Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.56 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:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o SLED and SLED 11 production support
o 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.