AMD have just released the AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Pre-Certified driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

The AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Certified driver (It is the same as the AMD Qualified Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified driver posted today, but will be officially Microsoft certified) and AMD Catalyst 12.2 Linux driver will be posted late February or very early March 2012
Link to the AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-certified driver:  http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst122precertifieddriver.aspx
A separate notification will be sent once the Microsoft Certified version of the AMD Catalyst 12.2 driver is available.
 
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 driver:

 

Windows 7 and Windows Vista support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

·         Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit
·         Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4

 

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing is now available for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications

·         Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
·         Users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
·         Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements
·         Custom resolutions – users can now choose from a much larger set of display resolutions for their AMD Eyefinity configurations
·         Dynamic Configuration Changes:  Switching between different display configurations (when physically plugging/un-plugging displays) will occur automatically by loading the appropriate profile
·         HydraVision enhancements:  The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
·         Profile Manager improvements:  Users can now create multiple Display profiles, enabling users to seamlessly switch between various AMD Eyefinity and Display Configurations
 

New AMD Catalyst Application Profile is now available
 

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

 

This release of AMD Catalyst™ Application Profile (Catalyst 12.1 CAP3) includes the following updates:

·         Alan Wake:  Improves CrossFire performance
·         Syndicate: Improves both single GPU and CrossFire performance
·         Darkness 2: Improves CrossFire performance
·         Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Improves CrossFire performance for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series to avoid negative scaling at low resolutions
·         Natural Selection 2: Fixes shadow map flickering issue seen with CrossFire enabled