AMD Catalyst Drivers 13.9 XP

# RESOLVED ISSUES
* Severe flicker in Far Cry® 3 game cinematic that may continue into gameplay.
* BSOD crash when enabling CrossFire in the AMD Catalyst Control Center after installing a third AMD Radeon HD7790 graphics card.
* BSOD crash in Windows 8 when display turns off (idle/sleep mode).
* AMD Catalyst Control Center crash after creating an Eyefinity Group.
* Disappearing mouse cursor in Windows 8 after completing the AMD Catalyst Driver installation and rebooting the system.
* Cyberlink PowerDVD stop working with a pop-up error message during playback of a Blu-Ray movie under Power Saving mode.
* When Dual Graphics is disabled within AMD Catalyst Control Center, the secondary display connected may not enable.
* Frame drops experienced during playback of interlaced Blu-Ray content when all visual quality settings are enabled in AMD Catalyst Control Center.
* Significant game performance slowdowns when moving the mouse cursor in World of Warcraft using DirectX 9 rendering mode.
* Anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering settings saved within created AMD Catalyst Control Center application profiles do not apply correctly.
* Windows 8 Metro applications experience very low FPS when Dual Graphics is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

# Feature
* Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
* Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
* Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
* Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
- Batman Arkham City (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Borderlands 2 (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
- Quake Wars (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
- Hitman Absolution (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Wolfenstein MP (1920x1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Civilization V (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
* Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
- GL_ARB_compute_shader
- GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
- GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
- GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
- GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_shader_image_size
- GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
- GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
# Resolved Issues
* With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
* Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
* Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
* Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
* Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
* Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
* Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
* Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
* System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
* F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

# FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS:
* AMD Catalyst Control Center: New 3D settings and profile management user interface:
- AMD Catalyst features a newly designed 3D application settings page, designed to allow users to more easily adjust and control their 3D settings on a per application basis.
# Performance Highlights:
* Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
* All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
- Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
- Enhanced AMD CrossFire™ scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
- Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
> More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
- Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
- Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
- Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
- Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
- Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
- Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
* AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
- 3DMark® 06 – Up to 6%
- 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
- AvP – Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Up to 13%
- Crysis 2: Up to 45%
- DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
- ETQW – Up to 8%
- Hard Reset – Up to 8%
- Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
- Mafia 2 – Up to 40%
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
- StarCraft 2 – Up to 25%
- Skyrim – Up to 45%
- Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

# Feature Highlights :
* AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8 production featuring support for the DirectX® 11.1 and the new WDDM 1.2 driver model:
- Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications.
- Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications.
- Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX 11 API, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supporting applications.
- Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices.
- Improved sleep/resume performance.
- Optimized GPU power consumption.
- Support for AMD features
> AMD Eyefinity
> OpenCL™
> OpenGL
> UVD
> AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire™ Technology
> AMD Overdrive
> AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center
# Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
* QQ Dancer: A black screen is no longer randomly experienced

# Feature Highlights
* Dual Graphics enhancements – new application profiles for DirectX 9 applications
- Supported Dual Graphics configurations:
> AMD Accelerated Processors for Desktop PCs
^ AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D (A10-5800K)
^ AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D (A10-5700)
^ AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D (A8-5600K)
^ AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D (A8-5500)
> Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processors
^ AMD Radeon™ HD 7660G (A10-4600M)
- AMD Accelerated Processors for Desktop PCs
> AMD Radeon™ HD 7660G (A10-4600M)
> AMD Radeon™ HD 7640G (A8-4500M)
> AMD Radeon™ HD 7520G (A6-4400M)
- New profiles have been added for the following titles:
> Diablo 3
> Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
> StarCraft 2
> Portal 2
> Call of Duty Modern Warfare
> Call of Duty Black Ops

# NEW FEATURES
* Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
* Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling 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)
* Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
* Texture filtering quality improvements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance
# Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
* Dirt 3: a system hang is no longer experienced when running game at maximum in game settings.
* Dragon Age 2: visual corruption is no longer observed.

# NEW FEATURES
* Full Support for AMD Radeon HD 7000 series of products
- now fully supports the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 series of products

# NEW FEATURES
* 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.
# IMPROVEMENTS
* 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.

# IMPROVEMENTS
* 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

# IMPROVEMENTS
* AMD OpenGL 4.2 production support
- AMD Catalyst 11.12 delivers official support for the OpenGL 4.2 specification
* AMD Eyefinity technology enhancements
- Enables support for AMD HD3D technology when using a 3x1 Landscape Eyefinity display group, on supported DisplayPort 3D monitors.
* AMD Vision Engine Control Center enhancements for Dual Graphics
- Improvements have been implemented to better facilitate the enabling and control of the Dual Graphics within the Vision Engine Control Center

# NEW FEATURES
* Adobe Flash Player 11 support
- Enables full support of the GPU accelerated Stage 3D API and Stage 3D applications
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD Series of GPUs, A-Series APU and E-Series APU

# New Features
* AMD Eyefinity enhancements
- Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations
- Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)
- Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.
# AMD VECC/CCC enhancements
* Improvements have been implemented to better facilitate the enabling and control of the following features within the Vision Engine Control Center / Catalyst Control Center
- AMD Overdrive for GPUs
- Information Center (software and hardware)
# Resolved Issues for the Windows XP
* An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
* Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.

# New Features:
* Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
# Resolved Issues for the Windows XP:
* Enemy Territory – Quake Wars no longer displays random screen corruption
* Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer hangs when attempting to play a BluRay disc.

# New Features
* AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
* CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs

# Performance Highlights
* Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

# Resolved Issues for the Windows XP
* PowerDVD no longer randomly displays a blank screen during video playback when switching from extended display mode to cloned display mode.