Thursday, December 17th 2009
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ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released
AMD released its latest version of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite to date, Catalyst 9.12 WHQL, which provides drivers and system software for the company's ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series chipset IGPs, ATI multimedia products, and the AMD FireStream GPGPU processors. Version 9.12 announced today, comes with expanded GPU support for DirectCompute 10.1 for specific GPUs, includes performance increments, OpenGL 3.2 extension support, along with the usual application-specific fixes.
To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 - GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
For more information, refer to the Release Notes document.
To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 - GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
For more information, refer to the Release Notes document.
83 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released
Ahhh... quick answer from Wiki:
"Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that takes advantage of the massively parallel processing power of a modern graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate PC application performance in Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs. Other DirectX APIs include Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, and DirectSound."
Edit.. never mind, I see it's a 3870x2, so it must be too late for the reseller.
I had a similar problem back in the day when I was sporting my brand new, super powerful X850 XT PE! The problem is called tearing and this occurs when your video card is pumping out too many frames per second for your monitor to handle. Turn on V-Sync to test if my theory is correct. Your game play will feel different with V-Sync on but just play for 15 minutes and see if this tearing happens. Once I realized that my video card was too powerful, I turned off V-Sync and my brain forgot about the problem because it was an awesome problem to have :)
Barr
Worth a try before an RMA! If you got it from Newegg, they'll usually let you purchase a new one and refund when they've recieved your old one, assuming it's in stock and same price.
It was interesting to see so many people having a death screen.
Funny enough I got a BSOD when I uninstall the old drivers. :wtf:
click here
I got my card on launch day, so I beileve I have one of the first bios.
But so far I haven't got a BSOD except a few minute ago :p
According to the amd blog(scroll down t the bottom) the hotfix that comes out with these drivers allows eyefinity on CFX setups. Multi-monitor people rejoice!
"HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo"
ATI Stream SDK v2.0
hotfix drivers