What's New in the ATI Catalyst 10.9 Drivers
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By Marcus Yam
published New drivers to make your GPU feel fresh again.
Earlier this week we learned that Valve was helping to make driver updates easier by putting the latest ATI Catalysts on Steam. The first version to support this is Catalyst 10.9.
Besides being available on Steam, other changes to the 10.9 version include:
Performance improvements:
- STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark – depending on the model, screen resolution, anti-aliasing and whether you are using ATI CrossfireX™ technology, here’s an example of some performance improvements we’ve noted in our labs:
- up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics
- up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 graphics
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 graphics
- up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics
- up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics
ATI Catalyst™ Application – Updated ATI CrossFireX™ Profiles
- Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update
- F1 2010 – Profile update
- Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile
Resolved issue highlights:
- UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from High Definition to Standard Definition content
- Flickering is no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with QuadCrossFireX™ enabled
- Mesh corruption is no longer visible in “The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault onDark Athena” when SSAO in-game settings are set to “high”
- ATI CrossFireX™ now functions properly, and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabledin “StarCraft II”
- Adobe® Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep
- Negative ATI CrossFireX™ scaling on “Final Fantasy-XIV” no longer occurs
- Intermittent performance drops no longer observed with hardware cursor enabled in “World of Warcraft” game running in extended mode
Resolved issue highlights:
- UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from High Definition to Standard Definition content
- Flickering is no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with QuadCrossFireX™ enabled
- Mesh corruption is no longer visible in “The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault onDark Athena” when SSAO in-game settings are set to “high”
- ATI CrossFireX™ now functions properly, and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabledin “StarCraft II”
- Adobe® Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep
- Negative ATI CrossFireX™ scaling on “Final Fantasy-XIV” no longer occurs
- Intermittent performance drops no longer observed with hardware cursor enabled in “World of Warcraft” game running in extended mode
If you're not grabbing them off Steam, you can get them directly from AMD here.
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Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
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sargentchimera Grrr, just updated to 10.8 from 10.4 a couple of days ago... Idk if i need these anyways since they affect 5870s and below, not 5970s, unless they forgot to list them...Reply -
sabot00 A 5970 is 2 5870s, so you got extra hurt.Reply
In addition Crossfire & SLI always get the biggest improvements. -
Demonslay335 sargentchimeraGrrr, just updated to 10.8 from 10.4 a couple of days ago... Idk if i need these anyways since they affect 5870s and below, not 5970s, unless they forgot to list them...Reply
up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics
And has anyone else noticed there's a duplication of the 'Resolved issues highlights' section? -
eklipz330 I love how they added the STEAM feature.Reply
but personally, i like downloading my drivers manually... -
Spore It's funny to me how most recent driver updates from both Nvidia and ATI have updates to Chronicles of Riddick. I just started playing through it and noticed this error yesterday and grudgingly accepted it. Neato.Reply -
nforce4max Great they are going what Nvidia has done for years... Cheating drivers hidden dragon.Reply -
jefe323 sabot00A 5970 is 2 5870s, so you got extra hurt.In addition Crossfire & SLI always get the biggest improvements.Reply
its actually two 5850s... -
jojesa When they say "Flickering and corruption are no longer visible"...did they fixed or found a way to hide it.Reply