Catalyst 7.6 is now available for download

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ATI has released Catalyst 7.6 on http://www.ati.amd.com for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms

Highlights of the Catalyst 7.6 release include:

Performance improvements
* ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Crossfire performance improvements under Windows Vista:
1. As much as 42% performance increase in Half-Life 2: Episode 1 with HDR+AA enabled
2. As much as 16% performance increase in Dark Messiah: Might and Magic with HDR enabled.

Resolved Issues (high-lights)
* Quake 4: Playing the game with CrossFire enabled no longer result in corruption being noticed after a short time of game play.
* Installing the display driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the display resolutions of 1680x1050, 1800x1440, 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 not being available when using an analog CRT display device.
* Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in changes being made to the secondary display device being reflected on the primary display device.

Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 7.6 (8.38.6) release include:

New features
* This release of the Catalyst® Linux graphics driver introduces support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

Resolved Issues
* Moving a video window between two monitors in a big desktop configuration no longer crashes the Xserver.
* Playing multiple videos at the same time with textured video no longer results in corruption being noticed.

For more information on Catalyst 7.6 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 7.6 release notes found in driver download section.

They must have fixed a bug to get a 42% performance increase in Half-Life 2!!! Damn too bad they couldn't do that in all games.