ATI Releases CATALYST 6.9 Drivers For Download

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ATI has released Catalyst 6.9 on http://www.ati.com for both Windows and Linux platforms, so grab them if you need them. I'm loading them up on the test bench now and if anything goes wrong I'll let you know.

Highlights of the Windows Catalyst 6.9 release include:

Performance improvements:

3DMark2006 overall performance improves 6.7-23.7% with anti-aliasing enabled due to improvements in HyperZ efficiency on the Radeon X1300, X1600 and X1800 series of products. The largest gains can be seen on Crossfire configurations and/or 256MB card configurations at resolutions of 1280x1024 or greater.
Doom3 performances improves up to 9.3% due to further OpenGL shader complier and transform engine optimizations on the entire Radeon X1000 Series of products. The largest gains can be seen on Radeon X1900 configurations at resolutions of 1600x1200 or higher

New Features

Crossfire® and Intel 965 Chipset Support

Catalyst 6.9 introduces CrossFire® support for Intel 965 chipsets. This feature will be available for D3D applications, and is supported on ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire® edition products. This feature is available under the Windows XP operating system.


Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 6.9 (8.29.6) release include:

New Features

· The ATI Proprietary Linux software driver introduces Linux Kernel 2.6.18 support

For more information on Catalyst 6.9 (for Windows and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 6.9 release notes found in driver download section.

head on over to http://www.ati.com to grab the new driver.