The graphics division of Advanced Micro Devices sticks to their schedule and releases new Catalyst driver versions once a month, which is reflected in their numeric indexes. As we have already found out, the first release of this year, version 9.1, did in fact ensure a significant performance improvement in certain games. However, it was not free from a number of issues. In particular, the video post-processing was disabled in for some reason, and there were some problems with enabling anisotropic filtering using the corresponding options in the Catalyst Control Center.

They have also fixed a number of issues with the Catalyst Control Center that many users have been complaining about. Moreover, they have also resolved some video playback issues and eliminated the problems with HDMI devices connection. You can check out the complete list of fixes in this driver version on the official developer web-site.

Anyway, we are primarily interested in finding out how the new driver is going to behave in contemporary games. That is why we ran a number of performance tests of the new ATI Catalyst 9.2 driver in the games mentioned by ATI as well as in a few additional titles, where the new driver may prove better or worse than the old one.

You can read the entire article at X-bit Labs.