ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 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.
Here is what is new this month!
New Windows Features
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 Windows release includes:
GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
- AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
- ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 and HD 5000 series Graphics
- ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 series (and higher) Graphics
- ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
Video De-blocking support
- Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
- Supported on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
Mosquito noise removal
- Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
- Supported on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon™ HD series Graphics
New Linux Features
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.6 release includes:
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series Graphics
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on ATI Radeon™ HD series Graphics
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- RHEL 5.5 production support
2D performance enhancements
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 release notes.
To download the driver, click here.
Till Next Month,
Jay Marsden
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dont worry be happy
really i like you ati ^^
Well I got to problems when I installed the 10.6 version.
First my system slowed down, second my cards get over heated very fast…they reach 100oC with 47% fan speed, after 2 or 3 hours my cards shut down my aplications, like games and movies. Hardware acceleration does not work, vSync also, hard core games like Call of Duty are really slow. My second GPU core does not work unless I manually over-clock it.
ATI please Fix this problem…
Specifications: AMD Phenom II x4 3.4
Gigabyte 790FX UD5P
6 GB RAM
x2 HD 4870×2
Just downloaded on my acer aspire 7535g.
BIG improvement!!!!
Will this will solve the problem for the duel graphics cards on the windows 7 upgrade?
Хорошо бы если была бы ссылоска на сайт с русскоязычным вариантом драйвера
2×5770 Crossfire didn’t work at all, performance DECREASES compare to single card! Rolled back to 10.5 which works like a charm!
After I got my 4870×2 x2 some games won’t work. I have tried a lot of drivers, but some games just won’t work each time. Toca Race Driver 2 gives me bluescreen (I’m using XP). Wheelman works with som drivers. Crossfire X can’t work because XP does not support 4 gpus (that suck). After installing 10.6 half of my games won’t start. F.eks MicroMachines v4 and 4×4 evolution2. If it’s windows, then it’s the driver who f…s it up.
Concerning Toca Race Driver 2…
I think the bluescreen problem had something to do with the copyprotection.
A no-cd made it work perfect. Cracked versions tend to work a lot better than the originals.
when using 10.6 drivers i get bad screen tearing in bfbc 2 allso in some levels i get artifacts. dirt 2 crashes all the time after about 1hour play sometimes shorter. these drivers are the worst i have tried im going to wait and see if you fix with the next driver update .if not then im going with the gtx480 at least their drivers are stable.hope you get thse drivers sorted soon?.
im using ATI 5430 series..while playing games it always stucks..i play only fifa10,it needa only 256MB graphics but mine s 512MB..i wanna know wots tr probe?
I have following Sys configuration
AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-US2H
with integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200
20″ LG Flatron W2043t Wide LCD Monitor.
2 GB DD3 RAM
After I install CCC 10.6 was getting 1600:900 resolution(best for my monitor), after few days its not able to give me that resolution and even doesnt have that 16:9 resolution option in settings, tried to uninstall and reinstall the CCC 10.6 but nothing helps, tried to install LG Monitor drivers manually but no joy.
So finally reinstalled windows 7 & after installing CCC 10.6 got 1600:900 rolution but again only for 1 day and now back to 1280:1024 resolution. Somebody help me.