AMD Catalyst™ 11.6 WHQL

AMD Catalyst 11.6 updates both the AMD display driver, and the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center. This unified driver has been updated to provide enhanced level of power, performance, and reliability.

The AMD Catalyst software suite / AMD Vision Engine Control Center 11.6 contains the following:

• AMD display driver version 8.861


• HydraVision™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7


• Southbridge/IXP Driver


• AMD Catalyst™ Control Center version 8.861 / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center version 8.861.

Nvidia Forceware 275.33 WHQL

This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.

AMD Catalyst™ 11.5b hotfix

AMD was a little too early in May with its monthly Catalyst driver release, with the Catalyst 11.5 WHQL reaching the web as early as 9th May (usually monthly Catalyst updates are released after the 24th). On the same time, AMD also released its first hotfix update for the Catalyst 11.5, the 11.5a Hotfix Update, which packed a number of game-specific performance improvements. Today, AMD released its second update for this month, Catalyst 11.5b Hotfix.

AMD Catalyst™ 11.5

This particular software suite updates both the AMD display driver, and the AMD Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been updated to provide enhanced level of power, performance, and reliability.

Package Content
The AMD Catalyst software suite 11.5 contains the following:

• AMD display driver version 8.85


• HydraVision™ for Windows® XP, Windows Vista® and Windows 7


• Southbridge/IXP Driver


• AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.85

Nvidia Forceware 270.61 WHQL

This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.

New in Release 270.61

GPU Support

• Adds support for the newly released GeForce GTX 590, GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPUs.

Nvidia Forceware 266.58 WHQL

Performance

• Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. the latest Release 260 drivers. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 580:

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  • Up to 7% in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  • Up to 12% in Battleforge (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Very High)
  
  
  • Up to 11% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  • Up to 7% in Dirt 2 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  • Up to 7% in Far Cry 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  • Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Dark Tower)
  
  
  • Up to 5% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  • Up to 9% in Stone Giant (SLI 1920x1200, DOF on)
  
  
  • Up to 8% in Unigine Heaven v2.1 (SLI 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
  
  
  
  

• Improves performance in Final Fantasy XI on GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs.

AMD Catalyst™ 11.4 WHQL

This particular software suite updates both the AMD display driver, and the AMD Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been updated to provide enhanced level of power, performance, and reliability.

The AMD Catalyst software suite 11.4 contains the following:

• AMD display driver version 8.841


• AMD HydraVision for Windows® XP, Windows Vista® and Windows 7


• Southbridge / IXP Driver


• AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.841

AMD Catalyst™ 11.3 WHQL

AMD Catalyst™ 11.3 is particular software suite updates both the AMD display driver, and the AMD Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been updated to provide enhanced level of power, performance, and reliability.

New Features:

Seamless GPU Compute support

• The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst.  Applications that leverage OpenCL for GPU based compute tasks will automatically benefit from the significant performance boost that this provides.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.3 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• 3D BluRay playback no longer displays random frame loss.


• The 8x Anti-Aliasing is now correctly listed in some OpenGL applications.


• System no longer shows laggy performance when playing 720P WMV video files.


• Tearing is no longer randomly observed when playing Bioshock with Vsync and MLAA enabled.