ATI Catalyst Driver 8.12 available

"ATI releases latest revision of drivers for the year 2008, integrating support for GPU computing and providing the utility ATI AVIV Converter"

ATI has released the new version of its Catalyst driver, came to release 8.12. These drivers implement various innovations among which suggest support for the ATI Stream technology, to use the GPU for processing of GPU Computing, and integration of ATI AVIV Video Converter, utility compatible with Radeon cards Radoen HD 4800 and HD 4600 that allows you to perform the conversion and transcoding of video streams using this in the processing power of the GPU.

Here are links for downloading from the software section of Hardware Upgrade, in versions for Windows XP and Windows Vista, both 32bit to 64bit that.

Catalyst 8.12 Windows Vista 32bit

Catalyst 8.12 Windows Vista 64bit

Catalyst 8.12 Windows XP 32bit

Catalyst 8.12 Windows XP 64bit

Following the notes provided in support with drivers:

ATI Stream Computing Support

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon graphics processors worldwide.

• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.

ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIV Video Converter

• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can help accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices

ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content

• This release of Catalyst introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Aviva Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center

Performance Improvements

• 3DMark Vantage DX10 - performance gains of up to 5% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and HD4350.
• Call of Duty: World at War DX9 - performance gains of up to 21% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.
• Crysis DX10 - performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• DX10 Crysis Warhead - performance gains of up to 13% for Single card mode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• Devil May Cry 4-DX10 performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Fallout 3 - performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.
• Far Cry 2 DX10 - performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• FEAR DX9 - performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD4870X2 and Radeon HD4870.
• Hellgate: London DX10 - performance gains of up to 6% for Single card mode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• Left 4 Dead DX9-performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4870 series.
• Lost Planet Colonies DX10 - performance gains of up to 10% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Prey OGL - performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx, HD45xx.
• STALKER: Clear Sky - performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 - performance gains of up to 18% for Single card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Download ATI Catalyst Driver 8.12

I noticed no improvements to fps in GTAIV, which ain't that much of a surprise to me, i got the 4850 X2 1gb card.

I dont expect the patch to improve much either, it would seam that rockstar lost their tuch when they decided to include all this obsolate crap in place of solid gameplay.

Correction, the 3850 card. But even that should be able to run the game with considerable good fps.

Ya i think you are right GTA IV is completely hopeless.