Um novo driver para as placas de vídeo AMD foi lançado hoje que inclue aumento de performance em varios jogos, uma nova interface para gerenciamento de perfis para jogos e 3D e principalmente resolve problemas de performance para usuários do Windows 8.
O novo driver também aumenta a performance das placas da Serie HD 7000 e problemas de desempenho em Crossfire
As novidades do novo driver está logo abaixo(em inglês):
- Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
- All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
- Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
- Enhanced AMD CrossFire? scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
- Up to 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
- Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
- AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro? technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
- 3DMark® 06 - Up to 6%
- 3DMark Vantage - Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 - Up to 12%
- AvP - Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 - Up to 25%
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Up to 13%
- 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%
- Mafia 2 - Up to 40%
- The Chronicles of Riddick - Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 - Up to 56%
- StarCraft 2 - Up to 25%
- Skyrim - Up to 45%
- Sniper Elite V2 - Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy's HAWX - Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven - Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein - Up to 9%
- A sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
- An intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in an AMD CrossFire + Eyefinity setup.
- Missing fonts in XBMC
- No video found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
- Skyrim lighting (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
- Skyrim cloud corruption experience in various in game locations
- A hang playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- Engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle.
- GPU activity runs at lower values than expected seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
- Corruption seen in Darkness 2 and Carrier Command when using AMD CrossFire configurations
- Adobe Premier Pro CS6 may fail to launch
- Hang experienced with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled on X58 and X78 chipsets
- Corel PaintShop Pro X3 - Hangs at the "Initializing Command Manager" window
- Company of Heroes 2 - display corruption experienced when AA is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Cyberlink Powerdirector 10 crashes intermittently.
- Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor - Flickering experienced when AA is disabled
- Max Payne 3 - Flickering experienced in DirectX 9 mode with forced AA enabled
- Cyberlink PoweDVD 10 - crashes intermittently
- VLC - Green texture corruption seen in 720p MPEG2 video clips
- Black screen encountered when "Alternate DVI mode" is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video
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