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It's been a busy week for AMD. They have been revealing more info about their plans for a DirectX11 graphics product (and two more PC games that will support DirectX11) and they introduced their Eyefinity multi-monitor technology. Now the company has released new Catalyst drivers for their ATI Radeon graphics chip products.

The new Catalyst 9.9 drivers come in Windows XP, Vista and 7 flavors. There are a few new improvements and features for PC games in this newest release including adding anti-aliasing support for Ghostbusters, ATI CrossfireX support for the upcoming PC port of Resident Evil 5 and fixing a graphics corruption bug in The Sims 3.

ATI Radeon graphics card users can rest easy; their regular monthly refresh of their Catalyst graphics card drivers is now out and about on AMD's PC game web site. The 9.6 version drivers are available in Windows XP, Windows Vista and (for those of you who have it installed) the release candidate for Windows 7.

The release notes, as always, give out more info on what's contained in the newest drivers. They include some performace improvements for various PC games. Here's the full list:

• Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
• Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
• Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
• World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings
• that were previously CPU limited