ATI released a new set of drivers for their Radeon based graphics cards. The new 9.3 Cats are available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

* Lost Planet: Colonies – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, and performance gains of up to 50% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4500 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 4300 Series of products
* Unigine Tropics Demo DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on ATI CrossFireX configurations using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series of products
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New Features

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – the industries first Unified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

* AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
* Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
* All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
o Please note that the AVIVO Video Converter is not currently supported under Windows 7

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

* Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 and future ATI Catalyst releases, the AMD Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included

* The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed.

Download:

ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Windows XP 32-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Windows XP 64-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Vista | Windows 7 64-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Vista | Windows 7 32-bit

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Interesting news. If the rumor is correct then ATI is going to limit the list of supported graphics cards in the next release of Catalyst. Apparantly as of Catalyst 9.4 ATI is going to drop support for the following graphics cards:

Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X800, X1800, X1900 and other older desktop video cards.

On the professional side Catalyst 9.4 will no longer support the FireGL X1/X2/X3, V3000, V5000, V7000 and FireMV 2200, 2250 professional cards. Of course owners of these models will still be permitted to download older drivers and use them happily. The ATI Catalyst 9.4 is set to be released next month.

ATI has just released their latest Catalyst video driver, version 10.8. This new release will bring with it official support for anti-aliasing (AA) in Starcraft II, and improved performance in games such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Stormrise. The driver also includes support the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, which continues ATI’s commitment to open source development tools.

Additionally, the new drivers eliminate problems with Adobe Photoshop CS5 crashing when numerous windows are open, stops screens from dimming when exiting Mafia II and will also fix games such as Borderlands from crashing during gameplay.

The Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.8 contains the following:

* ATI Radeon™ display driver 8.762
* HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
* Southbridge/IXP Driver
* ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.762

New Features:

OpenGL ES 2.0 support – ATI Catalyst™ 10.8 delivers full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 specification

* Enables 3D accelerated graphics within a web browser that supports OpenGL ES 2.0
* Supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

Video Quality default options

* The Default video options for ATI Catalyst™ have been greatly enhanced to deliver
the best quality video viewing experience. Users can also choose to apply these
settings to Internet Video via a new checkbox control within the ATI Catalyst™
Control Center

* In the “Advanced Color” section, the following defaults are now enabled:
* Color vibrance (default = 40)
* Flesh tone correction (default = 50)
* Brighter Whites
* In the “Advanced Quality” section, the following defaults are now enabled:
* Edge-enhancement (default = 25)
* De-noise (default = 64)
* Mosquito Noise Reduction (default = 50)
* De-blocking (default = 50)

Performance enhancement for Eyefinity Quad ATI CrossFireX™
configurations

* Performance has been greatly improved for users running with ATI Eyefinity on a Quad ATI CrossFireX™ configuration

* Anti-Aliasing support for StarCraft II

* ATI Catalyst™ Control Center enabled Anti-Aliasing is now available for StarCraft II

Catalyst™ Application Profiles - The following application profiles are available with this release of Catalyst™ 10.8

* Singularity – CrossFire™ profile update
* Mafia 2 – CrossFire™ profile update
* Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark – new CrossFire™ profile
* Lord of the Rings Online – new CrossFire™ profile
* Aliens Vs. Predator – CrossFire™ profile update

Performance Improvements – The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.8:

* Far Cry 2
* Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
* Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
* Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
* Left 4 Dead 2
* Performance increases 3-5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series configurations
* Stormrise
* Performance increases 5-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 series and ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 series configurations

Download ATI Catalyst 10.8

ATI launches a set of 32|64-bit drivers for Windows 7. Underlining the company’s leadership in developing hardware and drivers to support the Windows 7 operating system, AMD announced that its Windows 7 driver has received Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) certification on the first day of the certifying program.

* WHQL certification sets a high bar for quality and reliability, and is considered essential by many home and business users.

* WHQL certification demonstrates AMD’s ability to deliver the stability, incredible 3D game performance and smooth multimedia playback needed in order to help bring the new features of Windows 7 to life.

* As a testament to its ongoing commitment to reliability and stability, AMD is the only graphics hardware company in the world delivering monthly WHQL-certified graphics driver updates.

For users of ATI Radeon™ HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 series products, the ATI Catalyst™ software suite delivers:

* Industry-leading driver stability and reliability.
* Full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7.
* Scheduled performance and new feature innovation every month.
* Enablement of ATI Stream technology for general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing on supported graphics cards.

“By delivering a WHQL certified driver for the Windows 7 operating system at the earliest possible opportunity, AMD has once again demonstrated its driver leadership,” said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice president, Software Engineering, AMD. “AMD is working closely with Microsoft to ensure superior performance and a reliable Windows 7 experience throughout our line of graphics processors.”

Microsoft WHQL certified graphics drivers for Windows 7 are scheduled for release on AMD.com on May 5, 2009, and a fully unified WHQL-certified driver supporting Windows Vista and Windows 7 is planned for the release of ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 later in May.

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