1) release notes reads:
"
This release of Catalyst™ introduces Tessellation support in the Catalyst™ driver for the ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series of products."
as opposed to ATI Developer: Tools - AMD GPU MeshMapper
"Requirements for previewing with displacement and tessellation:- ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or later
- NOTE: Tessellation will first be supported in the March Catalyst driver release."
2) As aforementioned misc. OpenGL apps stopped working sice CAT 7.12
After checking
atioglxx.dll with "GPUCapsViewer" it appears that ATI removed more than 20 extensions!
Code:
new since CAT 7.12:
GL_AMD_performance_monitor
GL_ATI_meminfo
GL_EXT_copy_texture
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
GL_EXT_subtexture
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
GL_KTX_buffer_region
WGL_ARB_buffer_region
WGL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
nuked after CAT 7.11:
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
GL_ARB_vertex_blend
GL_ATI_element_array
GL_ATI_map_object_buffer
GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once
GL_ATI_vertex_array_object
GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object
GL_ATI_vertex_streams
GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3
GL_ATIX_texture_env_route
GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
GL_EXT_vertex_shader
GL_HP_occlusion_test
GL_EXT_vertex_shader
GL_NV_occlusion_query
GL_S3_s3tc
GL_SGI_color_matrix
GL_SGIS_multitexture
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp
GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
At least they could have told users about that
3) 3DMark06 SM3 test is borked by solarisation.
