AMD to Officially Release Catalyst 9.8 Drivers Today
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Those who attended Quakecon 2009 (as well as those who follow AMD’s blog) were able to get an early look at AMD’s Catalyst 9.8 drivers, and sometime today, the company is expected to release them to the general public.
The new driver package comes with support for the Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 series while serving up support for OpenGL 3.1 extensions. AMD also claims several performance gains, including:
- Up to 50 percent better performance in Battleforge DirectX 10/10.1
- Up to 77 percent better performance in Company of Heroes (DX10)
- Up to a 10 percent (dual CrossFireX) and 34 percent (quad CrossFireX) performance boost in Crysis (DX10)
- Crysis Warhead DX10 performance of CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves up to 7 percent and quad mode up to 69 percent
- Far Cry 2 DX10 performance of CrossFireX in dual mode improves up to 50 percent and quad mode up to 88 percent
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DX10/10.1 performance of CrossFireX in dual mode improves up to 40 percent and quad mode up to 60 percent
- UninginTropics OpenGL performance improvements of up to 20 percent
- UningineTropics DX10 performance of CrossFireX in quad more improves up to 20 percent
- World in Conflict DX10 performance improves up to 10 percent
If you don’t feel like waiting for the drivers to show up on game.amd.com, you can grab them right here:
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows XP-64-bit
Vista / Win7 32-bit
Vista / Win7 64-bit
