Catalyst 6.9

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Cat 6.9 WinXP download

 

Release Notes

 

New Features:

This release of Catalyst® introduces CrossFire™ support for the Intel 965 Chipset. This feature is available for D3D applications, and is supported on ATI Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ edition products. This feature is supported under the Windows XP operating system.

 

Performance Improvement:

* 3DMark2006 overall performance improves 6.7-23.7% with anti-aliasing enabled due to improvements in HyperZ efficiency on the Radeon® X1300, X1600 and X1800 series of products. The largest gains can be seen on Crossfire™ configurations and/or 256MB card configurations at resolutions of 1280x1024 or greater

* Doom3 performances improves up to 9.3% due to further OpenGL shader complier and transform engine optimizations on the entire Radeon® X1000 Series of products. The largest gains can be seen on Radeon® X1900 configurations at resolutions of 1600x1200 or higher.

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Ill wait until a bigger improvement is done.

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ATI Catalyst 6.9 Performance Analysis

 

"All that testing resulted in some pretty boring results. Performance wise we aren’t really seeing anything much except a bump in our higher end cards in HL2 with HDR disabled and a increase in PREY for the X1900XT when AA and AF is enabled.

 

We don’t expect increases every month but it is nice to have them – the normal array of bug fixes are present as usual though unless your game is mentioned in them we wouldn’t be rushing out to install the latest drivers – especially if you have one of the new Radeon cards."