ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 Vista

# New Features

* ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ supported configurations.

* OpenGL 3.2 extension support

- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array

# Performance Improvements

* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalystâ„¢ 9.12:
- 3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations

# All Systems

* Confirmation dialog box is now displayed when extending the display through Catalyst Control Center
* Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the Desktop Properties panel
* A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group

# Windows Vista

* Playing some Flash content with hardware acceleration enabled might result in video edges not appearing smooth
* WinDVD 10 may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multi-monitor setup
* No audio when hotplugging HDMI display while media file is being played

# Windows 7

* Sound output from Display Port audio is now heard with extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
* Cyblerlink PowerDVD 9: setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable Windows Aero to optimize Blu?Ray playback" no longer causes the system to become unresponsive during Blu?ray playback
* Cyberlink PowerDVD: Blu?ray playback video no longer fails to render when swapping primary displays in a multi?monitor configuration
* Corruption no longer observed with some DX9 applications when Anti?Alias 8x is enabled.
* WinDVD10: Blu?ray playback will now start and does not require the application has been minimized and restored
* Resident Evil 5 Japanese version is now supported
* Playing back Blu?Ray content on some system with 120 Hz display no longer results in black screen playback
* Changing desktop resolution no longer causes the Operating System to stop responding when real?time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
* Resolved: IL2 ? Sturmovik Forgotten Battles game may stop responding or not free up system resources
* Resolved intermittently system instability when hot unplugging a HDMI display