ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 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.
We have some amazing new features and functions added to this month’s ATI Catalyst driver release!
This is just the “first wave” of updates to our driver suite and just goes to show how dedicated AMD is to bringing added value – and a great experience for all users.
Here are the highlights of what is new in ATI Catalyst 10.2 this month:
New Features
ATI Catalyst™ application profiles for configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest ATI CrossFireX™ profiles in a separate executable file; ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
- The ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 package Includes the fully qualified ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 application profile list (which includes all ATI CrossFireX profiles) and is installed by default
- The latest application profile list is posted on amd.com in a separate .exe file that users can install to get the absolute latest application profiles (that have not yet been added to the official ATI Catalyst release)
ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI PowerPlay™ on configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology
- Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series setup in ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
- Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Windows® 7 and Windows Vista
- Sets secondary GPU(s) engine and memory clocks to low levels and reduces voltage when the GPU(s) are not in use
ATI Catalyst™ support for DisplayPort audio
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels
Support for ATI Eyefinity technology on configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology
- The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on ATI Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution ATI Eyefinity display groups
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 Series
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 release for Linux includes:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- openSUSE 11.2 production support
For more information on ATI Catalyst 10.2 (for Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst 10.2 release notes.
To download the driver, click here.
ATI Catalyst 10.2 is getting some great feedback from press! I have included some links below with some of the positive press we have received so far:
HardOCP: here
TweakTown: here
Legit Reviews: here
PCPER.COM: here
Till Next Month,
Jay Marsden
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Ooooooo, I am seriously hoping this works. If these drivers are good, no only will ATI have the BEST HARDWARE but it will have great software to drive it. THEN they will be UNSTOPPABLE! MUAHHAHAHAH
FYI – my system lockups have NOT occured for 2 days after updated driver 10.2! New Win 7 Falcon NW system… been fighting this for a month…. ATI5970 card… almost went to Nvidia – it was my next step – this driver saved this sale…
Thanks!
Steve
I lost only performance on this drivers. Thanks ATi again. Big improvements added great… I dont see nothing changed in Uningine Heaven lost 1% and in Dirt 2 i lost about 4-7 fps overall… Very thanks again…
Ok so whats up with the Profile thing I installed new drivers and Profile APP. I get a SOLID 20 FPS on all games on Eyefinity 5970 CrossfireX cam someone explain
No xorg-server 1.7.4 support (xorg 7.5)
No fix for the gray screen / vertical line issue, fail.
@shanecossever on Twitter. Msg me Jay, if you want to keep a customer.
Can anybody report whether the gray screen/total system hang-up issue has been fixed with these for the 5970? Since ATI never released a gray screen hotfix for any cards but the 5800 series, leaving me and my very expensive 5970 in the dust, I would assume that these drivers are the fix. I’m not downloading these until someone reports that they fix the issue.
The HDMI silent stream is still not fixed – sad but true…
still no overscan support? tsk tsk. buh-bye ati!
Why on Earth would you want overscan? So you lose the taskbar and start menu off the edge of the monitor?
Same problems earlier versions… does not create customized by hdmi, under performance in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Braid, Devil may Cry4, Resident Evil 5… my old HD4770 had better performance than my current HD5770… instead of add you more capabilities to CCC should listen and resolve existing problems with the series 5XXX which all worldwide complains…. so when ATI? Sorry my english is not very good
Please support the CURRENT Linux X.org and kernel:
http://www.x.org/wiki/
X11R7.5 (xorg-server 1.7)
http://kernel.org/
Kernel 2.6.32.8
This will make a lot of Linux people happy.
Thank you
Yes , i couldnt agree more!! ATI support for Linux users REALLY REALLY SUCKS!!!
Since 2003 i bought 6 products with ATI chips on them, and UNFORTUNATELY my conclusion is always the same!!
THERE IS ALMOST NO LINUX SUPPORT FROM ATI!! ITS REALLY A SHAME!!
Please change that and i will be your customer again, no doubt about that!!!
Greetings , Humberto Patricio .