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AMD Sets DX9 Radeons Out To Pasture |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:42 |
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Fudo reports that AMD has set their DirectX 9 graphics chips out to pasture with a legacy drive Catalyst version 9.8. You can find it here. This means Windows 7 is not officially supported on these cards, but they will work with the Vista driver. Note: AMD’s DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7. If the user chooses to, they can install the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista graphics driver under Windows 7. Please be aware that none of the new Windows 7 graphics driver (WDDM 1.1) features are supported (as the Windows Vista level graphics driver is limited to WDDM 1.0 level support). Using the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista driver under Windows 7 is not officially supported by AMD, and as such AMD will not provide any form of customer support for users running in this configuration WDDM 1.1 includes virtualized video memory, scheduling, cross process sharing of Direct3D surfaces, and enhanced fault tolerance. WDDM 1.0 will not support multi monitor if the graphics cards use different drivers. In other words if one is a Radeon, and one is a GeForce. Thanks to Wikipedia for this info. |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 13:08 |
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AMD has released their offical Windows 7 drivers here with their Catalyst 9.10 package. It also comes in XP and Vista flavors. ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista
Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 General Availability
release
• AMD has delivered it’s first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver
designed for the Windows 7 GA release
• ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:
• Gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single
GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations in CPU limited
applications/cases
• Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista
graphics driver
• Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and
AMD ATI Catalyst features on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000
Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
• Features the ATI Catalyst™ DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11 Microsoft WHQL
certified graphics driver
Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
• This release of ATI Catalyst™ 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.
Resolved issue high-lights
• “Ghostbusters” game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when
anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution is set to 2560x1600
• Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no
longer causes the game to fail under ATI CrossFireX™ enabled configurations
• Severe flickering is no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on
specific HDMI displays on ATI CrossFireX™ enabled systems using 3 and 4 GPU
configurations
• Desktop flashing is no longer observed after driver installation and reboot
with systems configured with an ATI Radeon™ product in the primary PCIe slot and
an ATI Firestream product in the secondary PCIe slot
• "Combat Mission Shock Force" no longer fails after playing the game for a
certain amount of time
• 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
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
• This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new
operating systems:
• Ubuntu 9.10 early look support
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ATI Catalyst 9.9 Vista Drive Analysis |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:52 |
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Tweaktown has analyzed the Catalyst 9.9 driver from AMD under Windows Vista. To be honest this is a pretty bad driver release from ATI and one of the worst I've ever tested. Not only are there no performance gains, but looking at the six pages of release notes, there's really very few fixes. This driver simply seemed like it was fast tracked so ATI could continue to offer the one every month deal that it has been doing for years and years. Ok, so not so good then. |
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