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ATI Catalyst 8.12 Videocard Drivers Released Today

Posted 12/10/08 at 01:25:12 PM  by Paul Lilly

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ATI videocard owners take note - AMD has released new Catalyst drivers, v8.12, for both Windows XP and Vista. The new Catalyst release brings with it performance improvements in several DX9 and DX10 games, including up to a 25 percent boost in Crysis (DX10) for both Single and Crossfire mode. More recent releases, such as Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3, also receive a claimed performance boost by up to 10 percent and 15 percent respectively.

Many bug fixes accompany 8.12, such as improved HD video playback no longer causing Vista to stop responding, better support for connecting an All-in-Wonder card to a Yamaha receiver via an HDMI cable, and several more.

The new drivers also unlock the ATI Stream compute acceleration capabilities built into Radeon HD 3870, HD 3870 X2, and all HD 4000 series graphics cards. Similar to Nvidia's CUDA technology, ATI Stream is a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD GPUs to work with the CPU and accelerate applications other than just graphics. To show off the technology, AMD has made available its free ATI Video Converter utility.

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TAGS: Software, videocard, ati, gpu, hardware, Drivers, catalyst 8.12
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avatarhrm >:|

Submitted by marudd2002 on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 4:28pm

 I do not see anything in the driver's release notes or this article about fixing any of the dozens of HORRIBLE graphical, sys.reqs, or other frame-rate-killing and incompatibility issues for GTA IV. I must assume from this complete lack of effort on AMD/ATI's part that they either do not care about their customer's that purchased GTA IV or they assume that Rockstar is 100% to blame in this debacle and ATI's drivers could not ever help it become more playable. Either way, I'm still waiting for Steam (Valve) to give me a full refund as I'm so ticked at Rockstar that I refuse to play GTA IV or any of their games forever just on principle.

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avatari installed 8.12, couldn't

Submitted by guoruiwu1994 on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 2:00pm

i installed 8.12, couldn't find the video converter anywwhere, and it kept on crashing my computer. i have a palit 4850.

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avatarThis is good news, now if they would fix the flicker in Compiz

Submitted by Lord Omega on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 1:07pm

I am glade to see that this because I plan on getting a 4000 series. Now they would fix the flicker that has been plaguing Ubuntu 8.x and increase the performance in them. That would be nice.

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