AMD is met nieuwe Catalyst-drivers gekomen. De drivers zijn zoals gebruikelijk beschikbaar voor Windows XP, Vista en 7, met aparte downloads voor 32- en 64bit-omgevingen. De nieuwe drivers zijn geschikt voor alle Radeon-modellen vanaf de HD 2400-serie. Oudere kaarten zijn aangewezen op de 10.2-release voor XP of Vista en 7. Is de kaart nog uitgerust met een AGP-aansluiting, dan kun je hier terecht. Onder aan deze posting staan zoals gebruikelijk de directe links naar de pagina's met de beschikbare downloads. Nieuw in versie 11.9 is dat de AMD HD 3D-technologie nu ook gebruikt kan worden op schermen die met een DisplayPort-aansluiting zijn uitgerust en er zijn weer de nodige bugfixes doorgevoerd.
New Features:Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
- Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:
- 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
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:
- The screen no longer goes black on when the Aero Desktop is enabled on some Radeon products.
- Lost Planet 2 no longer randomly crashes when running the benchmark
Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system:
- Enemy Territory – Quake Wars no longer displays random screen corruption
- Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer hangs when attempting to play a BluRay disc.
Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System:
- The display may freeze after playing HD Videos over an extended period of time using Windows Media Center
- Random screen tearing may be observed while playing Portal 2
- Random screen corruption may be observed while playing Wolfenstein in multiplayer mode
- Random corruption may be experienced while playing Enemy Territory – Quake Wars
- Choppy playback may be experienced during playback of interlaced DVD content in full screen mode using PowerDVD 11
- Windows Aero options may not be available after installing the driver
De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:AMD Catalyst 11.9 voor Windows XP (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.9 voor Windows XP (64bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.9 voor Windows Vista en 7 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 11.9 voor Windows Vista en 7 (64bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 11.9 voor Windows Vista en 7 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 11.9 voor Windows Vista en 7 (64bit)
AMD CrossFireX Application Profiles
