AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.6 XP

AMD Inc - (Freeware)

AMD Catalyst Drivers is a smart choice for those that want to improve their PC performance while increasing overall stability.

AMD Catalyst Drivers includes the latest 32-bit AMD (ATI) for the graphics card and panel Catalyst Control Center.

The AMD driver provides a gain of performance in several 3D applications thus ensuring an optimal experience. The panel Catalyst Control Center provides quick access to all parameters relating to AMD hardware offering multimedia features, management and display game.

There are different versions of AMD drivers for each operating system.

Title:: AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.6 XP
File Size:: 45.6 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 17 Jun 2010
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: 1EEC4B42714E1A855B87795F67CEB014

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon Display Driver. These include the following:
* GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
- AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
> ATI Radeon HD 5000 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 series
> ATI Mobility ATI Radeon HD 400 series (and higher)
> ATI Radeon HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
* Video De-blocking support
- Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series of products
* Mosquito noise reduction
- Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series of products
* Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon HD Series

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 10.6:
* 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

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* "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 XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* 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