AMD has improved performance in Borderlands, a game that used to prefer NVIDIA cards, with up to 8% when using a card from the Radeon HD 5000 series.
ATI Eyefinity – HydraVision enhancements
- Maximizing a window across displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
- Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
- Proper dialog box placement – dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display
Enhanced Pull-down detection
- The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
ATI CrossFireX technology – support for rotated displays
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX technology
ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player
- Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of products
- Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- Ubuntu 10.04 production support
ATI Eyefinity support
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 delivers support for ATI Eyefinity technology under all supported Linux distributions
You can download the new Catalyst 10.7 drivers from AMD’s website.
