If you own a graphics card from the AMD stable, and are perhaps planning a weekend of gaming, you may want to take a look at the Catalyst 11.10 Version 3 preview drivers.
Whilst the official Catalyst 11.10 drivers are set to go live on October 31st, the Version 3 preview drivers are said to be virtually the same.
Here's what AMD tells us to expect:
- Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition.
- Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage.
- Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems.
- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD RadeonTM HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFireTM configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
- Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage.
- Reduces flickering of NPCs in Rage.
- Enables automatic Vsync for Rage.
- Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireXTM, GPU.
- AMD OverdriveTM and Information Center pages.
If you fancy having a dabble, Windows 7 and Vista users can head this way. If you happen to be using Windows XP, you can head this way.
