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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.8 Driver Suite

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ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.8 Driver Suite

You can download it here:

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.8: Windows 8 support

AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8 production featuring support for the DirectX® 11.1 and the new WDDM 1.2 driver model:

  • Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables 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, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supporting applications.
  • Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices.
  • Improved sleep/resume performance.
  • Optimized GPU power consumption.
  • Support for AMD features

– AMD Eyefinity

– OpenCL™

– OpenGL

– UVD

– AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire™ Technology

– AMD Overdrive

– AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center

 

RESOLVED ISSUES

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 12.8 software suite.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

  • Over/underscan settings are correctly restored on system reboot
  • SolidWorks: Graphical corruption is no longer experienced
  • Crysis Warhead: No longer crashes when launched in DirectX 10 mode
  • System no longer hangs when resuming from sleep mode
  • Audio is no longer disabled if the connected HDTV Is switched off/on
  • Enabling dual graphics mode with a HD 7000 series product no longer displays green video playback
  • Call of Duty- Black Ops : No longer hangs when loading a mission in DirectX 9 mode with Crossfire enabled
  • Shogun 2: Flickering text is no longer experienced
  • Star Wars – The Old Republic: In game cinematics no longer experience flicker when using the arrow keys
  • Dirt Showdown: 8-Ball track no longer hangs with AMD Crossfire functionality enabled
  • Max Payne 3: A black screen is no longer observed when launching game in DirectX 11 mode with AMD Crossfire functionality enabled
  • Max Payne 3: Applying in game settings no longer causes the game to crash

Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 Operating System (These issues were found in the Catalyst driver for the Windows 8 Preview)

  • Video playback using the Metro video player no longer shows green corruption
  • Deus Ex – Human Revolution: Graphics corruption is no longer experienced during in game cinematics with AMD Crossfire functionality enabled
  • Battlefield 3: game no longer crashes when AMD Crossfire functionality is enabled
  • Need for Speed – The Run: game no longer crashes to the desktop
  • Blocky video corruption no longer seen when using VLC
  • System no longer hangs when using PowerDVD
  • Green video corruption is no longer seen when using various video players

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

  • QQ Dancer: A black screen is no longer randomly experienced

 

KNOWN ISSUES

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 12.8 software suite

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system

  • Max Payne 3: Lights may flicker when run in Direct X 11 mode in a triple AMD Crossfire configuration
  • F1 2011: Vehicle textures may flicker when graphics profile is set to low
  • Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Poor performance may be experienced with AMD Crossfire technology enabled
  • Rage: Poor performance may be experienced with AMD Crossfire technology enabled

Known issues under the Windows 8 operating system

  • Blocky corruption may be experienced when playing back Flash video content
  • De-interlacing settings may not be applied to interlaced content when using MPC-HC and PowerDVD
  • Civilization V: game may crash when run in DirectX 9 mode
  • Total War – Shogun 2: game may experience random crashes
  • Rage: game may experience random crashes

Known issues under the Windows XP operating system

  • Diablo 3/Starcraft 2/World of Warcraft: Performance may be affected when run in windowed mode
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Atapi.sys – Pre Service Pack 3 Revision History for Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008)

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Atapi.sys – Pre Service Pack 3 Revision History for Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008)

09-May-2012 – 6.0.6002.22850 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2703639 – MMC stops responding when you disable or enable an ATA channel on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer

17-Mar-2010 – 6.0.6002.22366 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980080 – Files may be corrupted when a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 enters the sleep mode or the hibernate mode

21-Dec-2009 – 6.0.6002.22291 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977890 – The system restarts unexpectedly when OOBE runs, and you receive the following error message: “Failure occurred during online installation”

06-Nov-2009 – 6.0.6002.22260 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977323 – After you change the SATA mode of disk devices to use the AHCI specification on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based computer, the computer or certain applications randomly stop responding for 60 seconds or longer

22-Sep-2009 – 6.0.6002.22230 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974073 – An update for the Msahci.sys driver has been released for AMD chipsets

20-May-2009 – 6.0.6002.22139 – Atapi.sys – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971390 – A minor delay occurs when Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 resumes from sleep if the hard disk is attached to a secondary ATA port

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ATI / AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta Driver

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.6 Beta Driver Suite

You can download it here http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst126beta.aspx

Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta:

•AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire™ configurations + Eyefinity BSOD when launching a DirectX application.

•AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations BSOD when using desktop applications.

•AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 cards hang when system goes to sleep.

•Tearing on Eyefinity configurations when different display connector types are used.

•Poor Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire scaling seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 (back to CrossFire scaling found in AMD Catalyst 12.3).

•AMD Catalyst Control Center – intermittently missing Overdrive page.

•AMD Catalyst Control Center – missing GPU Activity gauge.

•AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – system hang after cinematic in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

•Crysis 2 -random system hangs when run in DirectX 9 mode.

•Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode.

•Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta:

Dual Graphics enhancements – new application profiles

Supported Dual Graphics configurations:

AMD Accelerated Processors for Desktop PCs

◦AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-5700)

◦AMD Radeon HD 7560D (A8-5500

Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processors

◦AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-4600)

◦AMD Radeon HD 7640G (A8-4500M)

◦AMD Radeon HD 7520G (A6-4400M)

• New profiles have been added for the following game titles:

◦Diablo 3

◦Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

◦StarCraft 2

◦Portal 2

◦Call of Duty Modern Warfare

◦Call of Duty Black Ops

Future Catalyst releases will continue to add Dual Graphics support for additional titles

Applicable Products:

This article applies to the following configuration(s):

Hardware:

•AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

•AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

•AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

•AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series

•AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series

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ATI / AMD Catalyst 12.4 Driver

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.4 Driver Suite

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

NEW FEATURES
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 have been improved when enabling 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

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 12.4 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

  • Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: no longer hangs on single GPU configurations when used with AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 and later CAP releases
  • Elder Scolls: Skyrim: flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
  • Rage: Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
  • Stalker – Call of Pripyat: flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
  • Tom Clancy HAWX 2: no longer crashes on game launch.
  • Windows Media Center: no longer crashes when run in Eyefinity mode and High Performance mode settings.
  • AMD Steady Video: an error message is no longer displayed when enabling AMD Steady Video for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 plugin.
  • Duplicating displays no longer generates random corruption.
  • Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3×1 and 1×3 Eyefinity configurations.
  • A system crash is no longer experienced when enabling Crossfire in a 4 display configuration.
  • The advanced video quality settings are now correctly displayed in the Catalyst Control Center.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.4 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

  • The Catalyst Control Center now renders correctly when launched while playing a Bluray disc using WinDVD.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.4 software suite for Windows XP. These include:

  • Dirt 3: a system hang is no longer experienced when running game at maximum in game settings.
  • Dragon Age 2: visual corruption is no longer observed.

KNOWN ISSUES
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:

  • Blocky video corruption may be observed while using Windows Media Player to playback HD WMV content.
  • The Catalyst Control Center may experience random crashes in specific configurations.
  • A green screen may be triggered when playing back Flash content using Google Chrome and Firefox.
  • The Unigine Tropics demo may experience random crashes when run with shaders=low and Vsync enabled.

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:

  • Cyberlink PowerDVD may crash when enabling BOB de-interlace mode.

Known issues under the Windows XP operating system

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

  • The system may fail to resume from sleep/hibernate mode is some configurations.