AMD, the recent owner of popular GPU/videocard manufacturer ATI, has released the 6.10 version of the Catalyst drivers for popular models with ATI GPUs. The patch contains a number of game specific fixes and additions, especially added support for both HDR and AA in Oblivion (take that, Xbox 360!) in addition to pretty substantial benchmarking gains across the board. Here's a concise list of important alterations:

• HDR + Anti-Aliasing support for The Elder Scrolls Oblivion
• Users no longer need to download and install the Chuck patch - the Direct3D driver now includes native support for High Dynamic Range and Anti-Aliasing with The Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
• As with most Catalyst releases, performance has increased in various situations. In this release of Catalyst Intel 965 Crossfire performance increases due to improvements of the Crossfire D3D driver in handling large vertex meshes. Gains of 6.7-15.8% can be seen in 3DMark2006, 9.7-10.5% in 3DMark2005 and 3DMark2003 performance improves as much as 7.1%.
• 3DMark2006: Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 and AA to either 4x or 6x no longer results in display corruption being noticed when running the HDR1 test. This issue was known to occur on certain specific systems only. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23443
• Anarchy-Online: Screen corruption is no longer noticed when walking or running through the terrain. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22016
• Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods: Intermittent display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game in a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900 series and running the Windows MCE operating system when setting the graphics options within the game to high details. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23275
• Commandos Strike Force: Enabling CrossFire and playing the game no longer results in display corruption being noticed when using an Intel 965 motherboard. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23444
• World of Warcraft: Playing the game for an extended period of time no longer results in the game failing to respond when using a Radeon X800. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22632

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