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With three months of ATI Catalyst™ driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a steady engagement from 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 9.6!
Please report all driver related issues here.
*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.*
Game Optimizations: ATI Catalyst™ 9.6
Our test system configuration is:
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AMD Phenom II 940 (3.0GHz) processor |
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Asus M3A79-T(790) |
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4GB DDR2-800 5-5-5-18 |
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Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64bit |
This month we are seeing a further performance increase with Company of Heroes and some significant performance increases for Crysis Warhead, Crysis and World in Conflict, compared with last month’s ATI Cataylst 9.5 driver. Following are some of this month’s highlights. Detailed release notes are available here.
- Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
- Crysis Warhead – performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual configuration.
- Crysis – performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual configuration.
- World in Conflict – performance gains of up to 30% for high settings that were previously CPU limited with the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series.
Of course, your performance may vary, depending on your particular system configuration.
And last but surely not least, my favorite community: Linux® ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 Driver
This month’s release has support for the following new operating systems:
· SLED and SLED 11 production support
· RHEL 4.8 early look support
ATI MultiView™ for Consumer users
· Allows users to render applications using a multiple GPU configuration with a unified workspace
· Enables Xinerama in single or multiple GPU configurations
· Supported on any combination of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000, ATI Radeon™ 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ 2000 Series of graphics cards
To download the full release notes, click here.
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.
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#1 by Matt - July 3rd, 2009 at 10:09
Really happy with the monthly driver updates… please keep them coming.
I’m eagerly waiting for a driver update (9.7?) that will allow me to use Crossfire in ARMA2 (released late last month)… currently I get better performance (FPS) using just one of my 4890s.
There are numerous ‘work arounds’ that people have tried in order to get Crossfire to work in ARMA2 – unfortunately none work for me.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Will catalyst 9.7 fix this problem?
Thanks
#2 by Francisco - July 4th, 2009 at 13:02
Hello ATI staff!
I’m having lots of probs with 9.6 I tried installing them on my old install over 9.4 (i have a sapphire 4870×2 & i’m on vista64 SP2), and it would install, but i would get BSOD’s after restart…. I mean, vista wouldn’t even load! And the problem just got worse since I couldn’t uninstall the drivers from safe mode. You guys should come up with a tool to help uninstall in safe mode, it would make our lifes easier. Ok so after this, I thought my Vista installation was borked, so I decided to do a fresh reinstall of everything, and install 9.6 since the beginning. Everything should be ok now right? I was wrong unfortunately. The same BSOD that wouldn’t even let me load up vista would show up, the same uninstalling frustrations would come up. So then I tried with 9.5, same problem. Now I’m back at 9.4.. which is ok. Supreme Commander works PERFECTLY, but recently I bought the Orange Box from steam, and it doesn’t work! Loads of “Display Drivers have stopped responding” show up, and the game in the end just hangs before loading… So I have to either exit through process killing, or wait until vista shuts the process itself…. PLEASE FIX YOUR DRIVERS ATI!!! But when they work… oh, the beauty of it!.
Sorry to say, but when I had an old Nvidia GForce 6800 ultra back in vista, i never had so many driver problems… they were older games of course, but still, i thought my first ATI card was going to be a smooth experience…
#3 by Ian McNaughton - July 7th, 2009 at 16:33
Please contact CC directly at: http://support.amd.com/us/contacts/Pages/GraphicsTechnicalSupport.aspx
#4 by xfloggingkylex - July 8th, 2009 at 13:00
@Francisco, may I ask what your system specs are, specifically your power supply.
I’ve noticed a frame rate increase between 9.4 and the 9.5 9.6 drivers you’re having problems with… Im not sure if this is accurate, but I also seem to be logging higher temperatures. It may very well be that my room is simply warmer now, but if it has anything to do with the GPU working harder, it may explain your BSODs if you don’t have a solid PSU.
I have an ASUS tri-fan 4870×2 and 9.4 and 9.6 both worked great, 9.5 gave me stuttering.
#5 by Ionut - July 7th, 2009 at 11:07
Hello! i have just recently bought one of your products ATI RADEON HD2400 pro AGP 512mb and i am having some real problems with the driver.. i know you heard about this issue before.. and so please help me
#6 by Ian McNaughton - July 7th, 2009 at 14:09
Happy to help. What is the issue you are having?
#7 by Ionut - July 8th, 2009 at 15:10
@Ian McNaughton, Hello…well the main problem is that most of the drivers are not ok not even the driver from the instalation cd that comes with the HD 2400 PRO agp, i have meny erros.. directx 10 test do not run .. i can not play many games.. not even spectraball the driver resets it’s self.. low quality graphics even at older games some like scarface
#8 by Ian McNaughton - July 7th, 2009 at 16:32
For faster customer service, please call the appropriate number to your location and an AMD customer service rep will help you.
http://support.amd.com/us/contacts/Pages/GraphicsTechnicalSupport.aspx
#9 by Gustavo - July 7th, 2009 at 19:04
I’m also having problems with 9.6. there are times that my computer would restart when i would would have wanted it to shut down. I cannot also untick the “Use EDID”.
