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ATI Catalyst 10.2 WHQL Released

AMD released the ATI Catalyst version 10.2 driver suite, as promised in a press release earlier today. Catalyst 10.2 is one of two important releases by AMD that add to its products' overall feature-set, among the usual baggage of application-specific and generic fixes. Feature additions are as follows:

* ATI Catalyst application profiles for ATI CrossFireX supported configurations

* ATI Catalyst support for PowerPlay on ATI CrossFireX technology supported configurations

* Support for DisplayPort audio

* Support for ATI CrossFireX on Eyefinity configurations

In addition, there are application-specific performance improvements:

* DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5970, ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products

* Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%

* Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series products

* The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on ATI Radeon HD 5970 improves up to 4%

The driver also patched a number of smaller OS-specific issues.

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.2 for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit ||| Windows 7/Vista 32-bit ||| Windows XP 32-bit ||| Windows XP 64-bit

Release Notes document εδώ

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CATALYST 8.10:

* Catalyst Control Center Fan speed control - this release of the ATI software driver introduces the ability for users to control the speed of the GPU fan when running in accelerated graphics.

* Force Component Video Detection - this feature allows users the option in Catalyst Control Center to force Component Video detection in the Display Options aspect. By selecting this option user are able to adjust the Component Video property settings (without a device being physically attached) allowing user to change format and frequency to a desired value. The selected values will be applied to the display once a component video display device get connected. The feature is applicable for all AMD products supporting Component Video.

go go go

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Νέο HotFix για τους Χ58:

http://www.techpowerup.com/76618/AMD_Releases_Catalyst_8.11_Hotfix_for_X58_Platforms.html

* Improves performance in various Direct3D and OpenGL applications on the X58 platform. AMD's next official ATI Catalyst release (ATI Catalyst 8.12) will include these optimizations

* Improves performance for the DirectX 9 version of Far Cry 2 on CrossFire compatible systems

* Improves performance for the DirectX 10 version of Far Cry 2 on both single and CrossFire compatible systems

* Improves performance for the DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1 version of Stalker Clear Sky on both single and CrossFireX configurations at higher resolutions

* Brothers in Arms - Hells Highway no longer displays corruption on the 'Black Friday' level.

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ATI Catalyst 8.12

  • 3DMark Vantage DX10 – performance gains of up to 5% for Single andCrossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and
    HD4350.
  • Call of Duty: World at War DX9 – performance gains of up to 21% for Singleand Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.
  • Crysis DX10 – performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfiremode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
  • Crysis Warhead DX10 – performance gains of up to 13% for Single cardmode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on
    all Radeon HD4xxx.
  • Devil May Cry 4 DX10– performance gains of up to 6% for Single andCrossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and
    HD38xx.
  • Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.
  • Far Cry 2 DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode andup to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon
    HD4xxx and HD38xx.
  • FEAR DX9 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode.Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870X2 and HD4870.
  • Hellgate: London DX10 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single cardmode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on
    all Radeon HD4xxx.
  • Left 4 Dead DX9– performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode andup to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon
    HD4870 series.
  • Lost Planet Colonies DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single andCrossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and
    HD38xx.
  • Prey OGL – performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performancegains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx,
    HD45xx.
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfiremode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
  • Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 – performance gains of up to 18% for Singlecard mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is
    enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and
    HD38xx.

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ATI Catalyst 9.2

AMD has just released ATI Catalyst version 9.2, so now you have a brand new driver for tonight and a nice tweaking utility to test. Catalyst 9.2 brings performance benefits in several games:

* Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%

* Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%

* World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Now the new driver also enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications in Windows Vista and fixes some minor issues that occured in previous versions. For the full list of fixes, please read the Catalyst 9.2 release notes.

Download them from here

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Catalyst 9.5 WHQL

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.5 WHQL for Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit/64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit

Release notes:

Performance improvements:

  • Unigine Tropics DX9 - performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
  • Company of Heroes - performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX configurations.
  • BattleForge - performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX configurations.

