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Highlights of the Catalyst 7.5 release include:

Performance improvements
 
•    OpenGL performance in Windows Vista improves on the Radeon X1950 XTX at high resolutions (1920x1200 or greater) with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.  Doom 3 and Quake 4 improves as much as 13-18% .and Prey improves at least 15.6%.  The Radeon X1950 Pro and Radeon X1650 XT also see improvements in Doom 3 and Quake 4 up to 14.1% at higher resolutions with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

New features

DirectX 10 driver support for the Radeon HD 2900 XT (single card and Crossfire configurations) for Windows Vista

•    This release of Catalyst™ introduces the ATI DirectX 10 driver for the Radeon HD 2900 XT, for both single cards and Crossfire configurations (AMD DirectX 10 Crossfire support is currently only available under Windows Vista 32-bit).  The ATI DirectX 10 driver used in combination with the Radeon HD 2900 XT (and an application designed to take advantage of the power of the DirectX 10 API) delivers incredible graphics effects never seen before on the PC.  


Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 7.5 (8.37.6) release include:

New features

Catalyst Control Center: Linux Edition Version 1.0
•    This release of the Catalyst® Linux graphics driver introduces the Catalyst™ Control Center Linux Edition version 1.0. The Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition now includes 3D settings which can enable/disable various 3D features in graphic-design applications, CAD applications, and games.   The Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition also supports display settings, color settings, and information about the current graphics hardware/software configurations.
Resolved Issues
•    Logging out of a session to the graphical login manager no longer crashes the Xserver.

For more information on Catalyst 7.5 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 7.5 release notes found in driver download section.