ATI Catalyst 9.11 ( Recommended! )

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GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta ( http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html )

* This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format.

* Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduced system resource utilization, and to help preserve battery life.

* Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD™ 4000 Series of products.

High Quality downscaling for Video Transcoding MSE

* This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users Transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920×1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320×240 @30p – iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.

9.10 VS 9.11

ATI Driver 9.10 ( Win 7 X64 Ultimate - Intel E8400 @ 3.6Ghz )

CPU Usage on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ZkIQY16Ac ( HD ) using FlashPlayer 10.1: 16-23%

Gaming-performance ( 1440x900 4xAA 8xAF ):
Unreal Tournament 3: 96 FPS
Trackmania Nations Forever 84.7 FPS

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ATI Driver 9.11 ( Win 7 X64 Ultimate - Intel E8400 @ 3.6Ghz )

CPU Usage on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ZkIQY16Ac ( HD ) using FlashPlayer 10.1: 3-10%

Gaming-performance ( 1440x900 4xAA 8xAF ):
Unreal Tournament 3: 97 FPS
Trackmania Nations Forever 86.6 FPS

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To bad there are no performance-improvements, not that I need it...pretty cool CPU usage went down though