AMD released version 9.6 of their ATI video card driver package.Performance Improvements:
- Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
- Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
- Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
- World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited
- Some systems with both a component video display and a secondary display, it is now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settings
- Catalyst Control Center: Graphics corruption no longer visible when updating the ATI Graphics Power settings
- Catalyst Control Center: System no longer fails to set the Component Video modes
- Catalyst Control Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabled
- Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
- Enabling CrossFire under specific system configurations no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
- Intermittent corruption no longer visible throughout Enemy Territory Quake Wars levels
View: Release notes
Download: ATI Catalyst 9.6 driver
According to Phoronix the old code branch is no longer maintained anyways so it doesn't look good at all for legacy cards.
They better at least provide a Windows 7 compatible driver. Apparently the code for legacy cards is still present in the Linux drivers but it has been disabled.
Last edited by Rob2687 on 16 Jun 2009 - 03:13
Windows 7 has not been officially released, and is in actuality still in the last stages of beta (release candidate). Sure, the drivers are based on the same API for Vista as for Windows 7, but why should ATI support a product that has not even been released. Truly believe that once Windows 7 is finalized, they will continue their legendary driver support.
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