AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.2 Vista

Title:

AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.2 Vista

File Size:

44.0 MB

Requirements:

Windows Vista / Windows7 / Windows8

Language:

en-us

License:

Freeware

Date Added:

21 Feb 2009

Publisher:

AMD Inc

Homepage:

http://www.amd.com/

MD5 Checksum:

FDFA830CFEA6DF5BBA380D224D4C4F5B

Performance Improvements

Catalyst 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
World in Conflict gains up to 5%


System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI
Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10
applications.
AMD Chipset Product Support
AMD Chipset Product Support
ATI Radeon HD 3300 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 3200 CrossFire
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Series AMD 690 Series Chipset
ATI Radeon 3100 Series AMD 580X Series Chipset
ATI Radeon 3000 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Series
ATI Radeon 2100 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Series
Note: When installing the Catalyst Vista driver for Windows Vista,
the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator
rights in order to successfully complete the installation of the Catalyst
Vista driver.
ATI Catalyst Release Note 5
Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message
The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version.
Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor
maximum refresh rates
Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained
on system restart
Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung
panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when
soften smoke edges is enabled
Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI
Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating
system to fail
Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be
noticed when moving to the extended desktop
Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and
Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test
Custom Clocks test
With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some
Crossfire systems
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main
menu no longer occurs
The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8
GB of system RAM
Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly
reported back as DVI
Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate
AVCHD files
Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on
Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering
Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was
enabled
Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite
video in extended modes
Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower
portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special
Features
Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain
Blue-ray titles
Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI
Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations
Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on
WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible)
and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop
responding
The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is
enabled