AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 and 12.2 Preview Video Card Drivers

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD released a pair of video card drivers today that should be of interest to our AMD Radeon HD video card users. For starters AMD has released Catalyst 12.1 WHQL certified graphics drivers. These drivers have a lengthy list of fixes and can be downloaded here. For those that are a little more daring AMD also released Catalyst 12.2 Preview drivers that includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst 12.1 drivers, plus additional fixes. You can download Catalyst 12.2 Preview drivers from here. You can see the fixes that are included in the Catalyst 12.2 Preview drivers for Windows 7 in the bullet list below. Please note that the 12.2 preview does not support the AMD Radeon HD 7900 series for some reason.

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AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview Driver Fixes For Windows 7 Users:

  • Call of Duty IV no longer displays random corruption when in DirectX 9 more and the Edge Detect filter is enabled.
  • A black screen is no longer occasionally displayed when running Portal 2 in 3D mode.
  • All 3d Anti Aliasing settings are now correctly listed in the Vision Control Center.
  • Morphological filtering settings are now correctly listed in the Vision Control Center.
  • Civilization V no longer experiences random crashes when run in DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 modes.
  • Enabling the Edge Detect filter in Resident Evil 5 or Just Cause 2 no longer generates a random application crash.
  • Battlefield 3 no longer hangs when MSAA is enabled.
  • Saints Row III no longer experiences random hangs.
  • Rage no longer experiences intermittent hangs when Crossfire is enabled
  • Dragon Age 2 textures no longer flicker when run in DirectX 9 mode in Crossfire configurations with vsync enabled.
  • Crysis Warhead and Battlefield Bad Company 2 no longer experience random crashes when Crossfire is enabled.
  • Texture flickering is no longer experienced when playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 in DirectX 11 mode.

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