ATI Catalyst 10.7a Beta Adds AA in StarCraft 2
Anti-aliasing can now be enabled for StarCraft II.
Friday AMD released a new Catalyst 10.7a driver that adds anti-aliasing support for Blizzard's just-released sci-fi RTS, StarCraft II. According to AMD, anti-aliasing must be enabled through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP.
Outside the StarCraft II visual enhancement, the new beta drivers also offer improved performance for Eyefinity users using four graphics cards (Quad ATI CrossFireX).
Here's the full scoop:
** Starcraft II: Support for Anti-Aliasing through the ATI Catalyst Control Center when using a Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP based system with an:
ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card or ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
** Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX for Eyefinity supported configurations.
To download, click on the appropriate link below:
ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver for Windows 7 / Windows Vista
Does anybody cares?
Drivers work perfectly for me on Ubuntu 10.04.
That's pretty damn often considering ATI does pretty much monthly driver releases. When your company is doing more then one driver update per day (based on your numbers) then that is NOT a good thing, just mean incomplete or buggier drivers.
Props to the ATI team at AMD, good job.
Does anybody cares?
Didn't the ATI CC or the Nvidia Control Panel already have the ability to add anti aliasing to ANY Direct3D application ? I always do that on old apps in nvidia control panel...
Doesn't always work well. Nvidia has a similar thing that I tried and it didn't work. Had to wait for latest drivers to actually support the game and even then they're not tweaked for it.
Drivers work perfectly for me on Ubuntu 10.04.
My guess is they are still Beta because they are so new (with SCII not yet a week old). I agree though, if this is just a minor release, calling it 10.7a and leaving it at that would have been fine.
P.S.: Toms, you caused the AMD website to report some sort of "leeching" error. Those links don't work anymore.
save a dollar a day and i bet you will have enough money for a nice ATI card before NVIDIA upgrades their drivers.
I believe in both the Catalyst and nVidia Control Panel apps, you can force many things - among them VSync and AA. I haven't tried it on SC2, though. I will probably tonight - the lack of AA is pretty bad, even at 1680x1050.
huh? nvidia updates their drivers 50 times more often then ATI.