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AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.4 Vista
Date added: April, 26th 2012 - (Freeware)
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What's new in this version:
# NEW FEATURES
* Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
* Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
- Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
* Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
* Texture filtering quality improvements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance
# Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
* Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: no longer hangs on single GPU configurations when used with AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 and later CAP releases
* Elder Scolls: Skyrim: flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
* Rage: Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
* Stalker – Call of Pripyat: flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
* Tom Clancy HAWX 2: no longer crashes on game launch.
* Windows Media Center: no longer crashes when run in Eyefinity mode and High Performance mode settings.
* AMD Steady Video: an error message is no longer displayed when enabling AMD Steady Video for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 plugin.
* Duplicating displays no longer generates random corruption.
* Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3x1 and 1x3 Eyefinity configurations.
* A system crash is no longer experienced when enabling Crossfire in a 4 display configuration.
* The advanced video quality settings are now correctly displayed in the Catalyst Control Center.
# Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
* The Catalyst Control Center now renders correctly when launched while playing a Bluray disc using WinDVD.