New Features:

  • AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windowsmag-glass_10x10.gif 7 and Windows Vista
  • ATI Catalyst 9.5 - Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vistamag-glass_10x10.gifMeeting Microsoft's WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 9.5 driver for Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD's focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD's ATI Radeonmag-glass_10x10.gif Graphics accelerators
  • ATI Catalyst 9.5 - Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vistamag-glass_10x10.gifDelivers full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

ATI Stream:

  • ATI Video encoder update
  • ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
  • Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series of graphics cardsmag-glass_10x10.gif can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

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TechPowerUp Radeon BIOS Editor v1.21

TechPowerUp Radeonmag-glass_10x10.gif BIOS Editor (RBE) has been updated to version 1.21. RBE is our popular ATI Radeon graphics cardmag-glass_10x10.gif BIOS manipulation utility. The new version brings about a few changes that enhance the application's functionality and stability. The developer has listed the following important changes:

  • Fixed minor glitch in BIOS flashing procedure
  • Minor fixes and enhancements for hex editor
  • Updated WinFlash link
  • Fixed more Radeon HD 3650-related bugs
  • Added some DeviceIDs
  • Improved specs string analysis code
  • Added fan support for Radeon HD 4770

For a complete version history, and to download the software, please visit this page.

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Catalyst 9.7 WHQL (beta?)

Δεν ξέρω αν είναι οι τελικοί drivers ή όχι, πάντως είναι WHQL και αρκετοί τους έχουν δοκιμάσει:

Windows 7/Vista:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33948551

Windows XP:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33948552

Οι σημαντικότερες αλλαγές είναι το καινούριο GUI στα Vista/7, καθώς και καινούριες extensions στο OpenGL :D

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Catalyst 9.9

CHANGES:

All

- 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

Windows 7

- Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

Vista

- Running OpenGL applications in windowed mode on extended desktop no longer causes the secondary display to go blank for some ASICs

- Task switching between the desktop and a game in progress no longer has a visible delay (7-10 seconds)

- Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations

- Catalyst Control Center no longer shows both HDMI displays as DVI when they are connected via HDMI port and to DVI port via HDMI-DVI dongle

- Windows Aero Glass Effects now works properly during HD Blu-ray playback

Windows XP

- Resuming video playback after S1 sleep no longer causes HDMI audio to disappear

- Changes to AVIVO Basic color settings are now retained after Catalyst Control Center is re-opened

- AVIVO Basic color setting changes can now be applied during HD DVD playback on specific ASICs on XP Media Center Edition

To download the Catalyst 9.9 click on the following links:

- Catalyst 9.9 (Windows XP 32bit)

- Catalyst 9.9 (Windows XP 64bit)

- Catalyst 9.9 (Windows Vista & 7 32bit)

- Catalyst 9.9 (Windows Vista & 7 64bit)

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ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL Released

AMD released its latest version of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite to date, Catalyst 9.12 WHQL, which provides drivers and system software for the company's ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series chipset IGPs, ATI multimedia products, and the AMD FireStream GPGPU processors. Version 9.12 announced today, comes with expanded GPU support for DirectCompute 10.1 for specific GPUs, includes performance increments, OpenGL 3.2 extension support, along with the usual application-specific fixes.

To begin with, application-specific performance increments include an overall performance improvement as high as 9% on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, for 3DMark Vantage. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 - GPU Cloth improves up to 15%. Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat. The release provides DirectCompute 10.1 support for ATI Radeon HD 4800 and HD 4700 GPUs in both single and multi-GPU configurations. Lastly, this release adds support for certain OpenGL 3.2 extensions for all GPUs from Radeon HD 2000 series and upward (HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000).

Release Notes εδώ .

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 9.12 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit

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ATI Catalyst 10.2 WHQL Released

AMD released the ATI Catalyst version 10.2 driver suite, as promised in a press release earlier today. Catalyst 10.2 is one of two important releases by AMD that add to its products' overall feature-set, among the usual baggage of application-specific and generic fixes. Feature additions are as follows:

* ATI Catalyst application profiles for ATI CrossFireX supported configurations

* ATI Catalyst support for PowerPlay on ATI CrossFireX technology supported configurations

* Support for DisplayPort audio

* Support for ATI CrossFireX on Eyefinity configurations

In addition, there are application-specific performance improvements:

* DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5970, ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products

* Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%

* Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series products

* The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on ATI Radeon HD 5970 improves up to 4%

The driver also patched a number of smaller OS-specific issues.

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.2 for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit ||| Windows 7/Vista 32-bit ||| Windows XP 32-bit ||| Windows XP 64-bit

Release Notes document εδώ

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AMD Catalyst 10.3 preview driver released!

