ATI Catalyst 9.3 Drivers Everything you want to know
Do you regularly update your graphics drivers?
As I thought of new and exciting topics for this blog, it dawned on me last week (while I was chatting with Terry Makedon – the “father” of the ATI CatalystTM software suite) that we don’t say enough about all the great features and benefits of our monthly driver update. So starting in March and every month after I intend to write a blog outlining all the great performance improvements and features that come with the monthly driver release.
Marketing sound bite: ATI CatalystTM 9.3 driver - the industries first Unified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
I like it when it’s easy and for you gamers that means you now have a single ATI Catalyst driver for both Microsoft Vista and Windows 7. This driver allows you to swap back and forth between OSs with the same driver set; it makes for an easy, clean Windows 7 experience – without the hassle of multiple drivers, versions, etc.
Another exciting part about a unified driver is that moving forward our ATI software gurus plan to continue to deliver a single unified driver for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Great news for all!
Also, ATI Catalyst delivers full WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.1 support under Windows 7 for all ATI RadeonTM HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series of graphics cards. So, in benefit speak, this new WDDM 1.1 support utilizes DirectX 10 rather than DirectX 9 and can cut down your GPU memory usage by half when opening up multiple windows thereby enabling increased performance.
Marketing sound bite: ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements *
Here is a very noble cause improvement, Folding@Home. You’ll experience outstanding Folding@Home scores when running ATI Catalyst 9.3 and the most recent F@H client. We utilize ATI Stream technology which means you must have an ATI RadeonTM HD 4000, HD 3000 or HD 2000 series GPU to take full advantage of these enhancements.
And last but surely not least, my favorite community: Linux ATI Catalyst 9.3
We have support for new operating systems:
- RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support
- RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
- SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)
So, what does this all really mean, to you, the gamer? It is a continued commitment from us to deliver monthly updates for your ATI Radeon based GPUs. It means that you will have ease of driver management during the introduction of Windows 7 and it means an improved experience with Windows 7 and of course, if you are a Linux user, a broader set of platform support.
See you next month!
Cheers!
Ian “Cabrtosr” McNaughton
Ian McNaughton is senior manager of advanced marketing at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
*Download the appropriate client
- For CPU http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
- For GPU http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
- For Playstation 3 its in your system menu already
Join team 51394 after you install and run the client for the first time.
Why my post about HDMI issue and vsync issue was disappeared??
@Snowblower – Not sure I have seen the commnet, could you please recomment?
We invented the concept of mobile drivers with the introduction of Catalyst Mobility many years ago. However we fell into roadblocks with OEM’s not permitting us to update drivers for their users. In essence we were limited to provide drivers only for non major OEM laptops. We are very interested in providing updated drivers to our users (as evidenced by our industry leading commitment to monthly driver updates). At this point we will have to talk to our OEM’s and find out why they gave permission to Nvidia to do this. We are very excited with the possibility of providing Catalyst to our mobile users if it is possible, but in the meantime checkout mobility modder found on driverheaven.net
@Ian McNaughton,
Microsoft’s Windows 7 drivers are able to be installed despite the OEM not wanting updated drivers. I don’t understand why the OEM wouldn’t want the EU to be able to update the drivers. Did they provide any justification to you when they told you they weren’t going to allow it?
Why not simply let the drivers override or force an install?
yes it is steam that i was talking ’bout,i’m going to see if can have it again or do you think that there is a new place like steam. Please can answer me by email .thank you for your help.
So you have a blog here and another one on twitter then you have forums at game.amd.com tha you dont use meny a there and want to help you but it seems like you dont care about your trusty buyers.
I have been running AMD for meny years and what i see now is just that we pay you just lets us down
why isent there eny devs on the forum there a reading about peoples problems no one to anser us we a getting more and more frustraded about your way to handle your costumers.
@Hun73r – AMD is committed to being accessible, we have senior people on Twitter, senior people blogging and a team of customer care people managing all customer issues.
If this blog, twitter and gamd.amd.com do not allow you to get an answer to your question or concern, please call us @ http://support.amd.com/us/contacts/Pages/GraphicsTechnicalSupport.aspx – we would be happy to discuss.
@Ian McNaughton,
The problem is you drivers a getting slower and slower in games and the other problem is catalyst IA its outdated we need to be able to make oure own profiles my system isent the same as the one your test on…
@Hun73r,
and by the way no staff is on game.amd.com
ither you lie or they just never show there faces
and stop using twitter its for small kids
and use your game.amd.com forums instead
Hello,
i have an issue with the ATI radeon 4870 card. I run Autodesk Maya 2009, and what i could understand is that due to some Open GL upgrades the rotation tool is bugged. You can only rotate if the axis you want to rotate on is facing the camera.
Anyone found a fix on this ?
ati catalyst 9.3 doesn’t work on windows 7 rc 32 bit for my radeon 9600xt. Now I use a prerelease driver wddm 1.0 downloaded by windows update. Any device for my problem?
Thanks