AMD Catalyst 11.5 and 11.5a hotfix

Barely two weeks after the release of the Catalyst 11.4s, AMD has today brought out two new drivers for its graphics cards. Firstly, the Catalyst 11.5s introduce several corrections to the control panel. The update concerns users of multi-screen Eyefinity technology which now correctly supports screen frame compensation. Automatic alignment of screens has also been added. AMD also says that it has corrected several problems in terms of its transcoding module:

Crashes with MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding
Lags during some H.264 to H.264 conversions

The other corrections concern PowerDVD and you can consult the full list here. Linux users will find support for OpenSUSE 11.4 and RHEL 6.1.

AMD has also launched a hotfix version to add corrections to the game Brink, which will be released in Europe at the end of the week. This driver also corrects flickering problems on the mouse as well as on some games on the Radeon HD 6600 DDR3s in DirectX 9 modes (Civilization V, Dead Rising 2, Fallout 3, Mafia 2, NBA 2010, ShenGuiChuanQi, Starcraft 2, Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft). Another transcoding bug has also been addressed, namely lags during mutliple H.264 to MPEG-2 Blu-ray conversions.