CATALYST Display Driver Version 4.12

As with most CATALYST releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed

• Driver efficiency has improved considerably for both Direct3D and OpenGL.Numerous D3D games show 2-3% gains at low resolution. The small batch size tests in 3DMark05 show improvements as large as 15% on some products.
• In OpenGL, several game titles show improvements in the lower settings. Wolfenstein – Enemy Territory, for instance, shows gains as large as 15% in low resolution (driver-bound) cases. Doom III performance improves 5-10% at low settings. Call of Duty improves 5-6%.
• Half-Life 2 performance also improves as much as 20% over Catalyst 4.11 in certain sections of the game.