Catalyst 9.1 drivers are here!

[dguy6789]

Link to the drivers:


XP 32

XP 64

Vista 32

Vista 64


Change Log



Changes:

Full OpenGL? 3.0 support
This release of ATI Catalyst? provides full OpenGL? 3.0 extension support.
The following is a list of OpenGL? 3.0 extensions added in Catalyst 9.1:
? ARB_framebuffer_object
? ARB_half_float_vertex
? ARB_texture_rg
? EXT_texture_array
? EXT_texture_integer
? EXT_transform_feedback
? NV_conditional_render
? WGL/GLX_create_context (for new 3.0 contexts)
? GLSL 1.3
? ARB_color_buffer_float
? ARB_vertex_array_object
? EXT_draw_buffers2


Resolved Issues for Windows Vista and Windows XP
Operating Systems

? ?Move to Monitor? option does not work for some Open GL application
? Playing back MPEG2 files may fail to respond when task switching between
virtual desktops in extended desktop mode
? Restoring to factory default, Catalyst Control Center may become unresponsive
when multidesktop is enabled
? Catalyst Control Center: display index number are not the same as Displays
Manager in Graphics Settings
? Catalyst Control Center: Some Catalyst text labels may be missing ?General
Settings Option? under Windows Traditional Chinese
? Catalyst Control Center: System may become unresponsive when uninstalling
Hydravision package with all HV aspects checked in multi adapter configurations
? Catalyst Control Center: Enabling "Enable Desktop Manager" and "Enable
Multi Desktop" will cause the following to be displayed in the Windows Task
Manager HydraDM64 and HydraMD64
? Catalyst Control Center: Preparing Help dialog window will come up in
English on other localized Windows operating systems
? About Catalyst Control Center window may display some text corruption,
when launched from the system tray
? Catalyst Control Center stops working when skin is changed to Quicksilver

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating
System


? With some ATI Radeon adapters and Windows Vista 64 systems with more
than 4 GB of system memory the display driver may fail to load and report a
code 43 error
? Some video performance playback may be noticed when using the latest version
of Pixela
? Video combing effects may be noticed during movie playback while fast forwarding
or rewinding
? Catalyst Control Center: some screen corruption may be noticed after
enabling 1080p HDMI support and adjusting the scaling options
? Video may not fill secondary display when playing back HD 1080i content
with Overlay Theater Mode enabled
? Launching Medal Of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead game demo may result
in a system stopped working error
? Unable to extend the display to a secondary adapter until the system has been
restarted after enable/disable CrossFire?
? Reinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI
Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system may cause the operating system
to fail
? Playing Picture-in-Picture on a DVD with PowerCinema or PowerDVD may
cause the system to halt.
? System may become unstable when mode switching during playback of
blu-ray content using WinDVD
? System becomes unresponsive exiting Windows Media Center while playing
high definition content
? DXVA2 Video Decoder DDI Test failures on R7xx ASICs on Windows Vista
Systems
? Some interlacing may be noticed when fast forwarding a DVD playback
? Catalyst Control Center: system may fail to boot after disabling CrossFire?
with dual ATI Radeon HD 48xx adapters
? System unresponsive on reboot after installing the Catalyst 8.12 driver on ATI
Radeon HD 4800 Series CrossFire?

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System


? Catalyst Control Center Runtime does not restart automatically after HydraVision
installation in Windows XP
? Catalyst Control Center: Hydravision tab is not shown in limited user
accounts for Windows XP 64 bit
? Test corruption may be noticed when display is rotated to 'Left (90 ccw)' in
resolutions greater than 1600 x 1200
? Playing back some HD MPEG2 videos will either shows black or show a
reduced Overlay Theater mode on the secondary display
? TV may fail to display an image after installing the display driver with an
HD-TV connected using DVI-HDMI adapter
? Video corruption may be noticed with some DVI monitors during a mode
switch
? On some systems the following ATI warning dialog may be displayed after a
system restore ?Not enough displays to enable driver. Add another display
device and try again.
? Unable to install SMBus driver on ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics with ATI
graphic card and integrated graphics disabled

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating
System


? The ATI Avivo video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration
under Windows Vista 64-bit edition
? Catalyst Control Center: error message 'CCC Host Application' may be displayed
when cancelling a transcoding process
? Video combing effects may be noticed during movie playback while fast forwarding
or rewinding
? When using PowerDVD to play certain Blu-ray DVD titles, the lower portion
of the player window may intermittently appear shaky when playing Special
Features
? The Catalyst Control Center 3D settings option, Anisotropic Filtering does
not currently work when running DirectX 10 applications ? Anisotropic Filtering
must be enabled within the application
? Some video tearing may be noticed when playing back some DVD titles on
WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
? Random flashes or some bright pixels/lines may be observed during playback
of some blu-ray titles
? Some flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title may be noticed when moved
to the extended desktop
? Catalyst Control Center, CrossFire? Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and
Memory Clock from the default settings may cause a failure in the ?Test Custom
Clocks? test
? With Anti Alias enabled Doom3 will fail to launch on a CrossFire? system.
? Cyberlink may stop responding and terminate when playing back some H.264
content
? Resuming from suspend mode while playing an HD or Blu-ray title on a system
containing an ATI Radeon HD 46x0 series of product may intermittently
result in a Time-out Detection and Recovery (TDR)

