What’s new in Catalyst 9.7:

ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM

• AMD has delivered its first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver designed for the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing)

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:

• Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single GPU configurations (gains of up to 10%) and especially ATI CrossFireX™ configurations (gains of up to 40% for dual GPU configurations, and gains of up to 90% for QUAD GPU configurations)

• 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 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – Enhanced user interface

• The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center features a newly redesigned user interface to enhance usability and end user efficiency. Highlights include:

o A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays

o A new streamlined look – settings and controls are now found in the new “Graphics” and “Options” drop down menus, allowing users to very quickly select different Tabs to adjust the desired settings

o Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7

• The new ATI Catalyst Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7

• ATI Catalyst 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit

• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files