catalyst 11.9 released

[hclarkjr]

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/radeon_win7-32.aspx#1
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_xp-32.aspx
have not found the release notes yet

 

[ss284]

release notes:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst119ReleaseNotes.aspx

 

[Termie]

release notes:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst119ReleaseNotes.aspx

Looks like a much-needed stability release:

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

•STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game.•Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on some video cards.
•The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading :
◦Call of Duty – Black Ops
◦F1 2010
◦Dungeon Siege 3
•The following games no longer hang intermittently during gameplay:
◦Battlefield - Bad Company 2
◦Borderlands
◦Dead Rising 2
•The following games no longer hangs while running the benchmark :
◦Serious Sam 2
◦Resident Evil 5
◦HAWX 2
•HAWX 2 no longer displays random flashing black pixels
•Flashing pixel corruption is no longer experienced while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2
•The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors.
•Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX
•Video corruption is no longer observed while playing full screen HD WMV format files using PowerDVD with Windows Aero Mode turned off.
•Blank video playback is no longer observed when hardware accelerations is enabled in VLC 1.1.10
•Dawn of War II – Retribution no longer exhibits a black screen when alt-tabbing in and out of the game
•Random display corruption is no longer observed when playing WMV format files using Windows Media Player
•City of Heroes no longer experiences stuttering after excessive use if in-game Anti-Aliasing slider

 

[GotNoRice]

I kind of wish they made it more clear exactly what makes these different from the 11.10 preview driver.

The 11.10 preview driver is "newer" but none of those fixes from 11.9 were listed in the 11.10 preview patch notes. So does the 11.10 preview driver also contain these fixes or not?

 

[Elixer]

I kind of wish they made it more clear exactly what makes these different from the 11.10 preview driver.

The 11.10 preview driver is "newer" but none of those fixes from 11.9 were listed in the 11.10 preview patch notes. So does the 11.10 preview driver also contain these fixes or not?

Yes, 11.10 has all those fixes, and possibly more.

The really odd thing is, those game fixes should apply to vista & XP as well, but they only list it for win 7.
They need to change the way they write the release notes.

 

[Madcatatlas]

the 11.10 preview is for BF3, for everything else, you use the 11.09 which i guess is WHQL (or whatever) certified, that is my understanding of it.

 

[Elixer]

Normally, it is done this way:
Base code is all in one directory, let's call it 11.
Then each month, they make a branch from that base directory, so, in this case, 9.
They keep working on the base directory (11) while 9 is going through WHQL.
Then they make a new branch for the 10 preview release, and let people play with that. (beta)
They are still working from the main base directory (11) though, that is why I said all changes are always rolled into the next version released.

They might do stuff slightly different though, but that is the main pattern.