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Loading ...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
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.
#1 by SaltedSlug - October 3rd, 2009 at 14:08
I’m in desperate need of the old adjustable color correction curve graph. Without it the blacks on my LCD monitor are crushed to hell. I can’t see anything in dark areas and everything looks dark… its terrible.
I heard the graph is adjustable in windows7? I really hope it is. I’d like to see the adjustable graph in WindowsXP VERY soon or i’ll be returning this 5870 and waiting for an nvidia card…. JUST because they have drivers that have this simple option. I thought they were in the CCC before.. If they were.. why were they removed?… no who cares why… just put them in!!
#2 by dadi - October 12th, 2009 at 08:34
@SaltedSlug,
are you out of date or lost in space ?whay are you still using xp .The option you seek is there,you just cant findit lol,look harder!
#3 by SaltedSlug - October 12th, 2009 at 14:00
@dadi,
I’ve had vista since launch. I use XP because my games run better in XP. I don’t have to fiddle around with Creative Drivers because they’ve made EAX not available in Vista. I also like being able to disable Vsync via the graphics drivers control panel and have it work. In Vista if I were to play WC3… A game that does not have a vsync setting. It would be LOCKED ON… I’m not dealing with that rediculous mouse lag because Vista won’t allow me to disable vsync in the graphics drivers and have that work for old games… and many other reasons.
The option I was talking about is not there. However I obtained similar results by upping my brightness and lowering my contrast. It works but the CCC manages to not maintain control over World of Warcraft and other games. Merely alt tabbing will screw up the color settings and i’ll have to go into the CCC and go to the Color Control every **** time to get my settings back. So it works but it doesn’t maintain my color settings.. nor do the keyshortcuts work to get my color settings back via a profile. Big mess.
#4 by Leon - October 3rd, 2009 at 21:01
Hello guys (AMD/ATI) >>> i am getting stranges Bugs on ATI Catalyst 9.9 and ATI Catalyst 9.10 Beta.
Sometimes on Resident Evil 5 and 3DMark Vantage (GPU Test 2) get too slow.
On Resident Evil 5 at 1280×1024 8AA (ALL on MAX) i Get 82.4 FPS and with 4AA i can get 92.6 “AVG”
But sometimes with 4AA the FPS drop to 53 FPS and when i close and restart ,sometimes works right.
So that´s it… By the way i loved the crysis wars (online crysis) drivers.
All on max “8AA” 1280×1024 …25 to 70 FPS.
My PC is..
Asus-M4A78T-E …bios 2105
Phenom 2 720 BE (X4 ..3.5Ghz)
DDR3 4Gb KingStone 1600Mhz 8-8-821-30-T2
HD4870 PCS+ =512ram Powercolor
Windows 7 64bits
#5 by bing - October 3rd, 2009 at 22:58
ATI’s driver kicks ass
don’t laugh, guys, nut i am using a HD3200
got a 3.7 in Windows Vista for bench mark of 3D stuff and a 3.8 for Windows Aero.
i installed the 9.9 version driver recently and hope to see some improvements of my card.
(i downloaded just the right one 4 my OS and card and i also downloaded the bridge drivers)
when i refreshed my benchmark, guess what.
3.7 for 3D still and Windows Aero from got down from3.8 to 3.7!!!!
now i am looking for a way to get back to the version i got before, someone say that ATI got half- products, but i think their driver do kicks ass, what happened to u?
#6 by Nforce - October 4th, 2009 at 19:12
i have just ordered 1 4870 1gb. after reading all these problems
i hope i dont have any problem what so ever with my ATI card.
8600gt to ati 4870 1gb
#7 by minitt - October 5th, 2009 at 09:04
HD 4xxx series is advertised to have physics support ….lol yet we havent got 1 single Game that takes the advantage of ATI gaming physics.
On the other side look at nvidia 8xxx series owners.
Ian McNaughton can u actually answer this question?
1.Can u give us atleast an approximate time when we will see ur advertised “physics processing capability” in Action???
