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With 2 months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a steady engagement from you guys in the community via this blog site. Please keep up the comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further ado – let me introduce ATI Catalyst 9.5!
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*If you are having technical issues with your graphics card or are in need of driver support, please use the proper channels to submit those issues here.*
Marketing sound bite: ATI CatalystTM 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows® 7 and Windows Vista®
WHQL is the word of the month for this blog; AMD was the first to introduce a fully certified single unified WHQL approved graphics driver for Windows® 7 and Windows Vista®. By meeting Microsoft’s WHQL certification requirements in ATI CatalystTM 9.5 driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista, we clearly showcase our continued focus on delivering an extremely stable and robust Win 7 experience. First to market is important, but best to market first is how we roll at AMD in terms of graphics driver support for new operating systems. AMD led the market with early support for Vista and now continues that graphics driver leadership with the launch of Catalyst 9.5.
All ATI RadeonTM GPU users with an ATI Radeon HD 4000, 3000 and 2000 series product will enjoy WHQL certified support under Win 7 with ATI Catalyst 9.5.
Marketing sound bite: ATI Stream update:
<Insert Drum roll here please>
The comments section of my blog has been filled for 2 months with questions on when we were going to deliver 64-bit support for ATI AVIVOTM technology under Windows Vista, today is the day!
With today’s release of ATI Catalyst 9.5 a number of issues that you may have previously experienced using the ATI Video Converter have been resolved! Also, ATI AVIVO technology is now supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit.
Using ATI Stream technology, users of ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of new optimizations in this video conversion tool (found in ATI CatalystTM Control Center Basic View) for a better experience when transcoding video files.
Game Optimizations: ATI CatalystTM 9.5
One of the items I want to cover each month is optimizations in games and highlighting those for you in this blog; now, I want to be honest and upfront, I intend to highlight the top games and/or optimizations but not all of them! All of the details and minutia are listed in the release notes of each ATI Catalyst Driver and that can be viewed here.
For this month the highlights are:
- Unigine Tropics DirectX® 9 – enables performance gains for single GPU and ATI CrossFireXTM configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
- Company of Heroes - enables performance gains for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireXTM configurations.
- BattleForge- enables performance gains for ATI CrossFireXTM configurations.
And last but surely not least, my favorite community: Linux® ATI CatalystTM 9.5
No new features this month but a host of fixes included in this month’s release.
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.
#1 by Ian McNaughton - May 22nd, 2009 at 10:52
“We didn’t detect any serious performance drops on transition from Catalyst 9.4 to Catalyst 9.5. The only exception is a 4% drop Radeon HD 4770 showed in BattleForge game in 1280×1024 resolution. Therefore, we have every reason to recommend all owners of contemporary ATI Radeon HD 4000 graphics cards to upgrade to the new Catalyst 9.5 driver.”
- Xbitlabs
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/catalyst-9-5.html#sect0
#2 by Hun73r - May 22nd, 2009 at 14:37
@Ian McNaughton,
I aint gone upgrade before you put somthing usefull into the drivers like auto 3dsettings for games dynamic fan speed adn the last one 4 settings on catalyst IA disablet, standart, advanced, and comstom where we can make oure own profiles.
#3 by Hun73r - May 22nd, 2009 at 19:38
@Hun73r,
And what you a saying Ian is that we have to buy a
Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition processor (3.2GHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI);
to get some good results with 9.5 ????
so you donw want us to buy AMD enymore
#4 by Ian McNaughton - May 26th, 2009 at 12:47
I have a policy of not feeding Trolls…
#5 by thief_ac - May 23rd, 2009 at 08:25
@Ian McNaughton I mention it on the previous page, with the catalyst 9.5 in guild wars frate rate is between 35-76(50% of time 35, the other 50% is 75) and with catalyst 9.4 is 65-78(95% of time in game is like 75 fps). This, for me results in some problem with the 9.5 driver. I will wait for catalyst 9.6 in hope of a better version.
#6 by Hun73r - May 27th, 2009 at 16:32
@thief_ac,
WTF Ian do you call me a troll my pc is a
AMD Phenom 9850
and 790XF board
and 2x asus dread knights 4870 1GB models
i just want to know why you only link to test with intel prosessors due ti its the only one showing more performance… incrise.
#7 by Andrew - June 5th, 2009 at 12:25
@Hun73r,
I’m sure that the Catalyst release notes (for which he mentioned the improvements) reflect improvements on AMD systems.
#8 by CM - May 22nd, 2009 at 15:41
AVIVO 32/64 bits is now ready for download at:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/avivo/Pages/avivovista-download.aspx
The link at GAME.AMD.COM is still showing the package to be 18.8 MB, but is actually a 23.4 MB download.
Please try it and leave your feedback here.
#9 by nag - May 23rd, 2009 at 03:06
@CM, Just tried it on a PC with Vista x64 and works. Thanks.
