AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 WHQL Video Card Drivers

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AMD has just released AMD Catalyst 11.10 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms on http://www.amd.com

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:

Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition
Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage
Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems
Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
Reduces flickering of NPCs in Rage
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.