Official 9.5 Catalyst Drivers Released
ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI Streamâ„¢
ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Meeting 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 Radeon Graphics accelerators
Delivers 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 Streamâ„¢
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 Radeonâ„¢ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files
Performance Improvements
Catalystâ„¢ 9.5 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
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