Video driver updates made easy: AMD and Valve team up to provide ATI Catalyst updates on Steam

Video driver updates made easy: AMD and Valve team up to provide ATI Catalyst updates on Steam

Steam and ATI Catalyst logosWith today’s exciting announcement from AMD and Valve®, Steam gamers will never again have to worry about finding the most recent ATI Catalyst™ graphics driver. PC gamers can now detect and install the latest ATI Catalyst™ driver for their ATI Radeon™ graphics card directly from within Steam! Gamers using ATI graphics will not only be kept posted on the latest available drivers for their hardware, but with every update they’ll know that they’re getting the overall best possible gaming experience AMD and Valve can provide.

Here at AMD we’re big fans of Steam, and it’s not hard to see why! (And it would appear 25 million people love it just as much as we do.) In five short years, Valve has evolved the Steam platform to become the preeminent destination for easy and fast access to the latest games and online multiplayer play, offering new features to gamers and to developers, taking PC gaming to new heights – and new audiences. This evolution of PC gaming means exciting times for PC gamers, and today’s announcement is another step in that evolution.

AMD and Valve teaming up to make sure that Steam gamers always have the most recent drivers for their graphics cards is just another way that we are showing our commitment to the promise we developed in our Gamers’ Manifesto.

The first ATI Catalyst driver update that will be available via Steam will be ATI Catalyst 10.9.

UPDATE:
ATI Catalyst 10.9 is live on Steam! Be sure and read the driver release notes to see what’s new!

Are you a Steam gamer? Will you be taking advantage of one-click ATI Catalyst driver updates?

Peter Ross, senior marketing manager, Gaming Product Marketing, is part of the Global Communications Team 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 linked sites and no endorsement is implied.

41 Responses

  1. Skull

    phuu i solved the problem

    1.Hit start->run->regedit
    2.Go to key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
    3.Look for a entry with your path to steam.exe
    4.Delete that entry

  2. Arioch

    Win7-rus-x64 radeon-4850

    1st attempts at update failed – Stream claimed to download it all in less than 1 second.
    Clearly it did not downloaded nothing and failed.

    Then Steam Client asked for updating itself, i agreed. After update Steam managed to download and run Catalyst.

    1) Overall it worked
    2) Steam Downloaded English-only Catalyst. That means this should be disabled for Russia and rest of Eastern Europe. Until localisation packages would be respected and downloaded along with package.
    I think current CCC options are silly. There’d be one English non-localised application package and many many of small MUI+Help packages for every language supported. Now, i do not want to download a the CCC again plus 5 languages i do not need, i just want Steam to download CCC-Rus package. There are people who do not speak English. You just screwed them all.
    3) Installation without choice went to QuickInstall mode. I could not stop it and press “Back” button to choose user-controlled mode. I think CIM heavilly misses Back button here. I want to check what i install! If You gave me choice I’d not install non-Russian CCC. Also i do not want so-caleld free game demoes to be quick-installed without my confirmation. You, ATi, just shown “my way or highway” attitude to user. I understand that most target base of Steam Update is persons, who affraid to press each and every button. But not everybody! give me way to check what you want to install and have my choice!

  3. Arioch

    http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3883/clipboard33516955.png

    Here we come after Windows installed update and restarted
    How am i supposed to know what button to press ?

    Okay, you made me install English-only package without my native anguage. Okay, great, then please make it speak English, not this misinterpreted UTF-8 garbage!

  4. sandan

    Found this to be a very usefull tool, easy to use and great to not have to look and see when the next catalyst driver update is available, well done AMD and STEAM

  5. Robbie

    The ease of updating drivers is amazing! Thanks a bunch!

  6. Daikoku

    While the idea is great the execution was less convincing since I got a blue screen of death. Perhaps it occurred since I jumped the offer and didn’t see that the steam-client needed to be updated, as mentioned by Arioch above.

  7. Caribe95

    Hi:

    The new catalyst drivers 10.9 for linux 32 and 64 have the same name. Is this correct? One file for both versions.

    Thanks.

  8. OMG please no

    it wrecked my mic. and is stuck on my steam gamebar waiting to strike again, this autopatcher is trash wanted to use my PC and boom crap in crap out

    not what i wanted to do this morning

  9. Pringking@steam

    What the heck!? I’ve got the same problem as Skull, tried to find the path connected to steam.exe in, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers, but there was none..

    I’ve uninstalled and installed Steam twice and it doesn’t work…

    Help :( ?