AMD Catalyst 12.4 released :)

Hi all

AMD today released the 12.4 driver.
Downloads can be found here:
64bit Mobile AMD Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver
Release Notes:
AMD Catalyst? Software Suite Version 12.4 Release Notes

Here the changes:
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.

 

Here is the direct link to the driver and CCC: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/12-4_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe

 

As always, you guys rock. Now to see if the MLAA really does get an 80% performance boost from this update.

Thanks for the link!

 

Decided to upgrade to this one, thanks for the post.

 

Would be nice to hear if it is stable and how it affects the performance

 

I downloaded it, but haven't installed yet. I'll install if i get performance issue with the GW2 beta. Also considering most of my games are on my desktop now i use my G73 less for gaming.

 

Running since released and working fine. But only game tested is Alan Wake

 

Nuts...12.4 did not work for some reason, even tried .3 and .2 and had to go back to 12.1.

All > .1 say "can't find hardware" or some such, despite detecting it and no errors in the install log.

W..T..F?

 

Can happen, a clean install usualy fixes this. First make a complete uninstall, reboot, maybe clean with some driver remover (I don't do that normaly) and install the latest release.