#8 by minitt - October 5th, 2009 at 09:08
IS there any sort of possibility that HD 4xxx OR HD5850 /HD 5870 owners will see a GPU accelerated OpenCL driver on next release of catalyst.???????????/
#9 by leonardo tenorio - October 5th, 2009 at 19:01
I´M DOWNLOADING EVERY MONTH THE LATEST DRIVERS WITH HOPE THAT THE LCD DON´T LOOSE PIXELS WHEN MINIMIZE COD4 OR ANY GAME. IT SHOW ME, THE DOWN PART WITH SHADOWS OF THE GAME ON SCREEN ONLY WHEN I MINIMIZE THE GAME AND THE CONFIGURE COLORS ARE CHANGE.
WHEN I QUIT THE GAME OR MAXIMIZE THE GAME THE LCD COME TO SHOW THE IMAGE NORMALLY.
ATI 4870X2
8GB RAM @ 1066 G.SKILL
PHENOM II 940 BE
MSI DKA790GX
LCD ACER 22″
OS WINDOWS VISTA 64BIT ULTIMATE SP1
#10 by Miang - October 6th, 2009 at 10:39
There is already a BIG issue regarding Aion MMORPG. The CrySystem.dll is causing crashes all the time on users with ATI cards installed on their systems. It has been identified as an ATI-related issue since this crash is linked to “compressATI.dll and “compressATI2.dll”. This issue occurs mainly in 64-bit operation systems mainly although it happenned in 32-bit operating systems as well. Are there any plans on releasing a driver hotfix soon?
#11 by Chris - October 6th, 2009 at 22:13
The new look ATI gave the CCC is horrible. The old look worked perfect why did you change it? Everything is buried in drop down menus?! I didn’t think anything could be worse than nVidia’s control panel, but I think this is.
The CCC refreshes the every few seconds while in the Overdrive section closing any drop down menu you may have opened making you start all over.
ATI, please go back to the old CCC, this sucks.
#12 by daniellara - October 7th, 2009 at 13:01
Your newest drivers will not install, seems you broke the visual basic code and vista wants to put a hot fix in order to install, however after you un-install old drivers and try to install this new one your system is so messed up, one has to do a restore, this screwed my computer up so bad I was lucky I had a restore to go to…you should use what worked before and not change your code and break your install….aarrrggg dont know why you guys do this kind of thing, others must be having this problem too, plain dumb to have to download hot fix to install new drivers because you changed your code for install, wouldnt be bad if it worked…I mean come on.
#13 by Ladik - October 7th, 2009 at 13:18
nVIDIA 88 Hertzů 1024×768, in Drivers an My 17″ CRT, ATI no?
#14 by Jacqueline - October 7th, 2009 at 14:02
i want the old CCC menus… was more user friendly
#15 by Gavin T - October 8th, 2009 at 15:09
When are we going to see OpenCL drivers in Catalyst?
#16 by Gabriel - October 8th, 2009 at 23:49
@Gavin T,
Never, its not interesting to them, if they do so, why would ppl spend money on FireGL.
#17 by mark` - October 9th, 2009 at 10:06
OpenCL is in certification, as it needs to fully comply with OpenCL 1.0.
it will probably be named Catalyst 10 or catalyst X as a reference to OS X and Apple’s push behind OpenCL.
#18 by lobi - October 11th, 2009 at 02:41
Mostly positive results with 9.9 as far as performance goes except for two issues sometimes my screen is totally Magenta before the drivers seem to kick in and the games start BIA H2H, COD WAW, ArmA2, Deep Space, also in High vegitation maps and areas in World at War (COD) there is heaps of lag and the game seems to bog down would this be a video driver issue? OH Yeah bring back old interface for catalyst please I prefer pages over dropdown menus.
#19 by Heath S - October 11th, 2009 at 18:07
I truly love your drivers except CCC 9.9,when using CCC 9.9 it constantly flickers.
I just rolled back my drivers to CCC 9.8 and all is good.
