The first Catalyst drivers of the year wasn’t as exciting as we had hoped, but those with Radeon HD 5700 or Radeon HD 5800 graphics card have a lot to improvements to enjoy. AMD have revised the support for Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis, and optimized its drivers for an overall performance boost of 3%, in Crysis the 5800 series can get another percent improvement.
AMD has also solved a whole lot of problems and bugs since the last version of Catalyst. Among others the Eyefinity support have been improved, but also a YouTube bug in Firefox with Adobe Flash Player 10 has been resolved.
A selection of bug fixes;
- [Catalyst Control Center] The display order will now reflect changes properly when Eyefinity is re-arranged while desktop is rotated to portrait mode
- Hot unplugging one of the displays in an Eyefinity configuration no longer causes rotation modes to disappear from Catalyst Control Center
- [Catalyst Control Center] Enabling LCD Overdrive will no longer cause mouse cursor to magnify when moved overtop of the “Calibration Preview”
- Firefox now works properly and video no longer drop frames when playing Youtube clips with Adobe Flash Player 10
- [Catalyst Control Center] Newly added custom modes will now appear properly in desktop area tree view
- Confirmation dialogue window will now appear when setting up Eyefinity mode
- 120 Hz is no longer missing from display modes for specific digital displays
- Overscan/underscan issue no longer occurs when setting displays to HDTV modes
- Performance drop no longer observed during some scenes of Resident Evil 5cinematics
- Blocky grass and trees no longer visible in Unigine “Heaven” in OpenGL mode
:: Download Catalyst 10.1 from AMD’s website.
