In the middle of November AMD promised that in December the driver version ATI catalyst will support ATI stream. In this case the company promised to release the software free of charge for the owners of ATI radeon 3d- card.
ATI catalyst 8.12 and the free software ATI video converter (for video converting) are already accessible .
After the installation of ATI catalyst 8.12 it is possible to use the acceleration function ATI stream, existing in 3d- card ATI radeon HD 3870, ATI radeon HD 3870 X2 and all 3d- cards series ATI radeon HD 4000.
Let us recall, that ATI stream technology allow to increase the general system performance due to the use of central processor and graphic processors AMD computational possibilities.
ATI video converter uses ATI stream technology, giving to users the possibilities to substantially accelerate video re-encoding .
Besides ATI stream support, ATI catalyst driver increases the performance of 3d- card in many demanding games, including Crysis, Crysis warhead, Devil May Cry 4, Fallout 3, FarCry 2, Left 4 Dead, Lost planet: Extreme conditions : colonies edition and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear sky.