New Features:
- MultiView™
Catalyst 8.1 introduces MultiView™ support. This feature provides for hardware
accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters. MultiView™
will provide hardware accelerated 3D rendering in a system containing multiple
graphics cards on an extended desktop arrangement. This feature will allow for
the rendering performance and additional frame buffer resources to be evenly
shared with the second and third graphics adapters. This allows for a 3D applica-
tion to have the same performance running on a secondary or third display device
as if it were running on the primary display device. This feature will be supported
under Windows XP (32 and 64 bit versions), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit versions), and the Linux operating system.
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ATI’s Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed by the Stanford University. The application performs intensive simulations of protein folding. This
simulation will help researchers uncover how certain diseases develop. Folding@Home uses distributed computing to simulate protein folding, the workload
is broken up into small work units and distributed across hundreds of thousands of
computers over the internet. You can help find the cure to many different diseases!
For more information on Catalyst 8.1 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 8.1 release notes found in driver download section.
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