ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Driver – What’s New?
ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 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*.
*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 9.12:
ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
- This release of ATI Catalyst provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support
- This release of ATI Catalyst provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series GPUs.
- The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.12:
- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50.
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra).
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex).
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions).
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex).
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map).
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample).
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp).
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4).
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync).
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.12 driver release for Linux include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
- SLED and SLES 10SP3
ATI Catalyst Control Center™ – Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements
- This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center – Linux Edition, highlights include:
- CRT/VGA settings
- TV settings
- Component Video settings
- Support for display projectors
- New Size and Position page
- New HDTV page
- New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
- New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
- New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
- New custom mode support for 576 modes
- Enables quick display configuration of display projectors
For more information on ATI Catalyst 9.12 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst 9.12 release notes.
To download the Catalyst 9.12 driver, click here.
In addition, the ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix driver will be made available today!
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release includes:
Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0
- The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series of products.
For more information about ATI Stream technology and OpenCL, please visit. http://www.amd.com/stream
Support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology configurations The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution displays
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Support for DisplayPort audio
- The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels
Fixes the following issues:
- Resident Evil 5 – Performance drop during the opening cinematic
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare – Negative performance observed with a configuration supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology when using the thermal scope
- Wheelman – Game freezes while loading the game menu
- Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, and Chronicles of Riddick
- Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flicker and white boarders observed around the edges
Grab the hotfix driver : Here
Till Next Month, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Jay Marsden
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Hey guys, hoping someone can help me. My X800-XL died on me recently and rather than upgrade to an ‘up to date system’ I wanted to squeeze a little more life out of my old rig (I only play COD4) and so bought a AGP Sapphire HD3450 512mb card. Problem is though no matter what I do re installing drivers, cleaning the registry, deleting drivers, etc the damn thing isn’t recognised by the system and the drivers will not install! The rig is an Gigabyte 7VT600p-RZ MB, AMD Athlon 3000+, 1Gb ram, Windows XP Pro 32. Now although I’ve built a few machines in the past I haven’t kept up with developments in the last three or so years (hence the rig) – Does the fact that the card has 64bit memory and my rig is 32bit play a part in the problems I’m having???
Cheers
People previously are talking about the nvidia card being extremely superior, but I just don’t agree. I have had a number of nvidia cards (comes standard with most Dell pcs and laptops) and they have been nothing but problems.