AMD has released the final version of its Catalyst 11.10 graphics drivers and can be downloaded from AMD's Support & Drivers page.
AMD's software suite, AMD Catalyst 11.10, updates the AMD display driver and the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center.
The AMD Catalyst software suite 11.10 contains the following:
- AMD display driver version 8.902
- HydraVision for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.902 / AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 8.902.
The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:
- Any notebook launched after this driver release
- Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks using Intel chipsets.
- Toshiba notebooks
- Sony VAIO notebooks
- Panasonic notebooks
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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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