AMD today sneaked in the latest version of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that provides support to several AMD/ATI components such as ATI Radeon series GPUs, AMD desktop chipsets, AMD FireStream GPGPU, and ATI Theater multimedia products. As revealed by the release notes document, AMD introduced several performance and feature-set changes, along with timely bug-fixes. Highlights include:
* Crysis performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on Radeon HD 4800 series
* Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD 4800 series products
* Introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
* A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager
* Added support for new OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
At this point in time, Catalyst 9.7 is only available for Windows 7 and Vista. The Windows XP version will be published by AMD soon.