ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 Driver – What’s New?
It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*.
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Here is what is new in ATI Catalyst™ 9.11:
New Features
GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format.
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduced system resource utilization, and to help preserve battery life.
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD™ 4000 Series of products.
High Quality downscaling for Video Transcoding MSE
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users Transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320×240 @30p – iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- RHEL 5.4 support
- openSUSE 11.2 early look support
To download the driver, click here.
Till Next Month,
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This new development kit has installation issue due to the impossibility of recognizing certified driver for hotfix version needed in 9515 bios ati video coards.
Is it so difficult microsoft and amd provide a solution to this long time problem?
Overscan / underscan slider not in CCC 9.11, the way it was in the vista version of hd 3200 that was preinstalled on my 64 bit computer. Therefore I have to use vga instead of hdmi to connect monitor, as with hdmi the visible area on the monitor is surrounded by an approx 1 inch black border, reducing my monitor to effectively 21 inch diagonal instead of 23. Before, I found this control by clicking the little triange on the screen id. Now I only get the most basic controls and nothing else: mode, area, freqency. VGA looks very good but I would prefer hdmi, as that was even better. Any ideas? Maybe install an older version such as 9.10 or 9.09?
Spark, yes I have the same problem under Win 7 Pro x64…funnily enough I have 2 XFX 4890 in CrossfireX.
Using a system monitor I have found that it’s the second card and not the primary card in the configuration.
I cannot add custom HDTV formats after applying a preset format from the DVI resolution selections. Not sure if this is a CCC problem or a Windows 7 problem, but I used to be able to add them when I was running Windows XP with this card.
9800 Pro 256mB
I see that AMD didn’t bother fixing some rather severe OpenGL bugs in 9.11. Good job.
HI
the installer is faulty , the CCC does not start does not run , tried it under windows 7 and windows xp two different system ! the same exact issue !
same happened to me too , but after i changed to win 7 basic them ( no aero ) now it works great when i hit ctrl + esc or alt +tab
Hi.
I install CCC 9.11 on XP with ATI 9600 series. My old driver was 8.573.0.0. After installation when my display turn off I can`t turn on. Only option is restart. My flash-video is like slow-motion and I put back my old driver.
I have had problems for ages with my card… i started out with a radeon 9550… then one day i get a infinite loop error to to do with the ati2dvag. file… i saw a quick fix on internet, tried it and it worked for a few months.. then it comes back again… i update driver to 9550/X1050 series with catalyst 9.8 i think… worked and then a few days later didnt work… i uninstalled and reinstalled and it worked… now after a few months, its messed up again… any ati radeon ive tried has failed… that is all old versions… so im updating again… hopefully it will work. im disappointed tbh… ati shud be helping people who have problems.. anyone got any ideas incase this doesnt work?
OS: winxp media center edition
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.2Ghz processor, 1Gb of RAM.
can i connect 4890 2 with 4870×2 by cross fire bridg