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Posted by Brandon Sandman Bell on Monday June 15, 2009 - 11:32 AM

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» Catalyst 9.6 released

ATI has just released Catalyst 9.6 for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Linux. The new drivers offer bug fixes and performance improvements in select titles:

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.

    CrossFire scaling in Crysis has been an issue for quite some time for ATI's Radeon series, so it's good to see that Catalyst 9.6 offers some improvements in this department.

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