AMD Catalyst 11.10 Version 2 Preview Driver

[Stefan]

AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Preview Driver Features:

    Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series for single GPU configurations.
    Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
    Improves performance in Rage on single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
    Resolves intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
    Resolves flickering of NPCs in Rage
    Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
    Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations  using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
    AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX™, GPU AMD Overdrive™ and Information Center pages.

Instructions:
Download and install the Driver from the following location:

AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview Driver  for Windows® 7 / Vista®
AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview Driver for Windows®  XP

Compared to preview V1 another OpenGL extension has been added, but i was too lazy to look it up 



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[ljbade]

It is the new extension that RAGE uses for sync, hence why it is listed as a bug fix. NVIDIA have supported this since driver version 280.18 (which is why RAGE runs a lot better on NVIDIA).

It is called WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear. Basically it will vsync if your FPS >= 60, and start tearing if FPS < 60. This is the same behaviour games have been using on consoles for years but had never been exposed on PC before (despite the hardware being there).

Rumor has it you set wglSwapIntervalEXT  to a negative number like -1 to activate it.

It would have been better if RAGE fell back to 'normal' vsync if this extension is not listed, but for some reason it doesn't (and you get horrible tearing). You can set r_swapInterval in the config file for RAGE to get around this.

JeGX, perhaps you can test it out in your demos?