ATI Releases New Catalyst 9.6 Videocard Drivers
ATI Releases New Catalyst 9.6 Videocard Drivers
Posted 06/17/2009 at 6:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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AMD/ATI this week released new Catalyst drivers, now in version 9.6. The new driver package sports a number of performance improvements, including:
- Company of Heroes - up to 25 percent better performance with HD 4600 series
- Crysis - up to 13 percent better performance in multi-GPU configurations
- Crysis Warhead - up to 11 percent better performance in mutli-GPU configurations
- World in Conflict - up to 30 percent better performance in settings that were previously CPU limited
In addition to goosing performance in a handful of titles, Catalyst 9.6 also squashes a boatload of bugs and resolves a ton of issues across all current Windows operating systems. Some of these include:
- Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding (all Windows OSes)
- Catalyst Control Center no longer appears interlaced when automatic deinterlacing is enabled (all Windows OSes)
- On some configurations, video artifacts are no longer visible during playback of transcoded video files (Vista)
- Team Fortress 2 some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay (XP)
- Catalyst Control Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabled (Windows 7)
For a full list of improvements (and there are many), refer to the release notes (PDF). Driver downloads available here.
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bingojubes
June 18, 2009 at 7:27am
i can't see anything with the game Prototype for PC. will revert back to 9.5 until i can figure out what's up with that.
good thing i didn't restart my PC before getting through half the game.
Caboose
June 17, 2009 at 8:35am
There's plenty of Windows 7 support right now from ATI. nVidia, not so much.
ANd you know, maybe the easiest way to determine if AVIVO works properly, is to... *ghasp* try it!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
MvanA
June 17, 2009 at 6:42am
Finally they have 64-Bit Vista support for the AVIVO package, but where is the Windows 7 support? Since Windows 7 is built on Vista it should not be that hard for them to port the package for us early adopters. Since AMD doesn't seem to give a shit about all of us using Windows 7, does anyone know if the Vista x64 AVIVO package will install/work with Windows 7 x64?
alanmc76
June 17, 2009 at 7:53am
What do you mean AMD doesn't care about Windows 7? Windows 7 is still in the testing phase and hasn't even been released officially. However, they have had beta drivers for Windows 7 for several months now. I updated my drivers for a Radeon 4670 from ATI's website on the same day the original beta was available on TechNet. They updated the driver suite on May 5th and again today. I'd say that's pretty good support for a product that is not even commercially available yet.
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