AMD Catalyst 10.10 drivers now on eTeknix.com

We at eTeknix are having a fantastic week with our newest downloads addition to the website. We already made you aware of the Nvidia Forceware drivers that are now available at eTeknixand now we are here to spread the same message for the AMD Radeon users by listing the latest Catalyst 10.10 drivers for all Windows platforms from XP to Vista to Windows 7, all on 32 and 64-bit flavours.

Release notes for this set of drivers are:

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 Windows release include:

New Features

Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology

Blu-ray 3D support
o This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Blu-ray 3D playback
o Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

Stereo 3D gaming support

o This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Stereo 3Dgaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from DynamicDigital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D
o Requires 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o Supported on 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 www.amd.com/hd3d

Introduction of AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition

• There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
  1. 1. AMD Catalyst™ – includes the Direct3D, OpenGL, Display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components

   

• AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology EditionEdition (same as ATI Catalyst, but includes the OpenCL driver) – Everything found in AMD Catalyst, plus the OpenCL driver
• Users can still grab all of the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will also include the OpenCL driver as well)

Video acceleration for HD WMV video content

• This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides video acceleration support for WMV HD (Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
• Supported on 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 support for histogram based detection

Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

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 11and 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

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

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

Highlights of the Linux AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

• This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
• openSUSE 11.3 support (production)
• Ubuntu 10.10 support (early look)