This is going to be a bit off topic, but what do I have to do to get AMD/ATI to sponsor me for overclocking?.
#20 by dadi - October 12th, 2009 at 08:26
The CCC is great everything is at the right place and it looks more profi now,the driver is ok i didn’t noticed nothing bad at any game i have on my pc.
Smood release of 9.9 i guess
My pc,s are:
Phenom 9950 at 3.0Ghz
MSI K9A2 Platinum V2
Chorsair Dominator 4Gb & 1.066Mhz
Sapphire HD3870 Crossfire
Phenom II 955 3.4Ghz
MSI 790Gx-G65
Corsair 4Gb XMS3 & 1.600Mhz
Sapphire HD4890
#21 by EtaYorius - October 13th, 2009 at 09:56
There are TONS of issues with Dungeons Dragons Online with ATi catalyst drivers… just check their forums.
#22 by Dimitri Mihailov - October 13th, 2009 at 10:02
Just bought brand new ATI 4890 1 GB graphics card, downloaded and installed latest drivers for Windows 7. Horribly, but on one of my two monitors (HDMI connected LCD 1920×1080) I have constant black bounding rectangle around desktop – around 10% of screen space is not used. However, the display attributes are shown correctty – 1920×1080. Found no controls at CCC to expand desktop to full display area
(( First monitor 1920×1200 shows desktop correctly. What am I to do?
#23 by Dank - October 21st, 2009 at 16:52
Im haveing the same dang issue .
Pleas help
#24 by Hurricayn - October 13th, 2009 at 23:26
I am running NFS Shift on HIS HD4850 on 9.9 Catalyst drivers. Almost all of us rant and exorbitantly complain that we are not getting smooth gameplay. The way I look at it is that our gaming experience should not be revolving around purely on NFS Shift. I can ditch this game anytime eventhough the graphics is brilliantly created compared to previous NFS games. I find it silly watching a bouncing race car running on grass or gravel trap. The game’s physics is just superficial and not even realistic enough to justify the game experience.
Right now we are hoping that somewhere along the way we will get a fix from ATI or patch from EA. Will it satisfy our curiousity if we apply the fix. Maybe yes or maybe not realy that gratifying. As the consumer, we may feel cheated that EA-SMS did not optimize this game for ATI users.
However, we might be missing other great games out there like DIRT 2, HAWX (and hopefully GRID 2 will come out soon) if we gamers dwell too much on NFS Shift.
I am not a fan boy of ATI nor Nvidia but NFS Shift for me is just a game. The issues will pass and at the end of the day I try to think that keeping up with technology is win-loss situation. Sometimes you win some with fantastic game running on your rig , sometimes you loss some having crappy game on your superfluous system.
#25 by NoVy - October 14th, 2009 at 07:10
Ian I want to play SHIFT
If U are serious company, give me new comp with nvidia card
#26 by JT - October 14th, 2009 at 09:05
What the heck…went to log on to WoW WOTLK and Vista 64 keeps going into sleep mode and crashing. Error messege only stays on for a few seconds but it says the ATI Video driver is causing an unrecoverable error.
#27 by Daniel Brazil - October 15th, 2009 at 10:10
hello! all good? it would like to thank to the team of programming of drivers catalyst, in my computer, I carried through tests of performance with the game need for speed shift, and it really improved very, with my HD 4770, the game is not with the lesser tax of fps that value 40, excellent work in 8.66 version 091006a, I wait that in the final version of driver catalyst, the performance is well better. debtor for the attention!
#28 by Archie - October 15th, 2009 at 13:21
I CAN’T Install it on Win7(32),when i trying to install,it’s writing to me everything is installed,but installed only 9.8(3D driver=8.14).
I’ve never try to intall it on XP(32),so i dont know…
Could you help me please?.
ihhh year,i fogot – my Video card is 1950GT.
Tnx. Waiting 4 answer =).
