ATI Catalyst? 9.2 released

[Cookie Monster]

Link

Release notes:

Performance Improvements
Catalyst? 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
? Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
? Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
? World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI
Catalyst? Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
? Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10
applications.
? Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message
?The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version.?
? Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor
maximum refresh rates
? Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained
on system restart
? Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung
panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
? In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when
soften smoke edges is enabled
? Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI
Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating
system to fail
? Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be
noticed when moving to the extended desktop
? Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and
Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test
Custom Clocks test
? With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some
Crossfire systems
? Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main
menu no longer occurs
? The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8
GB of system RAM
? Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly
reported back as DVI
? Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate
AVCHD files
? Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on
Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering
? Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was
enabled
? Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite
video in extended modes
? Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower
portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special
Features
? Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain
Blue-ray titles
? Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI
Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations
? Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on
WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
ATI Catalyst? Release Note 6
? Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible)
and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop
responding
? The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is
enabled

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI
Catalyst? Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
? System instabilities no longer happens after mode switching in extended
mode while playing some copy protected DVDs
? Catalyst Control Center, CrossFire option can no longer be toggled on/off during
playback of video on a CrossFire enabled system
? Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible)
and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop
responding
? With Overlay Theater Mode and stretched desktop enabled, dragging media
player to extended desktop no longer shows corruption or causes system
instability
? High CPU usage and choppy playback issues have been resolved during
Blu-ray playback on WinDVD 9
? Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are now
retained on system restart

 

[adairusmc]

Sweet, I will give these a try this evening. Hopefully the random crashing issue with Fallout 3 will stop.

 

[footballrunner800]

just installed these. I got a dark screen after installing these but was fixed by rebooting again.

 

[dguy6789]

This driver fixed a small issue I was having where my motherboard was only running my pci express slot at 8x. It's back to 16x now.

 

[hclarkjr]

Originally posted by: footballrunner800
just installed these. I got a dark screen after installing these but was fixed by rebooting again.

i just installed these on my machine, work fine. i also got the black screen on the reboot but it loaded after about 30 second delay without me having to reboot. not sure what caused that.

 

[Pelu]

sweet.. new drivers.. and i hope they are not broke ones like 9.1

 

[Bateluer]

Downloading the Vista 64 and the Vista 32 drivers now. My Radeon 4350 for one of my test beds arrived today.

 

[BFG10K]

Another month, another WHQL driver. I'm loving this as currently both vendors are doing it. :thumbsup:

 

[adairusmc]

edit

 

[doubleOseven]

Thanks to the OP for the heads-up on the new 9.2 drivers.

I installed it on my Win XP SP3 Pro system -- using a Sapphire 4850. The install went great, and I didn't get a black screen on reboot. For me, fortunately, the update went well... Now to benchmark them!

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Another month, another WHQL driver. I'm loving this as currently both vendors are doing it. :thumbsup:

How do they compare to the current Toshiba LCDs. I liked the image quality on the Toshiba better, but that was just comparing a 52inch Toshiba to a 46" Samsung. To get the size that I really want (right around 50" which is what my TV is now), I would have to special order a Samsung in that size. I kind of hate special ordering anything like this that I cannot look at first, just in case it has a dead pixel or a problem of some kind, kind of a hassle to deal with that usually.

The 52" in both the Toshiba and the Samsung are about the same price locally, just would have to order the Sammy.

Sooo...anyone using these on Windows 7 Beta yet?

 

[dguy6789]

Team Fortress 2 and UT3 work fine on these for me.

 

[SSChevy2001]

Originally posted by: Modular


Sooo...anyone using these on Windows 7 Beta yet?

Using it right now on Windows 7 64bit.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Modular

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Another month, another WHQL driver. I'm loving this as currently both vendors are doing it. :thumbsup:

How do they compare to the current Toshiba LCDs. I liked the image quality on the Toshiba better, but that was just comparing a 52inch Toshiba to a 46" Samsung. To get the size that I really want (right around 50" which is what my TV is now), I would have to special order a Samsung in that size. I kind of hate special ordering anything like this that I cannot look at first, just in case it has a dead pixel or a problem of some kind, kind of a hassle to deal with that usually.

The 52" in both the Toshiba and the Samsung are about the same price locally, just would have to order the Sammy.

Sooo...anyone using these on Windows 7 Beta yet?

sorry, posted that in the wrong thread.

 

[vj8usa]

Damn, I'm still getting crashes (to desktop) in Fallout 3.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: vj8usa
Damn, I'm still getting crashes (to desktop) in Fallout 3.

Drat, that was something I wanted addressed. Most likely, its Bethesda's issue to fix though. Morrowind and Oblivion all had the same CTD and stability issues.

 

[ExcaliburMM]

Just installed on ASUS 4870 DK 1GB. XP 32 SP3. After install, rebooted and windows was using default VGA driver so everything was tiny and 6bit. Re-tried to install again, and everything went fine. I'm used to dealing with Creative's drivers, so if an extra reboot was all it took, no complaints here.

 

[Adam8281]

Working wonderfully on my Visiontek 4850, playing Call of Duty: World at War and GTA IV

 

[lavaheadache]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
Working wonderfully on my Visiontek 4850, playing Call of Duty: World at War and GTA IV

curious if there is still the line around water and stuff in cod waw

 

[daveybrat]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache

Originally posted by: Adam8281
Working wonderfully on my Visiontek 4850, playing Call of Duty: World at War and GTA IV

curious if there is still the line around water and stuff in cod waw

That's my same question.

 

[daveybrat]

Well i installed the drivers last night and so far they are running smooth. No rebooting even required after removing and reinstalling. I still have to try WaW to see if there is that water line.

 

[nerp]

9.1 fixed all my "display driver stopped responding" and atikvmdll or whatnot errors with dual monitors so I'm hesitant to upgrade to these now that everything is working so perfectly with my 4850, but. . . why not? Some of those performance gains listed in the release notes look impressive.

 

[Adam8281]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache

Originally posted by: Adam8281
Working wonderfully on my Visiontek 4850, playing Call of Duty: World at War and GTA IV

curious if there is still the line around water and stuff in cod waw

I'll play this afternoon and look for that and write back. I noticed it when I was using 8.12, but I thought it was just a fluky problem with my setup.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Link

Release notes:

Performance Improvements
Catalyst? 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
? Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
? Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
? World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Can anyone confirm this?

 

[zod96]

No http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...splay/catalyst-92.html Looks like the 9.2 drivers are worse performance wise then the last couple of releases. I don't know what Ati is doing lately. At this rate a 9800GT will be faster than a 4870 with the performance gains nvidia gets with its driver updates. I'm seriously thinking about selling my Ati card and going back to nvidia, something like a nice 9800GT or GTX just based on drivers alone....