Importanti novità sul fronte driver per AMD; dalle ultime notizie rilasciate, l’azienda non renderà più disponibili nuovi driver mensili, come ci aveva abituato ormai da qualche anno, ma solo ogni qual volta saranno disponibili interessanti novità. La nomenclatura dei driver resterà la medesima, ovvero saranno sempre identificati dall’anno e mese.
Nella giornata di oggi sono stati rilasciati nuovi driver, release Catalyst 12.6 beta, compatibili solo ed esclusivamente con schede video dalla serie Radeon HD 5000 in su. Tra le novità più interessanti, segnaliamo la risoluzione di importanti bug e l’introduzione di nuovi profili per i videogiochi Diablo 3, Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, StarCraft 2, Portal 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare e Call of Duty Black Ops.
I driver Catalyst 12.6 Beta sono disponibili sia per Sistema Operativo Windows Vista/7 che Windows 8. Entro breve troverete i link per il download nella nostra Area Download.
Di seguito il changelog fornito a corredo con i driver:
Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta:
- AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire configurations + Eyefinity BSOD when launching a DirectX application.
- AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations BSOD when using desktop applications.
- AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 cards hang when system goes to sleep.
- Tearing on Eyefinity configurations when different display connector types are used.
- Poor Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire scaling seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 (back to CrossFire scaling found in AMD Catalyst 12.3).
- AMD Catalyst Control Center – intermittently missing Overdrive page.
- AMD Catalyst Control Center – missing GPU Activity gauge.
- AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – system hang after cinematic in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
- Crysis 2 -random system hangs when run in DirectX 9 mode.
- Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode.
- Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta:
Dual Graphics enhancements – new application profiles
- Supported Dual Graphics configurations:
AMD Accelerated Processors for Desktop PCs- AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-5700)
- AMD Radeon HD 7560D (A8-5500
Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processors
- AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-4600)
- AMD Radeon HD 7640G (A8-4500M)
- AMD Radeon HD 7520G (A6-4400M)
- New profiles have been added for the following game titles:
- Diablo 3
- Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
- StarCraft 2
- Portal 2
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare
- Call of Duty Black Ops
- Future Catalyst releases will continue to add Dual Graphics support for additional titles
For detailed instructions on how to install the driver, please refer to:
- Article GPU-33 for a Windows 7 based system
- Article GPU-1 for a Windows Vista based system
- Article GPU-2 for Windows XP based system
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