F1 2011 upcoming Catalyst app profile will improve gameplay

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Andrew D AKA catalyst creator

revealed that the upcoming Application profile will improve crossfire X configurations.
http://twitter.com/#!/@catalystcreator

new WHQL driver update 11.9 will be there in the next few hours/days ?...

 

[Graham Laing]

It may not be the same improvement that you are talking about, but there is already a F1 2011 profile update (for single GPU users), in Catalyst 11.8 CAP 4 ..... the actual improvement was in CAP 3 and carried over into CAP 4

EDIT: Actually Catalyst 11.9 has now been released .... but the Profiles are 11.8 CAP 4 (I just checked after posting)

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 Windows release includes:
New Features:
· Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game.
• Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on some video cards.
• The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading :
  • Call of Duty – Black Ops
  • F1 2010
  • Dungeon Siege 3
• The following games no longer hang intermittently during gameplay:
  • Battlefield - Bad Company 2
  • Borderlands
  • Dead Rising 2
• The following games no longer hangs while running the benchmark :
  • Serious Sam 2
  • Resident Evil 5
  • HAWX 2
• HAWX 2 no longer displays random flashing black pixels
• Flashing pixel corruption is no longer experienced while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2
• The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors.
• Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX
• Video corruption is no longer observed while playing full screen HD WMV format files using PowerDVD with Windows Aero Mode turned off.
• Blank video playback is no longer observed when hardware accelerations is enabled in VLC 1.1.10
• Dawn of War II – Retribution no longer exhibits a black screen when alt-tabbing in and out of the game
• Random display corruption is no longer observed when playing WMV format files using Windows Media Player
• City of Heroes no longer experiences stuttering after excessive use if in-game Anti-Aliasing slider

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• The screen no longer goes black on when the Aero Desktop is enabled on some Radeon products.
• Lost Planet 2 no longer randomly crashes when running the benchmark

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System: This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows XP. These include:

• Enemy Territory – Quake Wars no longer displays random screen corruption
• Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer hangs when attempting to play a BluRay disc.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system:
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• The display may freeze after playing HD Videos over an extended period of time using Windows Media Center
• Random screen tearing may be observed while playing Portal 2
• Random screen corruption may be observed while playing Wolfenstein in multiplayer mode
• Random corruption may be experienced while playing Enemy Territory – Quake Wars
• Choppy playback may be experienced during playback of interlaced DVD content in full screen mode using PowerDVD 11

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System:
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

· Windows Aero options may not be available after installing the driver

 

[Miguel Gonzalez]

installed and got no increase in performance. Still 74 max 62 avg 1920x1080 mix of high/ultra settings vsync off and no msaa. i5 HD6950 single. crossfire performs worse.