ATI Catalyst Control Center

- Display Bezel Compensation (Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels)

- Per-Display Color Adjust (Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls)

- Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups (Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays)

- Improved Display Configuration switching (Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst Control Center profile manager)

- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

ATI Catalyst support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses

DOWNLOAD: http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/tips/Pages/catalyst-10-3-preview.aspx

Οι επίσημοι έρχονται με το καλό την επόμενη εβδομάδα ;)

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ATI Catalyst 10.3 Final release

Performance improvements

- 3DMark Vantage

Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics products

Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

- Aliens vs. Predator

Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

- Battleforge

Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Call of Duty: World at War

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Company of Heroes

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Crysis and Crysis Warhead

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Devil May Cry 4

Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- DiRT 2

Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD

5700 Series products

Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Far Cry 2

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat Benchmark

Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000

Series products

- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

- Resident Evil 5

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Tom Clancyʼs H.A.W.X.

Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Unigine Tropics

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

- World in Conflict

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

- Wolfenstein

Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Τους κατεβάζετε από τα παρακάτω λινκ:

Catalyst 10.3 WHQL (Windows XP 32bit)

Catalyst 10.3 WHQL (Windows XP 64bit)

Catalyst 10.3 WHQL (Windows 7/Vista 32bit)

Catalyst 10.3 WHQL (Windows 7/Vista 64Bit)

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Catalyst 10.3b για Vista και 7.

Latest updates available in the ATI Catalyst 10.3b preview driver

* ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition

o This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows 7 and Windows Vista for the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition.

o Supports up to 6 displays (driven from a single GPU) operating together as an Eyefinity Display Group in both Windows 7 and Windows Vista

* The desktop mouse cursor issue (becoming enlarged at random when using Windows 7) has been fixed

* Fix for Severe flickering / flashing in Battlefield 2 bad Company

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ATI Catalyst™ 10.4a Preview Released

The ATI Catalyst 10.4a Preview provides resolution for the following issue:

Long load times for new maps in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 when using a Windows 7 / Windows Vista based system with an:

ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series graphics card

ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card

ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card

ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card

The XP driver is provided only as an early look of Catalyst 10.4

In order to download and install the ATI Catalyst 10.4a Preview, click on the following links:

Catalyst 10.4a Preview for Windows® 7 / Windows Vista 32-bit Edition

Catalyst 10.4a Preview for Windows® 7 / Windows Vista 64-bit Edition

Catalyst 10.4a Preview for Windows® XP Professional and Home Edition

Catalyst 10.4a Preview for Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

Note! This driver is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing, and is only recommended for users experiencing the particular issue described above. This release is not supported by ATI Radeon™ HD5800 Eyefinity 6 series of products.

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ATI Catalyst™ 10.4 WHQL Released

ATI Catalyst - Video enhancements

- H.264 Level 5.1 support

ATI Catalyst can now playback 5.1 level streams on all supported players

Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K)

AMD video transcoding updates

- This release of ATI Catalyst provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter

Performance improvements

New formats supported (H.264 file formats - MTS, and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content)

ATI Catalyst Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU acceleration

- Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center

Performance Improvements

- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Windows XP 32bit DOWNLOAD LINK

Windows XP 64bit DOWNLOAD LINK

Windows Vista/7 32bit DOWNLOAD LINK

Windows Vista/7 64bit DOWNLOAD LINK

Όποιος τους δοκιμάσει ας μας πει εντυπώσεις :drinks:

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ATI Catalyst™ 10.5 WHQL Released

Η ATI από ότι βλέπω συνεχίζει να τηρεί την υπόσχεσή της. Καινούριοι drivers κάθε μήνα :)

AMD today rolled out this month's release of its ATI Catalyst software, which provides drivers and essential system software for ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD chipsets, and other ATI multimedia products. The WHQL-signed version 10.5 brings a few feature updates, along with a list of important bug fixes. To begin with, Catalyst 10.5 gives 120 Hz display support for ATI Radeon HD 4000 and HD 3000 series graphics processors (helpful with stereoscopic 3D), and ATI Overdrive enhancements which allow full control over ATI Radeon GPUs that are connected to multiple displays, eliminating a limitation.

Following on with Catalyst 10.4, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 doesn't take unusually long to load maps, while a stability issues connected to IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, Mass Effect 2 (where display goes blank if you switch to desktop in the middle of a game), Empire: Total War, Napoleon: Total War got a fix which allows AA settings with Volumetric effects, while Unigine Heaven 2.0 in wireframe mode doesn't crash. For more details, refer to the release notes document.

Release Notes Document

ATI Catalyst 10.5 Windows Vista/7 64bit DOWNLOAD LINK

ATI Catalyst 10.5 Windows Vista/7 32bit DOWNLOAD LINK

ATI Catalyst 10.5 Windows XP 64bit DOWNLOAD LINK

ATI Catalyst 10.5 Windows XP 32bit DOWNLOAD LINK

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