Today ATI released Catalyst 4.9 for your download pleasure.
Resolved CATALYST? Driver Issues
This section provides information on CATALYST? driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. These include the following:
Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON? X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled. UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON? 9500 PRO, RADEON? 9700 PRO RADEON? 9800 PRO and RADEON? 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF
Resolved Game Issues
This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. These include the following:
XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9200 installed Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200 Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light. Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9700 PRO installed Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
Catalyst 4.9 Release Notes
CATALYST Windows 2000 4.9 - Driver Download
CATALYST Windows XP 4 .9 - Driver Download
CATALYST Windows XP Media Center Edition 4.9 - Driver Download
Download ATI Multimedia Center 9.02
This section provides information on CATALYST? driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. These include the following:
Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON? X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled. UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON? 9500 PRO, RADEON? 9700 PRO RADEON? 9800 PRO and RADEON? 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF
Resolved Game Issues
This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. These include the following:
XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9200 installed Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200 Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light. Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9700 PRO installed Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
Catalyst 4.9 Release Notes
CATALYST Windows 2000 4.9 - Driver Download
CATALYST Windows XP 4 .9 - Driver Download
CATALYST Windows XP Media Center Edition 4.9 - Driver Download
Download ATI Multimedia Center 9.02
