Junto con el lanzamiento de su nueva generación de tarjetas gráficas AMD Radeon HD 6870/6850, AMD ha liberado la versión oficial de sus drivers AMD Catalyst 10.10 con certificación WHQL, los cuales vienen cargados con una serie de nuevas características para el apartado multimedia para la aceleración y reproducción de video, como la tecnología AMD HD3D Technology y una serie de mejoras de rendimiento para varios juegos. Novedeades y enlace para descarga luego del corte.
AMD ofrecerá dos paquetes de estos drivers: el “AMD Catalyst” que incluye los drivers gráficos propiamente tal, más Direct3D, OpenGL, y el Catalyst Control Center y otro paquete llamado “AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition”, que son los drivers AMD Catalyst más el driver OpenCL. Esta entrega soporta las tarjetas gráficas de la familia: Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000, HD 5000 y HD 6800 series y los IGP Radeon HD 3000 y HD 4000 series.
A continuación la novedades:
New Features
Introduction of AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing («APP») technology Edition
There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
1. AMD Catalyst (comparable to prior versions in features and components) – currently includes the Direct3D, OpenGL, display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components
2. AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (“APP”) technology Edition – AMD Catalyst plus the OpenCL driver
Video acceleration for WMV HD video content
– This release of AMD Catalyst provides video acceleration support for WMV HD (Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
– Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series of products
Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls
– This release of AMD Catalyst enhances the Dynamic Contrast setting found in the Catalyst Control Center by adding histogram based detection
Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology
Blu-ray 3D Support
– This release of AMD Catalyst enables Blu-ray 3D playback
– Requirements include Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
– Compatible with the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Stereo 3D Gaming Compatibility
– This release of AMD Catalyst enables Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D
– Requirements include 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
– Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Performance Improvements
* Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
– Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
– Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series
* BattleForge
– Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and
CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled* Crysis Warhead
– Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products with anti-aliasing enabled
* Far Cry 2
– Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Metro 2033
– Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
– Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
– Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
– Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
– Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Heaven
– UniginePerformance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
– Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
* World in Conflict
– Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
– Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
Además de los Drivers Catalyst, AMD ha publicado al mismo tiempo sus tipicos HotFix, esta vez el Catalyst 10.10a hotfix para las tarjetas Radeon HD 6800 series y que arreglan problemas puntuales como:
This latest hotfix is available here for Windows 7/Vista and it brings:
– Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
– Aliens versus Predator performance enhancements
– Star Craft 2 performance enhancements
– OpenGL performance enhancements – gains can be seen in Prey, Quake Wars: Enemy Territories, and Heaven v2.1
Descarga los AMD Catalyst 10.10 WHQL desde GAME.AMD.com, recuerden que los que tienen Steam también pueden actualizar desde allí. El Hotfix Catalyst 10.01a lo descargan desde Aquí.
