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