In a surprise move AMD have given us a great early Christmas present with the announcement of their next generation graphics card, the long awaited HD7970. It's based on entirely new architecture rather than revision and the first fully featured review is already up thanks to AnandTech, so head on over to have a read of it now....

RAGE had a few problems at launch, but it has been patched! Huzzah! Included in the additions and fixes are vsync and texture cache options within the menu, as well as the ability to set your own anisotropic filter level. It's noted that for those of you with AMD/ATI cards who are having a ton of issues, you should paste +jobs_numThreads 0 into RAGE's launch options within Steam for a temporary work-around. For the patch notes in their entirety, with extra information and instruction, make sure y...

In keen anticipation of a hefty play session and the writing of a review I fired up RAGE for the first time last night. It turns out that not even the great id Software is immune to releasing a bad console port, and RAGE certainly appears to be one. Like many others I'll have to wait until some fundamental matters are addressed before playing, as the PC release is currently riddled with problems. When the game wasn't crashing with errors I wasn't able to enable vsync to reduce tearing, or even cha...

On the 27th we posted about AMD's new Battlefield 3 optimised driver, released moments after Nvidia did the same. In typical AMD fashion that release had its own deal-breaker problem - the installer was corrupt. If you had problems and now the link is dead, this updated installer is the one you want instead....

For those ATI users that are a little bit annoyed that Battlefield 3 is not only optimised for Nvidia, but that Nvidia have just released drivers that boost BF3 performance a further 38% for those users, AMD has your back. Head on over to www.amd.com/bf3driver to grab the AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver.

Update: AMD have replaced this installer with a working one. Download it here. There's no word of how much better performance will be, but these remarks are left in the change-log:...

Radeon owners rejoice! ATI has made their 10.3 drivers available for preview, and they address some quirks you've all been dying to have resolved. Namely, that rampant flickering in Bad Company 2....