AMD has a preview version on his 10:12 video driver Catalyst Windows and Linux released for. It offers a new user interface for the Catalyst Control Center and support for the Radeon graphics cards series HD 6800. With the new user to easily control 3D settings to improve image quality can activate Games. The same applies to setting up multiple displays ( Eyefinity ) and the energy saving options. The new coating is also like a Windows window to adjust the size in and offers a kind of favorites for quick recall of frequently used menu items.

The revised Control Center is available only under Windows 7 and Vista. Windows XP users must continue to make do with the old version. Owner of a Radeon HD 6800 card benefits in combination with DivX software for Windows from hardware accelerated DivX video playback. Also new is support for OpenGL 4.1. The updated Linux drivers now support the distribution Ubuntu 10.10 . As of now AMD will also provide to the monthly driver updates weekly so-called Catalyst Applications Profiles. These include, inter alia Crossfire profiles, ie special adjustments for current games. The preview driver for Windows 7, Vista, XP (32 and 64 bit) and Linux are now available for free download ready. They support both the notebook chip, the graphics card series Radeon HD 2000 or higher, FireStream 9000, Theatre 600 or higher, and the chipset series GPUs 3000 and 4000