AMD Catalyst 12.6 BETA (8.97.100.3 July 3) Legacy Driver

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AMD has moved to the AMD Radeon™ HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series new driver support model. These updates will focus on resolving application specific issues and critical updates. The reason for the shift in support policy is largely due to the fact that the AMD Radeon HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series have been optimized to their maximum potential from a performance and feature perspective.

CERT recently approached AMD with information pertaining to what they believed to be a possible video driver vulnerability exposed by non-default settings of the Microsoft® Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). EMET is a security test tool that allows system administrators to create test conditions to validate correct behavior of system components or indicate potential weak points. The presence of an issue does not necessarily mean that this issue can be exploited in regular operation of a system. The default safety settings of the EMET do not cause the issue in question to occur.

The AMD Catalyst 12.6 beta driver for the AMD Radeon HD 2000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series is designed to resolve a possible video driver vulnerability issue and to minimize the occurrence of system crashes.

Build Info:
DriverVer=07/03/2012, 8.970.100.3000
8.97.100.3-120703a-142008E-ATI

 

[ViRGE]

Link to AMD Page: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx

And isn't Catalyst 12.6 version 8.98? So this is out of sync with the "real" 12.6, and sounds more like the aborted Catalyst 12.5, which makes sense since 12.5 was going to be the last regular Catalyst release supporting their DX10 GPUs anyhow. On that note, $5 says they never release a real WHQL version.

 

[Red Hawk]

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Catalyst 12.4b Hotfix Driver
Catalyst 12.6 Beta Driver

And it's important to note that this isn't a "legacy" support model like the Radeon X1000 series and earlier are on. The Radeon HD 4000, 3000, and 2000 will still get bug fixes and feature updates, they just won't be updated so frequently and will not be receiving optimizations.

 

[Final8ty]

The link's not working because you're not linking to the right page.

Catalyst 12.4b Hotfix Driver
Catalyst 12.6 Beta Driver

And it's important to note that this isn't a "legacy" support model like the Radeon X1000 series and earlier are on. The Radeon HD 4000, 3000, and 2000 will still get bug fixes and feature updates, they just won't be updated so frequently and will not be receiving optimizations.

Nope, the servers are down, your links wont work either if you try to download..

 

[Final8ty]

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