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating
System


? Only 2 channel audio is heard when playing back multichannel (Dolby
5.1.DTS) audio through HDMI connector




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I played a bit of UT3 with these drivers and have experienced no problems or graphical artifacts at all. The only problem I have is one that I had in the previous driver version; in the Catalyst Control Center, the spot where you set clocks and fan speed, it does not show my fan speed, it only says 0%, even though I have the slider changed and I can hear the fan increase in volume when I change it. GPU Z correctly shows my fan speed.

 

[nemesismk2]

I was thinking the same thing this morning, maybe they offer more features which require additional testing.

 

[Modular]

I was thinking about this last night myself. I did a google search and read that they should be out this week on Wed or Thurs. We'll see.

 

[error8]

I was thinking of starting a similar thread. They should have been out by now, isn't it?

 

[Majic 7]

They are working on the 4850 crossfire thing and the X2s not using both cores on some systems. Should be out soon according to the post by the ATI guy I read.

 

[adairusmc]

They are usually always released on a Wednesday IIRC, so maybe tommorrow?

 

[lavaheadache]

Even though i haven't played Far Cry 2 in a while, I'm gonna be a little upset if the dx10 hitching issue isn't fixed. Completely inexcusable this far after release to be still having troubles in a "top" game.

 

[Adam8281]

how do you know they'll go to 9.1 instead of 8.13? Do they always start over after *.12?

 

[nosfe]

the numbers mean year.month so 6.3 would be from march 2006

 

[Tempered81]

If you cannot wait for 9.1 whql, most AA improvements are in the 8.12 hotfix

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
how do you know they'll go to 9.1 instead of 8.13? Do they always start over after *.12?

12 months in a year...

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Majic 7
They are working on the 4850 crossfire thing and the X2s not using both cores on some systems. Should be out soon according to the post by the ATI guy I read.

tell me about it.

Besides getting ranked 8 in furmark, i should be ranked 6 tho but the first 2 are fakes..

I havent seen ANY IMPROVEMENT IN ANYTHING while having Xfire on.

<does Xfire even work?? seriously.... >

Only thing i saw is at full load both cards can tip 65-70amps.

*sigh*

I have HD4870X2 in xfire incase you guys are wondering WTF can tip 65-70Amps on full load.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1258.jpg

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1258.jpg

That's hawt

 

[nOOky]

Actually that's probably cool

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Majic 7
They are working on the 4850 crossfire thing and the X2s not using both cores on some systems. Should be out soon according to the post by the ATI guy I read.

tell me about it.

Besides getting ranked 8 in furmark, i should be ranked 6 tho but the first 2 are fakes..

I havent seen ANY IMPROVEMENT IN ANYTHING while having Xfire on.

<does Xfire even work?? seriously.... >

Only thing i saw is at full load both cards can tip 65-70amps.

*sigh*

I have HD4870X2 in xfire incase you guys are wondering WTF can tip 65-70Amps on full load.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1258.jpg

Do you have two 4870X2s or just one? It's hard to tell from your post. I don't have much experience with a pair of the cards but I can definitely tell a difference with one card when Crossfire is turned off. My fps get cut in half most of the time.

 

[Tary88]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Majic 7
They are working on the 4850 crossfire thing and the X2s not using both cores on some systems. Should be out soon according to the post by the ATI guy I read.

tell me about it.

Besides getting ranked 8 in furmark, i should be ranked 6 tho but the first 2 are fakes..

I havent seen ANY IMPROVEMENT IN ANYTHING while having Xfire on.

<does Xfire even work?? seriously.... >

Only thing i saw is at full load both cards can tip 65-70amps.

*sigh*

I have HD4870X2 in xfire incase you guys are wondering WTF can tip 65-70Amps on full load.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1258.jpg

Do you have two 4870X2s or just one? It's hard to tell from your post. I don't have much experience with a pair of the cards but I can definitely tell a difference with one card when Crossfire is turned off. My fps get cut in half most of the time.

2 in the picture.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver

Originally posted by: Adam8281
how do you know they'll go to 9.1 instead of 8.13? Do they always start over after *.12?

12 months in a year...

That's how they do the catalysts? By month/year? I never knew that.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Elfear


Do you have two 4870X2s or just one? It's hard to tell from your post. I don't have much experience with a pair of the cards but I can definitely tell a difference with one card when Crossfire is turned off. My fps get cut in half most of the time.

i have 2.

and xfire options doesnt appear unless you have 2 cards.

it seems like NOTHING is scaled to run 4 gpu's at once.

 

[MarcVenice]

Scaling pretty much stops at 3 cards no? Same with SLI, tri-sli is liftoff, quad-sli = big e-penis in vantage, but that's it.

