Here are the feature highlights of the 9.2 driver:
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.” when driver is load
• 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 a 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 BluRay 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 rendered
• Fixed H.264 videos render incorrectly when Closed Captioning was enabled
• Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite video in extended modes
• Play some Blue-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 no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain Blue-ray titles
• Resolved system intermittently 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
• Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then request the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
• The OS id 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 happen 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 request 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 cause 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