New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• ATI Stream™

ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

• AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista
  • Meeting Microsoft’s WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 9.5 driver for Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD’s focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD’s ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators
• Delivers full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

ATI Stream™

• ATI Video encoder update
  • ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
  • Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.5 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

• Unigine Tropics DX9 – performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
• Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
• BattleForge – performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations

• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows 7 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows 7 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung

• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP [Windows 7 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP [Windows 7 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 64-Bit]


• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 9.5 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• Release Notes Catalyst 9.5


• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1