12.2, 12.2, 5000 Series, 6000 Series, AMD, ATI, Catalyst, Catalyst, Radeon, Radeon

AMD ATI Catalyst Application Profiles 12.2 CAP1

AMD Catalyst Application Profiles 12.2 CAP1

Description:

This release of AMD ATI Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest AMD ATI CrossFireX™ profiles. A separate executable file ensures users have access to the latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
New profiles added to this release:
–  Mass Effect 3:  Improves CrossFire performance
–  Path of Exile – Improves CrossFire performance
–  Darkness 2 – Resolves flickering issues on single GPU configurations when Anti-Aliasing is forced on in the Catalyst Control Center
–  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Resolves character texture corruption seen using single GPU configurations when Anti-Aliasing is forced on in the Catalyst Control Center
–  Wargame: European Escalation (DirectX 9 version):  Improves CrossFire performance
–  Wargame: European Escalation (DirectX 11 version):  Resolves flickering observed when running in CrossFire mode
–  Mount Blade:  Disables CrossFire to avoid corruption as the title has a capped Frame Rate
–  L.A. Noire (DirectX 11 Version):  Improves CrossFire performance, and resolves flickering seen in shadows

You can download the latest AMD ATI Catalyst Application Profiles from here: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

Apple, Mac OS X, Mountain Lion

Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion Announced

Coming this summer Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion promises features inspired by the ipad and ipad 2.  The Game Center will be of great interest to many as the Apple OS has always been slightly limited in its game support when compared with its Microsoft rival.

Further information can be found on the official Apple website

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion

11.2 Release Candidate, Adobe, Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Release Candidate

You can download Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Release Candidate from here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11-2.html

Flash Player 11.2 Features

This release provides access to the Flash Player 11.2 runtime for Windows, Mac OS and Linux desktop environments. The key features and benefits of Flash Player 11.2 are:

  • Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed — Previously, the hardware accelerated content was gated to 1/1/2009, however, we have relaxed the driver gating to 1/1/2008.
  • Throttling event — This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent. A ThrottleEvent is now dispatched by the stage when the Flash Player throttles, pauses or resumes content.
  • Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
  • Multithreaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multithreaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.
  • Flash Player background updates (Windows) — New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
3.2 Release Candidate, Adobe, AIR

Adobe AIR 3.2 Release Candidate

Adobe AIR 3.2 release candidate is now available for download. This build introduces the Stage3D API to iOS and Android devices, enabling full hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics for mobile apps

You can download Adobe AIR 3.2 Release Candidate from here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air3-2.html

AIR 3.2 Features

This release candidate build provides access to the AIR 3.2 runtime and SDK for Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android . The key features and benefits of AIR 3.2 are:

  • Stage3D hardware accelerated GPU rendering (mobile) —  AIR 3.2 introduces the Stage3D API to iOS and Android. These low-level APIs enable cinematic, high-performance 2D and 3D graphics with full GPU acceleration across devices.
  • Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed (desktop) — In earlier Mac and Windows releases, hardware acceleration for Stage3D was limited to drivers released after 1/1/2009. This release expands support, relaxing driver gating to 1/1/2008.
  • Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events (desktop) — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
  • Throttling event — This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent. A ThrottleEvent is now dispatched by the stage when the Flash Player throttles, pauses or resumes content.
  • Multithreaded video decoding (desktop) — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multithreaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.

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