And again a new graphics driver, today from Ati. Catalyst 7.2 is available for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms. Highlights of the Catalyst 7.2 release include: OpenGL performance improves for all ATI Radeon X1000 series products under Windows Vista. Gains of up to 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey can be seen on a variety of ATI Radeon X1000 cards. New features: Catalyst 7.2 introduces the new version of the Catalyst Control Center for Windows XP (released for Windows Vista in Catalyst 7.1), delivering: Significant performance gains; Catalyst Control Center start-up time has been substantially reduced, and overall responsiveness has improved. Reduced system resource usage New 3D static preview ? significantly improves the ability for users to understand the benefits of enabling the many Catalyst features of their ATI Radeon graphics accelerator Increased stability Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 7.2 (8.34.8) release include: A system hang no longer occurs when attempting to resume from hibernation mode. Loading the XVideo Extension on 64-bit Xorg 6.9+ systems no longer results in the X Server segfaulting when launching. This issue was known to occur with ATI Radeon X1000 products. Running aticonfig--dtop=(horizontal|vertical) no longer results in clone mode being activated when attempting to enable big desktop mode Running through the un-install of the Linux graphics driver no longer results in the fglx and ati folders failing to be removed .
For more information on Catalyst 7.2 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 7.2 release notes found in driver download section. Download