ATI Catalyst 9.5 Driver – Everything you want to know
Do you regularly update your graphics drivers?
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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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:
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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
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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?
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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!!
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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?
@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
@CR15T1,
Nope.. Mine is an onboard chip, not a AGP card. The AGP hotfix stops saying it could not find any updatable hardware.
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
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