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 <title>ATI Releases Driver Hotfix to Improve Performance in Far Cry 2 and Stalker Clear Sky</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;ATI recently updated its Catalyst driver package, and now the company has &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&amp;amp;task=knowledge&amp;amp;questionID=38664&quot;&gt;released&lt;/a&gt; a hotfix to address problems gamers might have been having in Far Cry 2, Stalker Clear Sky, and Brothers in Arms: Hell&#039;s Highway. Specific fixes include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Performance boost in Far Cry 2 with DX9 and CrossFire&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Performance boost in Far Cry 2 with DX10 on both single-card and CrossFire setups&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Performance boost in Stalker Clear Sky with DX10 and DX10.1 on both single-card and CrossFire setups when running &amp;quot;higher resolutions&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Addresses a corrpution issue in Brothers in Arms: Hell&#039;s Highway on the &#039;Black Friday&#039; level&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The hotfix applies to both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/hotfix_vista32-64_8-551-1-71310.exe&quot;&gt;Vista&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/hotfix_xp32-64_8-551-1-71311.exe&quot;&gt;XP&lt;/a&gt; starting with ATI&#039;s Radeon X1600 series and moving on up to the Radeon HD 4800 graphics cards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/u69/FarCry2.png&quot; width=&quot;415&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small&quot;&gt;Image Credit: Ubisoft &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:15:17 -0500</pubDate>
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