AMD Releases Catalyst 11.11a Driver Suite

November 23, 2011 · by John Ponio

You’ve got to give AMD some credit for staying on top of support for their video cards. But holy cow are they releasing a lot of drivers. It seems like every week there is a new update. The latest is Catalyst 11.11a, and it increases performance yet again in three major titles: *Rage, Elder Scrolls Skyrim,*and Battlefield 3. Improvements will follow, but you can read the release notes and download the drivers here. This is for Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series videocards.

Improvements:

Batman Arkham City

Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations

Rage

Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:

Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance

Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.

Fix issue with extreme corruption with missing textures on 32bit systems.

Fix memory leaks when deleting/reusing sync objects.

Fix hitching and pausing, especially noticeable on some Quad Core systems when doing races and Stanley Express runs.

Fix some missing shadows

Elder Scrolls Skyrim

Improves performance 2-7% on single GPU configurations
Resolve corruption seen when enabling Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 Series
Disables CrossFireX (to resolve negative scaling and image quality issues seen when CrossFireX is enabled)

AMD is continuing to work on a CrossFireX solution for Skyrim – as soon as it’s ready we’ll make it publicly available

Battlefield 3

Resolves intermittent corruption seen when playing the game at specific camera angles