While Nvidia is just starting to play catch up, ATI took another step forward by releasing their new Catalyst 9.5 drivers for all 32 and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Here are some games that will see some performance improvements:

• Unigine Tropics DirectX® 9 – enables performance gains for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
• Company of Heroes - enables performance gains for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations.
• BattleForge- enables performance gains for ATI CrossFireX^TM configurations.

There was also some release notes regarding ATI Stream:

ATI Stream^TM:

• ATI Video encoder update
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon^TM HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon^TM HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst^TM Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Windows 7 x86 (32-bit) Driver Download
Windows 7 x64 (64-bit) Driver Download

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