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LordJuanlo
06-16-09, 03:06 AM
Download here (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx) for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Linux.

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

Company of Heores – performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series.
Crysis Warhead – performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
Crysis – performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
World in Conflict – performance gains of up to 30% for settings are were previously CPU limited.

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 release include:

Support for new Linux operating systems


This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

SLED and SLED 11 production support

RHEL 4.8 early look support


MultiView for Consumer users

Allows users to render applications using a multiple GPU configuration with a unified workspace

Enables Xinerama in single or multiple GPU configurations
Supported on any combination of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon™ 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ 2000 Series of graphics cards


For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 release notes.

Heinz68
06-17-09, 07:00 PM
Thanks LoardJuanlo

I did run few benchmarks on Crysis and on my setup I don't get any performance improvement at all.
Strangely I did read at couple forums people claiming performance improvements.
Anyway I'm happy with my HD 4870 X2 on Crysis and all other games i did play.

Here are the benchmarks, they are all in 1920x1080 and AAx4. The Avg, Max, Min FPS and time play are just about same.

Cat 9.5 DX10 64 bit, Quality Settings High
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5636/cat95hdx10.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/cat95hdx10.jpg/)
Cat 9.6 DX10 64 bit, Quality Settings High http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/42/cat96hdx10.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/cat96hdx10.jpg/)


Cat 9.5 DX10 64 bit, Quality Settings Very High
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2981/cat95vhdx10.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/cat95vhdx10.jpg/)

Cat 9.6 DX10 64 bit, Quality Settings Very Highhttp://img35.imageshack.us/img35/479/cat96vhdx10.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/cat96vhdx10.jpg/)



Cat 9.5 DX09 64 bit, Quality Settings High
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9004/cat95hdx9.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/cat95hdx9.jpg/)

Cat 9.6 DX09 64 bit, Quality Settings High http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8821/cat96hdx9.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/cat96hdx9.jpg/)