ATI released Catalyst 10.11 drivers. The Catalyst 10.11 driver features support for the Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000 series graphics cards and the Radeon HD 3000 and HD 4000 series IGPs.
Performance Improvements
- Battleforge: Performance increases up to 3% on Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing disabled.
- STALKER Call of Pripyat benchmark: Performance increases up to 5% on Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
Resolved Known Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 10.11 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
Running fullscreen DirectX 9 applications/games after enabling Aero effects and rebooting no longer causes the system to randomly stop responding Primary display no longer blanks out intermittently during "World in Conflict: Soviet Assault" DirectX10 gameplay with CrossFire and Dual Monitor enabled "Stone Giant" DirectX 11 demo no longer intermittently fails in fullscreen mode with CrossFire enabled under Multi-GPU configurations on some cards Task switching out of "Battlefield: Bad Company 2" and then back into the game no longer causes CrossFire to become disabled Enabling in-game Anti-Aliasing and utilizing Edge-Detect filters no longer causes smoother lines but blurry textures when compared to the Standard filter on some cards Desktop line corruption is no longer observed after hotplugging the HDCP display on some cards Enabling Overdrive through the Catalyst Control Center for single display systems no longer results in GPU clocks running at high levels in non-GPU intensive scenariosResolved Known Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
Running fullscreen DirectX 9 applications/games after enabling Aero effects and rebooting no longer causes the system to randomly stop responding When "World of Warcraft" is launched via TriDef® 3D and hardware cursor is enabled, the mouse cursor no longer intermittently flickers and disappears Hot swapping a HDCP display panel with a non-HDCP display no longer causes the display to turn blank after resuming from sleep/hibernate during Blu-ray disc playbackWe have an extensive discussion thread open on these drivers right here.
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