ATI hat sein CATALYST Grafikkarten- und Chipsatz-Treiberpaket in der Version 9.7 für Windows Vista und Windows 7 zum Download freigegeben, die Version für Windows XP soll im Laufe des heutigen Tages folgen. Voraussetzung für das CATALYST Control Center (CCC) ist unter Windows XP ein installiertes Microsoft .NET Framework. Eine aktuelle Version des .NET Framework kann man über die Microsoft Windows Update Seite beziehen.
Update:
Mittlerweile sind alle Links richtig benannt und die Treiber für Windows XP verfügbar.
New Features
ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM
AMD has delivered its first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver designed for the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing) ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:
Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista graphics driver
Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and AMD ATI Catalyst features on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Updates The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center now features:
A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7 The new ATI Catalyst™ Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7
ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 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™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU- limited. Some measured examples are:
Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series products
Die Download-Links führen zu den Game.AMD.com Support-Seiten, wo man die Treiberpakete einzeln (Windows XP) oder aber komplett (Windows XP & Vista) inkl. CATALYST Control Center (CCC*) beziehen kann.
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