Catalyst 10.10 drivers add stereoscopic 3D goodies

The Catalyst 10.10 release panders to stereoscopic 3D fans. It introduces Blu-ray 3D support, which works only on the new 6800-series cards, as well as "Stereo 3D" gaming capabilities, which are available for both 5000- and 6800-series Radeons. The Stereo 3D gaming scheme requires stereoscopic goggles and a compatible monitor, of course, but also "3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D."

Also included in the new Catalysts: Windows Media Video HD codec acceleration for Radeon HD 5000-series cards under Windows 7. AMD says it has added histogram-based detection to the Catalyst Control Center's Dynamic Contrast setting, too.