AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 Driver – What’s New?
It’s that time again for the AMD Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*.
*IF you are having technical issues with the AMD Catalyst™ driver, or your graphics card please report your issues here.
As a note: this will be the last AMD Catalyst™ blog that I will write. I will be handing the reigns over to Chris Bell here at AMD who will carry on and keep you up to date on our driver postings. It has been a pleasure to keep you posted on all things AMD Catalyst™. I thank you for your feedback and comments over the past year.
Here is what is new this month!
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 Windows release include:
New Features:
- AMD Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
o The Quality setting has now been improved to match the High Quality setting in all respects but one; it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere.
This optimization offers a way to improve filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
o The Performance setting has been updated to address the sharpness of the default Quality setting causing shimmering in certain cases. It now provides a smoother filtering option that eliminates most shimmering while preserving the improved detail provided by anisotropic filtering.
- Tessellation Controls
o Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series and the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
o New settings give users full control over the Tessellation levels used in applications.
o The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting is intended to set the best level of Tessellation on a per application basis. The “AMD Optimized” setting is designed to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the performance impact associated with enabling the Tessellation feature. Currently no applications have been profiled.
o The “Use Application Settings” option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level.
o Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control
- Morphological Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series GPUs
o AMD Catalyst now includes official support for Morphological Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series GPUs
Support Video Quality settings during Blu-ray 3D playback
- Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series GPUs
- Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- Users can now enable the Video Quality settings within the Catalyst Control Center when playing Blu-ray 3D content
For more information on AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 release notes.
To download the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 driver, click here.
Regards,
Jay Marsden
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i keep getting lag spikes in game, it shouldn’t be my computer problem since i had previous grafic driver and i never had those problems..
my grafic card is ati hd 5670 1gb ddr3
i like to see MLAA in my 4890 please
just add it amd maybe i upgrade my card when come 7000 series but add MLAA
my 4890 very powerful it will hat that MLAA at max
Having issues with Crysis 2 with the 11.2 drivers using Crossfire.
All light sources flicker with Crossfire enabled.
I noticed this right from the start of the game from indoor light sources, then once you are in the sunlight it is unplayable.
After several setting changes I decided to disable Crossfire and the issue went away.
Would like to use Crossfire though AMD… new drivers?
I can’t Upgrade if i do Than my screen go black than i need 2 do Pres f8 for Using 800×600 rev than i can delite it than old version that it work
so using old vesion :/
is there eny fix for that?
I would like to see Eyefinity + Blu-ray support. I hate that I have to disable eyefinity to play a blu-ray.
somtimes when run video full screen with browser mozila or ie i get some lines in video and flicker
and when i deactivate them aero all run good hope this amd can fix it for us plz ^^
There is some trouble with gta 4 shadows :/
Have a problem with Empire Total War. Have the latest driver 11.3 and it´s a brand new computer with xfx 5850 Black edition cards in croosfire and a AMD Phenom II x6 1090T Black editon. The game starts to glitch graphical and makes it totally unplayable. Will this be solved in your next driver release
Display flickers when anything Java based is launched. This error is constant on catalyst version ranging from 11 and onwards. 10.7 doesn’t have that issue.
…correction…mostly Firefox, StarCraft II, and AMD OverDrive.
what about ati hd 4300?