ATI hat sein CATALYST Grafikkarten- und Chipsatz-Treiberpaket in der Version 9.3 zum Download freigegeben. 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.
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 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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