AMD Catalyst 11.8 Drivers Released
AMD released their latest graphics card drivers: Catalyst 11.8. As always, there are tons of new bug fixes and improvements and all of that. I’ll post some below, but you can read the release notes here and download the drivers here.
New Features:
- AMD Overdrive has been enhanced to include both CPU and GPU over-clocking controls within the AMD Vision Control Center
- CPU over-clocking is only supported on AMD Black edition CPUs
Resolved Windows 7 Issues
- The option to “Apply current video quality settings to internet video” is no longer randomly missing from the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center.
- 3DMark 11 no longer intermittently generates a BSOD error when run using a standard user account.
- Playing HD video content overnight using Windows Media Center no longer causes the system to hang or generates a BSOD error.
- Random graphical corruption is no longer experienced when playing Crysis 2 in a Crossfire environment.
- Image stabilization is now correctly applied to DivX clips when using Windows Media Player.
- Enabling AntiAliasing when playing Starcraft 2 no longer causes random screen blackouts.
- Video corruption is no longer seen when scrolling through DivX 5 video files using Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.
- Menu corruption is no longer seen when running F.E.A.R 3 in DirectX 11 mode.
- Video playback now functions correctly after enabling hardware acceleration in VLC version 1.1.10.