ATI released a new driver for Windows 7 and Vista today, available in 32- adn 64-bit flavors.
Highlights include:
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Crysis performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on Radeon HD 4800 series
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Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD 4800 series products
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Introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
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A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager
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Added support for new OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
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 and ATI CrossFireX™ 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 Updates
The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center now features:
- A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
- 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
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited. Some measured examples are:
- Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
- Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series products
You can download the new drivers right here:
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