14 DAY TRIAL // Since AMD just yesterday released its two newest graphics cards, it was a given that it would have to update its drivers to support them, and it appears that the outfit decided to add said support by means of a hotfix.
The AMD Catalyst 10.12 driver software suite was released just two to three days ago and promised a variety of benefits, especially fixes to previous issues to performance, though some issues still remain.
It was also in need of mention that the suite did not have actual support for the AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950. For those that need a reminder, these two cards are the newest DirectX 11 graphics adapters from the Sunnyvale, California-based company and the most powerful HD 6000 cards so far, aimed for the high-end market.
The reason behind the lack of support was that the video controllers in question were only launched after the software itself became available.
As such, it became necessary to either bring out a new version of the driver or make a hotfix available for public download.
Apparently, the latter has occurred, as AMD's has released what it calls AMD Catalyst driver 10.12a Hotfix.
There are two things that this package does, and they do not include fixes for the issues that the driver itself left to be taken care of.
What the hotfix accomplishes is provide support for 5 x 1 AMD Eyefinity display configurations, in addition to the already mentioned HD 69xx support.
Those that have already downloaded the 10.12 driver need only visit the following link in order to download the hotfix, which is designed for Windows Vista and Windows 7 (AMD Catalyst Hotfix 10.12a for Vista/Win7)
Of course, to get a general idea of what the driver release itself does, and to download it if required, one need only go here.