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ATI Catalyst 8.5 Drivers Released
AMD has just released the latest iteration of the
ATI Catalyst drivers, now up to version 8.5. This latest update supports all Radeon 9500 and above graphics cards.
So what’s new in this release? For starters, it introduces WHQL certified support for Windows XP Service Pack 3. It also resolves Windows XP and Vista-related issues in over a dozen games. Most importantly though, it provides some impressive performance improvements:
- Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product.
- Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI
Radeon™ series of products.
- Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product.
- Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the
game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products.
- World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of
product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems containing an ATI
Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product.
If you are hesitant to install these new drivers, wait a few days for TweakTown to post their usual in-depth driver analysis.
Click here to download the official release notes.
Click here for the download links.
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