ATI Catalyst 10.6

New features:

* GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1.
* Video De-blocking support.
* Mosquito noise reduction.
* Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3.

Performance Improvements:
– 3DMark Vantage

* Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5970.

– Batman: Arkham Asylum

* Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.

– Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark

* Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.
* Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products.

– Company of Heroes – DX10

* Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.

– Crysis Warhead

* CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products.

– DiRT 2 – DX9

* Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.
* Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products.

– The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena

* Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.
* Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products.

– Unigine Tropics

* CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products.

– World in Conflict

* Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.

– Wolfenstein

* Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.
* Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations.
* Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products.

Resolved issues:
– All OS

* “Battlefield 2: Bad Company” maps no longer takes unusually long to load.
* Assigned hotkeys are now retained for “Desktops & Displays” after Catalyst Control Center restart.

– Windows 7

* “The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena” no longer displays white pixel corruption on walls while playing the “Pitch Black” stage with Super Anti-Alias and in-game Anti-Alias enabled.
* Corruption no longer visible during “Bioshock 2” gameplay in DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 mode with CrossFire™ enabled Booting the operating system without displays connected no longer causes CrossFire™ to become disabled.
* Grass and crops are no longer rendered randomly at unusual locations in “Battlefield 2: Bad Company” game scenes.
* Blank/static display no longer observed after loading a game in “TimeShift” with Super Anti-Alias and CrossFire™ enabled.
* Enabling Tessellation no longer causes “Unigine Heaven 2.1” to stop functioning.
* Graphical settings can now be adjusted to higher values in “Grand Theft Auto 4: Episodes from Liberty City” with Crossfire™ enabled.
* Under Multi-GPU configuration with Crossfire™ enabled, setting both “Shaders Quality” and “Post-Processing Quality” to “Enthusiast” no longer causes frame rate drops in “Crysis Warhead” DirectX 9 game.

– Windows Vista

* Toggling from window mode to fullscreen mode now functions properly in “Assassin’s Creed” game with DirectX 10.
* Toggling between desktop and “Battlefield: Bad Company 2” game no longer causes flickering under Multi-GPU configuration.
* Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate.
* [Catalyst Control Center] Video basic color controls in the “All Settings” page can now be applied and will not shift to default values.
* Disabling CrossFire™ for the first time no longer causes the “Contrast” value to change to zero in Catalyst Control Center – Display Properties Color page.
* Flashing texture corruption no longer visible during game play for “Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts”.

– Windows XP

* Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate.
* “Age of Empires” online game no longer displays error and becomes unplayable when the strategy button is clicked.