AMD rolls out Radeon HD 7900 driver

AMD has published the 8.921.2 RC11 driver for the 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

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AMD releases Catalyst driver for Rage

AMD has compiled a performance driver for Rage, you can download it over here. The company claims significant performance gains, but it's only for Radeon HD 5000/6000 cards and only for Windows 7.

AMD Catalyst Rage Performance Driver Features:

Significant performance gains for single GPU configurations

Compatible with AMD Radeon� 6000 and AMD Radeon 5000 series of graphics products

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Lnx2Mac Releases New RTL81xx Beta Realtek Network Driver

type="html">At long last! Lnx2Mac has released a new public beta version of his Realtek RTL81xx ethernet driver. It now supports every single Gigabyte 1156/1155/1366 motherboard that uses a Realtek ethernet controller!Read all of the details and download the official installer on Lnx2Mac's Blog.For discussions on this and other topics, register today at tonymacx86.com!

AMD Catalyst 11.5 Windows 7 Driver Analysis

TweakTown checked out the latest Catalyst driver over here.

"This came as a bit of a surprise! AMD decided to release the 11.5 driver set which followed the massive 11.4 in the first half of this month. Normally we see the Catalyst driver come out towards the end of the month; this is more so seen after such a massive release.

It seems that AMD wanted to just improve Hydravision while doing the normal array of bug fixes which can all be seen below. With clearly not much emphasis being put on performance this time around, we're not expecting any miracles, but we'll see just what the new 11.5 driver has to offer over the previous 11.4 which we love."

AMD Catalyst 11.5 Windows 7 Driver Analysis - More news at DV Hardware

Lnx2Mac's Realtek Ethernet Driver - Public Beta Now Available

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For the past few weeks, Lnx2Mac has been developing a new Realtek ethernet driver for Mac OS X. His goal was to create a driver that provides support for the latest motherboards that use the Realtek RTL8111E controller. This new driver is called RealtekRTL81xx.kext and supports the following ethernet controllers:

• RTL8168, RTL8168B, RTL8168C
• RTL8111, RTL8111B, RTL8111C, RTL8111CP, RTL8111D(L), RTL8111DP, RTL8111E

It's based on the RealtekR1000SL.kext created by Chuck Fry in late 2009 with additions and fixes from the latest official Realtek Linux source. In addition the driver includes the following changes:

• 32/64 bit support
• Improved stability
• Improved performance
• Numerous bug fixes

Today the beta went public! Check out Lnx2Mac's Blog for further details and the download link.  Please leave all feedback and comments there and in the RTL81xx Beta Testing forum.

For discussions on this and other topics, register today at tonymacx86.com!