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AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite Version 12.1 Release Notes

Last Updated: 1/25/2012

Article Number: GPU-144

This article provides information on the latest posting of AMD’s software suite, AMD Catalyst™ 12.1. This particular software suite updates the AMD display driver and the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center. This unified driver has been updated to provide enhanced level of power,

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility:
AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6600 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6530D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6500 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6410D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6370D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6310D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6300 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6200 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5400 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 X2 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4670 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4650 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

AMD FireStream™ Product Families:
AMD FireStream™ 9350
AMD FireStream™ 9250
AMD FireStream™ 9270
AMD FireStream™ 9170

AMD Chipset Product Families:
ATI Radeon™ HD 4290
ATI Radeon™ HD 4250
ATI Radeon™ HD 4200 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3300 Series
ATI Radeon™ 3200 Series
ATI Radeon™ 3100 Series
ATI Radeon™ 3000 Series

AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility:
Catalyst™ Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. When used with Windows® Vista or Windows® 7, users may have unwanted experiences.
The Installation Verification Software will prevent driver download on certain notebook products. This is to protect against the installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacturer. If unwanted experiences occur while using Catalyst™ Mobility, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by your system vendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system vendor for the most recent drivers for your notebook.

AMD Mobility Product Families:
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6900M Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6800M Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6300M Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6300 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6200 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5800 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5400 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5100 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4800 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6620G Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6520G Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6480G Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6380G Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6310G Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 6250G Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4200 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4100 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3800 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3400 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3200 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3100 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2700 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2400 Series
ATI PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

• Any notebook launched after this driver release
• Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks.
• Toshiba® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Sony® VAIO® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Panasonic® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems
The latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows® platforms:

• Windows® 7 32-bit version
• Windows® 7 64-bit version
• Windows® Vista 32-bit version
• Windows® Vista 64-bit version
• Windows® XP Professional
• Windows® XP Home Edition
• Windows® XP Media Center Edition
• Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Windows® release includes:

IMPROVEMENTS

AMD HD3D technology support enhancement:
Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations
Delivers a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a connections - 1080p at 30Hz is now enabled on supported displays

AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles:
AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver enables users to create per application profiles to individually control 3D and CrossFireX settings for Direct3D applications
Please be sure to select the “Restore Factory Defaults” option under the Catalyst™ Control Center Preferences menu before using the new application profiles feature – this ensures there are no compatibility issues between previous drivers and the new AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver with regards to application profiles

AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Video UI improvements:
AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver includes user interface enhancements to simply adjustment of video color and video quality controls

RESOLVED ISSUES

Resolved Issues for the Windows® 7 Operating System:
The in-game mouse cursor no longer randomly disappears while playing Alien vs Predator.
Enemy Territory – Quake Ware will no longer experience intermittent crashes when in a 3 monitor Eyefinity™ configuration.
Water texture is now rendered correctly in Enemy Territory – Quake Wars
Dirt 2 does not exhibit stuttering when run in DirectX® 9 mode.
Playing Crysis 2 with in Crossfire mode no longer experiences random graphics corruption or game instability.
Random corruption and screen flicker is no longer observed while playing Dragon Age 2 with Tri-Crossfire enabled.
Lost Planet 2 no longer crashes after game launch when run in Crossfire mode.
Lost Planet 2 and Tom Clancy HAWX2 no longer experience random game hangs/black screens when run at high in game settings.
Water textures in World of Warcraft running in DirectX® 9 mode no longer appear corrupted.
The game “Rage” no longer experiences intermittent hangs when Crossfire is enabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows® Vista Operating System:
Ejecting the disc during Blu-Ray/DVD playback using WinDVD no longer causes the system to crash.
3D content playback using PowerDVD now correctly used hardware acceleration.
Poor performance is no longer randomly experience when playing World of Warcraft, Metro 2033 and Starcraft II at high in-game settings.
Medal of Honor now correctly displays all in game settings.

KNOWN ISSUES

Known issues under the Windows® 7 operating system:
Call of Duty 4 may experience corruption when run in DirectX® 9 mode and the Edge Detect filter is enabled.
Portal 2 may generate a black screen when launched in 3D stereo mode.
The Morphological filter settings may be missing in the Vision Control Center.
Civilization V may experience random game crashes.
Forced Anti-Aliasing may not be available when playing Enemy Territory – Quake Wars.
Call of Duty – Black Ops may experience a crash when run in Crossfire mode.
Battlefield 3 may crash when run at ultra settings.
Vsync may be disabled after task switching when playing Rage.
Launching Rage with Crossfire enabled may cause the application to hang.
Random flickering may be observed while playing Battlefield- Bad Company 2.
Saints Row III may hang randomly during gameplay.
Dragons Age 2 may experience random flickering when run in Tri Crossfire mode with Vsync enabled or when run in DirectX® 9 mode.
Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3 may experience flickering when run in Tri Crossfire mode.

Known Issues under the Windows® Vista Operating System:
Windows® Aero options may be missing after installing the latest driver.

Known Issues under the Windows® XP Operating System:
The mouse cursor may get corrupted if the “enable pointer shadow” option is unchecked.

Gracias por avisar.

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