ATI Catalyst 8.12 Released

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ATI has just released this year's final version of its Catalyst driver package. As you might already know from our previous BETA release post, with the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can now unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for various ATI Radeon graphics processors. This release also adds Stream technology to ATI's AVIVO Video Converter and many performance improvements.


Performance Improvements


* 3DMark Vantage DX10 - performance gains of up to 5% for Single and

Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and

HD4350.

* Call of Duty: World at War DX9 - performance gains of up to 21% for Single

and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.

* Crysis DX10 - performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire

mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

* Crysis Warhead DX10 - performance gains of up to 13% for Single card

mode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on

all Radeon HD4xxx.

* Devil May Cry 4 DX10- performance gains of up to 6% for Single and

Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and

HD38xx.

* Fallout 3 - performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.

* Far Cry 2 DX10 - performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and

up to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon

HD4xxx and HD38xx.

* FEAR DX9 - performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode.

Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870X2 and HD4870.

* Hellgate: London DX10 - performance gains of up to 6% for Single card

mode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on

all Radeon HD4xxx.

* Left 4 Dead DX9- performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and

up to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon

HD4870 series.

* Lost Planet Colonies DX10 - performance gains of up to 10% for Single and

Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and

HD38xx.

* Prey OGL - performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performance

gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx,

HD45xx.

* S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfire

mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

* Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 - performance gains of up to 18% for Single

card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is

enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and

HD38xx.

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wwww.ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

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YES!!!!!! Its been a While.

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Hmmm.... i seem to get an error page whenever i try to download the latest drivers :[

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if you have a 4870x2 DONT INSTALL THIS DRIVER. my mate had to roll back to 8.11 cause it crash his comp constantly.

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We will see about that

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I should've created this topic yesterday, but I forgot about everything when a big-boobed classmate called me out to have some beer.


Well, I'm dying to know if u guys got around +12 FPS in Fallout 3 as I did

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confirmed driver success rate for a 4870x2 is 2%


4870...68%


4850..91%

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i love combacks man go ATi !!!