AMD ha reso disponibile la versione 10.1 dei driver Catalyst per schede video ATI Radeon, prima relase ufficiale per l'anno 2010. Le novità di questa release sono complessivamente ridotte: troviamo alcune ottimizzazioni con Left 4 Dead 2 e Crysis per le schede Radeon HD 5800 e Radeon HD 5700, ma con margini d'incremento molto ridotti.

Il download delle differenti versioni di driver è disponibile ai seguenti indirizzi:

• Catalyst 10.1 Windows Vista - 7 32bit
• Catalyst 10.1 Windows Vista - 7 64bit
• Catalyst 10.1 Windows XP 32bit
• Catalyst 10.1 Windows XP 64bit

Le prossime due release di driver, Catalyst 10.2 (Febbraio 2010) e Catalyst 10.3 (Marzo 2010), presenteranno numerose novità che cambieranno in modo radicale alcune delle funzionalità implementate. Questo giustifica il ridotto numero di novità implementate in questa nuova release per il mese di Gennaio 2010.

Queste le principali note fornite a corredo:

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

• Left 4 Dead 2 – Overall performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
• Crysis – Performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and as much as 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products

High-lights of Resolved Issues

• [Catalyst Control Center] The display order will now reflect changes properly when Eyefinity is re-arranged while desktop is rotated to portrait mode
• Hot unplugging one of the displays in an Eyefinity configuration no longer causes rotation modes to disappear from Catalyst Control Center
• [Catalyst Control Center] Enabling LCD Overdrive will no longer cause mouse cursor to magnify when moved overtop of the "Calibration Preview"
• Firefox now works properly and video no longer drop frames when playing Youtube clips with Adobe Flash Player 10
• [Catalyst Control Center] Newly added custom modes will now appear properly in desktop area tree view
• Confirmation dialogue window will now appear when setting up Eyefinity mode
• 120 Hz is no longer missing from display modes for specific digital displays
• Overscan/underscan issue no longer occurs when setting displays to HDTV modes
• Performance drop no longer observed during some scenes of Resident Evil 5cinematics
• Blocky grass and trees no longer visible in Unigine "Heaven" in OpenGL mode