AMD rolls out Catalyst 12.6 Beta

Fresh drivers are usually nice, especially when performance gets a push in the right direction. The new Catalyst 12.6 Beta works with all Radeon cards down to the HD 5000 series, with both bug and performance fixes on the menu.

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1 Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta

2 Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta

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The change log reveals, among other things, solved blue screen problems at Crossfire combined with Eyefinity, and fixes stability problems in games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Crysis 2. AMD also takes the opportunity to improve Crossfire scaling in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which deteriorated significantly with Catalyst 12.4.

New is also that AMD confirms previous information regarding the launch model for the Catalyst software. Where the company previously invested in updated drivers every month, the packages will instead be released when needed, combined with beta and test versions for the more experimental.

With the release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta driver (“Catalyst”), AMD would also like to announce that we are moving away from our Monthly Catalyst release plan. Our goal is to ensure that every Catalyst release delivers a substantial benefit to our end users; as we have today with the release of the Catalyst 12.6a Beta.

Catalyst 12.6 Beta can be downloaded from AMD’s website for Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP and Linux.

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Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire™ configurations + Eyefinity BSOD when launching a DirectX application.
AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations BSOD when using desktop applications.
AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 cards hang when system goes to sleep.
Tearing on Eyefinity configurations when different display connector types are used.
Poor Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire scaling seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 (back to CrossFire scaling found in AMD Catalyst 12.3).
AMD Catalyst Control Center – intermittently missing Overdrive page.
AMD Catalyst Control Center – missing GPU Activity gauge.
AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – system hang after cinematic in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Crysis 2 -random system hangs when run in DirectX 9 mode.
Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode.
Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.