AMD Catalyst 11.1 Drivers Now Available for Download
AMD's latest Catalyst 11.1 driver suite introduces a handful of big performance gains, including up to 17 percent in Left 4 Dead 2 on Radeon HD 6800 series cards in both single and CrossFire configurations with AF and AA disabled, and up to 12 percent in F1 2010 on Radeon HD 6900 cards with the same criteria. The new drivers also eradicate a bunch of known issues, such as:
- Aliens vs. Predator game no longer fails to load with quad-CrossFire enabled (Windows 7)
- The Protoss Pylon Matrix is now rendered correctly in Starcraft 2 (Windows 7)
- System no longer crashes when enabling CrossFire with 2 monitors connected to the primary card and 2 monitors connected to the secondary card (Windows 7)
- Video corruption is no longer randomly seen during DVD playback using Windows Media Player (Windows Vista)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops no longer randomly hangs on AMD Radeon HD 57xx series products (Windows XP)
There are lots of other fixes applicable to all three Windows operating systems, which you can view in the Release Notes. When you're ready to dive in, you can download the new drivers here.
