ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver – Everything you want to know and why you should care
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.
The map loading in CoD WaW now it’s more faster than the others version, I load some maps in 5 seconds, and with the other version I loaded it in 20 seconds..
Hi Ian (or colleague),
The HydraVision download is not working for me.
From this page for Windows 7 64-bit :
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit
Right click + save as gives me a file leech.htm to save.
Left clicking the button gives me a HTTP 404 Not Found page.
Could you purdy please look into it for me ?
And say Hello to Ruby from me. :p
Hey Ian
Still no h264 L5.1 profile DXVA acceleration!
FAIL.
Hi there,
Can you guys please fix the issue in ANNO 1404 where there are black textures everywhere.
Thanks
Hi. I can’t download the complete Catalyst driver 9.9 german with catalyst control center. The links are died. Can AMD fix this. Many thanks.
FILE NOT FOUND BY “PACKAGE INCLUDES”, CCC.
I can’t download Catalyst Control Center 9.9 on the Website for Windows 7 32/64 bit. I use Internet Explorer 8 and still not avaible the Catalyst Control Center 9.9 when clicking download button: “The webpage cannot be found”. Please help, just fix your website. OK?
Driver 9.9 work fine. Just the Catalyst Control Center on your web Side is not working…unable to dowload…. Please fix it asap thanks.
Is there any body from ATI/AMD who will read those comments or not? I want to use new Drivers but I will not untill you people will fix those links on your page for Catalyst Control Center 9.9. Your publish date for that is 9/9/2009 and I think the date for Catalyst Control Center 9.9 should be change after fixing those links. Are you people from ATI/AMD sleepping there? Come On!
Thanks for the update.
But. I see no change. Thankfully, the next version can bring fixes and stuff.
Anyway, as a simple suggestion.
Recode the drivers from scratch. And add support for the older cards.
Your cards are amazing. But your software, i one word: SUCKS. period