AMD Catalyst 7.10 released

Thursday 11th October 2007, 03:03:00 PM, written by Tim

AMD has released version 7.10 of their Catalyst driver package, which offers significant performance gains in D3D10 applications, especially when using CrossFire configurations. According to Dave Baumann, this is the first driver for the HD 2000 series to enable general-purpose AFR, which explains some of the enormous performance increases there.

Some highlights of the improved D3D10 performance according to the release notes:

• Bioshock performance is at least 70% higher on all Crossfire configurations.
• World in Conflict renderer is faster by 20% or more on single card HD 2900 or 2600 configurations and 14-67% in Crossfire configurations.
• Call of Juarez is up to 34% faster for single cards and 42% faster for Crossfire.
• Company of Heroes is 80% faster in Crossfire configurations and up to 31% faster for single cards.

There are additional performance gains in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which is as much as 23% faster on both the X1000 and HD 2000 series of cards.

Adaptive anti-aliasing is also officially enabled on X1000 cards, and software Crossfire support is now available for the HD 2400 and 2600 cards.

7.10 is available for 32-bit Vista, 64-bit Vista, 32-bit XP, and 64-bit XP. As a side note, AMD has said that a new version of the Linux Catalyst package will be released soon.

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