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Vpcvmm.sys – Pre Service Pack 2 Revision History for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 (SBS 2011)

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Vpcvmm.sys – Pre Service Pack 2 Revision History for Windows 7 SP1

02-Feb-2012 – 6.1.7601.21913 – Vpcvmm.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2652034 – “0x0000008E” Stop error when Windows 7 enters and then resumes from standby repeatedly if Windows XP Mode is running

02-Feb-2012 – 6.1.7601.17771 – Vpcvmm.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2652034 – “0x0000008E” Stop error when Windows 7 enters and then resumes from standby repeatedly if Windows XP Mode is running

17-Mar-2011 – 6.1.7601.21685 – Vpcvmm.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2519949 – You cannot install Windows XP Mode on a Windows 7-based computer that has an AMD Bulldozer-based multicore processor installed

17-Mar-2011 – 6.1.7601.17580 – Vpcvmm.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2519949 – You cannot install Windows XP Mode on a Windows 7-based computer that has an AMD Bulldozer-based multicore processor installed

12.11, 12.11, AMD, ATI, Catalyst, Catalyst

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.11 Beta Driver Suite

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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%

12.10, AMD, ATI, Catalyst, Catalyst

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.10 Driver Suite

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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.10 Driver Suite

You can download it here: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.10 DRIVER:

AMD Catalyst 12.10 – Ready for Windows 8

For AMD Radeon™ HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series users, Microsoft® has certified today’s AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 release as “compatible with Windows 8.” With this driver, these products offer support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has designed to provide smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.

• Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path for superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications

• Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications

• Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX® 11 API, for simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supported applications

• Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices

• Enhanced sleep/resume performance

• Optimized GPU power consumption

• Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:

◦ AMD Eyefinity technology

◦ OpenCL™

◦ OpenGL

◦ Unified Video Decoder (UVD)

◦ AMD Dual Graphics

◦ AMD CrossFire technology

◦ AMD Overdrive

◦ AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center

AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro™ Technology

AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro™ technology. AMD Enduro technology is currently supported on all notebook Intel IvyBridge platforms and AMD “Comal” platforms that support the AMD Radeon HD 7900M, 7800M, 7700M. AMD plans for additional products to be supported in future AMD Catalyst releases.

AMD Enduro™ Technology for Notebooks delivers:

• Unbeatable battery life

• GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps

• A Seamless and automatic experience

New Enduro™ Technology features found in Catalyst 12.10:

• Re-designed AMD Catalyst Control Center user interface

◦ View all profiled applications

◦ View recently run applications

◦ Profile applications based on power source

• Expert mode control and customization

◦ Performance centric AC

◦ Battery centric DC

RESOLVED ISSUES

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 12.10 software suite.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 Operating System

• Enemy Territory Quake Wars – performance affected when run at high resolutions

• Wolfenstien – performance affected when run at high resolutions

• System hangs when disabling Eyefinity

• World of Warcraft – Mists of Pandaria experiences graphical corruption when anti-aliasing is forced to 2X or higher

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

• F1 2011 – Vehicle textures flicker when game is run at low settings

• Dirt Showdown – Flickering seen when benchmark is run in DirectX 11 mode

• Battlefield – Bad Company 2 : Flickering textures seen in AMD CrossFire mode

• Alan Wake – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity enabled

• Portal 2 – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity enabled

KNOWN ISSUES

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 12.10 software suite.

Known issues under the Windows 8 operating system

• AMD Eyefinity portrait resolutions may not apply correctly when AMD CrossFire is enabled

Known issues under the Windows 7operating system

• Serious Sam 3 – crashes when AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity are enabled

• May Payne 3 – flickering and ghosting when in DirectX 9 mode with Anti Aliasing enabled

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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.9 Beta Driver Suite

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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.9 Beta Driver Suite

You can download it here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst129betadriver.aspx

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta: AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro Technology

AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro Technology

  • AMD Enduro Technology for Notebooks delivers:

– Long lasting battery life

– GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps

– A Seamless and automatic experience

New features found in Catalyst 12.9 Beta:

  • Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface

– View all profiled applications

– View recently run applications

– Profile applications based on power source

Expert mode control and customization

  • Performance centric AC
  • Battery centric DC

Performance highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.9 Beta (versus AMD Catalyst 12.8)

  • Up to 10% in Lost Planet 2 in single GPU configurations

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux® Driver: New OS Support

This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems.

  • Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
  • RHEL 6.3 production support

Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta driver

  • Tri and Quad CrossFire+ Eyefinity configurations – Certain DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications lower than expected performance
  • FireFox – corruption observed in CrossFire configurations
  • Enabling Overdrive settings increased clocks in all power states
  • Availability of AMD Video Converter support in AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Windows 7 and Windows Vista packages