ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver – Everything you want to know and why you should care

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With six months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a growing engagement from the community via this blog site. Please keep up the great comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further ado – let me introduce the ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver Release!

Game Optimizations: ATI CatalystTM9.9 Driver
With last month’s release of the ATI CatalystTM 9.8 driver, we saw huge game performance increases, given that, this month the driver team focused on other applications and optimizations.

ATI CatalystTM 9.9 Driver has no new features but does have the following resolved issues:

Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters
ATI CrossFireXTM support for Resident Evil 5
Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3
ATI CatalystTM Control Center – Basic mode now responds appropriately after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
Launching Hotkeys Manager in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
The “Desktop Rotation” page in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back
Intermittent failures no longer occur with Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

And last but surely not least, my favorite community: ATI CatalystTM 9.9 driver for Linux!

Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

• openSUSE 11.1 production support
• SLED and SLES 10 SP3 early look support

To download the full release notes, click here.

See you next month!

Ian “Cabrtosr” McNaughton

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280 Responses

  1. Rick

    A friend of mine has a recent video card and found that many of his older video games couldnt play, in one case(KOTOR) the graphics were better but the game systematically crashed after a few minutes.

    I have many older games myself which I still want to play, Ive checked their compatibility with Win 7(most can be played in a compatibility mode) but I had not considered the graphics card itself and its driver to be a source of problems(thinking games will run even better not worser), so I am wondering which cards (nvidia or ati radeon) are the most compatible with older games?
    I was about to get a mobility Radeon HD 5640 but now Im wondering if that would be a headache to play old games?
    Are there tools/drivers to enhance backwards compatibility?

  2. gunitados

    I love playing video games thanks for making this possible