ATI Catalyst 9.5 is Now Officially released
ATI has now finally released its Catalyst 9.5 drivers, although they got delayed a little bit.
Release notes:
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:
- AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- ATI Catalyst 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
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 - ATI Catalyst 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
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
- 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
- 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
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
- Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU
- Catalyst Control Center may stop responding when Windows Hotkeys have been assigned
- Catalyst Control Center: On "Available Display Devices" detection page, when selecting the secondary display, the radio button is not greyed out for the monitor already chosen as the main display
- "Fan Speed Control" may change to default settings when Crossfire is enabled/disabled
- Catalyst Control Center: At the end of the auto-tuning, it might not report that the process has completed successfully
- Fan Speed Control is missing in OverDrive5 aspect
- On some systems the Catalyst Control Center Over drive pages may fail to display
- Audio Control Panel might show the HDTV entry even when unplugged
- Audio Control Panel might not reflect configuration change from 7.1 Audio to Stereo
- Corruption might be observed in some OGL games with Super Anti-Alias and "Show CrossfireX" enabled on 3-4 display configurations
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
- Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Dropped frames may be noticed while playing certain Blu-ray interlaced content
- "World in Conflict": Blank screen may be observed after the introduction trailer completes
- On some PowerExpress systems a secondary display may be displayed for single monitor configurations
- Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or the media player to stop functioning
