AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.8 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 9.8 XP
File Size:: 39.7 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 18 Aug 2009
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: 2C20C6266D4B1697F1E9C3A0061E56F6

New Features:

* OpenGL 3.1 extension support

OpenGL 3.1 extension support:

* Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40
* Instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GLARB draw instanced)
* Data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer)
* Primitive restart (NV primitive restart). Because client enable/disable no longer exists in OpenGL 3.1, the PRIMITIVE RESTART state has become server state, unlike the NV extension where it is client state. As a result, the numeric values assigned to PRIMITIVE RESTART and PRIMITIVE RESTART INDEX differ from the NV versions of those tokens
* At least 16 texture image units must be accessible to vertex shaders, in addition to the 16 already guaranteed to be accessible to fragment shaders
* Texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object)
* Rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle)
* Uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object)
* SNORM texture component formats

Performance Improvements:

* Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - performance improves up to 15-50% in CPU limited settings with the largest gains in CrossfireX configurations
* Company of Heroes DirectX 10 - performance improves by up to 10-77% in CPU limited settings
* Crysis DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 10% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 34% in CPU limited settings ATI Catalyst Release Note Version 9.8 5
* Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 7% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 69% in CPU limited settings
* Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 50% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 88% in CPU limited settings
* Tom Clancys H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves up to 40% in CPU limited settings with Quad CrossfireX performance improving up to 60% in CPU limited settings
* UnigineTropics OpenGL - performance improves 5-20%
* UnigineTropics DirectX 10 - Quad CrossfireX performance improves 5-20% in CPU limited settings
* World in Conflict DirectX 10 - performance improves by 5-10%

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems:

* Catalyst Control Center: Diagnostic warning message now appears in CrossFire aspect when the only display is removed from the CrossFire chain
* Catalyst Control Centre will now launch properly with CrossFire disabled on multiadapter enabled/configured systems
* Catalyst Control Center: Some of the missing "Monitor Attributes" options in the Displays tab are now available
* Refresh rates are now applied properly for standard and optimized HDTV modes in Catalyst Control Center
* Catalyst Control Center: Missing update for Windows 7 localized help content is now available
* TV Properties tab now properly displays "Image Quality" instead of "TV Properties" for Catalyst Control Center user interface

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:

* Display and mouse rotation now functions properly after reboot with 3 or more displays in clone mode
* Unreal Tournament 3 no longer fails to respond after performing a taskswitch to desktop
* Hotplugging a secondary display during HD playback with WinDVD no longer causes desktop to go blank
* Intermittent block noise no longer visible during MPEG2-TS content playback with Windows Media Player
* Windows 7 logo no longer displays flickering distortion during Windows 7 loading screen (system reboot up)

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:

* Call of Duty: World at War no longer exhibits flickering water corruption when Software CrossFire is enabled

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:

* Catalyst Control Center: Predefined and custom HDTV formats can now be applied via HDTV support
* Intermittent video artifacts no longer visible when playing a DVD in stretched desktop mode