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Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Windows release include:
Performance improvements
Aliens vs. Predator
* Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Battleforge
* Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Call of Duty: World at War
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Company of Heroes
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Devil May Cry 4
* Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
DiRT 2
* Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Far Cry 2
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
* Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
* Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Resident Evil 5
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
* Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Unigine Tropics
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
World in Conflict
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Wolfenstein
* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
New Features
ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products.
* Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers
ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
* Display Bezel Compensation
o Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
* Per-Display Color Adjust
o Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
* Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
o Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
* Improved Display Configuration switching
o Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
o Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic
* AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as DDD and iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
RHEL 5.5 early look support