AMD rilascia i nuovi drivers Catalyst 11.9 WHQL e 11.10 Preview

AMD azienda leader da anni nella realizzazione di schede grafiche e processori è lieta di presentare la nuova versione di drivers denominata 11.9 con certificazione WHQL e una versione preview 11.10.

AMD ha reso disponibile per il download la nuova versione dei drivers Catalyst 11.9 provviste di certificazione WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs).

La feature principale che sicuramente salta all’occhio è la seguente:

• Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays.

Sembrerebbe un’ottima notizia che potrebbe portare notevoli benefici in casa AMD.

Ecco le altre caratteristiche tecniche di questi drivers:

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game;
• Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on some video cards.

The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading:

• Call of Duty – Black Ops;
• F1 2010;
• Dungeon Siege 3.

The following games no longer hang intermittently during gameplay:

• Battlefield – Bad Company 2;
• Borderlands;
• Dead Rising 2;

The following games no longer hangs while running the benchmark:

• Serious Sam 2;
• Resident Evil 5;
• HAWX 2;
• HAWX 2 no longer displays random flashing black pixels;
• Flashing pixel corruption is no longer experienced while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2;
• The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors;
• Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX;
• Video corruption is no longer observed while playing full screen HD WMV format files using PowerDVD with Windows Aero Mode turned off;
• Blank video playback is no longer observed when hardware accelerations is enabled in VLC 1.1.10;
• Dawn of War II – Retribution no longer exhibits a black screen when alt-tabbing in and out of the game;
• Random display corruption is no longer observed when playing WMV format files using Windows Media Player;
• City of Heroes no longer experiences stuttering after excessive use if in-game Anti-Aliasing slider.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• The screen no longer goes black on when the Aero Desktop is enabled on some Radeon products;
• Lost Planet 2 no longer randomly crashes when running the benchmark.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 software suite for Windows XP. These include:

• Enemy Territory – Quake Wars no longer displays random screen corruption;
• Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer hangs when attempting to play a BluRay disc. 

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:

• The display may freeze after playing HD Videos over an extended period of time using Windows Media Center;
• Random screen tearing may be observed while playing Portal 2;
• Random screen corruption may be observed while playing Wolfenstein in multiplayer mode;
• Random corruption may be experienced while playing Enemy Territory – Quake Wars;
• Choppy playback may be experienced during playback of interlaced DVD content in full screen mode using PowerDVD 11.

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 not be available after installing the driver.

I drivers sono disponibili alla pagina ufficiale di AMD e saranno presto disponibili da scaricare anche sul nostro sito.

Altra notizia interessante è l’uscita in contemporanea di altri drivers denominati AMD Catalyst 11.10 previsti però in versione Preview, ovvero non ufficiali. La particolarità di questi drivers risulta essere la ricerca dell’ottimizzazione dei drivers per l’uscita sul mercato dell’attesissimo Battlefield 3. I drivers sono disponibile per le versioni di Windows 7 a 32 e 64 bit.

Ecco alcuni dettagli:

• Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series for single GPU configurations;
• Enables support for Eyefinity 5×1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series;
• Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the CrossfireX, GPU Overdrive, and Information Center pages.

La lotta all’ottimizzazione di Battlefield 3 sembra iniziata…

Samuele Tofano – Dj Toffy – HW Legend Staff