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 AMD Catalyst™ 12.1a preview driver 

Last Updated
1/5/2012 
 
Article Number
GPU-142 
The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1a Preview driver includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview.

 

Additional changes for upcoming update of Rage

    • Resolves some new texture corruption issues introduced by the latest version of the game
    • Improved performance ~5%
    • Smoother game play and reduces multicore sync points
    • Fixed mapbuffer failures when switching maps on 32-bit systems.
    • Fixed a game crash when switching maps back and forth on 32 and 64bit systems

Instructions:
Download and install the Driver from the following location:

AMD Catalyst 12.1a Preview driver for Windows® vista & Windows® 7 
 AMD Catalyst 12.1a Preview driver for Windows® XP

 For detailed instructions on how to install the drivers, please refer to:

Article GPU-33 for a Windows® 7 based system
Article GPU-1 for a Windows Vista® based system
Article GPU-2 for a Windows XP 

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” in accordance with the End User License Agreement 

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

Hardware:
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series

Operating Systems:  
Windows® 7 32-bit Edition
Windows® 7 64-bit Edition
Windows® XP 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 64-bit edition

 


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