AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified driver Details, New Catalyst Profiles

A couple announcements came from AMD today in regards to the Catalyst drivers. The first is the new 12.2 pre-cert driver details and the second is that there are several new game profiles available including Alan Wake, Syndicate, Reckoning, and more.

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.2 pre-certified driver:

Windows 7 and Windows Vista support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

• Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit
• Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing is now available for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications

• Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• Users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications
• Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements

• Custom resolutions – users can now choose from a much larger set of display resolutions for their AMD Eyefinity configurations
• Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations (when physically plugging/un-plugging displays) will occur automatically by loading the appropriate profile
• HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
• Profile Manager improvements: Users can now create multiple Display profiles, enabling users to seamlessly switch between various AMD Eyefinity and Display Configurations

The AMD Catalyst 12.2 pre-certified driver is available for download here.

New AMD Catalyst Application Profile is now available:

This release of AMD Catalyst Application Profile (Catalyst 12.1 CAP3) includes the following updates

• Alan Wake:  Improves CrossFire performance
• Syndicate: Improves both single GPU and CrossFire performance
• Darkness 2: Improves CrossFire performance
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Improves CrossFire performance for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series to avoid negative scaling at low resolutions
• Natural Selection 2: Fixes shadow map flickering issue seen with CrossFire enabled

The new AMD Catalyst Application Profile is available for download here.

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