AMD Gives First Person Shooters A Boost With New Radeon HD 7900 Driver

Posted 01/20/2012 at 11:12am | by Brad Chacos

3

Comments

Print

Are you one of those cutting-edge gamers who snatched up a Radeon HD 7970 graphics card the day they hit the street? If so, AMD's sending a little "Thank You" gift your way in the form of the new 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon HD 7900 driver, an update that adds DX10 and DX11 Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing to the Catalyst Control Center, ups performance for quite a few titles, and fixes bugs in yet a few more.

Here's a list of improvements and fixes taken directly from the driver's page (which also includes a download link, so head over there if you want to install it):

Performance highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

•     8% (up to) performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator
•     15% (up to) performance improvement in Battleforge with Anti-Aliasing enabled
•     3% (up to) performance improvement in Battlefield 3
•     3% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis 2
•     6% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis Warhead
•     10% (up to) performance improvement in F1 2010
•     5% (up to) performance improvement in Unigine with Anti-Aliasing enabled
•     250% (up to) performance improvement in TessMark (OpenGL) when set to “insane” levels

Resolved issues: highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

•     Folding@Home: intermittent stability issues have been resolved for the OpenCL version of Folding@Home
•     Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
•     Dragon Age 2 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
•     StarCraft 2 no longer encounters issues when quitting campaign with Tri and Quad CrossFireX™ configurations
•     BattleForge stability has been improved with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
•     Improved stability when enabling / disabling CrossFireX™ and installing the AMD graphics driver on AMD CrossfireX™ configurations

Known Issues:

•     Just Cause 2  - Launching the application will cause a hang for single GPU and CrossfireX™ configurations