Posted by Video Game News Staff, Yesterday ![]() |
AMD Catalyst 12.4 Driver Available for Windows and Linus Platforms
AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver – What’s New
We have just released AMD Catalyst 12.4 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and
Linux platforms. Download here.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver:
Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
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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
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Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
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LOD Image quality enhancements for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications.
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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)
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Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series• LOD Image quality enhancements for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications.
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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
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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
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MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
Texture filtering quality improvements
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Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
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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
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
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Ubuntu 12.04 early look support
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openSuse 12.1 production support
Resolved issues:
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Elder Scolls: Skyrim : flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
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Rage : Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars : no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
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Stalker – Call of Pripyat : flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
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Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3×1 and 1×3 Eyefinity configurations.
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