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. ste banks

    install the new drivers still got issues with games droping in fps and some reason the hdmi fails to install mmmmmm

  2. Martin

    This version doesn’t work on my radeon 4850 on Win 7 64bit. Ati catalyst says it can’t recognize my video card. :(

  3. El Matador

    So basically this driver set was only released to meet the quota. No Anisotropic Filtering fixes, no Profiles, only some minor fixes. Meh.

  4. Bill

    Does this driver fix black screen or vertical stripes crash?

  5. fubar

    Anno 1404 still has the black squares everywhere on my 5850. There is still something wrong with the dx10 portion of the drivers, manually configuring the game to run at dx9 fixes it…

  6. Vojtech

    I don’t care about “12 driver updates a year” when they don’t work! PLEASE, fix Grey screen / Stripes bug. It is VERY annoying.

  7. Intrinsic

    I really hope the OpenGL issues are fixed, some of the tools i use in my workflow just do not work(have a black display) and only 9.8/9.10 Cats let me see anything.

  8. osCommerce Dude

    Whilst I am impressed with how often you release driver updates, sometimes there doesn’t seem to be much improvement, and in fact as someone above said performance can even drop!

  9. DTH

    I have a system: E6300, HD4670, PSU Acbel E2, 2gb of Ram.
    so:
    I had an error(in this game: RE3-Red Alert 3):
    http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac236/dth91v2/tut/Error.jpg

  10. gumer

    In Catalyst Control Center showing that version CCC 9.12