ATI rilascia i nuovi driver Catalyst 10.6

Nella giornata di ieri ATI ha rilasciato una nuova versione dei propri driver grafici Catalyst. I driver sono disponibili per piattaforme desktop e notebook ( 32 e 64bit ) a questo indirizzo.
Per la procedura d'installazione è consigliabile rimuovere la versione presente sul vostro sistema prima di aggiornare. Ulteriori dettagli sono presenti al link sopra citato.
Ed ecco il changelog completo di tutte le novità introdotte:

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 4000 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

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

  • Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products