ATI Catalyst™ 9.11 Driver – What’s New?

  • Jay Marsden
  • Graphics

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*.

*IF you are having technical issues with the ATI Catalyst™ driver, or your graphics card please report your issues here.

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,

Jay Marsden

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128 Responses

  1. Christian

    I have X1950XTX and windows xp pro. When i try to install 9.11 i just get a couple of bug reports. i get 0×80040707 twice, and then “unable to load ATICIM.dll It also seems to be deleting the rigistry path of common startup. Real pain in the *ss and hopefully we will se a solution for this verry soon

  2. guilek

    Chris Doughty :
    I am trying to install 9.11 (8.671.0.0) for XP. I have a 4850.
    Guess what the new installer is useless.
    Sits there for 1/2 hour looking for my hardware. Just hangs doing nothing, so have to hard reboot my computer.
    Looks like i will have to stick with an old version until ATI/AMD sort this problem out.

    I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM THIS THING SUCKS !!I WANT IT FIXED NOW !!!