ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 Driver – What’s New?

  • Jay Marsden
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I would like to thank Ian McNaughton for doing such a FANTASTIC job at informing and building the following that he has on AMD at Play.  Ian has handed the reins of the blog covering our ATI Catalyst software suite over to me as he is focusing on adding more diverse content to AMD at Play blogs.  Ian will still be monitoring this blog and will be engaging with the community where he can.

A little about me: I have been working in the GPU industry for approx 16 years, with most of that time at ATI Technologies doing many different jobs, from working in a lab testing for Hardware Qualification on ATI GPUS, to Product Marketing for ATI’s motherboard chipsets, to my current role as Public Relations Manager for AMD supporting reviews of our ATI GPUs and ATI Catalyst drivers.

The ATI Catalyst driver blogs have been gaining momentum, and interest is growing each and every month. The ATI Catalyst team is dedicated to keeping users informed about any and all updates on our drivers.

Between Windows 7, DirectX 11, and the new ATI Radeon GPUs, we are taking your visual experience to the next level with DirectX 11 support and new features like ATI Eyefinity technology. ATI Catalyst drivers are at the center of this innovation, driving new features and functions, while focusing on compatibility, and stability for all.

It is the ultimate tool for your GPU!

I have made you wait long enough – on to the ATI Catalyst 9.10 driver release!

New Features:

  • Official ATI Catalyst WHQL release supporting ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs. ATI Catalyst 9.10 now includes full GPU support for the award winning ATI HD Radeon 5800 series GPUs!
  • Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series. ATI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series.  Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels.

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.10 release for Linux includes:

  • This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: Ubuntu 9.10 early look support

Highlights of resolved issues

  • Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560×1600
  • Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in “Riddick 2 Dark Athena” no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
  • Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology in tri and quad modes
  • Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and ATI Fire Stream™ ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
  • “Combat Mission Shock Force” no longer fails after a duration of game play
  • Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the ATI Catalyst Control Center – TV Properties Adjustments page
  • Changes to the “All Settings” and “Basic Quality” pages in ATI Catalyst Control Center - Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot

To download the driver, click here.

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See you Next Month!

Jay Marsden

Jay Marsden is a Public Relations Manager 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 links sites and no endorsement is implied.

137 Responses

  1. Dwtje

    I got a ati radeon 4650 and i got left 4 death problems i got windows 7 ultimate 64 bit 6 gig internal and amd phenom Quadcore i put the new drivers in my pc but i get black screen and say no signal but it have work l4d i played the game but when i put the new drivers in my pc i got the black screen what can i do ????? someone know it thank you

  2. lynavix

    I just purchased a second ati sapphire 4870 card to install in a dell xps qx6850 problem is in the device manager notice under display adapters 2 4870 cards displayed with no errors but when I go over to catalys and check hardware information it states there is a primary card but the second is disabled being that both cards are set up with crossfire should I worry that the second card is being displayed in catalyst under system information/ graphics hardware as disabled adapter?

  3. dan

    hello
    I have an HD4870 in my 2 month old Dell…when I ran the Windows 7 upgrade I just get a black screen after the splash screen. I have tried to add the 9.11 drivers by booting off the CD and choosing “load driver” but it tells me they’re not valid? Safe mode tells me to complete the install before I can use it and low res mode just gives the black screen again. A format and reinstall gave the same result…any ideas, please?
    (i’m using a Sony LCD TV as the monitor via HDMI)

  4. dan

    Fixed it by buying a VGA cable and using that so I could actually see Windows 7…finished the install and used the 9.11 drivers and – so far – it’s all working (with the HDMI again).
    Yay.

  5. Ang

    I installed the HD 4870pe51GDI into my Mach speed P4mst-890-motherboard but it did not get recognized at all. I disabled the onboard video, uninstalled also and even did some cmos adjusting but nothing. I downloaded the latest catalyst, drivers and the software for dosn’t even come up its just a folder . Cant get it to install. Im connecting to the DVI on my Samsung SyncMaster 940mw but nothing. The fan runs on the card but my monitor gets nothing and it does not come up as a hardware at all. Please help i thought this would be relatively easy and i have been at it again and again.

  6. john

    Hi, If I read this stuff before i bought HD4650 1gb. I could have saved the cash.
    Win XP Pro, Msi motherboard, 2.9ghz cpu,500W ps, 1gb ram. I have tried everything to get this to work but nothing works. system freezes by the time the welcome screen gets here. anyone want to trade me for a nvidia.

  7. Christian

    Help. I got a ati readon x1950xtx and trying to upgrade the driver. But as i try to install i i just get “unable to load ATICIM.dll” what can i do?

  8. Kina

    Weij :
    I’ve just installed Windows 7 32-bit and Catalyst 9.10 running on a Sapphire 4890 2Gb.
    In all games that used to run ok, I’m getting low res textures on walls/objects when close up now! When viewed from afar, everything looks crispy clean! The textures on the characters are very high res and not affected… only walls and objets.
    Mip mapping set to highest quality. All other settings in CCC is highest quality too.
    Games that I’ve tried include: Arkham Asylum, Left 4 Dead 1/2, COD4, Witcher EE, Bioshock etc. All same texture issue. All these games used to run fine on WinXP with the same hardware.
    Anybody else have this problem or is it just me? Any tips?
    Thanks!

    I have exactly the same problem. Tried googling for answers but nothing. Also tried everything between reinstalling my games and my ati 5750 drivers

  9. SDC

    Fr33ShOw2012
    Your comments about The Witcher are wrong. I’ve been running this game faultlessly with Nvidia 9600GT card. When my son’s Radeon X1950Pro gave up the ghost, I gave him my 9600 and was going to buy a 5770 to replace it. But after research I have decided to wait for the new Nvidia cards. There’s no point in having a great product if it’s going to be constantly let down by buggy drivers. Incidentally, my son’s X1950 Pro never worked properly, yet the old Nvidia 6600 I’m now using can very jerkily play The Witcher. I just think AMD should have waited instead of trying to steal a march on Nvidia. There seem to be a lot of dissatisfied people out there and I don’t intend to become one of them, thank you very much.

  10. Karl

    Hi there have just installed the 10-2 win7 ccc and drivers, both my 5870 cards are enabled in crossfire, but they wont disable and in the overdrive otion my second card wont show up it information and cant change fan speed or anything :-( .