According to gamewag the next release of ATI’s Catalyst drivers (4.10) will be worked to significantly improve the performance of Radeon based cards. A new feature called “Application Detection and Optimization” will handle games differently to try and optimize performance.
As an example, with the release of DOOM III some clever folks figured out a way to significantly improve performance on ATI cards by tweaking some shader settings. What ATI is saying, is that they will take the initiative to figure out these optimizations and do them automatically.
Full story over at gamewag
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