Wednesday, April 8th 2009
ATI Catalyst 9.4 Released
AMD have just released their ATI Catalyst 9.4 Driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.4 Windows release include:
New Features
New Features
- ATI Catalyst 9.4 includes a new ATI Overdrive auto-tune application to estimate the over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Overdrive supported ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators
Designed for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series
- "World of Warcraft" or "World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering no longer occurs when Shadow is set to medium/high using ATI CrossFire configurations
- Google Sketchup no longer displays blank screen
- Resolutions above 1024 x 768 will now full screen properly for specific HDMI displays
- Artifacts no longer visible while playing Age of Conan DX10
- VC-1 progressive disc playback no longer exhibits block corruption.
- The Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver now functions properly under Windows XP
183 Comments on ATI Catalyst 9.4 Released
What this " Compute Abstraction Layer " does any way ?
ATI Catalyst 9.4 to Lack Support for Many Older Cards
I also found nothing official so thats why its not been mentioned.
so i am in .. :laugh:
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So I purchased this for playing games only, not for transcoding my high def camcorder files to send to my parents like they advertised.
BAD ATI.....BAD.
Fix it.
AMD FireStream 9170
AMD FireStream 9250
AMD FireStream 9270
In 9.4 over 9.3 they've added nothing, apparently but deleted these:
ABIT Radeon X1550 Series
ALL-IN-WONDER X600 Series
ALL-IN-WONDER X800 Series
ALL-IN-WONDER X800 XL
ASUS Radeon X1550 Series
ASUS X550 Series
ATI RADEON 9600/X1050 Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
ATI Radeon 2100
ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 / X1050 Series
ATI Radeon 9600/9550/X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series
ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series
ATI Radeon X1950 GT
ATI Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Secondary
ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress Series
All-in-Wonder X1800XL
All-in-Wonder X1900
Asus Radeon X1050
Connect3D Radeon X1050
Connect3D Radeon X1550 Series
Diamond Radeon X1050
Diamond Radeon X1550 Series
GECUBE Radeon X1050
GIGABYTE Radeon X1550 Series
GeCube Radeon X1550 Series
GigaByte Radeon X1050
HIS Radeon X1050
HIS Radeon X1550 Series
MSI Radeon X1050
MSI Radeon X1550 Series
PALIT Radeon X1550 Series
Palit Radeon X1050
PowerColor Radeon X1050
PowerColor Radeon X1550 Series
RADEON 9500
RADEON 9500 PRO / 9700
RADEON 9600 Series
RADEON 9600 TX
RADEON 9700 PRO
RADEON 9800
RADEON 9800 PRO
RADEON 9800 SERIES
RADEON 9800 XT
RADEON X550 Series
RADEON X550XT
RADEON X600/X550 Series
RADEON X700 SE
RADEON X700 Series
RADEON X800 GTO
RADEON X800 PRO/GTO
RADEON X800 Series
RADEON X800 XT
RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition
RADEON X800/X850 Series
RADEON X800GT
RADEON X850 CrossFire Edition
RADEON X850 Series
Radeon X1050
Radeon X1300 / X1600 Series
Radeon X1300 Series
Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
Radeon X1300XT/X1600Pro/X1650 Series
Radeon X1550 Series
Radeon X1600 Series
Radeon X1600/1650 Series
Radeon X1600/X1650 Series
Radeon X1650 GTO
Radeon X1650 Series
Radeon X1700 FSC
Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition
Radeon X1800 GTO
Radeon X1800 Series
Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Radeon X1900 GT
Radeon X1900 Series
Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Radeon X1950 Pro
Radeon X1950 Series
Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series
Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1550 Series
Sapphire Radeon X1050
VisionTek Radeon X1050
VisionTek Radeon X1050 AGP
VisionTek Radeon X1550 Series
(inf information)
BTW, on Windows 7 x64, the VGA drivers doesn't install. It doesn't even appear in the custom installation as an option.
Aww, I guess I'm stuck with 9.3 for my x1300....
Oh well, my 4850 will live on for a decent while I suppose.
Playing HL2 (and other source games), from same save games... the Cat 9.4 is slower by 1 fps. Almost no change.
Artifacts no longer visible while playing Age of Conan DX10
what did they cover it up with?
Anyway, woa, what happened to their site? I clicked on xp-32bit and ZOOOOM SHAZAM things are flying around like crazy, "here's 9.4. PS, we're real cool now"
its designed for 4x serie.
I have an HD 4670 with 1GB GDDR3 :). I set up the catalyst 9.3 at yesterday, and I spent more then 2 hour to tweak, why is that .... catalyst control center won't showing up when I trying to run it.
And than today the AMD releaseing the next one ....
The most annoying think is that I have no idea why working now the ccc, and I think I have to spend another 2 hour to tweak the next catalyst also.
The AMD support guy just said I fu*ked up something that the reason why is the ccc not showing up. I think its ridiculous. But its just my opinion, who bought an ATI card. grrr....:banghead:
I am seriously thinking about to change back the OS to Debian :rockout:...
And buy another cheap vga from nvidia like before.
I had an 9600XT, after 7600GST, now I have this HD thing, so the next should be an nvidia :twitch:
Google Media Player Classic Home Cinema. It supports DXVA which is direct video card decoding for H264 and..... I forgot that other one, but yea.
When I played the H264 media with it set up correctly, I was able to use all the controls just fine.
oh well back to the 8.11s until ati releases the promised hotfix drivers for this problem later this week...
becouse if thats what you mean, is a vista fault.
here download these codecs,
if theres sumthing im missing please tell me as i like watching HD movies
shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
When I first installed from the installer I was like,"WTF!! No driver listed, just CCC and that manager!"
I've tried everything i can with the 9.4s other than a reinstall of the OS but just like with the 9.3s, 9.2s, 9.1s and 8.12s i'm getting an error message about an incompatible vga driver has been detected and disabled and shock horror one of my gpu's is error 43 in device manager and not showing up in the catalyst control centre, game performance is that of 1 gpu as well :shadedshu
Note: the 8.11s and any drivers before them work fine with my system and graphics card, this issue is a known uncommon issue with x2 type cards, i was hoping they'd have a fix in the 9.4 main release but their support told me to expect a hotfix very soon.