Hoy mismo debería haber un anuncio público de AMD, pero se me ha permitido hacer pública esta información:

- A partir de los Catalyst 12.5 (que no existirán), AMD cesa los lanzamientos mensuales de drivers Catalyst. Se ha tomado la decisión de centrarse en la calidad y en las mejoras en lugar de obligarse a lanzar un driver WHQL al mes que muchas veces no aporta casi nada. De esta forma no habrá necesidad de desarrollar dos drivers en paralelo: el WHQL oficial y otro que sigue la evolución habitual del controlador.
- Tendremos más "hot fixes" y "preview drivers" cuando salgan juegos nuevos o sea necesario aplicar un parche urgente.
- Hay un driver beta que soluciona el problema del "tearing" en el tercer monitor al mezclar salidas DisplayPort y DVI/HDMI en Eyefinity. He comprobado que, efectivamente, el problema se soluciona en la 7970, así que no sé si el arreglo también afectará a la familia 6xxx.En cualquier caso, si no se encuentra ningún fallo crítico, este driver se hará público la semana que viene para que todo el mundo lo pueda probar.

There should be a public announcement today, but I have been allowed to share this info right now:

- AMD will end monthly Catalyst driver releases starting with Catalyst 12.5 (which won't exist). They have decided to focus harder on quality and improvements vs regular updates which may not bring many new things. This way there will be no need for two separate driver development paths every month: one to get the official WHQL driver and another that keeps doing the regular driver development.
- We should expect more "hot fixes" and "preview drivers" when new games are released or urgent fixes are required.
- There is a beta driver we are testing right now that fixes the Eyefinity tearing on the third monitor when mixing outputs. I have verified that it works with Souther Islands based cards, so I don't know if it will work with previous cards. Anyway, if no major issues are found, this driver should be publicly available next week.

Eyefinity has more noticeable tearing in some games on one side screen and sometimes in both and VSync is not applied because the framerates are usually below 60 at 5760×1080. Tearing is more noticeable on AMD Eyefinity than it is on Nvidia’s Surround, and it is especially noticeable with AMD’s more recent drivers.

The HD 6000 series had tearing but it was tolerable. There is always some tearing with VSync off – however in some games – even with Deus Ex: HR – the left screen looks like half of it is refreshing at a different rate and it really draws attention to itself.

Why?


They would go back to what they used to do under ATi. AMD unwisely put them on a monthly schedule - then downsized the driver team and moved Catalyst Maker over to APUs


This is the smartest move AMD can make under the circumstances