#10 by Calvin - May 23rd, 2009 at 12:37
@nag,
It’s not working for me on 64-bit Windows 7 7000. When I launch CCC Basic mode, there’s no option for the AVIVO Converter.
#11 by Tee - June 24th, 2009 at 04:06
@Calvin, Me too. In my case worse, as I’ve never had a successful install. Win7 just snubs its nose up at it. This has been on going from build 7000 to the present 7260. Just don’t understand why.
#12 by Ademário Nobre - May 22nd, 2009 at 16:58
Hello, I’m new here, my English is weak. Gotaria of whether I can play the game “Burnout Paradise” on my notebook Atlon AMD x2 64 – ATI Radeon x1200, 3gb Ram, I have doubts whether it is compatible. Use CatalystCC 8.2. Thank you. Congratulations for the information of the blog.
#13 by Suciu - May 23rd, 2009 at 02:57
^to the newb above, there are so many places to ask for support and you do it in the last place you should oO. Btw the X1200 has pixel shader 2.0, Burnout Paradise requires 3.0 so the answer is no it wont run.
To the devs i would like to thank you for this drivers (though i have the ones liked i wonder if there where any changes :p) i can overclock my board higher now and gain some extra FPS’s XD
#14 by Capricorn - May 23rd, 2009 at 03:39
why does the current 9.5 driver sets for 32 & 64-bit OSes have two packages of different sizes. One is 63MB and the other a collossal 98MB. whats the story?
#15 by mark` - May 27th, 2009 at 15:27
this driver is a bit slower on the 4850/70, is there a good reason or is there a minor bug?
i can’t wait till OpenCL
#16 by xfloggingkylex - May 28th, 2009 at 12:35
Have these drivers fixed the “no signal” problem that has plagued the Radeon cards with certain monitors?
If not, is ATi actively trying to solve this problem?
#17 by Mantas - June 3rd, 2009 at 01:55
@xfloggingkylex,
This problem could be because of your cables. Try changing DVI or VGA cable.
#18 by xfloggingkylex - June 4th, 2009 at 01:29
@Mantas, I wish it were the case, but the cables work fine… before installing ATi drivers I get a perfect picture (vista installs its own drivers) but after the ATi install, no signal to monitor through DVI.
It is widespread problem and the community has even come up with workarounds (installing old XP drivers manually on vista). If the community can fix it, why can’t ATi?
#19 by Badger620 - May 28th, 2009 at 20:39
This driver really bits for 3870s in crossfire I saw significant problems with it so many that I just went back to and older version of catalyst. Too many crashes and couldn’t over clock the cards as high lose of frame rates, computer crashing and the list just goes on please get it together.
#20 by Erous - May 29th, 2009 at 07:44
New catalyst drivers 32 bit with my 3870 and fallout 3 left for some artifacting in certain areas unfortunately and some performance degradation to the game as a whole. Prior to the driver update, the game was smooth with no artifacts, now Im seeing quite a few artifacts and my 3870 feels like its chugging along in certain areas with VATS.
#21 by Jarrad Whitaker - May 30th, 2009 at 07:56
@Ian McNaughton
at least the issue has been fixed, for that I am grateful.
The drivers seem fine enough, can’t get an idea of incremental improvements as it’s the first set that hasn’t bluescreened on boot since 9.1 but anyway…
Now. Answer me this. Pretty as it is, Catalyst Control Centre takes around 40 seconds to load from a cold start (without preloading at Windows’ boot), and CLI.exe, MOM.exe and CCC.exe combined use around 130MB RAM when starting and 30MB RAM idling.
In comparison, ATI Tray Tools starts in under a second and doesn’t go above 6 MB RAM at any time. It [seeks to, and comes close to] provid[es/ing] all functionality of the control centre. What’s going on? Why does it take a third party developer to create an efficient control program?
Relatedly, is there any chance of AMD supporting the developer of Tray Tools with testing hardware/programming information?
I’m not affiliated with Ray Adams in any way, I’m just a bit incredulous at the inefficiencies of the CCC. Amazingly powerful hardware is no excuse for creating amazingly greedy software.
#22 by Noob - May 30th, 2009 at 12:34
I have an ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro graphics card. I don’t understand from the information here whether I should download this package or not. Could you let me know what information I need?
#23 by I want free stuff - May 30th, 2009 at 15:43
Where is exactly is the free ATI video converter. IU can’t seem to find t anywhere in Basic Mode Catalyst 9.5
#24 by Rando - June 1st, 2009 at 07:43
i have seriusly big problems with my ati 4870×2… when i plaing some racing games like grid or dirt then 4870×2 goes 107′C (celsius) and then gomes clitches and other stuff… but fan allways working 100% speed? i must clean the video card?
#25 by xfloggingkylex - June 4th, 2009 at 01:32
@Rando, clean out the video card… also what model do you have? Overclocked? How is the airflow in your case? Maybe another PCI card is blocking the fan for your 4870×2. I have the tri fan asus model and it stays nice and cool, 107 is very hot.
