AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Pre-Certified Driver

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Last Updated 2/16/2012

Article Number GPU-151

The AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Certified driver (It is the same driver as the Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified, but will be officially Microsoft® certified) will be posted in late February or very early March 2012.

Release Notes

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.2 pre-certified driver:

Windows 7 and Windows® Vista® support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

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  Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit
  
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  Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4
  

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing is now available for DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications

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  Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and 7700 Series
  
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  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
  
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  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)
  

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements

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  Custom resolutions – users can now choose from a much larger set of display resolutions for their AMD Eyefinity configurations
  
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  Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations (when physically plugging/un-plugging displays) will occur automatically by loading the appropriate profile
  
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  HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
  
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  Profile Manager improvements: Users can now create multiple Display profiles, enabling users to seamlessly switch between various AMD Eyefinity and Display Configurations
  

Instructions:

Download and install the Driver from the following location:

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  AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified driver for Windows Vista & Windows 7 32-bit
  
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  AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified driver for Windows Vista & Windows 7 64-bit
  
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  AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified driver for Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit
  

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

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

Operating Systems:

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  Windows 7 32-bit Edition
  
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  Windows 7 64-bit Edition
  
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  Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
  
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  Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
  
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  Windows XP 32-bit Edition
  
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  Windows XP 64-bit Edition
  
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  Windows XP Media Center Edition