Friday, September 11th 2009
ATI Catalyst 9.9 WHQL Released
AMD released version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that provides drivers and related essential software for ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series core-logic, and ATI Multimedia products. This release mainly intends to fix application-specific issues, and features related to Catalyst Control Center application. For more details, refer to the Release Notes document. Highlights include:
- Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters
- ATI CrossFireX support for Resident Evil 5
- Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3
- Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
- Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
- Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
- The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
- HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
- Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back
- Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed
68 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.9 WHQL Released
ATI arent fixing this stuff anytime soon - the admin on their forums wont admit theres even an issue and bans those who disagree with him over it.
However they and the AVIVO video package are waiting for me at home.
www.tech-report.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68072
thats the solution offered by spyre on their forums, and its wrong. the first link in my sig is about me getting banned from the ATI forums for pointing out their "solution" doesnt work - let me provide a screenshot as proof (the act that got me banned)
Note that the native res is stated as 1080P while the resolution is lower (and apply is greyed out, so i have hit apply) - not there.
To make it work you have to go below 1280x1024 (an issue fixed for XP around cat 8.5, but ignored for 7 - it was in a change log), and even that doesnt work for some people.
The question is - why is this needed? why cant the setting be applied at ANY resolution, since it has no effect unless you lower it?
anyone have the same problem?
1 of my radeons runs @160/250 right now while the other runs 625/993(3d core clocks of both are 800+)
So Powerplay works with 9.9