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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

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

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

01-Oct-2013 – 6.1.7601.22469 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2824770 – Delayed delivery when you send many messages on a Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012-based Message Queuing server

04-May-2013 – 6.1.7601.22317 – Mqqm.dll – x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2829589 – Message Queuing service freezes when queue size increases in Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2

08-Mar-2012 – 6.1.7601.21938 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2656875 – Delay when you send messages to Message Queuing clients by using a Direct=TCP format in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

14-Jan-2012 – 6.1.7601.21898 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665875 – An update is available that enables you to receive messages by using a mismatched DNS CNAME alias in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

08-Jul-2011 – 6.1.7601.21766 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2554746 – MSMQ service might not send or receive messages after you restart a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

02-Jul-2011 – 6.1.7601.21762 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2566230 – High memory usage by the Message Queuing service when you perform a remote transactional read on a Message Queuing 5.0 queue in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

15-Jan-2011 – 6.1.7601.21642 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495655 – The contents of some Message Queuing messages may become corrupted when you enable message encryption in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

14-Jan-2011 – 6.1.7601.21641 – Mqqm.dll – x86/x64 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2491890 – Message Queuing may become unresponsive when you enable message encryption in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

ATI / AMD Catalyst 12.3 Driver

ATI / AMD have recently released Catalyst 12.3 Driver Suite

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

NEW FEATURES

Includes Full Support for AMD Radeon HD 7000 series of products

  • Catalyst 12.3 now fully supports the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 series of products

RESOLVED ISSUES

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

  • AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/ delays have been resolved
  • Tom Clancy HAWX: No longer crashes after task switching with MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing) and Anti-Aliasing enabled
  • Furmark Benchmark: No longer crashes when launched in High Performance mode.
  • Quake 4: No longer display corruption after task switching when run in High Performance mode
  • XPlane: Textures no longer exhibit flicker and corruption
  • Skyrim: No longer displays flickering and texture corruption.
  • Alan Wake: A system crash is no longer experienced when running the game in DirectX 9 mode with Crossfire enabled
  • Far Cry 2: A random system hang is no longer experienced when running the game at high in game setting

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

  • AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/ delays have been resolved
  • Enemy Territory Quake Wars : no longer exhibits random corruption