to hang or generates a BSOD error.
- Random graphical corruption is no longer experienced when playing Crysis 2 in a Crossfire environment.
- Image stabilization is now correctly applied to DivX clips when using Windows Media Player.
- Enabling AntiAliasing when playing Starcraft 2 no longer causes random screen blackouts.
- Video corruption is no longer seen when scrolling through DivX 5 video files using Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.
- Menu corruption is no longer seen when running F.E.A.R 3 in DirectX 11 mode.
- Video playback now functions correctly after enabling hardware acceleration in VLC version 1.1.10.
Weitere Details zur neuen Treiberversion finden sich im offiziellen Changelog. Natürlich kann der Catalyst 11.8 im Downloadbereich bei Technic3D heruntergeladen werden.
