Headlines - AMD Catalyst 8.5 drivers now available

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Catalyst 8.5 brings WHQL-certified support for Microsoft?s Windows XP Service Pack 3.

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From the release PDF:

Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.
• Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
• Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI
Radeon™ series of products
• Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
• Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the
game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products
• World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of
product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems contianing an ATI
Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product

Can you guys with 38*0s test this? These performance gains look impressive!!!!

EDIT: Actually, I guess it because DX10 which slows down compared to DX9... so I suppose that explains it