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8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver		Back
Last Updated 1/25/2012

Article Number GPU-143

Feature highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Preview support for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications. Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications) Performance highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver 8% (up to) performance improvement in Aliens vs. Predator 15% (up to) performance improvement in Battleforge with Anti-Aliasing enabled 3% (up to) performance improvement in Battlefield 3 3% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis 2 6% (up to) performance improvement in Crysis Warhead 10% (up to) performance improvement in F1 2010 5% (up to) performance improvement in Unigine with Anti-Aliasing enabled 250% (up to) performance improvement in TessMark (OpenGL) when set to “insane” levels Issues Addressed: highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver Folding@Home: intermittent stability for the OpenCL™ version Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 minor flickering with Tri AMD CrossFireX™ configurations Dragon Age 2 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri AMD CrossFireX™ configurations StarCraft 2 errors when quitting campaign with Tri and Quad AMD CrossFireX™ configurations BattleForge instability with Tri AMD CrossFireX™ configurations Stability when enabling / disabling AMD CrossFireX™ and installing the AMD graphics driver on AMD CrossfireX™ configurations Known Issues: Just Cause 2 - Launching the application will cause a hang for single GPU and AMD CrossfireX™ configurations Instructions: Download and install the Driver from the following location: AMD Catalyst™ Driver AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 series For detailed instructions on how to install the drivers, refer to: Article GPU-33 for a Windows® 7 based system 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 7900 Series · Operating Systems Windows® 7 64-bit Edition


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