ATI releases Catalyst 9.5 drivers

While Nvidia is just starting to play catch up, ATI took another step forward by releasing their new Catalyst 9.5 drivers for all 32 and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Here are some games that will see some performance improvements:

• Unigine Tropics DirectX® 9 – enables performance gains for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
• Company of Heroes - enables performance gains for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations.
• BattleForge- enables performance gains for ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations.

There was also some release notes regarding ATI Stream:

ATI Stream^TM:

• ATI Video encoder update
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon^TM HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst^TM Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Windows 7 x86 (32-bit) Driver Download
Windows 7 x64 (64-bit) Driver Download

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