Catalyst 9.6 released

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In a nutshell:

- 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

And Sky is right to be angry with ATi's driver team (Terry Makedon) in particular.

I just love how they go on the merry-go-round with 'fixes' that break other things. With ATi I can always count on them to release a driver that boosts future mark results. I avoid those like the plague they are because that usually translates to bugs/slowdowns in games.

I also appreciate their fixing of my X1950 Pro CF in which they recently all but dropped support for. Nice.

If you want a good gauge of ATi's driver performance tweaktown has a nice running tally. Most of their released drivers prove to be placebo at best. At least where performance was concerned.

/Sarc

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Update. Found the link.

[bc_tileguy]

i find these drivers to be the best yet for crossfire !!

(4890 crossfire)

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So they should be. For that is why they were created.

[Dr_BenD_over]

I had ZERO AA control in Xp Pro with these.

[bc_tileguy]

That is strange ! Did you try re-installing the drivers ?

[Dr_BenD_over]

Originally Posted by bc_tileguy

That is strange ! Did you try re-installing the drivers ?

Yep. I eventually even had to remove all the Ati software and re-install the 9.5's to get my AA back. The setting was there in the 9.6's on Vista x64

[Sadasius]

Originally Posted by bc_tileguy

i find these drivers to be the best yet for crossfire !!

Yeah same here. Working very well on W7 RC 64 Ultimate. No problems yet!