Catalyst 7.3 Released

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ATI released a new Catalyst driver, today it´s v. 7.3. for Windows and Linux. Performance improvements Dark Messiah Might and Magic performance improves 12.5% or greater on all ATI Radeon X1000 series configurations running in Crossfire in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Largest gains of 60% or more can be seen on high end products.

OpenGL Crossfire support under Windows Vista Catalyst 7.3 introduces OpenGL Crossfire support for the entire ATI Radeon X1000 product series under Windows Vista. Users will see significant performance gains in a number of OpenGL applications when running in Crossfire mode under Windows Vista Crossfire enhancements for Windows Vista Catalyst 7.3 includes Crossfire enhancements for Windows Vista that enable the Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Crossfire rendering mode by default, enabling performance benefits for all AFR compatible applications immediately (including newly released applications that have not been officially profiled for Crossfire). Future Catalyst releases will add further Crossfire performance gains once new applications have been profiled specifically for Crossfire. Please note that applications already profiled for AFR will not see any performance benefits from this feature. Download at ATI