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AMD has released Catalyst update for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series



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
Resolved issues: highlights of the 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 driver

Folding@Home: intermittent stability issues have been resolved for the OpenCL version of Folding@Home
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
Dragon Age 2 no longer experiences minor flickering with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
StarCraft 2 no longer encounters issues when quitting campaign with Tri and Quad CrossFireX™ configurations
BattleForge stability has been improved with Tri CrossFireX™ configurations
Improved stability when enabling / disabling 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 CrossfireX™ configurations

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

AMD Catalyst™ Driver 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

  8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon HD 7900 driver