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Another day, another new graphics driver. But rather than being yet another beta release, the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver is fully WHQL certified and brings a bevy of useful new features to the virtual table, including Radeon HD 7000 series support for Windows XP, openSuse 12.1 and the just-released Ubuntu 12.04.
The new driver squashes third-screen tearing issues in 3x1 and 1x3 Eyefinity setups and provides bug fixes for a handful of games, including Skyrim, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Rage and 2007's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (WTF?). In addition, AMD reports that texture filtering and super sampling anti-aliasing: level of detail image quality has been improved for the Radeon HD 7000 lineup. Along the same lines, morphological anti-aliasing receives a major boost for Radeon HD 5000, 6000 and 7000 series cards, with AMD claiming that "MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions."
If any of that sounds up your alley, you can snag the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver over on AMD's website right now.
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MrPC2010
April 27, 2012 at 6:24am
What game doe sit fuck up this time? Last time it fucked up Skyrim... Does it even fix it?
Nastyman
April 27, 2012 at 5:59am
The link takes me to the AMD site and I can only download the 12.3 driver for my 6970s....what is going on? I have win pro 64 bit.
Nasty
Brad Chacos
April 27, 2012 at 6:04am
Have a direct exe link: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/12-4_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe
Modred189
April 26, 2012 at 2:26pm
Oh guess what?! Still no 3-screen eyefinity fix for CFX. Fantastic. Team green until AMD gets their driver deal in order...
vrmlbasic
April 26, 2012 at 1:27pm
How did AMD manage to coax an 80% improvement in their anti-aliasing across 3 series of cards? More importantly, why is this improvement just coming out now? These cards, for the most part, have been on the market a long while.
I wonder how this will affect my framerate running said AA in Deus Ex: HR with my struggling 6850.
Modred189
April 26, 2012 at 2:35pm
(I'm not saying this is the case) If you have bad AA to being with, 80% better than bad is not a big difference.
vrmlbasic
April 26, 2012 at 5:29pm
Installed drivers. Haven't tested yet.
Deus Ex: HR can do 60 fps on my 6850 with all non-AA settings maxed (which is enough as I play with vsync) but I want more as it drops down to ~50 fps for a bit in a few locations. Plus, AA is awesome. Maybe if we had higher resolution displays we wouldn't need it, but since the world seems content to stop at our current wimpy 1080 that we've had as a standard for years now, I need it.
"I ran benchmarks that cranked antialiasing as high as it would possibly go on each game, a practice that’s all but unnecessary when you’re playing at a 2560x1600 resolution."
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_you_build_2560_x_1600_gaming_rig_without_breaking_bank_we_find_out?page=0,1
Modred189
April 27, 2012 at 6:41am
If you're running Vsync, you are dropping not to 50, but to 30. That's the point of Nvidia's Adaptive sync.
Modred189
May 01, 2012 at 10:45am
Correct. It does not report vsync drops correctly very often. Vsync, by definition, locks the framerate to a fraction of your monitor's refresh rate. Most monitors are 60hz, or 60 fps. Thus, if you go ver 60, you're stuck at 60. If you drop below 60, say to 55, you actually drop to 30. Below 30 to 20, then 15 etc.
JLloyd13
April 26, 2012 at 12:23pm
does this mean the 7970 is now faster and better then the 680? or is the 680 still top?
JLloyd13
April 26, 2012 at 11:36am
does this mean the 7970 is now faster and better then the 680? or is the 680 still top?
Modred189
April 27, 2012 at 6:39am
Yup. Read any review... they all say the same thing: 680 outperforms at lower temps and generally less wattacge.
http://hardocp.com/images/articles/1332370311kfvezRMQlH_13_1.gif
Supall
April 26, 2012 at 11:42am
You can't go wrong with either card, especially once you overclock.
