Archive for ‘ July, 2009

Tron 2 Legacy Teaser Trailer

Here’s an awesome bit of Tron 2 (Legacy) showing off their great CGI effects. Highly recommended!

ATI Catalyst 9.7 – WHQL Windows7 Driver

ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM

AMD has delivered its first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver designed for the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing) ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:

  • Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
  • Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista graphics driver
  • Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and AMD ATI Catalyst  features on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Updates

  • The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center now features:
  • A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager – enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
  • Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7
  • The new ATI Catalyst™ Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows Vista

ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7

  • ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
  • Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

  1. Crysis – performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
  2. Lost Planet Colonies – performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series product

Read the full release notes here http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_97_release_notes.pdf
or download the driver here http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

More Guitar Hero 5 tracks announced

  • AFI – “Medicate”
  • A Perfect Circle – “Judith”
  • Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself”
  • Brand New – “Sowing Season (Yeah)”
  • Bush – “Comedown”
  • The Derek Trucks Band – “Younk Funk”
  • Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”
  • Eagles Of Death Metal – “Wannabe In L.A.”
  • Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
  • Gov’t Mule – “Streamline Woman”
  • Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re An American Band”
  • Iron Maiden – “2 Minutes To Midnight”
  • King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man”
  • No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”
  • Peter Frampton – “Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)”
  • Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde – “Bring the Noise 20XX”
  • Rush – “The Spirit Of Radio (Live)”
  • Scars On Broadway – “They Say”
  • Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
  • Spacehog – “In The Meantime”
  • Sunny Day Real Estate – “Seven”
  • T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
  • Weezer – “Why Bother?”
  • Wild Cherry – “Play That Funky Music”

Previously announced tracks:

  • Attack! Attack! UK – “You And Me”
  • Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
  • Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
  • Beck – “Gamma Ray”
  • Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
  • Blur – “Song 2”
  • Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
  • Bon Jovi – “You Give Love A Bad Name”
  • The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
  • Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
  • Coldplay – “In My Place”
  • Darker My Love – “Blue Day”
  • Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
  • David Bowie – “Fame”
  • Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (’99 Remix)”
  • The Duke Spirit – “Send A Little Love Token”
  • Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
  • Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”
  • Face To Face – “Disconnected”
  • Garbage – “Only Happy When It Rains”
  • Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life (Live)”
  • Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
  • John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
  • Kaiser Chiefs – “Never Miss A Beat”
  • Kings Of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
  • Kiss – “Shout It Out Loud”
  • Love and Rockets – “Mirror People”
  • My Morning Jacket – “One Big Holiday”
  • Nirvana – “Lithium (Live)”
  • The Police – “So Lonely”
  • Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
  • Rammstein – “Du Hast”
  • The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy For The Devil”
  • Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
  • Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
  • Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You”
  • Sonic Youth – “Incinerate”
  • Sublime – “What I Got”
  • The Sword – “Maiden, Mother & Crone”
  • Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak”
  • Thrice – “Deadbolt”
  • Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
  • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
  • Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
  • The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
  • Wolfmother – “Back Round”