AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 XP

AMD Inc - (Freeware)

AMD Catalyst Drivers is a smart choice for those that want to improve their PC performance while increasing overall stability.

AMD Catalyst Drivers includes the latest 32-bit AMD (ATI) for the graphics card and panel Catalyst Control Center.

The AMD driver provides a gain of performance in several 3D applications thus ensuring an optimal experience. The panel Catalyst Control Center provides quick access to all parameters relating to AMD hardware offering multimedia features, management and display game.

There are different versions of AMD drivers for each operating system.

Title:: AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 XP
File Size:: 44.4 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 18 Dec 2009
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: 5057B6E67E317373A9AAC0D668E2AA61

# New Features

* ATI Catalyst support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalyst provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX supported configurations.

* OpenGL 3.2 extension support

- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array

# Performance Improvements

* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 9.12:
- 3DMark Vantage overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations

# All Systems

* Confirmation dialog box is now displayed when extending the display through Catalyst Control Center
* Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the Desktop Properties panel
* A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group

# Windows XP

* Tom Clancy's HAWX: VPU recover no longer occurs in some CrossFire configurations
* In some Clone Mode configuration with Windows XP, stretched desktop is now functional