AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL 32-bit

Package Content

The AMD Catalyst software suite 12.4 contains the following:

AMD display driver version 8.961
HydraVision for Windows Vista^® and Windows^® 7
Southbridge/IXP Driver
AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.961 / AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 8.961

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.4 Windows release includes:

NEW FEATURES

Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements

Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling 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)

Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements

Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions

Texture filtering quality improvements

Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance

RESOLVED ISSUES

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 12.4 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: no longer hangs on single GPU configurations when used with AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 and later CAP releases
Elder Scolls: Skyrim: flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
Rage: Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
Stalker Call of Pripyat: flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
Tom Clancy HAWX 2: no longer crashes on game launch.
Windows Media Center: no longer crashes when run in Eyefinity mode and High Performance mode settings.
AMD Steady Video: an error message is no longer displayed when enabling AMD Steady Video for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 plugin.
Duplicating displays no longer generates random corruption.
Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3x1 and 1x3 Eyefinity configurations.
A system crash is no longer experienced when enabling Crossfire in a 4 display configuration.
The advanced video quality settings are now correctly displayed in the Catalyst Control Center.