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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yea men fermi is gonna be great
ati suxxxxxx
FERMI
I have waited now for 2months for a refreshrate fix in XP for 5xxx series. Serously is it that hard to do it? I have been useing win7 now for some time and i hate it but there i change in regedit(DALNonStandardModesBCD) then i can go higher then 85hz. i would really appreciate if you could give me some pointers so i can do it myself…! im always on google trying to find some fix but nothing works for XP. Please notice this comment and try to do something about this is my 3rd try. im disapointed because i have been really patient but nothing happends.
Best regards from iceland, Arnar Hólm
If you not able to provide PROPER driver support for Linux, then OPEN your damn drivers!!
I’m going to buy nVidia, anyway.
FERMI!!!!!!!!!!
I own Radeon 5970 and this driver only made my situation worse. I am experiencing more and more system hangs/freezes at 2D. it’s happening a lot quicker. I’m losing hope. maybe it’s time to RMA this crap.
I have in games like DIRT 2, GRID and NBA2k10 black triangles on the screen, since CATALYST 9.11, 9.12, 10.1 and 10.2 !!!
Please ATI FIX THIS!
ATI have suport for RADEON HD4850 512MB ???
This driver does not fix grey screen crashes for HD 5700 series. Giving up on ATI.
New feature: crashes compiz in Ubuntu 9.10! Just great, another useless and buggy release from AMD.
same problem… compiz don’t work with 10.2
o! try “compiz –replace”! it helped in my case.
but still crashes all the time….
You guys are paid by Nvidia to say that Ati sucks? So many problems here related to driver issues! Ive never, never have problems with Ati, thanxs by your support, Ati have the best hardware!