AMD Catalystâ„¢ 11.10 Windows Update Released

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Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Windows release includes:

New Features

AMD Eyefinity enhancements

- Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations

- Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)

- Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.

AMD VECC/CCC enhancements

- Improvements have been implemented to better facilitate the enabling and control of the following features within the Vision Engine Control Center / Catalyst Control Center

- AMD Overdrive for GPUs

- Information Center (software and hardware)

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.

- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.

- Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems

- Rage - users may experience random texture corruption. Please use the AMD Catalyst 11.10 V3 Preview if you are experiencing these issues.

- Some OpenGL games like Enemy Territory Quake Wars no longer experiences random corruption.

- Lost Planet 2 no longer experiences random crashes when running the benchmark.

- F1 2010 and Dirt 2 no longer experience random flashing during the game.

- Google Earth no longer displays random corruption when running in OpenGL mode.

- Mafia II no longer experiences a random crash during game loading / game play when Crossfire is enabled.

- Unigine Heaven running in DirectX 11 mode no longer experiences a performance drop when running with Dual Graphics enabled.

- Homefront no longer experiences random game crashes.

- Random flashing is no longer experienced when playing back SD/BD content on a 120Hz monitor.

- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.

- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

- Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting DisplayPort / DFP monitors.

- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows XP. These include:

An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.

- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

- Screen tearing may be randomly observed while playing Portal 2.

- Total War Shogun 2 may experience corruption when running at low game settings in a 2x1 Eyefinity environment.

- Random graphics corruption may be observed while playing Call of Duty 4 with the Edge Detect Filter enabled.

- Random crashes may be experienced while playing F1 2010 and Lost Planet 2 with in Crossfire mode in an Eyefinity configuration.

- Enemy Territory Quake Wars may experience random crashes when running in a 3x1 Eyefinity configuration.

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

- Windows Aero options may be missing after installing the driver.

- A ghosting cursor may be observed when playing Dragon Age 2 with Crossfire enabled.

- Random flickering may be observed when playing Dragon Age 2 with Crossfire enabled.

- Choppy playback may be experienced when playing BluRay content when Aero is enabled.

- Civilization V may experience random crashes when run at High or Medium game settings.

- F1 2010 may experience random hanging.

 

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