AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hot-fix Drivers Set to Arrive on Republic Day

AMD have just announced that the Catalyst 11.1a Hot-fix drivers will be released on January 26. The new drivers are primarily aimed at the 6800 and 6900 series and promise some pretty crazy performance improvements.__STARTQUOTE__AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

• 3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
• 3DMark06 improves ~3%
• Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
• Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
• Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels
• Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
• Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
• Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA

__ENDQUOTE__AMD are also rumoured to be bundling an early prototype of their tessellation controls in this release. Still a Work in Progress, AMD aims to make the Catalyst Center or the Application control the tessellation levels in order to optimize performance.