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Even though the unofficial versions were leaked a few days ago, AMD has published the official update for the Catalyst drivers, arriving to the 9.8 version. The American company promises great performances with the new drivers, and support to OpenGL 3.1, RHEL 4.8 and Ubuntu 9.04. Also a number of enhancements and corrections in some gaming titles. For example, with Company of Heroes, the advantage is of 77%.

The control panel is now also compatible with RandR API 1.2 for multiple screen management.The new drivers can be downloaded from ATI’s official website.

AMD has made the version 9.6 of their Catalyst drivers available for download. Those drivers are compatible with the graphic cards from the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series on; the support to other versions of Radeon graphic cards wasn’t yet implemented.

The new drivers offer a few optimizations on the performance, but no new specific feature that wasn’t found on the previous versions. There are definitely fps increase on the HD4000 series and optimizations on the CrossFire X configurations, however.

ATI has officially launched their new Catalyst 9.5 drivers on Friday, but the official notes were only released yesterday. Compared to the 9.4 version, there are minor changes on the performance level, with some increases reaching only 10% with some gaming titles.

The Windows Vista and Windows 7 drivers, both the 32Bit and 64bit versions were unified; the release for Windows 7 was also certified by Microsoft with their WHQL certification. The 64bit version also corrects some compatibility problems with the ATI Avivo Converter application.

ATI has published the new ATI Cataylist 9.5 drivers for download, more exactly the versions for the Radeon HD 2000 series and beyond. AMD has confirmed that the drivers would be indeed available today, despite having been scheduled for last Friday.

For now, ATI hasn’t released any notes regarding the new version, but it’s likely that the information will appear together with the disponibility of those drivers on their website.

This time it took ATI only one day to test their new Catalyst drivers, version 9.4, to obtain the WHQL certification for Microsoft’s new operationaly system, Windows 7.

The drivers were never a high point for ATI, both for its delay between one version and the next, and the many problems users found with new releases, being unable to push the hardware to the maximum. Obtaining the WHQL certification in one day shows that ATI has been working hard not to allow nVIDIA to step even further away.

Those who wish to test the new Microsoft OS, now with its Release Candidate version, can download the drivers for their own videocard on ATI’s official driver page.

It’s worth reminding users that the complete WHQL-certified version of the Catalyst drivers (9.5) with support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 should be launched by the end of this month.

All the tests were done using Vista Ultimate 64 bit with Service Pack 1 and updated to last December, while the drivers used were the Catalyst 8.12 ones.

Due to the price and range of the card, the resolutions for the in-game tests were 1680×1050 and 1920×1200, since any lower resolutions would simply not justify the acquisition of cards such as this one. Also for the software tests, the resolutions used were the same, with and without filters, while for the 3DMark Vantage software the pre-selections used were Performance, High and eXtreme.