Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Preview Windows release includes:

IMPROVEMENTS

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements
- Additional resolution support: Users can now choose from a larger set of resolutions when running AMD Eyefinity
- Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations will occur automatically when physically plugging/un-plugging displays
- HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
- Profile Manager improvements: Increased support for Display Groups (including 5x1) and Extended configurations within the Profile Manager


RESOLVED ISSUES

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Preview software suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Call of Duty IV no longer displays random corruption when in DirectX 9 more and the Edge Detect filter is enabled.
- A black screen is no longer occasionally displayed when running Portal 2 in 3D mode.
- All 3d Anti Aliasing settings are now correctly listed in the Vision Control Center.
- Morphological filtering settings are now correctly listed in the Vision Control Center.
- Civilization V no longer experiences random crashes when run in DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 mode.
- Enabling the ‘Edge Detect’ filter in Resident Evil 5 or Just Cause 2 no longer generates a random application crash.
- Battlefield 3 no longer hangs when MSAA is enabled.
- Saints Row III no longer experiences random hangs.
- Rage no longer experiences intermittent hangs when Crossfire is enabled.
- Dragon Age 2 textures no longer flicker when run in DirectX 9 mode in Crossfire configurations with vsynch enabled.
- Crysis Warhead and Battlefield Bad Company 2 no longer experience random crashes when Crossfire is enabled.
- Texture flickering is no longer experienced when playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 in DirectX 11 mode.


KNOWN ISSUES

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

- Vsync may be disabled after task switching when playing Rage.
- Skipping in game cinematics while playing Dragon Age 2 in DirectX 11 mode may cause stuttering.
- Dirt 3 may experience flickering with Crossfire enabled and run in 3D stereo mode.
- Battlefield – Bad Company 2 may experience random flickering when run in DirectX 11 mode.

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:
- Windows Aero options may be missing after installing the latest driver.

Enabled ragdoll
Updated weapon sounds
Mines will not trigger through walls anymore
Claymores are now directional (damage goes in front of the claymore)
Updated level up rewards
Added range to flags
Made flag icons smaller
/suicide is now a valid chat command
Updated End of Round screen
Added functionality for multiple people to tag the same target with the camera drone


Fixes:
Fix for mouse pointer appearing at the beginning of Sabotage games
Fix for an issue when screen stays black & white after sabotage game started
EOD skill now works as described
Fixed an issue when bomb dropped in Sabotage game might be left in the air
Fixed quick throw for grenades (was throwing sometimes two grenades in a row)
Fixed bug when in sabotage game players were not always getting proper scoreboard info
Fixed bug when respawn screen timer sometimes gets stuck at 0
Fixed bug when zooming in and your aim would move to the side
When joining sabotage match, the game will no longer force you to remove your RPG, server will remove it automatically for that match
Corrected location for mine and claymore placement
Fixed bug when sometimes after joining sabotage game you would see scope from previous game
Fix bug when some objects would disappear due to improper bounding box
Dropped weapons and weapons picked up by other players now have correct weapon upgrade information
Fixed Eye Spy ability

Updates to Sword of the Stars II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Critical Fixes:
+ Fixed AI from taking control of players in slots other than slot 1
+ Fixed upgrade missions from using the wrong system to populate upgrade options
+ Fixed issues with upgrade missions.

Other Fixes:
+ Fixed missing start node lines for Humans
+ Fixed an incorrect calculation for ship construction that caused the player to have less production then they were supposed

to have.
+ Fix missing Battle Cruiser and Battle Ship Categories
+ Fixed module weapons
+ Fixed spectres not being attacked by planetary beams when merged with planets
+ Fixed some animations for Liir battleriders
+ Fixed minor projector bugs
+ Fixed the order of fleets in all mission screens


Other Changes and Additions:
+ Minor tech tree and ship tuning changes

Known issues
+ Launcher not properly reflecting game version number

Updates to Sword of the Stars II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Critical Fixes:
+ Fixed a ship module sound issue that could potentially cause leaks.
+ Optimized code that was contributing to longer turn times and slower combat.
+ Fixed a bug that was causing combat to be initiated when no ships
were present.
+ Fixed the issue where invisible enemy fleets could still be selected
on the star map.
+ Fixed the bug where additional armor layers were not being carried
over into combat.
+ Fixed the issue where the strategic AI was not researching outside
of initial core technologies.

