Вышел новый драйвер для видеокарт ATI Radeon — ATI Catalyst™ 9.6.
Поддерживаются карты начиная от ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series до ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 Series

Catalyst™ 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited. Some measured examples are:
Company of Heroes — performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series

Crysis — performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations

Crysis Warhead — performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations

World in Conflict — performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:

• Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
• Catalyst Control Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling the primary display is now possible
• Changing the bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
• Catalyst Control Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no longer fails to display
• Catalyst Control Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic deinterlacing is enabled
• Catalyst Control Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a CRT display in clone mode
• Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled when using a non-HDTV resolution
• Fixed a regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no longer work properly with Catalyst 9.4 or later

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

• Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer incorrectly enabled when using non-HDTV resolutions
• System instability no longer observed when task switching to desktop when playing "Tom Clancy's HAWK"
• Catalyst Control Center: On some configurations, the scaling options are no longer missing for HDMI or component video displays
• Team Fortress 2 some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay