AMD Radeon Gets Battlefield 3 Ready, Too

Monday, September 26 2011

Just hours after NVIDIA released its Battlefield 3 optimised GeForce driver suite, AMD is ready with a similar piece of software of its own, the AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview. Preview drivers are essentially BETA hotfix drivers. The new Catalyst software suite makes your ATI/AMD Radeon graphics card (that meets minimum/recommended requirements) optimized for Battlefield3. Its changelog follows:

Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series for single GPU configurations
Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the CrossfireX, GPU Overdrive, and Information Center pages.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview Driver Suite

posted by btarunr - 11:26 PM | Related News |

User comments

by [H]@RD5TUFF (September 26th - 11:27 PM) - Reply

Good to see, wonder how many things they will break with these drivers.

by rpsgc (September 26th - 11:30 PM) - Reply

The proper installer isn't up yet.

by cadaveca (September 26th - 11:33 PM) - Reply

Geez, I was just about to post this, BTA is on the ball!

by erocker (September 27th - 12:06 AM) - Reply

Only 23.5Mb? Well, I'll see what happens.

*Doesn't work.

by cadaveca (September 27th - 12:07 AM) - Reply

by: erocker
Only 23.5Mb? Well, I'll see what happens.

Driver only, no CCC or anything else?

by erocker (September 27th - 12:09 AM) - Reply

by: cadaveca
Driver only, no CCC or anything else?

No, it's an incomplete file.

by cadaveca (September 27th - 12:11 AM) - Reply

by: erocker
No, it's an incomplete file.

shucks. Oh well. I won't use beta drivers or hotfixes, so didn't bother to download.

by bbmarley (September 27th - 12:16 AM) - Reply

i didnt have a problem with 11.7 in alpha will be nice to see how much of a boost these give

by RejZoR (September 27th - 12:18 AM) - Reply

I wish they'd release the darn Cat 11.9 WHQL instead...

by erocker (September 27th - 12:21 AM) - Reply

by: RejZoR
I wish they'd release the darn Cat 11.9 WHQL instead...

Tomorrow or Wednsday most likely.

As far as these drivers go, it will be an hour or two yet. https://twitter.com/#!/CatalystCreator/status/118437636317777920

by brandonwh64 (September 27th - 12:34 AM) - Reply

Like erocker said, Its an incomplete file and was not compiled correctly. why would AMD release this without testing?

by cadaveca (September 27th - 12:35 AM) - Reply

Probably setup the webpage first, put a random file there as a placeholder so they could confirm it worked right, and overzealous users found it first?

Or they just suck?

:laugh:

by brandonwh64 (September 27th - 12:37 AM) - Reply

I hope this update helps us 5000 series users due to the requirements for BF3

by Jegergrim (September 27th - 12:44 AM) - Reply

I wonder how significant the driver will be though, doesn't show any scale/percentages... it could be all from 0.5 in some cards to the mighty 30% invidia...

by nvidiaintelftw (September 27th - 12:46 AM) - Reply

just in time for the HD6950 ill be getting soon

by erocker (September 27th - 1:19 AM) - Reply

by: Jegergrim
I wonder how significant the driver will be though, doesn't show any scale/percentages... it could be all from 0.5 in some cards to the mighty 30% invidia...

This is a Battlefied 3 driver. Not sure what you're going on about. :ohwell:

by The Von Matrices (September 27th - 1:27 AM) - Reply

I can't wait to see someone do a 5x1 array of 16:9 landscape monitors. You probably couldn't even see the outermost monitors it would be so wide.

by mab1376 (September 27th - 2:34 AM) - Reply

by: brandonwh64
I hope this update helps us 5000 series users due to the requirements for BF3

I was just planning on getting a second one :)

now if the download for this worked.

by Darkleoco (September 27th - 2:54 AM) - Reply

I can't wait for this beta I will get to see what my crossfire can do with one of the newest games :D

by n-ster (September 27th - 3:25 AM) - Reply

by: The Von Matrices
I can't wait to see someone do a 5x1 array of 16:9 landscape monitors. You probably couldn't even see the outermost monitors it would be so wide.

Yes but this driver does Portrait as well

by coldtortilla (September 27th - 5:42 AM) - Reply

My 6850 is being shipped and the only dedicated gpu I have is in my notebook, so I was wondering if they did the same for HD 6630M because that's all I got right now

by n-ster (September 27th - 6:45 AM) - Reply

AFAIK mobile GPUs are only WHQL only

by Damn_Smooth (September 27th - 6:52 AM) - Reply

It's live now.

https://twitter.com/#!/CatalystMaker

There's a megaupload link in the second tweet.

by Volkszorn88 (September 27th - 7:00 AM) - Reply

Downloading now. Thanks for the heads up.

Edit: Oooooooh I like the new CCC UI. A lot easier for Crossfire users.

by TheOnlyHero (September 27th - 10:12 AM) - Reply

AGAIN no optimisation for 4000series :banghead: Thank you AMD for the discrimination , next time when i chose a new card i will remember that backstab from you!!!:mad:

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