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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver Suite

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver Suite

You can download it here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst1211betadriver.aspx

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:

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

• 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

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver

• Medal of Honor:  Warfighter; AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 resolves an application crash found when running in AMD CrossFire mode with Anti-Aliasing enabled (This issue was observed in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3;  The AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta4 has replaced the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta3 driver that was posted Oct 22 2012).

• 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%