Tuesday, November 17th 2009
ATI Catalyst 9.11 WHQL Released
AMD published its near-monthly installment of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite, which provides essential drivers for the company's ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series chipset IGPs, ATI multimedia products, and the AMD FireStream GPGPU processors. Version 9.11 announced today, comes with the same hardware support base as the older version, includes two new features, and carries the usual application-specific fixes.
New features include GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta, and High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE. The release of ATI Catalyst, according to AMD, supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Hardware acceleration is supported on all existing Radeon HD 5000 and HD 4000 series graphics processors. The release of ATI Catalyst includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive. For a list of minor issues fixed in the release, refer to the Release Notes document.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.11 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
New features include GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta, and High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE. The release of ATI Catalyst, according to AMD, supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Hardware acceleration is supported on all existing Radeon HD 5000 and HD 4000 series graphics processors. The release of ATI Catalyst includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive. For a list of minor issues fixed in the release, refer to the Release Notes document.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.11 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
32 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.11 WHQL Released
The good thing is now the 5770 can go with the other 5770 in a real comp
(thanks Zubasa for letting me know)
I'm sitting on 9.9s but been hesitant since the newer cards came out.
the only real difference is that vista works in WDDM1.0, while 7 works in 1.0 or 1.1
the difference is whether aero is rendered in DX9 or DX10 really - it saves system ram in DX10, so you can lose out on performance if you run vista drivers
DX10 games look at the list of refresh rates and see two digit numbers
50
59
60 (interlaced)
60 (Progressive)
when 60Hz progressive isnt there (due to the 59Hz bug) they go to 60Hz interlaced, thinking that 60 is higher than 59... yeah, problem.
as for vista (Which doesnt get the 59Hz bug), its just that some apps choose the wrong "60"
the only solution for vista users is to shoot themselves, while 7 users can try various tricks such as modified monitor drivers in an attempt to lock the screen to 60Hz only - HDMI users tend to be screwed here
:shadedshu
I would be happy to use Windows 7 (seeing as how I get it free via MSDNAA). Only issue is my wireless card doesn't work with any drivers I have tried (even the ones supplied by MS). The wireless card that works in Vista. *shock* Windows 7 is not pure goodness from heaven...
Also, to mention every single message which says anything bad on ATI/AMD forums are deleted & any disagreement with their moderator is automatic ban to anyone even remotely intelligent to discover their bad software support to the all amazing hardware they make. Funny since when support forums started banning people for asking for support I wonder.
enough said?
made a thread about it here which got enough attention, that i got contacted by someone with contacts over there and got me unbanned - but still, you cant get anything fixed.
its like teh crossfire flickering issue - you bring it up and you just get BS answers "oh try this this and this" - its useless, they dont work and never have. you just get told to TRY something thats never going to work, and then ignored when you say it didnt work.
Oddest one i have seen lately was Torchlight were i cannot use AA without getting black borders but. If AA is turned on it gets the black borders and runs at 24Hz (23.7). Turn AA of it's back at 1080P at 60Hz..
thats just how it shows up in windows since it cant specify interlaced
Don't even really care am I banned, if I would wanna make comment out there just proxy your ars and that's it, but considering me going so low as being banned for questioning technical specifications, pointing out errors constantly and supporting where I can I do not even want to go down to their level of idioticy by AMD/ATI forum side.
I know more on technical aspect of different hardware being memory, chipset support person on 'real life' & over 20 years clean experience to not even want to aid their forums while questions which really are issues are all deleted and users who created those questions in their forums in the first place are banned.