As promised, AMD has brought the Catalyst 9.8 drivers at QuakeCon and delivered them three days ahead of the 'official schedule'. Set to become available on game.amd.com on Monday, the Catalyst 9.8 comes with support for the Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000 and HD 4000 series cards, provides OpenGL 3.1 extension support, and features the following performance updates:

- Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance improves of up to 50% with the largest gains in configurations using ATI CrossFireX technology.
- Company of Heroes DirectX 10 performance improves of up to 77%.
- Crysis DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 10% and quad mode performance improves of up to 34%.
- Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 7% and quad mode performance improves of up to 69%.
- Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 50% and quad mode performance improves of up to 88%.
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 40% and with quad mode performance improving of up to 60%.
- UnigineTropics OpenGL performance improvements of up to 20%.
- UnigineTropics DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in quad mode improvements of up to 20%.
- World in Conflict DirectX 10 performance improvements of up to by 10%.

To download Catalyst 9.8 simply follow the links below.

- Catalyst 9.8 (Windows XP 32bit)
- Catalyst 9.8 (Windows XP 64bit)
- Catalyst 9.8 (Windows Vista/7 32bit)
- Catalyst 9.8 (Windows Vista/7 64bit)