ATI Catalyst 9.6

AMD released version 9.6 of their ATI video card driver package.

Performance Improvements:

• Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
• Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
• Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
• World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:

• Some systems with both a component video display and a secondary display, it is now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settings
• Catalyst Control Center: Graphics corruption no longer visible when updating the ATI Graphics Power settings
• Catalyst Control Center: System no longer fails to set the Component Video modes
• Catalyst Control Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabled
• Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
• Enabling CrossFire under specific system configurations no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
• Intermittent corruption no longer visible throughout Enemy Territory Quake Wars levels

View: Release notes
Download: ATI Catalyst 9.6 driver