New 8.12 ATI drivers & Crysis

"Crysis DX10 – performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire
mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx."

Has anyone personally seen a performance increase in Crysis with 4000 series card? Been thinking about finally picking up Crysis but the insane future-tech required to run it is a huge put off. And we all know how these "performance gains" are sometimes nowhere to be found in real life.

I dont know about crysis, but 8.11, on farcry2, limited me to 1280 on med settings. 8.12 lets me go 1680 on very high with no problems at 50fps+. That is a huge difference.

on COD4, i was already on max setting with 100fps now after 8.12 i am same setting getting 120fps+.

specs:
ga-ex38-ds4
e7200 @ 3.8G
4G pc6400
2 x 3870 CF
win xp sp3 32bit

in warhead i had a problem with the textures not loading fast enough. ill try these out after work tomarrow and see how good they are

So far i got a small bump in 3dmark06 and an extra few fps in warhead. Now my highest playable settings are everything at enthusiast except sound, physics, textures and object detail at gamer (cos my system isnt fast enough or has enough memory to handle this without big loading pauses/jerks). Resolution of 1400x900, no AA, 8xAF, averaging about 30-35fps. Never seems to drop below 25fps, or maybe like 1% of the time it drops that far. I can REALLY recommend picking this driver up. Very smooth apart from the airfield level where my system just cant stream the level data fast enough. Use the same highest playable settings for the original crysis too, except with oject detail hacked to very high (im on XP still) averaging about 25-30fps (Warhead IS FASTER than the original! ramerate doesnt drop in silly places like it does in Crysis 1 either!). Fallout 3 and Farcry 2 seem quite alot better too. got rid of a crashing problem i had with fallout 3.

My specs:

e6300@3.01 ghz
2gb ddr2-800 4-4-4-12 ram @860mhz 5-5-5-15
250gb samsung spinpoint (pretty slow these days)
ASUS P5-B deluxe mobo (965 chipset, old but still good)
Sapphire 4870 512mb (bought it the week it came out :-) )
Windows XP service pack 3.

In short, just pick this driver up, install PROPERLY and away you go.