AMD Catalyst driver 15.7 released

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9 July 2015
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In a press release, AMD has announced they're releasing a Catalyst driver for Windows 10, version 15.7. AMD says that their drivers have been downloaded over 40 million times in the past 6 months. Their new Catalyst Windows 10 driver, which will be fully integrated with Windows Updates to provide the latest drivers for your systems, include a number of features for both gamers and heavy graphics users:

AMD helps Windows 10 stream content at the highest resolutions (4K and beyond) thanks to the hardware-based HEVC decoder
HEVC DECODE with Xbox® Video Player
STREAMING Xbox® One™ to PC
Ready for the latest gaming technologies in Windows® 10
Games will look great on your AMD-based PC running Windows® 10 because all 2015 AMD APUs will provide support for Microsoft DirectX® 12 and AMD FreeSync™
Enabling up to 15X more details in games using DirectX® 12 (AMD Internal Testing. 3DMark API Overhead Feature Test. System Configuration: Intel i7-5960X, 16GB DDR4- 2666, 2TB Seagate HDD, AMD Radeon R9 390 GPU, Driver 15.20-150609a-184226E, Windows 10 v.10130. 18,463,548 draw calls per second in DirectX® 12, and 1,172,587 in DirectX® 11.)
Supports WDDM 2.0 which works with Windows® 10 to reduce the driver workload on graphics hardware. Display modes can be changed quickly and without the bothersome flicker that Windows users had to endure in the past.

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