AMD ha rilasciato nella giornata di oggi nuovi driver della famiglia Catalyst versione 12.4. La nuova release, compatibile con schede video dalla serie HD 2000 a HD 7000, introduce il supporto alle schede video Radeon HD 7700, HD 7800 e HD 7900 anche con Sistema Operativo Windows XP a 32bit e 64bit.
Tra le altre novità, segnaliamo alcune migliorie per quanto riguarda l’utilizzo e qualità dei filtri Anti Aliasing e Anisotropico. Di seguito il changelog completo disponibile a corredo con i driver:
Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- LOD Image quality enhancements for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
- Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
Texture filtering quality improvements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance
Resolved issues: Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver:
- Elder Scolls: Skyrim : flickering square corruption is no longer observed on certain AMD Graphics cards.
- Rage : Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
- Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3×1 and 1×3 Eyefinity configurations.
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