Other Fixes:
+ Addressed known bad turret arcs on numerous ship sections.
+ Fixed known issues with combat AI assigning objectives to ships.
+ Fixed issues with the design screen weapon panel not closing.
+ Fixed the intermittent bug that would cause icons not to be laid out
correctly when switching ships in the design screen.
+ Added missing combat sensor icons.
+ Fixed the bug where simulated and full combat start positions would differ.
+ Numerous fixes to known issues with Psionics effects in combat.
+ Fixed Neutron Round and Accelerated Amplification effects.
+ Fixed some issues where star system ownership visuals could get out
of sync in the star map.
+ Addressed known issues with disruptors and deflectors.
+ Addressed known issues with minelayers.
+ Rapidly clicking buttons will no longer bypass feasibility studies.
+ Slave discs now attach to ships other than Scavengers.
+ Made some changes to address the strategic AI spending itself to death.
+ Fixed an issue where COL launchers were not orienting to face the target.
+ Addressed known issues with node lines and fleet travel.
+ Fixed some issues with fleets showing up behind routes.
+ Fixed a bug where fleet pathing would sometimes return an incomplete route.
+ Addressed known issues with DLC materials.
+ Fixed a bug related to colonizing systems with more than one colony.
+ Fixed a bug with armor alignment on tooltips.
+ Fixed the bug where research was not being cancelled when going too
far over budget.

Other Changes and Additions:
+ Build screen now sorts available ship classes, and only shows
classes that you have designs for.
+ Implemented Smart Nanite effects.
+ Stealth armor on all sections now correctly reduces sensor signature in strat.
+ Full functionality for Liir battlecruisers and battleships.
+ Full functionality for mines and cracker COLs.
+ Improved grappling hook physics.
+ Effective ranges for ships used in stance positioning no longer
include PD weapons unless requested.
+ Numerous ship section, weapon and module data tweaks.
+ It is now possible to select a direct route for Zuul bore ships to travel.
+ Updated UI for upgrade missions.
+ Updated combat UI introducing new cloaking, stance buttons, facing
buttons and a priority weapon toggle.
+ Fixed some spelling errors in UI.

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

UPDATE January 20th, 2012:

• Fixed Invoker's Quas, Wex, and Exort not giving Invoker bonus stats when upgraded.
  
• Fixed Invoker's Invoke to properly swap the invoked abilities if the new spell already exists
  
• Fixed Sticky Napalm triggering off of Orb of Venom
  
• Fixed Glaives of Wisdom being usable while silenced
  
• Fixed EMP cast range
  

- Improvement allowing cars not to get locked up with one another

- Roll of certain classes have been improved.

- The default settings of Classic cars have been switched with the new settings. (eg: standard setting is now the chaos&destruction setting)

- Smashing destructable objects now will earn you boost and supermove, but are currently due to work on multiplayer functional in singleplayer only.

- Speed game mode now has the same functionality / game logic as race mode.

- "Classic Mode" now renamed to "Game Speed" because of reviewer setting the game to chaos&destruction meanwhile complaining game is way too fast.

- Fixed "monstertruck wheels crushes my car" issue

- Improved physics for the 'default' Classic class tuning setting.

- Added 'Classic' setting for the Muscle Class.

- Added new loading screens.

- Tempered reaction for all explosions and other impact effects.

- Upgraded first skin for default car, Grinder.

- Streamlined 'CrashSiteX' track. Go give it a try!

- Reduced default A.I count for both race and challenge mode.

- Player can now easily bash their way through opponents.

- Balanced / tweaks for damage system.

- Tweaks and feature improvements for the A.I.

- Reduced default startgrid count for race and challenge mode.

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Item density pass.
- Minor visual bugs fixed across all maps.

Death Toll 1:
- Fixed a case where several rock props were intruding through a wall near the safe room.

Death Toll 2:
- Fixed an case where survivors could jump into infected-only areas using an electrical box in the bridge holdout room.

Death Toll 3:
- Removed an exploit where players could jump from the wheel pedestal of a flatcar onto a train car to skip the balcony area and exit the train yard.
- Altered the PZ spawn area near the train yard exit. Instead of a tanker and a pile of gravel, it is now an overturned truck and van.
- Church guy zombie returns!

Death Toll 4:
- Blocked survivors jumping onto the left bus from the fence near the start, which allowed players to skip the beginning of the map.
- Fixed pipe hanging in the middle of a room during end-level onslaught.
- Removed the mounted gun, as this was causing players to try to outlast an infinite horde.
- Added tooltip to prompt players to fight to the safe room when the onslaught begins.
- Fixed a case where survivors could climb an electrical box prop into infected-only areas during the onslaught.
- Fixed end-level trigger size exploit, which allowed players to stall the end of the map trigger by standing on top of a water-cooler.

