Upcoming ATI Radeon HD CATALYST Driver 8.561.3

[Apoptosis]

This is an e-mail from ATI about an upcoming driver update.

This update introduces driver multithreading under certain DirectX10 applications, allowing the driver workload to be more effectively distributed across multi-core CPU’s. With the graphics processing power behind a solution such as ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 this can provide some notable performance improvements. Additionally this driver also provides a Crossfire X optimized profile for Need for Speed Undercover allowing ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 to play this title with maximum quality effects enabled.



The improvements the 8.561.3 driver brings include:



· Call of Juarez improves up to 15% with AA enabled

· Company of Heroes improves up to 5%

· Crysis improves as much as 18%

· Crysis Warhead improves as much as 20-30%

· Need for Speed Underground improves as much as 70%-80%

· World In Conflict improve as much as 5%



We expect this driver to be publicly available early in the new year.

[skier]

Need for Speed Undercover(which i assume you MEAN when you say underground) increases up to %80
it's probably the worst optimized game i've played, worse than Crysis warhead(because at least Crysis looks amazing)
now nvidia needs to do the same so people can play NFS at the highest settings

[Skippman]

Well, guess I know what I'll be downloading soon.

To be honest, I didn't see that "bang wow" improvement when I switched from XP and DX9 to Vista and DX10 on Crysis Warhead. Am I missing something?

[Skippman]

Dangit, when will this come out already?

[IRQ Conflict]

February is early in the new year didn't you know?

[IRQ Conflict]

Well, NVIDIA's WHQL Ge Force driver 181.22 has been out for 24 hours. Looks like nVidia is beating ATI in the driver release game. Wake up ATI!