Es ist nicht überraschend, dass die Performance gleich geblieben ist, wenn man durchliest, was der Treiber verbessern sollte. Dann ist auch die verkürzte Ladezeit bei BF2 nicht überraschend
Performance improvements
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
* Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 graphics products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products
New Features
ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements
H.264 Level 5.1 support
* ATI Catalyst™ can now playback 5.1 level streams on all support players
* Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K) Mosquito noise removal
* Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback .
* Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products
AMD video transcoding updates
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter
* Performance improvements
* New formats supported (H.264 file formats – MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content)
* ATI Catalyst™ Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU acceleration
Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center
Resolved Issues: Highlights
* Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
* Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface
* Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
* "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
* Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire™ enabled
* Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration
* Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
* In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"games
* Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company"