ATI Catalyst WHQL 9.12 drivers

ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.12 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes.

The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.12 contains the following:

ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series. The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™ 9.12:
  - Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
  - BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
  - Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
  - Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
  - Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
  - Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
  - Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
  - Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
  - Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
  - Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
  - transform_feedback2
  - texture_cubemap_array

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 9.12:
- 3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations