ATI Catalyst Graphics Driver 7.1 Download

Posted at December 3, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

ATI Catalyst Graphics Driver 7.1 Description

Performance improvements

- As with most Catalyst releases, performance has increased in various situations. For example, in this release of Catalyst Dark Messiah of Might and Magic performance improves as much as 12% on all ATI Radeon X1000 Series products. 

Crossfire enhancements

- Catalyst 7.1 includes Crossfire enhancements that enable the Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Crossfire rendering mode by default, enabling performance benefits for all AFR compatible applications immediately (including newly released applications that have not been officially profiled for Crossfire). Future Catalyst releases will add further Crossfire performance gains once new applications have been profiled specifically for Crossfire. Please note that applications already profiled for AFR will not see any performance benefits from this feature.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.

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