{"id":9887,"date":"2009-07-23T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=9887"},"modified":"2009-07-23T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T18:26:00","slug":"pr-amd-ready-with-unified-whql-certified-graphics-drivers-for-windows-7-rtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/pr-amd-ready-with-unified-whql-certified-graphics-drivers-for-windows-7-rtm\/","title":{"rendered":"(PR) AMD Ready with Unified, WHQL-Certified Graphics Drivers for Windows 7 RTM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amd.com\/', 'AMD']);\" >AMD<\/a> (NYSE: AMD) today announced the release of the company\u2019s first WHQL-certified ATI Catalyst\u2122 graphics drivers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/default.aspx\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/default.aspx', 'Windows 7']);\" >Windows 7<\/a> Release to Manufacturing (RTM), an important milestone in the development of Microsoft\u2019s&#160; next generation operating system.&#160; For ATI Radeon\u2122 customers, the ATI Catalyst 9.7 driver is immediately available for download from <a href=\"http:\/\/game.amd.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/game.amd.com\/', 'game.amd.com']);\" >game.amd.com<\/a>.&#160; Simultaneously, the ATI Catalyst 8.632 driver has been made available for ATI FirePro\u2122 professional graphics customers.<\/p>\n<p>For maximum simplicity, ATI Catalyst\u2122 drivers are designed to deliver a single, unified driver installation for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. When combined with the efficiency, affordability and scalability of AMD platforms, users have an unprecedented PC experience that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rock-solid stability and compatibility for AMD platforms running Windows 7 <\/li>\n<li>Full support for the visually stunning desktop environment of Windows 7 <\/li>\n<li>Game performance improvements in Windows 7 compared with Windows Vista in single card and multi-GPU configurations employing ATI CrossFireX\u2122 technology <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 support for accelerated video transcoding tasks utilizing the system CPU and GPU via ATI Stream technology<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Full Windows 7 support for ATI FirePro\u2122 professional graphics, delivering application performance leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Supporting Quotes<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cAs we approach the final release of Windows 7, possibly Microsoft\u2019s most visually impressive operating system to date, we continue to improve upon the industry leading stability and reliability of ATI Catalyst drivers in order to consistently deliver an incredibly immersive, high performance graphics experience to our customers,\u201d said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice president of software, AMD Products Group.&#160; \u201cToday\u2019s release of ATI Catalyst 9.7 and ATI Catalyst 8.632 drivers does exactly that, delivering incredibly stable and reliable graphics drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAMD continues to be an important Microsoft technology partner,\u201d said Jon DeVaan, senior vice president, Windows Core OS Division, Microsoft Corp.&#160; \u201cWe\u2019ve worked closely with AMD through all of the Windows 7 milestones to ensure that Windows 7 supports the latest high-performance graphics features such as tessellation and shader model 5.0, which will deliver a stunning visual experience when running Windows 7 with AMD graphics.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Supporting Resources<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ati.amd.com\/support\/driver.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/ati.amd.com\/support\/driver.html', 'Download ATI Catalyst\u2122 drivers']);\" >Download ATI Catalyst\u2122 drivers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us-en\/0,,3715_16003,00.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us-en\/0,,3715_16003,00.html', 'Video: ATI Video Converter \u201cHow To\u201d']);\" >Video: ATI Video Converter \u201cHow To\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Follow news from the ATI Graphics team on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ATIGraphics\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ATIGraphics', '@ATIGraphics']);\" >@ATIGraphics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the release of the company\u2019s first WHQL-certified ATI Catalyst\u2122 graphics drivers for Windows 7 Release to Manufacturing (RTM), an important milestone in the development of Microsoft\u2019s&#160; next generation operating&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[781,72,148,1439,1938,370,1880,242,1052,1004,107],"class_list":["post-9887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-781","tag-amd","tag-driver","tag-graphic-card","tag-graphics-driver","tag-microsoft","tag-rtm","tag-vista","tag-whql","tag-whql-certification","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}