Catalyst 8.2 disponibili per il download

AMD ha reso disponibili per il download i nuovi driver Catalyst 8.2, da utilizzare in abbinamento a schede video della serie ATI Radeon. AMD ha implementato varie ottimizzazioni, sia di compatibilità che prestazionali, con questi nuovi driver; la piena compatibilità con configurazioni CrossfireX con 3 o 4 GPU operanti in parallelo verrà resa disponibile con la prossima revision di driver Catalyst, 8.3, attesa al debutto nel corso del mese di Marzo.

Di seguito i link per il download delle versioni per i sistemi operativi Windows Vista e Windows XP, sia a 32bit che a 64bit.

Catalyst 8.2 Windows Vista 32bit

Catalyst 8.2 Windows Vista 64bit

Catalyst 8.2 Windows XP 32bit

Catalyst 8.2 Windows XP 64bit

Di seguito le principali novità introdotte in questi driver:

Performance improvements

• Company of Heroes: DirectX 10 performance improves as much as 20% on the ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series of products.   DirectX 10 performance improves as much as 30% on CrossFire configurations using the ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series or ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series of products

Resolved Issue highlights:

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels.
• World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode.
• Doom3: Running an OpenGL application with CrossFire™ enabled and AA set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when the display resolution is set to 2048x1536 or higher.
• TianXia2: Launching the game no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting.
• .NET Framework an Unhandled Exception error no longer occurs when upon booting or re-booting the system.
• A white dot no longer appears on the windows desktop when launching the Catalyst Control Center. However, this issue may still be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
• Audio stutter is no longer noticed when using the HDMI connector.
• The Catalyst Control Center options are no longer missing for the secondary extended display when hot unplugging and hot plugging the display device.
• Native CrossFire™ can now be enabled when the primary display device is connected to the master card using a CV or TV.

Queste le note fornite a corredo con la versione di driver Catalyst 8.2 per sistemi oeprativi Linux: 

Resolved Issues

• The Xserver no longer crashes if the screen resolution is changed in horizontal or vertical desktop setup with a monitor that does not support DDC.
• The Xserver no longer segfaults or fails to initialize DRI if a BusID was specified in an unexpected format in xorg.conf.
• The Xserver no longer freezes on shutdown if atieventsd is running.
• The first OpenGL application run after starting a session on Xserver version 1.4 no longer hangs.

Tutte le note rilasciate da AMD assieme ai driver Catalyst 8.2 sono disponibili online a questo indirizzo.