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AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5 released today.

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This AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5 features support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series.

Windows 7 support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series

Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements

Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive
Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the
Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements

Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
MLAA now operates up 80% faster than previous versions of MLAA
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Instructions:

Download and install the Driver from the following location:

AMD Catalyst™ Driver Version 8.95.5

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

Hardware

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 3000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series

Operating Systems

Windows® 7 64-bit Edition
 
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I don't quite undeerstand the line:
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Does this mean it's not supported in THIS very driver but will be in official 12.4 ?
I'm also confused by the Morphological AA text that says like it only works on HD7000 series and not anything below that. Very confusing changelog...
 
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I don't quite undeerstand the line:
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Does this mean it's not supported in THIS very driver but will be in official 12.4 ?
I'm also confused by the Morphological AA text that says like it only works on HD7000 series and not anything below that. Very confusing changelog...

Join the club. The AMD changelogs often apear to have been written by someone illiterate. I really do wish they could get some driver and written support that was as good as the hardware engineers they seem to have. :(

However, on a plus note, there are a lot of good reports from folk around forums on this driver, so I am looking forward to testing it tonight. :)
 
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Could you link to some threads?
 
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I have no clue if this driver already contains MLAA 2.0 or not. Hm, i can try but i wonder if i'll be able to separate the 1.0 and 2.0 just visually...
 
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These drivers cause me to CTD in SWTOR everytime even before the game loads. Rolled back drivers game works fine again.
 
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Ok, these drivers already include MLAA 2.0. The difference is quite noticeable. The text, GUI and chat text in Killing Floor is MUCH more readable now. Still not perfect but light years better than before. Gonna try NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 now...
 
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Looks like it's targeted at HD 7800 Series users.
Other series users should proceed with caution...
 
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Looks like it's targeted at HD 7800 Series users.
Other series users should proceed with caution...

No caution needed. I've been using these for two days with my 7970. They are posted up over at Guru3d and people are really liking these drivers from all series of cards. Green light to install them :)
 
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These have FINALLY fixed most of my trifire issues and Alan Wake and Skyrim finally work properly!!
 
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Here's hoping they put an end to the random flickers I get every 10-15 minutes! :(
 
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These are the best drivers since the Catalyst 10.10 which brought MLAA in the first place. Great speed and MLAA 2.0 is superb. I wish there was some kind of slider which could adjust the aggresiveness of the algorithm, because i sometimes have a feel that it could do better. But still, very good edge smoothing of all objects with much smaller impact on performance. And no text distortion and blurring. It's so minimal i was checking it twice if i even have MLAA 2.0 enabled.
 

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These drivers cause me to CTD in SWTOR everytime even before the game loads. Rolled back drivers game works fine again.

well send a report up then, less if the game ur running isnt fully patched
 
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Does this restore saints row 3 performance?
 
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I don't quite undeerstand the line:
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Does this mean it's not supported in THIS very driver but will be in official 12.4 ?
I'm also confused by the Morphological AA text that says like it only works on HD7000 series and not anything below that. Very confusing changelog...

The new Morph AA only works on 7XXX series.

This is an unofficial driver.

These supported features will be officially supported in 12.4


They are assuming you will read the rest of the text about this being a beta driver, unofficially supported "as is" and that you can draw the conclusion that features contained herein will not be supported until driver release 12.4
 
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I don't quite undeerstand the line:
To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Does this mean it's not supported in THIS very driver but will be in official 12.4 ?
I'm also confused by the Morphological AA text that says like it only works on HD7000 series and not anything below that. Very confusing changelog...
What that means is that don't go yelling at AMD if something goes wrong with these drivers ;)
 
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The new Morph AA only works on 7XXX series.

This is an unofficial driver.

These supported features will be officially supported in 12.4


They are assuming you will read the rest of the text about this being a beta driver, unofficially supported "as is" and that you can draw the conclusion that features contained herein will not be supported until driver release 12.4


Not true, because i can clearly see that MLAA 2.0 is working on my HD6950...
 
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Not true, because i can clearly see that MLAA 2.0 is working on my HD6950...

I going to try tonight on my 6950. But this brings up a question I've had.

Is there a tool to show what settings a GPU is using? In other words, validate what is set in CCC?
 
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No caution needed. I've been using these for two days with my 7970. They are posted up over at Guru3d and people are really liking these drivers from all series of cards. Green light to install them :)

I am installing this driver, is it a pre-release of the new 12.4? or just the same version just not WHQL'd?
 
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Actually the driver in this thread is actually newer than the 12.3 WHQL... Because the 12.3 WHQL doesn't (yet) sport the MLAA 2.0 and other newer goodies.
 
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