Death Toll 5:
- Swapped out the L4D2 mounted gun for the L4D1 mini-gun.

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

GAMEPLAY

• Enabled Invoker!
  
• Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture not hurting heroes when they blink.
  
• Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track ignoring Linken's Sphere.
  
• Morphling: Fixed Morph removing Curse of the Silent.
  
• Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt from triggering Last Word/Magic Stick.
  
• Puck: Fixed Phase Shift autocasting if you were already stunned before.
  
• Puck: Fixed being able to move in certain situations while auto-casting Phase Shift.
  
• Silencer: Fixed being unable to steal Int from dying magic immune heroes.
  
• Silencer: Fixed Last Word silencing invulnerable units.
  
• Silencer: Fixed stealing intelligence from Reincarnating heroes.
  
• Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness picking units that are invisible or in the fow when it tries to find a new target.
  
• Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness ignoring Hex.
  
• Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash working with illusions
  
• Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash bonus damage working on Towers, Wards and Denies
  
• Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness and Greater Bash going through Magic Immunity
  
• Storm Spirit: Fixed Ball Lightning costing draining more mana if you cast it again while still in it.
  
• Tiny: Ultimate Scepter upgrade is now enabled.
  
• Tiny: Fixed Toss damaging allied units.
  
• Fixed Dagon int bonus being off by 1.
  
• Fixed Arcane Boots giving 300 mana instead of 250.
  
• Fixed night vision radius being a little smaller than intended.
  
• Standing right next to a tree no longer removes its vision obstruction.
  
• Silencer: Fixed Global Silence silencing only heroes.
  
• Enabled Silencer and Spirit Breaker in Captain's Mode.
  
• Fixed Healing Ward and Windrunner auras' sticky durations to 2.5 seconds.
  
• Fixed Dagon's incorrect intelligence bonus values.
  
• Fixed Heaven's Halbred's disarm allowing attack-spells to be cast through it.
  
• Fixed Orchid using the old values at the new price.
  
• Fixed Pipe not costing any mana.
  
• Fixed Flying Courier HP not being upgraded after the last update
  

UI

• Added Steam avatars to the dashboard.
  
• Added Dota Profile page to the main menu, showing your personal match history, commendations and most successful heroes.
  
• Fixed a bug where your control could be lost if you were selecting a enchanted/converted unit. It now goes back to your hero.
  
• Party area of miniprofile now uses Steam avatars.
  
• Party area of miniprofile now shows rich presence for friends
  
• Party area of miniprofile now shows "View Steam Profile" link for non-friends
  
• Party chat channel automatically gets focus when you join a party
  
• Added a '*' to channel tabs with pending messages
  
• Fixed being able to sell back an item for full price if it was combined using an item that had an active ability.
  
• Added spacebar to pause games during replays.
  
• Fixed clicking on the minimap border and then dragging into the minimap resulting in the camera getting stuck to the cursor.
  
• Chat channels now get deleted if the last member in the channel goes offline.
  
• Fixed clicking on blank space in the UI sending move orders to invalid locations.
  
• Default private lobby version is now Tournament Mode.
  
• When player names draw they now draw with player color instead of white.
  
• Added leave party button in mini profile.
  
• Now when attempting to cast-attack a target while hard disarmed, the error message "Can't Attack" will appear when you reach attack range of the target.
  
• Holding now spotlights your hero.
  
• Illusions now copy the number of charges in source unit's inventory items.
  
• Fixed Courier purchase having no cooldown (now 7 seconds, primarily for accidental purchases early on).
  

BOTS

• Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their courier died.
  
• Fixed a case where bots would buy duplicate flying courier recipes.
  
• Improved Earthshaker bot's Echoslam logic -
• he'll now search for optimal places to Blink + Echoslam.
  
• Made bots better about detecting attacking units without cheating and detecting other units' right-clicks.
  
• Fixed Windrunner's buildout which broke due to the new Orchid recipe build. Also added force staff to her build.
  

This update adds German, French, Italian and Spanish localization to Take On Helicopters. The game was already available in English and in Czech, but with the addition of these new languages it widens its doors to flight game enthusiasts all over the world.

Release note for A.R.E.S. version 1.42
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+ Add Steam Cloud support
+ Remove unnecessary code
+ Minor bug fix