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AMD Catalyst Software Suite Version 12.10 Release Notes*

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Last Updated

10/22/2012* *

Article Number

GPU-179*

This article provides information on the latest posting of AMD’s software suite, AMD Catalyst™12.10. This particular software suite updates the AMD display driver and the AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center. This unified driver has been updated and is designed to provide enhanced performance and reliability.

Package Content*

The AMD Catalyst software suite 12.10 contains the following:

AMD display driver version 9.002

HydraVision™ for Windows Vista® and Windows® 7

Southbridge/ IXP Driver

AMD Catalyst Control Center version 9.002/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 9.002*

Caution!

The AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center requires that the Microsoft® .NET Framework SP1 be installed for Windows Vista. Without .NET SP1 installed, the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center will not launch properly and the user will see an error message.

Notes.*

When installing the AMD Catalyst driver for Windows operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst driver.

The Catalyst driver requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.

These release notes provide information on the AMD display driver only. For information on the ATI Multimedia Center™, HydraVision, HydraVision Basic Edition, Remote Wonder™, or the Southbridge/IXP driver, please refer to their respective release notes found at: http://support.amd.com/.

AMD Eyefinity technology is designed to give gamers access to high display resolutions. As pixel count grows, the graphics “horsepower” required to drive the displays at a reasonable frame rate can increase dramatically. Depending on the game and system configuration, users may notice texture corruption and reduced frame rates when running games in multi-monitor Eyefinity modes.

Windows Driver Model (WDM) drivers are no longer bundled in the AMD Catalyst software suite. The WDM drivers install bundle can be downloaded independently through the AMD website*

AMD Product Compatibility*

The AMD Catalyst driver is compatible with the following AMD products.*

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6500 Series

AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6410D Series

AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6370D Series

AMD Radeon HD 7660D Series

AMD Radeon HD 6310D Series

AMD Radeon HD 7560D Series

AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series

AMD Radeon HD 7300 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6200 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6550D Series

ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6530D Series

ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series

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AMD FireStream™ Product Families

AMD FireStream™ 9350

AMD FireStream 9250

AMD FireStream 9270

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility*

AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised.

The Installation Verification Software is designed to prevent driver download on certain notebook products. This is to protect against the installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacturer. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. In such a situation, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by your system vendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system vendor for the most recent drivers for your notebook.**

AMD Mobility Product Families

AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 7000M Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 5400 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6900M Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 5100 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6800M Series

AMD Radeon HD 6620G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 6300M Series

AMD Radeon HD 6520G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 6300 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6480G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 6200 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6380G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 5800 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6310G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 5700 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6250G Series

AMD Mobility *Radeon HD 5600 Series

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AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks

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using AMD chipsets

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The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

Any notebook launched after this driver release

Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems

The latest version of the AMD Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms:

Windows 8 32-bit version

Windows 8 64-bit version

Windows 7 32-bit version

Windows 7 64-bit version

Windows Vista 32-bit version

Windows Vista 64-bit version

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FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.10 DRIVER:

AMD Catalyst 12.10 – Ready for Windows 8

For AMD Radeon™ HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series users, Microsoft® has certified today’s AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 release as “compatible with Windows 8.” With this driver, these products offer full support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has developed to ensure smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.

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 supported applications.

Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices

Improved sleep/resume performance

Optimized GPU power consumption

Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:

AMD Eyefinity technology

OpenCL™

OpenGL

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)

AMD Dual Graphics

AMD CrossFire technology

AMD Overdrive

AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center

AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro™ Technology

AMD Catalyst Mobility now*includes support for AMD Enduro™ Technology.** AMD Enduro Technology is currently supported on all notebook Intel® IvyBridge platforms and AMD Comal platforms that support the AMD Radeon HD 7900M, 7800M, 7700M – additional products will be supported in future Catalyst releases.”

AMD Enduro™ Technology for Notebooks delivers:

Unbeatable battery life

GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps

A Seamless and automatic experience

New Enduro™ Technology features found in Catalyst 12.10:

Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface

View all profiled applications

View recently run applications

Profile applications based on power source

Expert mode control and customization

Performance centric AC

Battery centric DC

RESOLVED ISSUES*

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst12.10 software suite.

*Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 Operating System

Enemy Territory Quake Wars performance affected when run at high resolutions

Wolfenstien performance affected when run at high resolutions

System hangs when disabling Eyefinity

World of Warcraft – Mists of Pandaria experiences graphical corruption when anti-aliasing is forced to 2X or higher

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

F1 2011 : Vehicle textures flicker when game is run at low settings

Dirt Showdown : Flickering seen when benchmark is run in DirectX 11 mode

Battlefield – Bad Company 2 : Flickering textures seen in AMD CrossFire mode

Alan Wake – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity enabled

Portal 2 – Freezes when run in DirectX 9 mode with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled

KNOWN ISSUES

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 12.10 software suite.

Known issues under the Windows 8 operating system

AMD Eyefinity portrait resolutions may not apply correctly when AMD CrossFire is enabled

Known issues under the Windows 7operating system

Serious Sam 3 may crash when AMD CrossFire and Eyefinity are enabled

May Payne 3 may experience flickering and ghosting when in DirectX 9 mode with Anti Aliasing enabled*

Installing the AMD Catalyst*Software Driver

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