AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 11.4 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 ATI Catalyst Drivers 11.4 Vista
File Size:: 56.2 MB
Requirements:: Windows Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 28 Apr 2011
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: BB202966C7C6DE5815E524A81DA78EC0

# New Features:
* Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD Catalyst Control Center
- New task based Display Management controls
> Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings
- New Eyefinity setup group
> Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier
- AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)
> This feature notifies users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available
* GPU Compute enhancements:
- The OpenCL runtime (included in AMD Catalyst 11.4) includes performance enhancements supporting zero-copy on APUs and increased performance for PCIe transfers between a CPU and discrete GPU.
* Performance Enhancements
A number of performance enhancements are seen with the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
- Call of Duty Black Ops gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single GPU configurations.
- Battleforge gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Batman Arkham Asylum gains of up to 20% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Aliens vs. Predator gains of up to 8% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Civilization 5 gains of up to 15% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Far Cry 2 gains of up to 6% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Just Cause 2 gains of up to 9% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Lost Planet 2 gains of up to 10% on single and multiple GPU configurations.

# Windows Vista
* Mpeg2 video clips now use hardware acceleration when played using Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center.
* Adding bezel compensation to a 2x1 Eyefinity configuration no longer causes both displays to blank out.
* The Catalyst Control Center screen no longer flickers while adjusting screen brightness.

# Windows 7
* The GPU no longer shows high GPU usage after running Firefox 4 with hardware acceleration enabled.
* Bioshock no longer displays random tearing and screen corruption with Vsync and MLAA enabled.
* Water textures no longer flicker in Two Worlds II in Crossfire mode.
* Bulletstorm lightshafts no longer appear broken when running on a HD 6970 series product.
* Bulletstorm no longer displays random texture corruption when running in Crossfire mode.
* FI 2010 no longer slows down intermittently when in Crossfire mode.
* PowerDVD no longer crashes if Crossfire is enabled / disabled during playback of a BD title.
* WinDVD no longer displays corrupted BD playback when the monitor is rotated to portrait mode.
* Crysis Warhead corruption is no longer randomly observed when launching the game.
* Running the Heaven benchmark no longer displays graphics corruption during DirectX 11 tests.
* Catalyst Control Center Avivo settings are now correctly displayed after connecting a secondary display.
* The Catalyst Control Center screen no longer flickers while adjusting screen brightness.