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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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?
Where is exactly is the free ATI video converter. IU can’t seem to find t anywhere in Basic Mode Catalyst 9.5
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?
@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.
Does 9.5 support (limited) compute shaders on i)Windows 7, ii) Vista SP1? I have a HD 4850 card.
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
@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
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.
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.
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)
hi..
can i but 4870×2 crossfire with 4870 1Gb version??
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?