AMD 11.3 Catalyst Drivers

New AMD 11.3 Catalyst drivers (release notes) are now out. Here are the links to Windows 7 / Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 / Vista 64-bit, WinXP 32-bit, and WinXP 64-bit. The Catalyst 11.3 packs various fixes but brings only one new features, the AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime which is enabled and helps boost performance of OpenCL-supporting applications.Grab them if you need them. This release of ATI Catalyst also delivers support for the latest ATI CrossFireX profiles in a separate executable file ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC. New profiles added to this release:
- Crysis 2 - Improves CrossFire performance
- Dungeons - Improves CrossFire performance with forced on Anti-Aliasing
- Crasher - Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center has been disabled
- Shogun 2 (DX9 version) - Improves CrossFire performance
- America's Army 3 - Improves CrossFire performance
- Flatout: Ultimate Carnage - Improves CrossFire performance
Other than that, AMD advertised its next Catalyst release, which is now just a 'Preview' driver (not WHQL-signed, use isn't covered under warranties). The Catalyst 11.4 Preview comes with a much larger changelog, which is listed below: Changelog of Catalyst 11.4 Preview
A number of performance optimizations, as highlighted here.
Performance enhancement for Shogun 2 (DX11 version) when running Anti-Aliasing
Includes enhancements to the AMD Catalyst Control Center
o New task based Display Management controls
- Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings
o New Eyefinity setup group
- Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier
o New branding (based on system configuration)
- AMD based platform � AMD VISION Engine Control Center
- Discrete AMD GPU with Intel CPU � AMD Catalyst Control Center�
o AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)
- Please note this functionality is not yet enabled, but will be in a future AMD Catalyst release
- This feature will be used to notify users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available
Includes fixes where Dragon Age 2 would hang in DirectX11 on ATI Radeon� HD 5800 Series products.
Includes fixes where MediaEspresso 6.5 and 6.0 may crash while initializing
Includes a fix for game corruption issues in BulletStorm
Includes a fix for the AMD Catalyst Control Center install; resolves the issue of not being able to launch CCC after Catalyst has finished installing
Includes a fix for the Tessellation slider sometimes setting the incorrect value
AMD Catalyst 11.4 Preview can be downloaded from here.