AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.4 Vista

AMD Inc - (Freeware)

AMD Catalyst Drivers is a smart choice for those that want to improve their PC performance while increasing overall stability.

AMD Catalyst Drivers includes the latest 32-bit AMD (ATI) for the graphics card and panel Catalyst Control Center.

The AMD driver provides a gain of performance in several 3D applications thus ensuring an optimal experience. The panel Catalyst Control Center provides quick access to all parameters relating to AMD hardware offering multimedia features, management and display game.

There are different versions of AMD drivers for each operating system.

Title:: AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.4 Vista
File Size:: 110.3 MB
Requirements:: Windows Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 26 Apr 2012
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: 43A6A3982DB63A81C9181866EA4303E3

# 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 7 Operating System
* Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: no longer hangs on single GPU configurations when used with AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 and later CAP releases
* Elder Scolls: Skyrim: flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
* Rage: Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
* Stalker Call of Pripyat: flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
* Tom Clancy HAWX 2: no longer crashes on game launch.
* Windows Media Center: no longer crashes when run in Eyefinity mode and High Performance mode settings.
* AMD Steady Video: an error message is no longer displayed when enabling AMD Steady Video for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 plugin.
* Duplicating displays no longer generates random corruption.
* Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3x1 and 1x3 Eyefinity configurations.
* A system crash is no longer experienced when enabling Crossfire in a 4 display configuration.
* The advanced video quality settings are now correctly displayed in the Catalyst Control Center.
# Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
* The Catalyst Control Center now renders correctly when launched while playing a Bluray disc using WinDVD.