14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices may have released its newest driver quite a while ago, but it looks like circumstances forced it to go ahead and deliver a new hotfix that fixes quite a few game-related issues that may have induced headaches by means of frustration.
High-end video cards of today definitely serve to make benchmark score records and the like, but the fact is that playing games is the most they will be doing.
While low-end boards handle the basics, along with some multimedia, mainstream boards can more or less manage with any title.
This means that high-end cards get to use their might to allow their owners to play games at the highest settings, maybe on more than one monitor at once.
Still, all hardware depends on a software component, and it just so happens that the most recent, complete one from Advanced Micro Devices has some issues.
For one, intermittent flickering can occur on systems using a Radeon HD 6000 graphics card with DDR3 memory, in DirectX 9 mode at least.
Those games are Fallout 3, Mafia 2, Dead Rising 2, Civilization 5, NBA 2010, Starcraft 2, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, NBA 2010 and ShenGuiChuanQi.
Advanced Micro Devices provided a hotfix that will resolve the above issues, in addition to other things, like transcoding video lagging issues during conversion of multiple H.264 clips to MPEG2 Blu-ray video.
Additionally, the hotfix optimizes performance and deals with some quality issues that were plaguing the upcoming release of Brink.
Other things that the new package does is enable support for more stereo 3D displays, boost Dirt 3 performance and enable CrossFire scaling for The Witcher 2 and Brink.
Owners of AMD Graphics adapter can download the appropriate driver version from one of the links below.
AMD Catalyst Hotfix 11.5b for XP
AMD Catalyst Hotfix 11.5b for Win7