#26 by MSeenu - June 3rd, 2009 at 03:52
Does 9.5 support (limited) compute shaders on i)Windows 7, ii) Vista SP1? I have a HD 4850 card.
#27 by Rando - June 4th, 2009 at 08:12
i have single club3D hd 4870×2 [1fan and not OC.]
case is asus gaming vento7700..[ with 4 fans ]
but before my temp´s was ok i had that card about 6-7 months ago… i scare to open that card because its expensive for me and if somthing gonna be happen then im fu**’d:S
#28 by Rambaldi - June 4th, 2009 at 09:01
@Rando, Where are you getting the temp figure from? I haven’t experianced it myself but I have read from others of some temp readings varying by up to 20′C
#29 by Juergen - June 4th, 2009 at 11:09
What I am waiting for is the AVIVO Converter to run under XP x64 on my HD 2400.
I am aware of a lot of AMD publishing the gone years.
#30 by Lukas - June 5th, 2009 at 07:36
after a couple of minutes of playing test drive unlimited or other games my monitor goes blank and the vide card fan goes at maximum rpm just like when you reboot your pc,and I need to restart my computer. P.S The temperatures are normal. I ony have this problem with Catalyst 9.4 and 9.4. With Catalyst 8.12 it rocks it work’s perfect no blank scrren no nothing. In my opinion Catalyst 8.12 was the best ati driver ever.
#31 by Eric - June 6th, 2009 at 08:24
9.5 driver have some issues on my HD4770.
Edge-enhancement Doesn’t work under vista x64.
Vector adaptive Doesn’t work under vista aero mode (8.12 , 9.1 , 9.3 , 9.4 , 9.5 also have this severe bug on 4XXX series)
#32 by Rando - June 7th, 2009 at 07:20
hi..
can i but 4870×2 crossfire with 4870 1Gb version??
#33 by Claudio - June 8th, 2009 at 16:56
The drivers are good under vista, mas in win7 my experience with this issue, is that sometimes it gives some bsod when using IE8….not playing, but only surfing…is the ati driver….
I have a phenom 9950BE with crossfire of HD3850….any ideia how to fix this?
#34 by Jeff Harper - June 9th, 2009 at 07:17
9.5 works very well on my 4870 X2. I use Vista 64, Power DVD v.8 and Avivo (hardware video decoding) was working for me with 9.4 and possibly earlier versions, just not very well. I haven’t checked 9.5 yet to see if Avivo works better than it did before.
Lastly, in this forum and others related to ATI video card thermals, I am always seeing these really high temperatures bandied about. Right now my 4870 X2 is at 36 degrees celcius, after 1:44 minutes of GTA IV at 1920 x 1200 (all settings at enthusiast) it is 52 degrees celcius. My enclosure is an unmodded Antec 1200 with intakes set to maximum, exhaust fans at minimum and video card at 50% with manual fan control. Am I just lucky?
#35 by Ray - June 10th, 2009 at 14:45
I LOVE AMD I will never go back to intel! this daul core AMD 64×2 cool and quit is the best so far that AMD came out with and the prices are so low you cant say no
i just put togother two gigabyte boards. the first one has Nvidia 6150 onboard with a single 512 ram 667mhz with alot of options to upgrade evenmore I have windows xp 32bit os. with option to upgrade to 64bit os. and i can play almost all the new games with no lag. Now the sec one has the same board same onboard chip but it has Vista with 1gig at 667mhz now just to let u all now i can go up to 1600mhz bus side speed as u can im not even close to that and these systems fly!!
P.S. I LOVE AMD
#36 by Adarsha - June 11th, 2009 at 22:34
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite A215 with Radeon X1200 series onboard chip.
I am trying to install ATI WDM Integrated Driver & Catalyst Control Center (or WDM driver marked as Windows 7 WHQL Driver) from http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx.
IN the install wizard, it does not list Catalyst Control Center as one of the items, only options available are VC++, Update Manager and South Bridge driver, which are already upto date.
I even tried removing the windows update driver and then the wizard fails to detect my hardware.
Can you suggest something?
#37 by CR15T1 - June 14th, 2009 at 05:46
@Adarsha, I guess you have a AGP card, then you should use AGP hotfix from here: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/9-5_agp-hotfix_xp32_dd_ccc.exe
#38 by Adarsha - June 26th, 2009 at 23:10
@CR15T1,
Nope.. Mine is an onboard chip, not a AGP card. The AGP hotfix stops saying it could not find any updatable hardware.
#39 by NanDwin - November 12th, 2009 at 06:17
i have one motherboard with amd processor
label radeon IGP and southbridge
back panel are tv-out, VGA, HDMI,
i want to get Graphic driver for that chip and sm bus controller
processor is athlon x2 245