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Sunnyvale-based heterogeneous computing promoter AMD has today made available an updated driver for its recently-released Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Dubbed 8.921.2 RC11, this fresh driver brings the following:

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

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...C11Driver.aspx