Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.1 Windows:
AMD Catalyst 11.1 and AMD Catalyst 11.1a hotfix is now available
New Features:
The new Catalyst Control Center
· The new Catalyst Control Center enables a simplified user experience to help users get the most out of their AMD product
o Easily enable 3D settings to enhance game image quality
o Setup multiple displays to increase productivity
o Adjust power settings to increase battery life
· Supports two unique views – designed for mainstream and advanced users
· User Interface dynamically updates based on available AMD hardware
Support for OpenGL 4.1
· New features introduced in OpenGL 4.1
o Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms
o The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time
o The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility
o 64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision
o Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility
Performance highlights:
F1 2010:
· Performance increases up to 12% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
· Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
Left 4 Dead 2:
· Performance increases up to 17% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series single and Crossfire configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
· Performance increases up to 8% on AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
Highlights of the Linux AMD Catalyst™ 11.1 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
· This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o RHEL 6 support (production)
o RHEL 5.6 support (early look)
Support for OpenGL 4.1
o Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms
o The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time
o The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility
o 64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision
o Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility
For more information on AMD Catalyst™ 11.1 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues and performance highlights in this release, please see the
AMD Catalyst™ 11.1 release notes.
Also, we’ve posted the AMD Catalyst 11.1a hotfix driver here:
- http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... otfix.aspx
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.1a hotfix include:
· Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon HD 6800 & HD 6900 series in a number of applications
· Catalyst Control Center – New Tessellation controls
· Gives users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications
· Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
· The Quality setting has now been improved to match the High Quality setting in all respects but one; it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere. This optimization offers a way to improve filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
· The Performance setting has also been updated to address comments about the sharpness of the default Quality setting causing shimmering in certain cases. It now provides a smoother filtering option that eliminates most shimmering while preserving the improved detail provided by anisotropic filtering.
