Friday, November 12th 2010
AMD Releases Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix Driver Update
AMD released the fifth hotfix update for Catalyst 10.10 WHQL. Catalyst 10.10e, like Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix, packs a number of game-specific performance improvements, and extends MLAA (morphological anti-aliasing) support introduced by Catalyst 10.10d Hotfix, to all Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs. The new Catalyst AI controls in control center are extended to Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, these were previously available only to users of Radeon HD 6800 series. Support for new stereoscopic 3D capable hardware was also added.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix Update
A detailed list of changes follows.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix Update
A detailed list of changes follows.
- The AMD Catalyst Control Center now features the new AMD Catalyst AI user interface options on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series (the new AMD Catalyst AI options were previously only available for the AMD Radeon 6800 Series)"
- Fixed cases where Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) was not being correctly applied to games (very intermittently)
- OpenGL 4.1 beta support
- Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
- Dead Rising 2 - Crossfire profile (Resolves negative scaling)
- Crossfire Performance Improvement for:
o Metro 2033
o F1 2011 - (Direct X9 version)
o Fallout New Vegas - Performance optimizations for systems with an AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 series of graphics products installed
o Aliens versus Predator performance enhancements
o Star Craft 2 performance enhancements
o OpenGL performance enhancements - gains can be seen in Prey, Quake Wars: Enemy Territories, and Heaven v2 - Support for additional Stereo 3D-capable displays:
o Viewsonic V3D241wm-LED
o 3D Projectors
107 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix Driver Update
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MLAA totally blurs some applications like Windows Live Messenger making it almost impossible to read
then again, my MSN works fine with no blurring... but internet explorer looks like fuzzy ass XD
short version: it works, but AMD needs to come up with methods to make it NOT enable on things that aint games.
edit:
megaupload link to a video from my phone... its poor quality, but you can see the blur as it moves with the mouse.
But there is always some negitive people when you try and when you don't which is the same ol story..
Seems to me their doing their dam best to keep the performance of there cards as high as possible. And lets face it you don't have to install it if ya don't need it\want to..
This is actually easily solvable. All you need is a black list. Then AMD can just add process names of the applications to exclude on this list. Or even better, also add option for users to manually exclude it. This way you'll just add "iexplore.exe" to the exclusion list and you're done. No more MLAA for process iexplore.exe. Same could be done for every other application.
How about a inclusion list. Or when something other than common named items launch fullscreen 3D mode.
When the first Hotfix was released the day after the diver I said "I'm sorry but this is just so much damn fail." Erocker chimed in and said "Why don't you just say that for all your posts". SO I put it in my signature that way it would be in all my posts. Just being a smart ass ya know?
Anyway I don't mind hot fixes. What I hate is when they let a driver go and the VERY NEXT DAY they have a hot fix. At least give me a few days with the first one :laugh:
All in all its great they care this much to fix things.
That said, I agree that it's funny that the hotfix goes the next day after the official driver... :toast:
Do I first need to download 10.10 before I install 10.10e? Or can I just go ahead and do so?
This is a 5th version of the 10th driver this year and the versions had a lot more additions and bonuses then actual fixed.