ATI Catalyst 10.9 Driver – What’s New?
It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! Thanks for all the comments and feedback you sent us on the last ATI Catalyst driver update!
*IF you are having technical issues with the ATI Catalyst driver, or your graphics card please report your issues to AMD.
Here is what is new this month!
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 10.9 for Microsoft Windows:
Performance improvements:
- STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark – depending on the model, screen resolution, anti-aliasing and whether you are using ATI CrossfireX™ technology, here’s an example of some performance improvements we’ve noted in our labs:
- up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics
- up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 graphics
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 graphics
- up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics
- up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics
ATI Catalyst™ Application – Updated ATI CrossFireX™ Profiles
- Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update
- F1 2010 – Profile update
- Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile
Resolved issue highlights:
- UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from High Definition to Standard Definition content
- Flickering is no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with Quad CrossFireX™ enabled
- Mesh corruption is no longer visible in “The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena” when SSAO in-game settings are set to “high”
- ATI CrossFireX™ now functions properly, and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabled in “StarCraft II”
- Adobe® Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep
- Negative ATI CrossFireX™ scaling on “Final Fantasy-XIV” no longer occurs
- Intermittent performance drops no longer observed with hardware cursor enabled in “World of Warcraft” game running in extended mode
Resolved issue highlights:
- UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from High Definition to Standard Definition content
- Flickering is no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with Quad CrossFireX™ enabled
- Mesh corruption is no longer visible in “The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena” when SSAO in-game settings are set to “high”
- ATI CrossFireX™ now functions properly, and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabled in “StarCraft II”
- Adobe® Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep
- Negative ATI CrossFireX™ scaling on “Final Fantasy-XIV” no longer occurs
- Intermittent performance drops no longer observed with hardware cursor enabled in “World of Warcraft” game running in extended mode
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 10.9 driver for Linux:
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- RHEL 6 support (early look)
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 release notes.
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Till Next Month,
Jay Marsden
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What about Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP? They becomes worse in every Catalyst realse. I mean performance dropped in Catalyst 9.5 and it is still poor in comparison with Catalyst 9.4. No 75Hz+ support, no new features, nothing expect performance degrades.
i just bought this i hope it works.
I have 2 Visiontek ATI HD4870 X2 2GB PCI-E in crossfire running on a NVICIA NFORCE 7901 Ultra SLI Motherboard with a Yor, Intel ?QX9770 CPU , 3.20/1600,12M,4C.
When I first got my machine from Alienware it worked fine now since I’ve updated my drivers the 4th GPG is disabled or so it says in Catalist 10.9 and several previous versions. It says that 3 of the GPU’s are linked but that the 4th is disabled what gives?