ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 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.

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

Jay Marsden is a Product Marketing 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.

291 Responses

  1. Joe

    Still get the stripped grey and colored screens with catalyst 10.1 on my saphire radeon Hd 4830 512MB :(

  2. Rattack

    I think AMD owes its loyal customers a bit more of an explanation on the “Grey screen/Stripes” issue beyond the vague mention in the 10.1 release notes.

    Come on AMD, how about a little honesty on where you are with this issue and what you plan to do. Keeping us all in the dark is just making things far worse.

  3. Nowicki

    I just reinstalled windows 7
    Driver Packaging Version 8.69-091211a-094296C-ATI
    Catalyst™ Version 09.7
    Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
    2D Driver Version 8.01.01.994
    2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0001
    Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0723
    OpenGL Version 6.14.10.9252
    Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2009.1211.1547.28237
    tells me it’s 9.7 drivers WTG ATI

  4. GavinT

    Yeah, incredibly disappointing, and that’s an understatement. I have Win 7 x64 Ultimate and I have Catalyst version 9.0 appear in the software information tab, a massive drop in performance, I’m getting sub 20 frames in Half-Life 2 with two 5850′s in Crossfire with a Phenom II X4 965 BE when I didn’t get any yesterday, and my PC also appears to lag generally now.

    I appreciate the work you put in to making the software but maybe it’s now time to release drivers when they’re needed as nVidia do and not every month.

    Could you also please consider adding triple buffering for DirectX as well as OpenGL? There is no reason why you can’t include it in your driver releases rather than have to install a 3rd party app which may cause it’s own issues.

  5. MrPix

    Installed 10.1 on win7 x64 with 2x HD4890 in CF:
    Reports as 9.12 in CCC.
    Flickering lights still there for NFS:Shift when using Crossfire + poor performance on certain tracks with 15 opponents.
    No changes from 9.11 as far as I can tell.

    Please look at the feedback that is sent to you every release… you have got it wrong guys… 9.10 never had the flickering, just really bad performance.

  7. Jeff

    Damn it AMD, fix Anti-Aliasing. I’m sick and tired of having all this power and not being able to use it. SSAA should work ALL THE TIME due to it’s simplicity. AA for UE3 games should work ALL THE TIME without needing to rename .exe’s. Just bought Mass Effect 2 on steam and I can’t run any AA on it because the steam version will not run when you rename the .exe

    If AA doesen’t work in half of all games with your drivers next time I upgrade I’m going back to Nvidia, even if they have less performance and higher pricer. Please tell me, what’s the point of all of this power when you shoot yourself in the foot and give me no way to use it for half of the games out there?!

  8. LL

    Mobility? I hoped that “leaked” info about 10.1 concerning mobility would be truth and this silliness would stop by now but i read the release note and see no mobility card there.

  9. KrossX

    Any news about the following issue?

    http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=126249

    I don’t have the time right now to make a clean driver installation. >_<

  10. john huang

    Tried 2 different 5770 cards on 2 machines and they all failed to fully boot into win7 64bit… works fine with Xp.. driver sucks AMD.. its frustrating and im longer a fan of amd