Cat 8.2 succeeds version 8.1 to everyone's bewilderment

Friday 15th February 2008, 12:12:00 AM, written by Farid

Never letting the beat drop, the red --and somehow at the same time green-- team of mad MCs at AMD released yesterday the second version (the .2) of their 2008 series (the 8) of catalyst drivers for Radeon-family graphics cards.

Available for Windows XP, XP-64, Vista 32bit, Vista 64bit, Linux x86, x86-64 and more. According to AMD, one of the main highlight of this driver release is the performance increase, as much as 20%, in the DX10 mode of Company of Heroes for all Radeon HD 2x00 and HD 3x00 (Windows only, obviously).

Other highlights for the Windows version include bug fixes in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars’ level editor (Windows Vista), World of Warcraft when running in OpenGL mode (Vista) and Doom 3 when running in CrossFire with AA set to 16x and resolution to resolution to 2048x1536 and higher (Windows XP).

The release notes for Linux version only mentions a few Xserver compatibility fixes.

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