Here is the monthly release of ATI drivers.

Read the release notes for Catalyst Drivers 8.6.

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Today ATI released their monthly Catalyst drivers. This month’s version is 8.5.

Read the release notes to see the latest changes and information.

If you experience problems with drivers, use Guru 3D Driver Sweeper after you have uninstalled your current drivers to clean the system before installing the new ones. It is recommended even if you don’t have any problems. You can do this right in you windows session or in Safe Mode.

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The monthly release of ATI’s Catalyst drivers was released today. Read the release notes of version 8.4 to learn what’s changed/improved and to see the known issues in this release.

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The monthly version of Catalyst drivers is out now.

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ATI released their new set of drivers. This month’s version 8.2 is ready for download.

For a complete list of fixes or known issues, refer to the Release Notes.

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Here comes an update for the Catalyst drivers.

I havent tried this new version to see if there is something important to talk about. However, in the release notes  there are various applications and game issues that are fixed.

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My last posts were almost all about Nvidia and its drivers or nTune. Happens that i own one 8800 GTS 320 mb video card and i’m testing the latest beta drivers. I downloaded the Crysis demo and was playing with it and the new drivers, but i was let down by the performance of this demo that i tried to tweak my drivers but couldn’t get a perceivable boost.

I expect a few more beta releases from Nvidia to address performance issues with this game in particular.

This happens when game developers and hardware vendors try to push the marketing too much. I mean, if a game is graphically awesome, why not make it and optimize it to run on the latest high-end hardware? The current trend is to make games with almost realistic graphics and incredible effects but you need the best gaming machine in order to take advantage of the latest developments. And even if you got one of this systems, you can’t run it in all it’s glory and high resolutions because you need yet-to-be-released hardware. I remember than a few years ago, the best-looking games could be played with the latest hardware available and there wasn’t a need for a new systems or a new video card in order to play them.

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