Thursday, December 17th 2009

ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released

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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.

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83 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released

#51
Binge
Overclocking Surrealism


I'm afraid I can sir. :ohwell:
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#52
W1zzard
thanks, let's see what ati has to say :)
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#53
bogie
I wish they would fix minimum framerates on CODWAW in Crossfire mode.

Every website and magazine reports on this but ATi/AMD do nothing.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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#54
gumpty
HalfAHertzblogs.amd.com/play/2009/12/17/ati-catalyst%E2%84%A2-9-12-driver-%E2%80%93-what%E2%80%99s-new/

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!
:eek: :toast:

I don't have an eyefinity setup but sugarcoat-me-and-call-me-Jenny, hot damn I'd like one now. If I won lotto tomorrow I'd be getting 2 x 5970 and 3 x 24" screens and I'd be shitting myself with the beautifully warped perspective.
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#55
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
bogieI wish they would fix minimum framerates on CODWAW in Crossfire mode.

Every website and magazine reports on this but ATi/AMD do nothing.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
the hotfix may help. i saw something about the thermal sights not lagging anymore too.
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#56
bogie
what are the thermal sights?
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#57
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
bogiewhat are the thermal sights?
a weapon addon in MW2

my screwup, i saw WAW and read MW2
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#59
Zubasa
SteevoCCC Won't open.
Restart Runtime and try :ohwell:
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#60
my_name_is_earl
Look like the 9.12 fixes all my vertical line problem. Been going @ default clock without crashing so far. Yey, finally I can play MW2 without getting shot in the head while stuttering.
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#61
r1rhyder
W1zzardis anyone else having issues running 3dmark06 cpu tests under windows 7 64-bit using hd 5000 cards? tried 9.12 and the hotfix drivers. on core i7 (doubt that makes any difference)

I keep getting d3derr_invalidcall even before any testing starts. the normal tests work fine, seems to work fine with non-hd5000, seems to work fine with cat 9.11
Hi W1zzard. I was having the same issue with 3DMark06. What I noticed was that 640x480 was not available in the ATI icon resolutions on the task bar. After opening up CCC/Graphics, mode tab and choosing 640x480 and applying it, it now shows up in the ATI taskbar icon resolutions. Set my resolution back to native, and now 3DMark06 runs error free. Go figure, these are some messed up drivers.
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#62
TheMailMan78
Big Member
Damn it seems like everyone is having problems with the hotfix. I think Ill be going back to 9.12 also. I have a feeling these things were rushed.
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#63
jpierce55
No fan control with this ccc? My performance dropped, but maybe because the card is not as cool! I'll go back to the originals!
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#64
r1rhyder
Update: today, 640x480 is missing from CCC. I have done nothing to the PC but turn it off overnight and turn it back on. So strange.
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#65
Kei
I don't have the issues you guys are talking about. I'm on Windows 7 64Bit and using the 9.12 Hotfix drivers as well with my 5770. All my resolutions (including 640*480) are still available in both 3DMark06 (run many tests since installing 9.12HF) and CCC.

All my fan controls work, the card clocks great just like before, and performance is great as well.

Kei
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#66
r1rhyder
Got 640x480 back by unticking Hide modes that this monitor cannot display.




Drats, 3Dmark06 gives the error and monitor won't go into 640x480.
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#67
Whilhelm
Anyone know why it is reporting that I have Catalyst 9.7 installed? I am using the 9.12 hotfix drivers. Do you have to install the hotfix over 9.12 or as a clean install? Also my direct compute score seems really low and I also have no OpenCL.

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#68
Binge
Overclocking Surrealism
Normally I do a clean install of video drivers. ATI is just starting to make their drivers worthy of simple upgrading, but I don't believe they are there yet.
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#69
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
WhilhelmAnyone know why it is reporting that I have Catalyst 9.7 installed? I am using the 9.12 hotfix drivers. Do you have to install the hotfix over 9.12 or as a clean install? Also my direct compute score seems really low and I also have no OpenCL.

forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31529&stc=1&d=1261290954
windows update installing old drivers, most likely. try again from device manager this time.
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#71
W1zzard
shevanelwhat do you use that low res for?
3dmark06 cpu test. no cpu test -> no overall 3dmark score
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#73
TheMailMan78
Big Member
BingeNormally I do a clean install of video drivers. ATI is just starting to make their drivers worthy of simple upgrading, but I don't believe they are there yet.
I couldn't agree more. That last Hot "fix" was a nightmare!
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#74
Steevo
Uninstalled, cleaned, deleted, uninstalled and had windows delete driver backups, rebooted, checked and installed.


All working OK.



Are we back to this again ATI? A hour process to install new drivers, just like it used to be? And AVIVO is using CPU instead of stream to process video files, and so far both tests for me have F'ed up the aspect ratio during conversion.
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#75
scope54
WhilhelmAnyone know why it is reporting that I have Catalyst 9.7 installed? I am using the 9.12 hotfix drivers. Do you have to install the hotfix over 9.12 or as a clean install? Also my direct compute score seems really low and I also have no OpenCL.
you have the latest drivers, for whatever reason it uses the last driver version that was on the computer...

and your DirectCompute scores seem fine:
"I'm getting about D3100 for a single 4890@990MHz" from Pat the creator of the benchmark.

and to have OpenCL you need to download and install the stream dev kit: developer.amd.com/GPU/ATISTREAMSDK/Pages/default.aspx
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