AMD Catalyst 12.8 is Now Available

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Featuring support for the DirectX 11.1 and the new WDDM 1.2 driver model: AMD’s first official unified and logo certified driver for Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications

Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications

Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX® 11 API, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supporting applications.

Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices

Improved sleep/resume performance

Optimized GPU power consumption

Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:

AMD Eyefinity technology

OpenCL™

OpenGL

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)

AMD Dual Graphics

AMD CrossFire technology

AMD Overdrive

AMD Catalyst Control Center

Vision Engine Control Center

[Tsakali]

k what's this all about? some kind of driver update? does it work on all AMD processors? or is this for AMD chipset based mobos?

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