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ATI Catalyst 7.12 Drivers |
Avivo Update
Catalyst 7.12 introduces an Avivo update. The update allows the ATI
Catalyst Control Center to reflect what is supported by the driver
taking into account the graphics card installed in the system, and will
not expose any video features that is not supported by the driver. The
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) driver will perform a profiling
mechanism to query the graphics capability and the Catalyst Control
Center queries the caps via the interface defined between the Catalyst
Control Center and the DXVA components. This feature will be supported
on ATI Radeon 9500 series products and above.
Enhanced ATI OverDrive support for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series
This release of Catalyst introduces an enhanced version of ATI
OverDrive for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series. Users can now Overclock
both GPU engine and graphics memory clock speeds in CrossFire mode (and
over-clock single ATI Radeon graphics accelerators as well). This
version of ATI Overdrive also
Performance Improvements
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.12:
3DMark2005 performance improves 5% or more with largest gains noticed
when Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are disabled on systems
containing either an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of
products
Company of Heroes DX10 performance improves up to 5% on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD38x0 series of product
Catalyst 7.12 Windows XP and Vista Driver
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