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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.
# Catalyst Application Profiles
The following application profiles are available with this release of Catalyst:
* Aliens Vs. Predator Profile update
* Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Profile update
* F1 2010 Profile update
* Kane & Lynch 2 New profile
# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst:
* STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
* The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire configurations
# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Copy protection message will no longer appear when viewing a DVD with Windows Media Player on a Windows XP system with PowerDVD 9 installed