ATI/AMD has released a new version of its drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Version 7.10 of the ATI Catalyst drivers bring speed improvements and new features.
Catalyst 7.10 introduces the following new features:
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products
Software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products
This release of Catalyst introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.
Software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
This release of Catalyst introduces software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series. Software CrossFire is only available when two graphics accelerators from the same family (i.e. 2 ATI Radeon HD 2600 products) are plugged into a CrossFire compatible motherboard with no hardware interconnect between the two graphics accelerators.
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.10:
Battlefield 2142: CrossFire performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550
BioShock DX10 CrossFire performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire ATI Radeon HD2600 and ATI Radeon HD2400 configurations
Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon HD2900 and ATI Radeon HD2600 products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon HD2x00 and ATI Radeon X1x00 series of products
FEAR CrossFire performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
Supreme Commander CrossFire performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 and ATI Radeon X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon HD2900XT and ATI Radeon HD2600 products
World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 products
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News source: AMD Game website
View: Release notes
Download: ATI Catalyst 7.10 drivers
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