Download Driver For AMD Catalyst 12.4
AMD has come up with new Catalyst drivers. The drivers are available as usual for Windows XP, Vista and 7, with separate downloads for 32- and 64-bit environments. The new drivers are suitable for all Radeon models from the HD 2400 series. Older maps rely on the 10.3 release for XP or Vista and 7. If the card is still equipped with an agp connection, you can here justly. As usual, at the bottom of this posting are the direct links to the pages with the available downloads. Version 12.4 adds several new functionality for video cards from the HD 7000 family and of course several bug fixes have been made.
New features
Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling 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)
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
Texture filtering quality improvements
- Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
- Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance
resolved issues
for the Windows 7 Operating System
- Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: no longer hangs on single GPU configurations when used with AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 and later CAP releases
- Elder Scolls: Skyrim: flickering square corruption is no longer observed.
- Rage: Vsync is no longer disabled after task switching.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: no longer crashes when launched in High Performance Mode.
- Stalker – Call of Pripyat: flickering is no longer observed in trees with specific Catalyst Control Center settings.
- Tom Clancy HAWX 2: no longer crashes on game launch.
- Windows Media Center: no longer crashes when run in Eyefinity mode and High Performance mode settings.
- AMD Steady Video: an error message is no longer displayed when enabling AMD Steady Video for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 plugin.
- Duplicating displays no longer generates random corruption.
- Tearing is no longer observed on the third screen in 3×1 and 1×3 Eyefinity configurations.
- A system crash is no longer experienced when enabling Crossfire in a 4 display configuration.
- The advanced video quality settings are now correctly displayed in the Catalyst Control Center.
for the Windows Vista Operating System
- The Catalyst Control Center now renders correctly when launched while playing a Bluray disc using WinDVD.
for the Windows XP Operating System
- Dirt 3: a system hang is no longer experienced when running game at maximum in game settings.
- Dragon Age 2: visual corruption is no longer observed.
Known issues
under the Windows 7 operating system
- Blocky video corruption may be observed while using Windows Media Player to playback HD WMV content.
- The Catalyst Control Center may experience random crashes in specific configurations.
- A green screen may be triggered when playing back Flash content using Google Chrome and Firefox.
- The Unigine Tropics demo may experience random crashes when run with shaders=low and Vsync enabled.
under the Windows Vista operating system
- Cyberlink PowerDVD may crash when enabling BOB de-interlace mode.
under the Windows XP operating system
- The system may fail to resume from sleep/hibernate mode is some configurations.
The following downloads are available:
AMD Catalyst 12.4 for Windows XP (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 12.4 for Windows XP (64bit)
AMD Catalyst 12.4 for Windows Vista and 7 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 12.4 for Windows Vista and 7 (64bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 12.4 for Windows Vista and 7 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 12.4 for Windows Vista and 7 (64bit)
AMD CrossFireX Application Profiles
Version number | 12.4 |
Release status | Final |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64 |
Website | amd |
Download | |
File sizes |
101.50MB – 153.50MB |
License type | Freeware |