Download: Catalyst 11.10 WHQL für mehr Leistung in Rage und Battlefield 3

AMD hat seinen Catalyst 11.10 Treiber endlich in einer WHQL-Fassung veröffentlicht, nachdem drei sogennante Preview Driver als Download bereitgestellt wurden (mit einigen Pannen, PCGH berichtete). Weiterhin aktuell ist das Catalyst Profil CAP4, das Sie ebenfalls am Ende des Artikels als Download finden. Weitere Details finden Sie in den Release Notes bei AMD. Am Overdrive-Tool sowie an den Hardwareinformationen wurden ebenfalls Änderungen vorgenommen. Darüber hinaus gibt es bei Eyefinity Verbesserungen, so gibt es nun die Unterstützung für 5x1-Display-Setups, die maximale Auflösung für DX11-Spiele beträgt nun 16k x 16k. Der Catalyst 11.10 empfiehlt sich unter anderem für Battlefield 3 und Rage.

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Windows release includes:
New Features

AMD Eyefinity enhancements
- Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations
- Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)
- Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.

AMD VECC/CCC enhancements
Improvements have been implemented to better facilitate the enabling and control of the following features within the Vision Engine Control Center / Catalyst Control Center
- AMD Overdrive for GPUs
- Information Center (software and hardware)

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Some OpenGL games like Enemy Territory Quake Wars no longer experiences random corruption.
- Lost Planet 2 no longer experiences random crashes when running the benchmark.
- F1 2010 and Dirt 2 no longer experience random flashing during the game.
- Google Earth no longer displays random corruption when running in OpenGL mode.
- Mafia II no longer experiences a random crash during game loading / game play when Crossfire is enabled.
- Unigine Heaven running in DirectX 11 mode no longer experiences a performance drop when running with Dual Graphics enabled.
- Homefront no longer experiences random game crashes.
- Random flashing is no longer experienced when playing back SD/BD content on a 120Hz monitor.
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.
- Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting DisplayPort / DFP monitors.
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows XP. These include:
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:
- Screen tearing may be randomly observed while playing Portal 2.
- Total War - Shogun 2 may experience corruption when running at low game settings in a 2x1 Eyefinity environment.
- Random graphics corruption may be observed while playing Call of Duty 4 with the Edge Detect Filter enabled.
- Random crashes may be experienced while playing F1 2010 and Lost Planet 2 with in Crossfire mode in an Eyefinity configuration.
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars may experience random crashes when running in a 3x1 Eyefinity configuration.

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:
- Windows Aero options may be missing after installing the driver.
- A 'ghosting cursor' may be observed when playing Dragon Age 2 with Crossfire enabled.
- Random flickering may be observed when playing Dragon Age 2 with Crossfire enabled.
- Choppy playback may be experienced when playing BluRay content when Aero is enabled.
- Civilization V may experience random crashes when run at High or Medium game settings.
- F1 2010 may experience random hanging.