ATI Catalyst Drivers Update

[papaechoromeo]

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Catalyst 9.11 WHQL Released

It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*.

*IF you are having technical issues with the ATI Catalyst™ driver, or your graphics card please report your issues here.

Here is what is new in ATI Catalyst™ 9.11:

New Features

GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta

* 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.

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

* This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

* RHEL 5.4 support
* openSUSE 11.2 early look support

Download ATI Catalyst 9.11 Here

[yugi]

Pagka resourceful ug kugihan ani atong amigo oi...good work doh!

[Jason4eveR]

Thanks for this TS

magamit nako ni someday

[papaechoromeo]

ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Driver – What’s New?

It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*.

Here is what is new in ATI Catalyst 9.12:

ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1

* This release of ATI Catalyst provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology.

OpenGL 3.2 extension support

* This release of ATI Catalyst provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series GPUs.

* The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.12:
o Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50.
o BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra).
o Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex).
o Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions).
o Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex).
o Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map).
o Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample).
o Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp).
o Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4).
o Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync).
o transform_feedback2
o texture_cubemap_array

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.12 driver release for Linux include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

* This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

* RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
* SLED and SLES 10SP3

ATI Catalyst Control Center™ – Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements

* This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center – Linux Edition, highlights include:
o CRT/VGA settings
o TV settings
o Component Video settings
o Support for display projectors

* New Size and Position page
* New HDTV page

* New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
* New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”

* New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
* New custom mode support for 576 modes

* Enables quick display configuration of display projectors

For more information on ATI Catalyst 9.12 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst 9.12 release notes.

In addition, the ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix driver will be made available today!

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release includes:

Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0

* The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series of products.

For more information about ATI Stream technology and OpenCL, please visit. http://www.amd.com/stream

Support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology configurations The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution displays

* Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

Support for DisplayPort audio

* The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels

Fixes the following issues:

* Resident Evil 5 – Performance drop during the opening cinematic
* Call of Duty Modern Warfare – Negative performance observed with a configuration supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology when using the thermal scope
* Wheelman – Game freezes while loading the game menu
* Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, and Chronicles of Riddick
* Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flicker and white boarders observed around the edges


To download the Catalyst 9.12 driver, click here

[papaechoromeo]

ATI CATALYST 10.1

Download ATI Catalyst 10.1 Here

What's New in Catalyst 10.1

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst 10.1 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems:

This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

* Ubuntu 9.10 production support

For more information on ATI Catalyst 10.1 (for Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst 10.1 release notes.

[simoko]

i hope this new release will fix the hangup problem i have right now w/ v9.12...weirdo kaayo ang problem...my MSI R4770 Cyclone is voltmodded to 1.29v gpu vcore...overclocked speeds are 1000MHz/1200MHz for core/mem (from 750/850MHz defaults)...using v9.12, it would crash in 3DMark06...inig start gyud sa Proxycon...BUT...using v9.11...ok ra gyud sya...lusot ra. No problems whatsoever w/ Furmark v1.7 for both driver versions...and sa v9.12 mo kaging inig sulod nako sa CCC Avivo Video menu but ok ra sa v9.11...cross my fingers w/ v10.1...

[papaechoromeo]

ATI Catalyst 10.3 WHQL

Game-specific performance increment figures follow.

Aliens vs. Predator

* Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Battleforge

* Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Call of Duty: World at War

* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Company of Heroes

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Crysis and Crysis Warhead

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Devil May Cry 4

* Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

DiRT 2

* Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Far Cry 2

* Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2

* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark

* Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky

* Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Resident Evil 5

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.

* Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Unigine Tropics

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

World in Conflict

* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
* Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Wolfenstein

* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
* Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products


ATI Catalyst 10.3 Windows 7 Driver Analysis

Download ATI Catalyst 10.3 Here

[tashoastaire]

salamat ani bro.

[Fern]

i noticed that the naming convention sa ATI drivers corresponds to the year and month it was released:

like e.g.

9.12 - 2009.December

10.3 - 2010.march

Etc.

[tashoastaire]

@Fern, btaw sa?nice observation.