ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver – Everything you want to know
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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!
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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
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Nice poll. I do upgrade roughly once a year. I’m so surprised that most people upgrade their graphics driver every month.