#10 by Rune Christiansen - July 8th, 2009 at 05:02
Just bought the ASUS HD4870×2 with the hope of more FPS in rFactor and GTR2, I had the HD4870 before, but sadly NO!! will there be any support for those games?? I Know the GTX295 runs like a dream on those games. I have testet the card (HD4870×2) on COD4 and it works, between 100-240 FPS YEARH!
#11 by xfloggingkylex - July 8th, 2009 at 13:01
@Rune Christiansen, are you running triple crossfire with all those 4870s?
#12 by Rune Christiansen - July 9th, 2009 at 09:12
@xfloggingkylex, No, I am only using one HD4870×2, the single HD4870 is not in my PC anymore.
#13 by Rando - July 8th, 2009 at 11:05
i have 4870×2 too… but i cant understand how can be gtx 295 faster than 4870×2… ati 2GBgtx 1.7GB | ati 2.4teraflops ghp gtx 1.78 teraflops??? ati 2×750 gtx 2×576??? how it be real? gtx memory bandwidth 223.8GB/s and 4870×2 has 230GB/s????
#14 by Rune Christiansen - July 9th, 2009 at 16:50
@Rando, nVidia has a program “nHance” where you can tweak the settings per game, a friend of mine has GTX295 and is running 140-240 FPS in rFactor and GTR2 so I am a bit dissapointed. I know that those games are old but if nVidia can make it work why can’t Ati.
#15 by Vegas - July 9th, 2009 at 08:08
Very annoying issues with all the drivers for windows 7 64bit up to the 9.6 version with HDMI output to 1920×1080 TV. Why they lacking GPU scaling for the screen almost on all resolutions ? Especially 1920×1080. Its impossible to watch videos full screen on that resolutions.
#16 by Rando - July 9th, 2009 at 17:53
can 4870×2 handle directx 11??
or only new Gpu’s ?
#17 by iowa - July 14th, 2009 at 12:20
Hey Vegas, where did you find that driver for windows 7 ?? i did a search here and it says nothing found. thanks for the help from you or any one
#18 by andy - July 16th, 2009 at 12:36
@iowa,
windows 7 drivers on ati web site but the x1800xl all in wonder has not tv drivers for the windows 7 next fixing this issue
#19 by andy - July 16th, 2009 at 12:35
hi major fix needed in xp cata 9.6 i have media centre xp amd 4800+ 1gb ram and 4870 1GB now th 4870 1 gb card have to have there memmry clock abck off to 900 Mhz otherwise u get get ocacaional (every 10 or 15 secs) screen flicker it did on every ver on 9 cata i had, i diiscovered on driver cd taht came with it there was a fix , but no in the cata 9.6 drivers. Upon further reading after 2 months scratching my head trying to figure out was wrong with the drivers i fixed it then , i found it on various forums . please ensure that this fix is included with next drivers as alot of people will be unaware of how to fix this issue inc ati tech at time
#20 by BearKat - July 20th, 2009 at 13:17
In short, the new drivers trashed my laptop (dv7-1245 by hp) as far as OpenGL went. I only use the laptop for Secondlife and its clean of all of the normal crap. I was running a slick 35 frames a second and now 7-10 frames is where I top up. Stupid me forget to record the version. but on the same note, i expected ATI to be OpenGL functional.
#21 by noobstix - July 20th, 2009 at 22:51
My brother just tried 2x 4350s in Crossfire and CCC would still lock up when he tried to enable Crossfire Mode.
He’s running a Core i7 920 (2.66 Ghz stock) on a Gigabyte X58 board (I forget the exact model name) with 6 GB DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 RC x64.
#22 by The DarkMaster - July 23rd, 2009 at 06:49
Catalyst 9.6 have two serious issues here on Windows7 x64. One is the 2D/3D clock bug AGAIN on Radeon 4870X2, and the another one is: Why GPU scaling is disabled?
#23 by waterproof camera - July 24th, 2009 at 14:17
Really happy with the monthly driver updates… please keep them coming. I’m eagerly waiting for a driver update (9.7?) that will allow me to use Crossfire in ARMA2 (released late last month)… currently I get better performance (FPS) using just one of my 4890s.
#24 by bookmark - August 12th, 2009 at 01:17
Nice poll. I do upgrade roughly once a year. I’m so surprised that most people upgrade their graphics driver every month.