AMD ha reso disponibili nuovi driver Catalyst 12.10 WHQL per schede video dalla versione Radeon HD 5000 in poi. La nuova release 12.10 WHQL non introduce particolari novità, salvo la risoluzione di alcuni bug e problemi con alcuni videgiochi.
In contemporanea con la versione 12.10 WHQL, AMD ha rilasciato la versione 12.11 Beta che introduce numerose importanti novità e soprattutto migliorie con alcuni videogiochi. Di seguito il changelog completo:
This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.
Performance Highlights of the AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA Driver
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10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
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More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
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Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
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Up to 10% more performance in DIRT Showdown
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Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
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Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
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Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
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Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver
- Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870
- AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
- 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
- AvP – Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
- 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%
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
- Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
I driver saranno disponibili per il download, entro breve, nella nostra Area Download.