Catalyst 8.5 drivers are now available for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux (32bit and 64bit versions). Aside from the performance improvements in several games, a number of display mode enhancements have been made and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for OpenGL applications has been added.

***Release Note***
Windows XP Service Pack 3 support
This release of Catalyst™ introduces WHQL certified support for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3 update for all ATI Radeon™ Series products.

Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product.

Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI Radeon™ series of products.
Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product.

Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products.

World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems contianing an ATI Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product.

This post has been edited by fariz: May 22 2008, 09:30 AM