Well I've been doing some snooping around the internet and there are some Catalyst 8.8 beta drivers floating around which I went ahead and tried out.
1. Powerplay is supposed to be working in the final release, it doesn't seem to be in the Beta though, as well as some altered fan settings (official fan fix).
2. Adaptive Antialiasing is simplified, the drop down box to select "super-sampling" or "multi-sampling" has been removed. The reason is that Catalyst has always decided the best method to use when you enable adaptive anti-aliasing, the drop down box was only to set the magnitude for super-sampling and multi-sampling, although the driver itself picked which mode to use. Now there is just quality and performance.
3. Improved Crossfire performance, I can say this is definitely true because I'm playing at around 30-40fps in Crysis very high DX10, 25fps is about as low as it goes. Also I tried very high in DX9 mode and found the DX10 very high performed better than DX9! :shock: I haven't tried my other games just yet, but so far with just Crysis I'm impressed.
I've also read around the net that the 8.8 beta drivers are also increasing single card performance in Crysis significantly.
I'll keep you updated.
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