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AMD has just released the Catalyst 12.6 Beta driver, which comes with a multitude of fixes and performance improvements for a great deal of games and applications. On top of this they have also released a Catalyst Feature Preview for Windows 8.
Not to mention adding support for the integrated GPU in AMD desktop and laptop APUs, such as the HD 7660D (A10-5700), HD 7560D (A8-5500), HD 7660G (A10-4600M), HD 7640 (A8 4500M) and HD 7520 (A6-4400M). The Catalyst 12.6 Beta Driver can be found here (http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst126beta.aspx).
Resolved Issues:
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire configurations + Eyefinity no longer results in a BSOD when launching a DirectX application
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations no longer results in a BSOD when using desktop applications
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 cards no longer hang when system goes to sleep
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Please ensure that your System BIOS is up to date – some occurrences of this issue are related to outdated SBIOS
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Resolves CrossFire scaling issues seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 with Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Catalyst Control Center – Overdrive page is no longer intermittently missing
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Catalyst Control Center – GPU Activity gauge is no longer missing
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – no longer results in system hang after cinematic in Call Of Duty: Black Ops
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode are no longer experienced.
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Dirt Showdown: Improves scaling for CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) HDMI audio is no longer disabled if the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.
AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta Dual Graphics Enhancements: Diablo 3
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) StarCraft 2
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Portal 2
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Call of Duty Modern Warfare
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Call of Duty Black Ops
AMD has also released the latest Catalyst Application Profile, Catalyst 12.6 Beta CAP1 which improves Crossfire scaling performance in Max Payne 3 in directX 11 mode as well as resolving the full screen flickering issue seen in Krater. Catalyst 12.6 Beta CAP1 can be found here (http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx).
The Windows 8 Catalyst Feature Preview brings some interesting changes and features that users may want to check out for themselves. The Windows 8 Catalyst Feature Preview can be found here (http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Windows8ConsumerPreviewDrivers.aspx).. Further Info on the drivers and their features can be found at the source.
Known issues found in the AMD Catalyst feature preview for Windows 8 (these issues will be resolved in the AMD production release for Windows 8:
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and the AMD Radeon HD 7700 performance in DirectX 9 applications may be slower under Windows 8 vs. Windows 7
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD CrossFireX configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and the AMD Radeon HD 7700 in DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 applications may be slower under Windows 8 vs. Windows 7
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) AMD CrossFireX configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and the AMD Radeon HD 7700 in OpenCL accelerated applications may cause a BSOD or system hang
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Blacklight Retribution (DirectX11 mode) played with a CrossFire configuration can result in a system crash when launching the application (32-bit OS only)
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2diglxt.jpg) Video corruption can be seen when playing back movie trailers with the Windows 8 Metro video player