The AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 & 12.1 Preview driver – What’s New
We have just released AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 and the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 and also includes all of the latest optimizations found in the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance drivers. It is highly recommended that all gamers use the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 driver:
AMD OpenGL 4.2 production support
- AMD Catalyst 11.12 delivers official support for the OpenGL 4.2 specification
AMD Eyefinity technology enhancements
- Enables support for AMD HD3D technology when using a 3×1 Landscape Eyefinity display group, on supported DisplayPort 3D monitors.
AMD Vision Engine Control Center enhancements for Dual Graphics
- Improvements have been implemented to better facilitate the enabling and control of the Dual Graphics within the Vision Engine Control Center
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 Linux driver:
This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
- RHEL 6.2 early look support
AMD’s driver for the Windows 8 Developer build is also now available on www.amd.com for download. This is the same driver that was made available through Windows Update when the Windows 8 Preview Build was released in September 2011. AMD plans to release new drivers for Windows 8 on www.amd.com the same day as all future Windows 8 milestone releases (Beta, RC, RTM) – just as AMD did for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 driver:
AMD HD3D technology support enhancement
- Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations
- Delivers a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a connections – 1080p at 30Hz is now enabled on supported displays.
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles
- AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver enables users to create per application profiles to individually control 3D and CrossFireX settings for Direct3D applications
- Please be sure to select the “Restore Factory Defaults” option under the Catalyst Control Center Preferences menu before using the new application profiles feature – this ensures there are no compatibility issues between previous drivers and the new AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver with regards to application profiles.
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Video UI improvements
- AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver includes user interface enhancements to simply adjustment of video color and video quality controls
Performance highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver (in addition to the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver)
- Improves performance (10-15%) in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations
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please work on the performance (esp. libva and video acceleration) of the linux driver. thx!
The driver 11.12 installs succesfully but crashes the system at the log-in screen after the restart.
Ubuntu 11.10 Dell Inspiron 1545.
It is pathetic that the open source driver is performing so much better than the propietary one.
And amd is getting way behing nvidia on terms of support and features for the Linux comunity.
There have been months since the linux problems were reported and we got nothing…
This is the best way to make us buy nvidia cards……
Dont ignore the linux comunity. !
I understand, AMD, that the Linux community is small but it would be nice to get some attention from you. Spending money on writing drivers for Linux is probably low on your priority list but for those who do use Linux it would encourage us to continue to buy your products.
Why is it so late going to full release ?
Please work on Elder Scrolls Skyrim performance in 12.1 – Crossfire has an issue on 6xxx models in the menu screens of this game. Specifically flickering and odd texture glitches. Thank-you.
Elder Scrolls Skyrim in 12.1 crossfire has the same flickering and texture glitches on the 5700 model as well.
11.12, 12.1 and 12.1a all have flickering when you extent to a LCD tv via HDMI when playing video.
Please, do something for Linux users!
Regarding 11.12, I’m NOT a Linux user, Win7-64 and it crashed on me after on hour of play. Forced a reboot and it didn’t recover. Only safe mode functions. This was last night 1/26/12.
My only guess to reinstall the software to previous driver/software.
Any help?
ATI HD 4850 x2 (yes, I know an upgrade of a card may help but It’s not in the cards at this time.)
I’ve been having glitching ever since the “upgrade” installed – I am probably going to uninstall because it keeps crashing on me. I thought maybe it was just Skyrim, but Alice Madness and even just updating the windows experience score is making it glitch and crash! WTFFFF!