ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 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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Things are going to start to get very exciting as far as ATI Catalyst drivers are concerned in 2010.
AMD continues to be one of the few companies in the high tech industry to commit to 12 driver updates a year (and all updates are Microsoft WHQL certified). Check our record – for quite some time now each and every month has seen a new ATI Catalyst driver released. Typically these either have new bug fixes, performance improvements, or new features (or a combination of all three).
Over the next few months AMD is planning to roll out some major new features and functionality into the ATI Catalyst drivers. I can’t give you all the specifics now, but will keep you posted on any new features and functions as they become available.
Until then, here are the highlights of what is new in ATI Catalyst 10.1 this month:
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst 10.1 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems:
This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- Ubuntu 9.10 production support
For more information on ATI Catalyst 10.1 (for Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst 10.1 release notes.
To download the driver, click here.
Till Next Month,
Jay Marsden
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Are you guys working on the GSOD (grey screen of death) bug?
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=124747&STARTPAGE=34&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
Did your QA guys FULLY look at these “10.1″ drivers before they were released? If they did, they missed out on an obvious error -
The CCC screen identifies them as “9.12,” and under DXDIAG, the driver date is shown as December of 2009! This was probably the most underwhelming driver “update” I’ve seen in a long time – not to mention the fact that ATI users had to wait until nearly the end of the month to get it – drivers are usually out before this!!
and mobility radeon
When will the black screen/gray stripes problem be solved?
Can we please get those Application Profiles ATi users have been basically asking for ever since NVIDIA implemented those n years ago?
It sucks having to only be able to apply settings for every game instead of each game having its own profile and settings.
Thanks,
Adrien
This driver version does not support X Server 1.7
to bad ATI
Where is the 3D Stereo support (BluRay)?
I was looking forward to this as well but see no indication of it being added in the release notes. I’ve been holding off on the Nvidia route but if this keeps up I’ll probably just switch back
This driver does not compile on Ubuntu 9.10
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn’t find library libatiuki.so.1 needed by debian/xorg-driver-fglrx/usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so (ELF format: ‘elf64-x86-64′; RPATH: ”).
jeez, what an embarrassing release of a so-called new driver. Tried to butter us up with vaporware new features in future drivers? please rather just fix the BS that’s been plagueing catalyst since 9.10.
wake the hell up AMD!
I am also suffering from grey stripes/black screen problem every day. When will someone give a decent answer about these issues?
Some peoples have suffered from this for months and thats just bad bussiness to be fair.