#29 by taha mahmoud - October 16th, 2009 at 21:49
how to Enables PhysX IN ATI Card
some games won’t play without it
i know that is a war between ati and nvdia
but if you not find a support or a mod to work around it
you will lose so on till you have nothing to sell
do as they act or support it or work around more
time to respond means clients you lose and cards not sold and loss
to servive you must act fast and strong
you can support any team that can work around it
by a prize or money to any developer that can work around it or give a simulator to its program
#30 by bondtrails - October 19th, 2009 at 00:10
I just upgraded to CCC 9.9 and it does seem like a step backward in some respects. For example, after the upgrade, I can’t seem to find the overscan control anymore. So now, I have a huge black border around my screen (which is 1900×1200) whenever I have my display set at a resolution different than the native screen resolution.
ATI, where is the overscan setting?
#31 by John Mann - October 20th, 2009 at 21:18
I find your whole notion of “not true, we offered to help” in reguards to Eidos very BSish. They let it be known you were asked to help, you refused and now you have been busted on it and are doing everything to CYA and point the fingers at everyone else but the guys in the mirror. Face you got busted for dropping a major DevRel PR plunder ball here.
If the statement in the PCPer article was false, Eidos would have asked for a retraction, the fact they haven’t speaks volumes and they have no need to publicly confirm as it would only serve to smear YOUR(AMD/ATI) major lack of major DevRel.
#32 by Ian McNaughton - October 21st, 2009 at 09:56
Hi John,
Just an FYI – The developer was not Eidos, it was Rocksteady…
As I stated, we gave Rocksteady a fix for AA implementation prior to launch, you can derive from that comment that we indeed had engineers working with the devlopers.
Cheers,
Ian
#33 by Matt - October 20th, 2009 at 21:19
I hope you can fix the bug in Age of Conquerors (Age of Kings 2) that when you hit the diplomacy or chat button while playing the game the program crashes. From what I’ve read, 9.4 was the last version to not crash w/ the game. Thanks!
#34 by John Mann - October 21st, 2009 at 06:36
truth hurts so bury it, hide it, deny it. The fact my post didn;t make it shows there was truth to what I said. Good job ATI, shame you guys can’t be honest about things. Just admit you dropped the ball on this one because you were willing to ride on the coattails of someone elses work and effort to fix an issues with a known game engine.
#35 by SE7EN - October 21st, 2009 at 11:18
i have a problem with the latest ati driver on win 7 , i install games like need 4 speed carbon ,most wanted & many other games , my problem that the play not working on win7 on widescreen mode like vista & xp ,my resolution is 1366×768 it work’s great before i installed win7
please find some fix’s
thank’s
#36 by DANILO - October 21st, 2009 at 12:02
My grid 1.3 don´t launch!! Why???
4870 xfx 512
Visual microsoft 2005 and 2008
Win7 ultimate 64
Last Dx…
MB Asus M4A78
#37 by John Mann - October 21st, 2009 at 15:46
So your saying this statement is false then?
“Eidos told us in an email conversation that the offer was made to AMD for them to send engineers to their studios and do the same work NVIDIA did for its own hardware, but AMD declined.”
From here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=791
If thats the case, then you need to get them to recant/retract the statement. Other wise I’m more inclined to Believe Eidos on this one over the “Nvidia is doing this to ATI card owners” stance.
#38 by Gundosttf - November 2nd, 2009 at 07:38
Aloha! atb
#39 by Myggel - November 4th, 2009 at 16:55
What he said
#40 by Stuart - November 7th, 2009 at 12:18
Windows 7 64-bit
ATI 4870
CCC 9.10
I have a thick black border all around my screen at native resolution of 1920×1080.
Plus text is really unclear – no amount of ClearType tuning fixes it.
Is the ATI hardware rubbish or just the drivers?
Judging from the comments above, I’m not alone.
Please AMD, when will you be fixing this.
#41 by bdr - November 12th, 2009 at 13:56
i have old labtop with integrated ATI mobility radeon M6 VGA card , is it possible to find a suitable VGA driver compatible with windows 7 ?