ATI Customer Care now offers downloads of new version 5.12 CATALYST
reference drivers for RADEON accelerators running under Windows XP. Several
game-related fixes and performance improvements are listed among the release
notes, and word is: "The Catalyst® 5.12 software suite introduces dual core
support for CPU bound cases. This feature provides improved graphics performance
for DX 9 supported graphics adapters installed in systems running the Windows XP
and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems." As
noted
here (thanks
Ant), the Tray Tools edition of the drivers are no longer
available, and the CCC edition is now required.