Btw aigo, I'd bow down to you if you put your HD4870X2 xfire setup in a good looking case. Right now, I can't help but flinch when I see that beautiful hardware with all out watercooling and full cover blocks, in such an ugly case.

Btw, I'd mucho appreciate some kind of photo from 65a-70a, and the rest of the setup. I could use it to shut some people up.

 

[BFG10K]

I can tell you that these will be out by the 31st January 2009.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

Here's hoping they'll be out today, seeing that I suffer from the Vista x64 / 38xx / >4GB bug in 8.12.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Scaling pretty much stops at 3 cards no? Same with SLI, tri-sli is liftoff, quad-sli = big e-penis in vantage, but that's it.

Btw aigo, I'd bow down to you if you put your HD4870X2 xfire setup in a good looking case. Right now, I can't help but flinch when I see that beautiful hardware with all out watercooling and full cover blocks, in such an ugly case.

Btw, I'd mucho appreciate some kind of photo from 65a-70a, and the rest of the setup. I could use it to shut some people up.

lol... u guys saw how it looked already.

the 65-70Amps is what i saw on gpu-z when running furmark.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1257.jpg

i also thought it stopped at 3, so having that extra card should show some improvement.

However nope. What happened to my second card. :

and i know im no where close to being cpu limited either.
http://i125.photobucket.com/al.../aigomorla/Linpack.jpg

Date , GPU Core Clock [MHz] , GPU Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temperature [°C] , Fan Speed [%] , GPU Load [%] , Fan Speed [RPM] , GPU Temp.(DISPIO) [°C] , GPU Temp.(MEMIO) [°C] , GPU Temp.(SHADERCORE) [°C] , VDDC Current [A] , VDDC Slave #1 Temperature [°C] , VDDC Slave #2 Temperature [°C] , VDDC Slave #3 Temperature [°C] , VDDC [V]

2009-01-19 10:54:43 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 33.5 , 33.5 , 33.5 , 9.5 , 37.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:44 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 33.5 , 33.5 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:45 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 33.0 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 37.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:46 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 35.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 33.5 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:47 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 33.0 , 33.5 , 9.5 , 37.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:49 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.5 , 34.5 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 37.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:50 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 33.5 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:51 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 33.5 , 33.5 , 9.5 , 37.0 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:52 , 507.0 , 500.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 35.0 , 34.0 , 34.0 , 9.5 , 38.0 , 38.0 , 37.0 , 1.0625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:53 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 34.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 34.0 , 38.0 , 34.0 , 23.0 , 37.0 , 39.0 , 37.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:54 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 40.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 38.5 , 43.0 , 40.5 , 70.5 , 51.0 , 51.0 , 50.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:55 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 40.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 40.0 , 45.0 , 42.0 , 70.5 , 56.0 , 56.0 , 55.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:56 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 40.0 , 40 , 0 , 1 , 42.0 , 44.5 , 43.0 , 71.1 , 59.0 , 59.0 , 57.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:57 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 41.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 41.5 , 45.5 , 42.5 , 72.5 , 60.0 , 61.0 , 58.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:58 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 41.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 41.5 , 45.0 , 43.5 , 72.5 , 62.0 , 63.0 , 60.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:54:59 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 42.0 , 45.5 , 44.5 , 73.2 , 64.0 , 64.0 , 62.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:00 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 42.5 , 45.5 , 44.5 , 73.2 , 65.0 , 66.0 , 62.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:01 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.0 , 46.0 , 44.0 , 73.2 , 66.0 , 67.0 , 63.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:02 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.5 , 46.0 , 43.5 , 72.5 , 67.0 , 67.0 , 67.0 , - ,

2009-01-19 10:55:03 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.5 , 46.5 , 44.0 , 72.5 , 67.0 , 68.0 , 64.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:04 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.0 , 46.0 , 44.0 , 71.1 , 68.0 , 68.0 , 65.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:05 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 42.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 42.5 , 47.0 , 43.0 , 70.5 , 68.0 , 69.0 , 66.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:06 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.0 , 46.0 , 44.5 , 71.8 , 69.0 , 69.0 , 66.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:07 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 99 , 1 , 43.0 , 45.5 , 43.5 , 56.9 , 69.0 , 69.0 , 69.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:08 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 98 , 1 , 44.0 , 46.0 , 44.5 , 71.8 , 70.0 , 70.0 , 67.0 , 1.2625 ,

2009-01-19 10:55:09 , 800.0 , 900.0 , 43.0 , 40 , 98 , 1 , 44.0 , 46.5 , 44.5 , 71.1 , 70.0 , 71.0 , 67.0 , 1.2625 ,




i bolded the Amps line on GPU-Z log.



9.5amps -> 70+amps is scary....

 

[SlowSpyder]

Pffft... 4GHz i7 and 4x1GB 4870's. You need to step up to 2.8GHz PhenomI and a 512MB 4870. :laugh:

 

[aigomorla]

well my 965 is lost somewhere on a boat in transition to here.

So it would be higher. :X

 

[Tempered81]

Sweet rig, aigo! That thing cost a pretty penny I'm sure.