AMD Catalyst Display Driver 12.9 Beta

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Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta: AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro Technology

AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro Technology.

AMD Enduro Technology for Notebooks delivers:
- Long lasting battery life
- GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps
- A Seamless and automatic experience

New features found in Catalyst 12.9 Beta:

Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface
- View all profiled applications
- View recently run applications
- Profile applications based on power source

Expert mode control and customization
- Performance centric AC
- Battery centric DC

Performance highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta (versus AMD Catalyst 12.8)

- Up to 10% in Lost Planet 2 in single GPU configurations

RESOLVED ISSUES

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta software suite.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

- Krater crashes when run on HD 7000 series products
- Dirt Showdown 8-Ball hangs when CrossFire is enabled
- The Amazing Spider Man stuttering experienced at certain game locations
- Deus Ex Human Revolution: Intro scenes stutter
- F1 2011: Vehicle textures flicker when game is run at low settings
- Dirt Showdown: Flickering seen when benchmark is run in DirectX 11 mode
- Battlefield – Bad Company 2: Flickering textures seen in CrossFire mode
- Alan Wake: freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with a 3x1 Eyefinity layout.
- Portal 2: freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with a 3x1 Eyefinity layout
- Catalyst Control Center Overscan settings are now correctly retained across reboots
- Tri and Quad CrossFire+ Eyefinity configurations – Certain DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications lower than expected performance
- FireFox – corruption observed in CrossFire configurations
- Enabling Overdrive settings increased clocks in all power states
- Availability of AMD Video Converter support in AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Windows 7 and Windows Vista packages

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

- Corruption seen during Blu Ray playback using Cyberlink PowerDVD 12

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

- Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena : Tearing observed when run at High game settings in a CrossFire configuration
- The audio driver incorrectly installed

KNOWN ISSUES

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta software suite.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system

- Max Payne 3: Lights may flicker when run in Direct X 11 mode in a triple Crossfire configuration
- Metro 2033: Menus may flicker when run in DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 mode
- Guild Wars 2: Texture flicker/corruption may be seen when changing graphics settings

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  CATEGORY:
Graphics Board
  COMPATIBLE WITH:
Windows Vista
Windows Vista 64 bit
Windows 7
Windows 7 64 bit
Windows 8
Windows 8 64 bit
  file size:
178.2 MB
  filename:
amd_catalyst_12.9_beta.exe
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