AMD Catalyst 11.1 y Catalyst 11.1 Hotfix

AMD ha lanzado la primera entrega de este 2011 de sus controladores gráficos AMD Catalyst 11.1, con soporte para las tarjetas gráficas Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 series, además de los chipset de gráficos integrados Radeon 3000/4000. Esta entrega está enfocada en brindar algunas mejoras de rendimiento en ciertos juegos, pero por sobretodo corregir y solucionar varios problemas de funcionamiento en plataformas Windows. De esta misma forma AMD también ha liberado los AMD Catalyst 11.1 Hotfix (filtrados hace días), pero que ahora vienen en su versión oficial también con mejoras.

AMD Catalyst 11.1

This release contains the following performance enhancements:

• F1 2010:
  o Performance increases up to 12% on AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
  o Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
• Left 4 Dead 2:
  o Performance increases up to 17% on AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series single and Crossfire configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
  o Performance increases up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

Resolved Known Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.1 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• Aliens vs. Predator game no longer fails to load with quad Crossfire enabled..
• Text is no longer missing randomly in Nostradamus- The Last Prophecy demo.
• Graphical corruption is no longer seen occasionally in Nostradamus- The Last Prophecy demo.
• The Protoss Pylon Matrix is now rendered correctly in Starcraft 2.
• Task switching in Dirt2 with Vsync enabled no longer causes a dual link monitor to go black.
• System no longer crashes when enabling Crossfire with 2 monitors connected to the primary card and 2 monitors connected to the secondary card.
• List of supported TV resolutions now includes 1080p 24Hz (if supported by the TV display).
• Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer randomly exits when playing a blu-ray title with the “Aero-on” option enabled in the player.
• An error message is no longer intermittently displayed when viewing a slideshow using Windows Live Photo Gallery.
• Windows Media Player no longer displays a black screen when continuously playing several VC1 format files over a 4 hour period.
• “Host Application not responding” error message is no longer randomly displayed when launching the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center.

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AMD Catalyst™ Driver 11.1a Hotfix Features:

• Performance improvements for AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 & AMD Radeon HD 6800  series graphics cards
• AMD Catalyst Control Center – New Tessellation controls
  • Gives users control over the tessellation levels used in applications
• AMD Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
  • The High Quality setting remains unchanged: This setting provides reference quality filtering from AMD hardware
  • The Quality setting now matches the High Quality setting in all respects but one: it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere. This optimization offers a way to adjust filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
  • The Performance setting has also been updated. It now provides a smooth filtering option that is designed to eliminate most shimmering while preserving the detail provided by anisotropic filtering.

Enlaces para descarga: [AMD Catalyst 11.1] [AMD Castalyst 11.1 HotFix]
Notas de lanzamiento: [AMD Catalyst 11.1] [AMD Catalyst 11.1 Hotfix]