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#1 2009-09-11 3:53 pm
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- From: Björk, Björk
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Catalyst 9.9 released
ATI has just released Catalyst 9.9 for Radeon card owners. The new drivers incorporate a number of a number of fixes/enhancements:
Resolved Issue highlights
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
Links:
Windows XP
Windows XP x64
Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit
Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit
No listed perf improvements, just bug fixes. Work likely concentrating on forthcoming RV870/ Eyeview.
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=22124
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Last edited by Bat (2009-09-11 9:30 pm)
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#3 2009-09-15 3:48 am
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Re: Catalyst 9.9 released
Might be a bug in BOINC, then, as
ATI has just issued a press release announcing the world's first WHQL-certified DX11 driver:
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On August 31st 2009, AMD reached a new software development milestone – the world’s first Microsoft WHQL certificated graphics driver for DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11.
AMD’s DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver delivers support for all of the key DirectX 11 level features required for new gaming experiences and acceleration of next generation high performance applications:
DirectCompute 11
Shader Model 5.0
Tessellation
Addressable stream output
Geometry Shader Instancing
Pull Model attribute evaluation
Subroutines
New texture formats
Meeting Microsoft’s WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst™ 8.651 graphics driver for DirectX 11 and Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD’s focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust experience on AMD’s next generation of DirectX 11 ATI Radeon™ Graphics accelerators.
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