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Old Sep 26, 2011, 10:26 PM   #1
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AMD Radeon Gets Battlefield 3 Ready, Too

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
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Old Sep 26, 2011, 10:27 PM   #2
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Good to see, wonder how many things they will break with these drivers.
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The proper installer isn't up yet.
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Old Sep 26, 2011, 10:33 PM   #4
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Geez, I was just about to post this, BTA is on the ball!
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Only 23.5Mb? Well, I'll see what happens.

*Doesn't work.
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Old Sep 26, 2011, 11:07 PM   #6
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Only 23.5Mb? Well, I'll see what happens.
Driver only, no CCC or anything else?
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Driver only, no CCC or anything else?
No, it's an incomplete file.
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Old Sep 26, 2011, 11:11 PM   #8
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No, it's an incomplete file.
shucks. Oh well. I won't use beta drivers or hotfixes, so didn't bother to download.
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i didnt have a problem with 11.7 in alpha will be nice to see how much of a boost these give
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I wish they'd release the darn Cat 11.9 WHQL instead...
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Old Sep 26, 2011, 11:21 PM   #11
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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/#!/CatalystCreat...37636317777920
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Like erocker said, Its an incomplete file and was not compiled correctly. why would AMD release this without testing?
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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?

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I hope this update helps us 5000 series users due to the requirements for BF3
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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...
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just in time for the HD6950 ill be getting soon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't wait for this beta I will get to see what my crossfire can do with one of the newest games
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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
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Did they do one for their mobile graphics cards as well?

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
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AFAIK mobile GPUs are only WHQL only
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It's live now.

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

There's a megaupload link in the second tweet.
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Downloading now. Thanks for the heads up.


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

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