Como es usual, AMD ha liberado su entrega mensual de sus controladores gráficos Catalyst 10.8 correspondientes al mes en curso, los cuales vienen con certificación WHQL y soporte par la serie de tarjetas Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000 y HD 5000 y las graficas integradas para portátiles Radeon HD 3000 y HD 4000 series IGPs (también está disponible los drivers para las Mobility Radeon). Estos Catalyst además entregan nuevas mejoras de rendimiento en ciertos juegos y soporte oficial para OpenGL ES 2.0, que permite por ejemplo aceleración 3D dentro de navegadores que soporten OpenGL ES 2.0. Listado de cambios completos luego del corte.
The Catalyst 10.8 includes the following updates:
New features
OpenGL ES 2.0 support
– ATI Catalyst 10.8 delivers full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 specification
– Enables 3D accelerated graphics within a web browser that supports OpenGL ES 2.0
– Supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
Video Quality default options
– The Default video options for ATI Catalyst have been greatly enhanced to deliver the best quality video viewing experience. Users can also choose to apply these settings to Internet Video via a new checkbox control within the ATI Catalyst Control Center
Performance enhancement for Eyefinity Quad ATI CrossFireX configurations
– Performance has been greatly improved for users running with ATI Eyefinity on a Quad ATI CrossFireX configuration
Anti-Aliasing support for StarCraft II
Performance Improvements
Far Cry 2
– Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
– Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
– Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series single and
CrossFire configurationsLeft 4 Dead 2
– Performance increases 3-5% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5800 series and CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 series configurations
Stormrise
– Performance increases 5-10% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 series and ATI Radeon HD 5500 series configurations