AMD Catalyst™ 12.8 is Now Available
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.8: Windows 8 support
AMD’s first logo certified and unified driver for Windows 8 production
Featuring support for the DirectX 11.1 and the new WDDM 1.2 driver model:
AMD’s first official unified and logo certified driver for Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications
Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications
Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX® 11 API, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supporting applications.
Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices
Improved sleep/resume performance
Optimized GPU power consumption
Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:
AMD Eyefinity technology
OpenCL™
OpenGL
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
AMD Dual Graphics
AMD CrossFire technology
AMD Overdrive
AMD Catalyst Control Center
Vision Engine Control Center
Performance highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.8 (versus AMD Catalyst 12.6)
Up to 25% in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Up to 3% in Battlefield 3
Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 3% in Dues Ex: Human Revolution
Up to 6% in Crysis 2
Up to 15% in Total War: Shogun
Up to 8% in Crysis Warhead
Up to 5% in Just Cause 2
Up to 10% in Dirt 3
AMD’s latest Catalyst™ Application Profile: AMD Catalyst 12.7 CAP3 (to be used with AMD Catalyst 12.8)
The Secret World (DX11): Resolves corruption seen in HUD/options when running in CrossFire mode on the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
TorchLight 2 – Improves single GPU performance, and disables CrossFire due to incompatible support when running in a Multi-GPU configuration
Spec Ops: The Line: Improves CrossFire performance
Hawken: Improves CrossFire performance
Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.8 driver
Over/underscan settings are correctly restored on system reboot
Audio is no longer disabled if the connected HDTV Is switched off/on
Shogun 2 : Flickering text is no longer experienced
Star Wars – The Old Republic : In game cinematic no longer experience flicker when using the arrow keys
Dirt Showdown: 8-Ball track No longer hangs with Crossfire enabled
Max Payne 3 : A black screen is no longer observed when launching game in DirectX 11 mode with Crossfire enabled
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.8 Linux Driver: New OS Support
This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems