Terry “I make drivers” Makedon sends along holiday greetings as well as word that new Catalyst 4.12 drivers are out. The 4.12 drivers will be the final Catalyst drivers of the year so get them while they are hot. Here is a partial list of improvements:
*Driver efficiency has improved considerably for both Direct3D and OpenGL.
*Numerous D3D games show 2-3% gains at low resolution. The small batch size tests in 3DMark05 show improvements as large as 15% on some products.
*In OpenGL, several game titles show improvements in the lower settings. Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, for instance, shows gains as large as 15% in low resolution (driver-bound) cases. Doom III performance improves 5-10% at low settings. Call of Duty improves 5-6%.
*Half-Life 2 performance also improves as much as 20% over Catalyst 4.11 in certain sections of the game.
CATALYST Windows XP 4.12 - Driver Download