AMD Releases Catalyst 10.10 and 10.10a hotfix driver

[Skurge]

www.amd.com

AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite Version 10.10 Release Notes

New Features

Introduction of AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing ("APP") technology Edition
There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
1. AMD Catalyst (comparable to prior versions in features and components) – currently includes the Direct3D®, OpenGL®, display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components
2. AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (“APP”) technology Edition – AMD Catalyst plus the OpenCL driver
Users can still obtain the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will also include the OpenCL driver as well)

Video accleration for WMV HD® video content
- This release of AMD Catalyst provides video acceleration support for WMV HD® (Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
- Compatible with the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls
- This release of AMD Catalyst enhances the Dynamic Contrast setting found in the Catalyst Control Center by adding histogram based detection

Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology

Blu-ray 3D Support
-This release of AMD Catalyst enables Blu-ray 3D™ playback
- Requirements include Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- Compatible with the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

Stereo 3D Gaming Compatibility
-This release of AMD Catalyst enables Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD™) and iZ3D™
- Requirements include 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

More information on AMD HD3D Technology, including Stereo 3D Conversion Software and a list of supported displays, can be found at http://www.amd.com/hd3d

Catalyst™ Application Profiles
The following application profiles are available with this release of AMD Catalyst 10.10:
- Multiplayer Medal of Honor™ (DirectX® 9/DirectX® 10/DirectX® 11) CrossFire™ update
- Darksider™ (DirectX 9) performance and CrossFire anti-aliasing update
- NBA 2K11™ (DirectX 9) CrossFire update
- Stone Giant™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- Civilization V™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) tweak CrossFire update
- H.A.W.X.™ 2 (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- Formula 1™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- World of Warcraft™ (DirectX 11) version CrossFire update

Performance Improvements
The following performance improvements were observed with this release of AMD Catalyst 10.10:

Aliens vs. Predator™ DirectX 11 Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series

BattleForge™
- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

Crysis Warhead®
- Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products with anti-aliasing enabled

Far Cry™ 2
- Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Metro 2033™
- Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ : Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Unigine™ Heaven
- Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

World in Conflict™
- Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
- Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

Hotfix
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU84AMDCatalyst1010aHotfix.aspx

AMD Catalyst 10.10a Hotfix Features:

* Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
* 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.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Unigine™ Heaven
- Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

this seems to be the hot topic here. I thought i would find a mega thread on 6870/6850 performance but instead i found TESSELATION discussion...

Back on topic: good improvements all around. I'll try these drives and report back

 

[faxon]

Wow, openCL support in drivers finally. i can think of a few people who are going to be all over this, WTG amd!

 

[Grooveriding]

I have a 6870 and 1GB 460 on their way to me next week. Are these drivers the ones AMD is saying have fixes for the big stink up about Hawx 2 ?

I got a free copy of that game with the 460 purchase and noticed the benchmark is also available to download now. I'd like to compare the 6870, 460 and one of my 480s with the AMD fix.

 

[Skurge]

I have a 6870 and 1GB 460 on their way to me next week. Are these drivers the ones AMD is saying have fixes for the big stink up about Hawx 2 ?

I got a free copy of that game with the 460 purchase and noticed the benchmark is also available to download now. I'd like to compare the 6870, 460 and one of my 480s with the AMD fix.

I think it will either be a hotfix or come in 10.11

 

[busydude]

2. AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (“APP&#8221 technology Edition – AMD Catalyst plus the OpenCL driver Users can still obtain the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will also include the OpenCL driver as well)

I think Scali will be a little bit happy.

I hope these drivers work with my setup though.. will Install and report after I get back home.

 

[Arsynic]

Does it fix the overscan issues present since 10.8?

 

[Gikaseixas]

I think Scali will be a little bit happy.

nah, he'll say that's too late

 

[Grooveriding]

Does it fix the scaling issues present since 10.8?

It would be interesting to see someone show some results of 5870 & 5850 crossfire scaling with these new drivers. I know there was a set at some point where it was quite poor.

What is great is the 6870 and 6850 have some incredible scaling in Crossfire now. Crossfire is showing better scaling than SLI with the 6 series. It would be cool to see if these new drivers provided any improvements as a carry-down to the 5 series.

And hopefully the improved scaling on 6870 & 6850 is going to also be realized on the 6970, 6950 and the 6990.

 

[Ultra411]

Does it fix the overscan issues present since 10.8?

I would like to know this as well since I'm stuck with 10.6...

 

[Arsynic]

I'm stuck on 10.7, but hopefully when my 6850 arrives it will be a moot point. I just can't stand those damn black bars.

 

[TemjinGold]

I would like to know this as well since I'm stuck with 10.6...

Me as well. If anyone knows, please tell!

 

[james1701]

At least this got rid of the sparkling textures, and black intermittent blinking screen on MoH for me. MP is running good for now, I need to test BC2 with it now.

 

[lavaheadache]

So should I use the hotfix drivers or the whql ones for my 5870s . I'll be playing some avp when I get home

 

[lavaheadache]

these drivers rock


AVP benchmark with default profile 1080p

10.9's i was getting 103fps
10.10's now get 108fps thats 5 fps!

Obviously the game was already playable but this improvement is great


Metro 2033 benchmark 1080p

aaa 4af tess on dof off

10.9's 47.5 fps

10.10's 53.2fps

5 fps increase !!!! but more impotantly 10% !!!!! awesome I tell you.

 

[james1701]

I was able to play L4D2 for about 3 hours last night with CF enabled and not a single crash with these drivers.

 

[Number1]

This installation files would NOT install the HDMI audio driver on my 2 cards. It was giving me a warning that the audio driver had not installed properly and sure enough, my second card HDMI audio out was not working. After several reboot and reinstall and out of desperation I updated the audio driver manually and it finally worked.

Everything appears to be working fine, even the under scan issue has been fixed.

 

[Scali]

nah, he'll say that's too late

Well yea, obviously. I changed my Radeon 5770 to a GTX460 in my main machine a few months ago. OpenCL was one of the biggest reasons.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Finally, updates to my laptop's drivers.

 

[NoQuarter]

AMD Catalyst 10.10a Hotfix Features:

* Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
* 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.

Does this mean Morphological AA was backported to 5xxx? Seems like a great AA alternative for Eyefinity resolutions that get owned by real AA.

 

[mingsoup]

Do most people just install over their old drivers?

ALso, any fixes for Fallout Vegas and/or Fallout Vegas Crossfire support?
Civ 5 crossfire support?

Does the hotfix link work w/ 64 bit Win 7? I installed the base 10.10 from 10.9, and then applied the hotfix as linked on top of that.

 

[WarhammerTX]

Tried them went back to 10.5 lots of issues with these drivers color problems the main one everyone is experiencing. skip these folks.

 

[Piano Man]

I'd like someone else to confirm this but in WoW with the DX11 Console command on my 5850, I'm seeing a 30% increase in FPS with everything set to Ultra. Its insane.

 

[Obsoleet]

I would like to know this as well since I'm stuck with 10.6...

Yes, the overscaling is fixed. It was also fixed in 10.9a. Unless urgent I tend to stick to WHQLs, I upgraded from 10.7 finally and 10.10 seems pretty good to me.

 

[mingsoup]

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=141269&enterthread=y

not taking credit.

the PINK!!!!(10.10 color issues/pink/red) seems to be resolved by setting factory defaults.

New driver releases are like receiving presents or packages in the mail. a free performance boost.