Hot on the heels of 11.4, AMD has pushed out the latest revision of its Catalyst drivers - predictably, known as 11.5 for both Windows and Linux platforms. What's more, there's an 11.5a hotfix up for grabs too.
At first glance, there don't appear to be any noteworthy performance increases that AMD is touting with 11.5/11.5a. Instead, the new offerings feature functionality enhancements, plus a slew of fixes.
For Windows based systems, we're told of the following enhancements to HydraVision, when used in Eyefinity configurations:
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision is now aware of user created Bezels
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision now also includes as "Automatic Grid" option that aligns to the user defined Eyefinity display layout
For Linux, 11.5 adds support for the following OSes:
- openSUSE 11.4 support (production)
- RHEL 6.1 support (early look)
If it's the 11.5a hotfix you're interested in, here's what has been addressed:
- Includes performance optimizations and resolves various quality issues for the upcoming release of BrinkTM
- Resolves various transcoding video lagging issues seem when converting multiple H.264 clips to MPEG2 Blu-ray video
- Resolves the intermittent mouse cursor lag issue seen by some users
- Resolves intermittent flickering issues seen in the following applications in a system using an AMD RadeonTM HD 6600 series graphics card with DDR3 memory and running in DirectX® 9 mode:
- Civilization 5
- Dead Rising 2
- Fallout 3
- Mafia 2
- NBA 2010
- ShenGuiChuanQi
- Starcraft 2
- Warcraft III
- World of Warcraft
Catalyst 11.5 can be grabbed from here for Windows, and here for Linux. On the other hand, Catalyst 11.5a, can be obtained from here.
