The ATI Catalyst 9.6 Display Driver has Follwing updates
- Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters
- ATI CrossFireX TM Support for Resident Evil 5
- Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3
- ATI Catalyst Control Center – Basic mode now responds appropriately after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
- Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
- Launching Hotkeys Manager in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
- The "Rotate Desktop" page in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second when the secondary display adapter is connected
- HDMI is now properly detected as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
- ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot and unplugged hotplugged back
- Intermittent failures no longer occur with Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso ounce transcoding process has been completed
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- openSUSE 11.1 media production
- SLED and SLES 10 SP3 early look support
New in this Version:
- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index
- (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control
- (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations
- (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array
What's New
Official ATI Catalyst WHQL release supporting ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs
•ATI Catalyst 9.10 now includes full GPU support for the award winning ATI HD Radeon 5800 series GPUS!
Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
•ATI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series. Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels.
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 release for Linux includes:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
•This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
•Ubuntu 9.10 early look support
Highlights of resolved issues
•Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560×1600
•Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in “Riddick 2 Dark Athena” no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
•Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology in tri and quad modes
•Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and ATI Fire Stream™ ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
•“Combat Mission Shock Force” no longer fails after a duration of game play
•Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the ATI Catalyst Control Center – TV Properties Adjustments page
•Changes to the “All Settings” and “Basic Quality” pages in ATI Catalyst Control Center - Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot
