AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Preview

The Joker

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Finally after a million years AMD have finally changed up a gear with Catalyst and it looks to be pure awesomeness!!

AMD would like to share a preview of AMD's 12.1 Catalyst driver. Not only does this driver raises the bar on performance and fixes a few issues, but it also introduces quite a few new features, as well as UI enhancements. You'll find the list of changes below.

AMD HD3D technology support enhancement
· Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations
· Delivers a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a connections - 1080p at 30Hz is now enabled on supported displays.

AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles
· AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver enables users to create per application profiles to individually control 3D and CrossFireX settings for Direct3D applications
· Please be sure to select the “Restore Factory Defaults” option under the Catalyst Control Center Preferences menu before using the new application profiles feature – this ensures there are no compatibility issues between previous drivers and the new AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver with regards to application profiles

AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Video UI improvements
· AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver includes user interface enhancements to simply adjustment of video color and video quality controls

Performance highlights of the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 12.1 Preview driver (in addition to the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver)
· Improves performance (10%) in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series for single GPU and AMD CrossFireX configurations

Download is available here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/AMD-Catalyst-12.1-Preview-Driver-32-64-bit-driver-download-2826.html
 
wow that is impressive! Nice thread Joker! :)

lol pretty much just copied over what was posted on Guru3D

Thanx though :D

There is def improvment in skyrim, haven't tried anything else yet, will update tonight once I play some other games.
 
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles
· AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver enables users to create per application profiles to individually control 3D and CrossFireX settings for Direct3D applications

FINALLY! I wonder if this new driver is the reason the recent updates (primarily crossfire) have been so slow in coming.
 
Nice! Thanks Joker, will grab it tonight quickly. Kinda tired of drivers not fixing problems but instead creating more.
 
Thanks dude.

Unfortunately it still doesn't solve my crossfire problems in BF3 when I run eyefinity. FML
 
This makes BF3 load way quicker. Its also stable. 11.11 made my pc crash every few hours.
 
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