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 Posted: Thu, 21st May 2009 11:32 Post subject: ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Linux |
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http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 Windows release include:
Performance improvements
* Unigine Tropics DX9 – performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
* Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
* BattleForge– performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
New Features
ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
* AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista
o Meeting Microsoft’s WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 9.5 driver for Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD’s focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD’s ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators
* Delivers full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
ATI Stream™:
* ATI Video encoder update
o ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
o Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files
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| Posted: Thu, 21st May 2009 13:35 Post subject: |
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yup looks all good to me, downloaded them not installed yet prob will do later tonight.
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Cool, thanks for the heads up! 
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 13:59 Post subject: |
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I wonder if they fix the flickering I had in the RE5 benchmark... Thanks for the update!
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| iNatan wrote: | | I wonder if they fix the flickering I had in the RE5 benchmark... Thanks for the update! |
I use 9.6 and have no flickering.
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Aug 2009 22:43 Post subject: |
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Oh yummy. installing installing 
Good frame increases with these as much as 13 fps increase in places with warhammer online That is a good driver release..... Will be checking other games soon..
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Aug 2009 23:43 Post subject: |
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Yeah i like nvidia, but i can not complain so far with this 4870.. ive never seen drivers on nvidia give the diff in frames in a game like this set has for me... 77 normal fps on high everything on 9.7 cats, sometimes around the 80 81 fps depending on where u are and looking, and then i change to 9.8's and im not dropping below 90 fps with it mostly sitting aroun 97 98 fps lol awesome
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Aug 2009 23:54 Post subject: |
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ManMountain, at least you can now move some paper when you walk with Batman. 
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Aug 2009 00:00 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | ManMountain, at least you can now move some paper when you walk with Batman. |
Bwahahaha |
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Aug 2009 14:15 Post subject: |
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Nice, wont be changing, im sure they are same as said before from the quakecon place.. do like them alot though working very well so far.
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Aug 2009 13:19 Post subject: |
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*click* reading
wtf hotfix lol,,
its a whole new driver version install no? 99mb? not even the quackcon release was this size .... hmmm wtf
The main sites exe file for whole package is 62.9mb as a wrapped exe type.. so those few fixes are 30mb? lol wtf...
A hotfix to me is something that applies to an already installed driver/utility etc game .. so whats the deal with this, complete reinstall of driver set ?
Note! This driver is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing, and is only recommended for users experiencing the particular issue described above.
so now they are not even going to back up theyre own software nice...
this part concerns me if its really only a ghostbusters issue..,
"No Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters"
now weve all seen some funny shit with AA in games at times, what bothers me is wether this "fix for GB" might work for more games that might have issues..
Such a lack of feedback its silly.. was it a profile for GB change only? or was it a more driver level based change? see what im getting at ?
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For Ghostbusters it'll allow you to force AA as with several other UE3 titles, would work before by renaming the games EXE to for example Bioshock or UT3 but now it's not needed anymore.
For the filesize it's called a hotfix but it's a complete package with both 32 and 64 bit drivers together along with Hydravision and Avivo (Both 32 and 64 bit versions.) so it's a bit bigger. (Albeit a full Catalyst driver package, usually leaked beta versions, with motherboard drivers for AMD cards can reach 120 MB or so.)
For the rest it updates the driver to 8.641 (From the previous 8.640) and the driver is a bit newer so it might contain more fixes and improvements (As usual for both NVIDIA and ATI display drivers, mostly only list the main things, actually this is basically a stable and more tested beta of the 9.9 drivers to be clear, those might end up as version 8.642 or something along with a full list of changes - although still only for major titles and programs and not every little change - as usual.)
Works great for me, not many problems at all, haven't tested DX10 Anno yet but DX9 is more than playable without looking that different so that's fine.
(Divinity 2 could do with a profile though RE5 is atleast covered now.)
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Aug 2009 14:02 Post subject: |
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Awesome ok damn , looks like another driver sweeper moment then lol
Edit: installed, seem ok so far. Will test zeee games again shortly... No doubt 9.9 be out in next few weeks lol
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