ATI, now being as AMD part, already for few years follows the tradition when releasing video cards drivers. It supposes one release per month. From one side such periodicity does not allow to bring in cardinal changes within the frame of a few updates, but innovations and corrections of errors are made not immediately, but gradually. And it is possible to look after this process very intently.
Changes are in next Catalyst can touch both the correction of errors, addition new useful functions and increase in performance in certain games and tests.
The new version of AMD Catalyst 11.2 driver was presented the other day. List of its changes for Windows looks like the following:
New features:
- Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
- Tessellation Controls. Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
- Morphological Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- Support Video Quality settings during Blu-ray 3D playback. Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Performance improvments:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops:
- Performance increases up to 11% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing enabled.
- Batman Arkham Asylum:
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
It is possible to download new driver AMD Catalyst 11.2 from our catalog:
- AMD Catalyst 11.2 (Windows XP 32-bit)
- AMD Catalyst 11.2 (Windows XP 64-bit)
- AMD Catalyst 11.2 (Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit)
- AMD Catalyst 11.2 (Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit)
- AMD Mobility Catalyst 11.2 (Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit)
- AMD Mobility Catalyst 11.2 (Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit)
- AMD Catalyst Linux 11.2
