Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 Windows release include:
Performance improvements
· STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
o Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
o Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
· The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
o Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
o Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
Catalyst™ Application Profiles
· Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update
· Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update
· F1 2010 – Profile update
· Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile
Support for the Internet Explorer 9 Beta release
· AMD’s graphics processors deliver graphics acceleration through Direct2D and HTML 5 for the Internet Explorer 9 beta release
· Be sure to check out AMD’s website for an example of GPU acceleration within Internet Explorer 9 (http://www.amd.com/direct2d-html5)
Resolved issue highlights:
UVD clocks will now return to normal speeds after switching from HD to SD content
Flickering no longer visible while running 3D games on HDMI displays with Quad CrossFire™ enabled
Mesh corruption is no longer visible in "The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena" when SSAO in-game setting is set to high
CrossFire™ now functions properly and in-game Anti-Aliasing can now be enabled in "StarCraft II"
Adobe Flash Player will no longer display green screen after resume from sleep
Negative CrossFire™ scaling on "Final Fantasy-XIV" no longer occurs
Intermittent perfomance drops no longer observed with harware cursor enabled in"World of Warcraft" game in extended mode
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
RHEL 6 support (early look)
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.9 release notes.