ATI Catalyst 4.9 drivers

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CATALYST 4.9 - Driver Download

 

Release Note Version 4.9

 

Performance Improvements for CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 4.9

As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:

 

Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON™ X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled.

 

UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON™ 9500 PRO, RADEON™ 9700 PRO RADEON™ 9800 PRO and RADEON™ 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.

 

Issues Resolved in CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 4.9

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of CATALYST™. These include:

 

XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9200 installed

FarCry v1.2: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in texture corruption being seen on the ground

IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200

Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game

PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.

Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game

Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9700 PRO installed

Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects

Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active

Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen

Known Issues for CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 4.9

The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of CATALYST™. These include the following:

 

City of Heroes: Specular lighting issues and incorrect textures is noticed when playing the game under Windows XP. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4561.html

Doom3: disabling the object buffers within the game results in the game failing to respond http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4619.html

F1 Challenge: A performance decrease is noticed under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO installed. Further information on this issue can be found at: http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4578.html

Psychotoxic: Attempting to start a new game of Spiel starten (your German lesson for today) under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9700 PRO installed results in the game failing to load http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4618.html

SpellForce: The Order of Dawn. Playing the game under Windows XP with an RADEON™ 9100 installed results in the character's shadows not being drawn properly when the game options for shadow type is set to high http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4617.html

Attempting to play a Java based game or visit a Java based website results in display corruption under Windows XP when either an ATI RADEON™ 9800 SE or RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum card installed and AA is enabled. Further information on this issue can be found at: http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4570.html

Dragging the MS Media Player over to the secondary monitor results in overlay not being available if SURROUNDVIEW is enabled http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4616.html

Installation does not complete - Idriver.exe runs @ 100% CPU utilization (w/SP2 installed) http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4620.html

Error: "Record not found on MSI.DB" during installation (w/ pre-RADEON™ integrated Video) http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4621.html

[ParoxysM]

Omega has updated his accordingly

* Removed ATITool from the package, it had many bugs and disabled a lot of stuff, like DVI support and DDC. If you have it installed, I recommend that you uninstall it before installing this set of drivers.

 

* Re-Enabled Overclocking Anti-Protection, it was missing from last release, sorry.

 

* Modified the ATI CP, now the Omega Drivers will use a built-in, special RadLinker version with the following features: (some new, some old)

 

> Uses NO resources.

> Some new settings for both D3D and OGL.

> Can set Automatic Per-application profiles for OGL & D3D applications.

> Desktop Gamma is working and NOT resetting to default after exiting a game.

> Integrated Overclocking.

> No need for Gamma Hotkeys anymore since you can now set an individual Gamma value for each game in their profile and done.

> This new CP was made in conjunction with ChrisW, maker of Radlinker, as an exclusive feature for the Omega Drivers and we will keep adding features in future releases.

 

* Modified driver installation/uninstall procedure with several new automatic features.

 

* Since RadLinker is now a vital part of the Omega Drivers, it will not be an option to select during setup anymore, it will now automatically look for and uninstall ANY previous version and replace it with the new one.

 

* Now, when uninstalling the Setup tools from the Omega options in the Start Menu, you will also have the option to uninstall the Display drivers in one pass.

 

Known bugs:

* Laptop video playback problem still here, see notes.

* Hibernation and Standby are not working properly, I'm working on a fix.

 

Important Notes:

 

1. Mobility users beware, these drivers don't support overlay video acceleration on some chipsets, specially in Sager notebooks with 9600 and 9700 Mobility cards. Other cards may be affected, but I haven't confirmed the bug on them. The last driver set that doesn't have this problem are my 2.5.44 drivers. Sorry for any inconveniences, I'm working on a fix for this matter, but all my tests show that this is an ATI related bug in the drivers and it doesn't have to do with any of the settings on my drivers.

 

2. CCC will work with the Omega Drivers, but is NOT recommended that you install it, all the functions found in CCC are already included with RadLinker Omega Edition or will be included in a near future as this new CP project develops.

 

3. The included Radlinker version in these drivers is NOT the one I was planning to release, the intended version will come soon in the form of an update to this set of drivers or in the next set based on the Cat 4.10.