AMD Catalyst™ 10.9

[Mustang]

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx

 

Release notes:

 

ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite Version 10.9 Release Notes

 

The Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.9 contains the following:

- ATI Radeon™ display driver 8.771

- HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

- Southbridge/IXP Driver

- ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.771

 

Operating Systems Supported

 

The latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

- Windows 7 32-bit version

- Windows 7 64-bit version

- Windows Vista 32-bit version

- Windows Vista 64-bit version

- Windows XP Professional

- Windows XP Home Edition

- Windows XP Media Center Edition

- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

 

Note: When installing the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Windows, the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator rights in order to successfully complete the installation of the ATI Catalyst™ driver.

 

Catalyst™ Application Profiles

The following application profiles are available with this release of Catalyst™ 10.9:

- Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update

- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update

- F1 2010 – Profile update

- Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile

 

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.9:

- STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark

- Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled

- Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled

- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations

- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations

- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations

- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire™ 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:

- UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from HD to SD content

- Flickering no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with Quad CrossFire™ enabled

- Mesh corruption is no longer visible in "The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena" when SSAO in-game setting is set to high

- CrossFire™ now functions properly and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabled in "StarCraft II"

- Adobe Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep

- Negative CrossFire™ scaling on "Final Fantasy-XIV" no longer occurs

- Intermittent perfomance drops no longer observed with harware cursor enabled in "World of Warcraft" game in extended mode

 

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:

- AVI video no longer lags during playback within Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck

- Desktop corruption no longer occurs during PowerDVD SD/Blu-ray content playback on 120Hz displays

- Choppy HD playback no longer occurs while changing color vibrance and fleshtone correction in Catalyst™ Control Center - Advanced Color

 

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

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

- Copy protection message will no longer appear when viewing a DVD with Windows Media Player on a Windows XP system with PowerDVD 9 installed

Edited September 16, 2010 by Mustang

[159th_Viper]

Most excellent!

 

Ta :)

[Blaze]

Nice!

 

Thanks Mustang. :)

[trigen]

Unauthorized Download

[hassata]

Any word on vista 64 would be appreciated. 10.8b is giving me some good love, I'd hate to upgrade for no performance gain (or even loss as has sometimes happens with updated drivers). I'll report myself in a few hours when I get a chance to install

[trigen]

Thanks Mustang. grabbed it from techpowerup tho

[hassata]

Hotfix already out lol:

 

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst109Hotfix.aspx

[Mustang]

Good find, great for the 4800x2 series users out there :)

 

edit: from what i've been reading recently, this hotfix is also good for single GPU's too, since it fixes issues with HDMI under/overscan and v-sync with some OpenGL titles.

Edited September 16, 2010 by Mustang

[Kuky]

Good timing... today I got new SSD... reinstalled Windows 7 (I like things fresh :D) and there's new Catalyst out :)

[SAM77]

Anyone done testing with these 10.9s?????

 

I am running 10.8 and so far I dont feel the need to change unless something mindblowing is happening with 10.9

 

So far for me 10.8 has worked the best with FC2.0 and DCS

 

Is there a fix for the shadows???

 

DO earlier Cat drivers remove the funny haze or shadow effect???

[BDB]

for HD 4850 stik for 10.3 and forget 10.9

 

 

i m computer genius

Edited September 16, 2010 by {BDB}

[rapid]

T:thumbup:hanks Mustang.

[rapid]

There is an hotfix for 4800x2 and 4850x2 users: Click here

[Mustang]

There is an hotfix for 4800x2 and 4850x2 users: Click here

 

Indeed :thumbup: (check back to post #7 hehe)

[rapid]

Indeed :thumbup: (check back to post #7 hehe)

AWWWW man i may as well stop posting Mustang rolf. Hey thanks for revealing it in a nice way. May bad sorry guys.:music_whistling:

[ФрогФут]

I have a problem:

If i delete drivers and software via Catalyst manager, i get only audio driver and catalyst manager in the list of possible components when i install new driver.

If i update driver with installing new one over the old one, i get all components, but after install it seems to do nothing during installation progress.

In all cases i get message, that setup is complete, but some issues occured(see log), when trying to view log nothing happens.

Ran as admin, Driver Sweeper does not help.

Any ideas?

[hassata]

Did you try running driver sweeper in safe mode?

[ФрогФут]

Yep, i did.

[hassata]

Not solved yet :(. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Maybe use it as an excuse to upgrade to Win7 64 if you haven't already done so, or just to clean house.

[ФрогФут]

Well, i am on Win 7 64.:)

I haven't solved the problem, but some dancing around the PC

And i installed the driver via device manager and CCC, installing each component idividually and not through catalyst install manager.:)

[herig2]

Took me three tries. The first durring the install, the Windows has a problum screen came up. The second it install but, the computer couldn't find the drivers. Thrid time was a winner.

I'm also using Window7 64

[robmlufc]

anyone got reccomended settings for BS?

[Mustang]

anyone got reccomended settings for BS?

 

Depends on your model of card, on my HD3850 i use 4x Anti-Aliasing, 8x Anisotropic Filitering and Adaptive AA on, all at 1920x1080 resolution :)

[SAM77]

After a while running 10.9

This has been the best driver version so far for me in running Black Shark and FC 2.0.

 

Unless 10.10 has a significant increase in AA and AF performance I dont see myself changing drivers for a while.

[hassata]

Me too. also giving me some fsx love