AMD releases RC11 (date 1/20/2012) driver for 7900 series + new CAPS for everyone
Note that this is ONLY for 7900 cards according to Catalystcreator on Twitter, while the CAPS can be used by everyone:
Feature highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver:
Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Preview support for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications
AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 users can now enable 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)
Performance highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver:
- 8% (up to) performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
- 15% (up to) performance improvement in Battleforge with Anti-Aliasing enabled
- 3% (up to) performance improvement in Battlefield 3
- 3% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis 2
- 6% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
- 10% (up to) performance improvement in F1 2010
- 5% (up to) performance improvement in Unigine with Anti-Aliasing enabled
- 250% (up to) performance improvement in TessMark (OpenGL) when set to “insane” levels
Resolved issues: highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver:
- Folding@Home: intermittent stability issues have been resolved for the OpenCL version of Folding@Home
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
- Dragon Age 2 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
- StarCraft 2 no longer encounters issues when quitting campaign with Tri and Quad CrossFireX™ configurations
- BattleForge stability has been improved with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
- Improved stability when enabling / disabling CrossFireX™ and installing the AMD graphics driver on AMD CrossfireX™ configurations
New CAPS (Catalyst application profiles, can be installed on top of any recent driver):
Description:
This release of AMD Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest AMD CrossFireX™ profiles in a separate executable file ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
New profiles added to this release:
- Need for Speed: The Run – fixes flashing in terrain, shadows and bushes
- Prototype 2: Improves single GPU and CrossFire performance
- Insane 2: Improves CrossFire performance
- Syndicate - Improves CrossFire performance
- Costume Quest – Resolves image quality issues
- DOTA 2 – Enables CrossFire support for this title
Tags: amd, catalyst