[DOWNLOAD] Catalyst 10.2

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Performance improvements
• DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products
• Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%
• Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
• The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 improves up to 4%

New Features
ATI Catalyst™ application profiles for ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations
• This release of ATI Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest ATI CrossFireX™ profiles in a separate executable file, ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
o The ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 package Includes the fully qualified ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 application profile list (which includes all ATI CrossFireX profiles) and is installed by default
o The latest application profile list is posted on amd.com in a separate .exe file that users can install to get the absolute latest application profiles (that have not yet been added to the official ATI Catalyst release)

ATI Catalyst™ support for PowerPlay™ on ATI CrossFireX™ technology supported configurations
• Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series setup in ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
o Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Windows® 7 and Windows Vista
o Sets secondary GPU(s) engine and memory clocks to low levels and reduces voltage when the GPU(s) are not in use

ATI Catalyst™ support for DisplayPort audio
• This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels

Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations
• The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups
• Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 Series

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