ATI Catalyst 9.2 Released

[malware]

AMD has just released ATI Catalyst version 9.2, so now you have a brand new driver for tonight and a nice tweaking utility to test. Catalyst 9.2 brings performance benefits in several games:

• Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
• Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
• World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Now the new driver also enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications in Windows Vista and fixes some minor issues that occured in previous versions. For the full list of fixes, please read the Catalyst 9.2 release notes.


DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst version 9.2 for Windows XP and Windows Vista (32/64-bit versions)

View at TechPowerUp Main Site

 

[freakshow]

AMD has just released ATI Catalyst version 9.2, so now you have a brand new driver for tonight and a nice tweaking utility to test. Catalyst 9.2 brings performance benefits in several games:

• Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
• Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
• World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Now the new driver also enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications and fixes some minor issues that occured in previous versions. For the full list of fixes, please read the Catalyst 9.2 release notes.


DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst version 9.2 for Windows XP and Windows Vista (32/64-bit versions)

Source: AMD Game!

somebody beat u to it lol

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=85837

 

[oli_ramsay]

Thanks!

Apparently they have their own twitter page too:

http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker

 

[Silverel]

somebody beat u to it lol

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=85837

Yeah, but they should be using the Submit News button instead of posting it

 

[kiriakost]

HOTFIX direct page .... http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=31625

 

[sapetto]

Sexy new 3D Settings Preview

 

[TheMailMan78]

I just OC my processor for this exact reason!!!!

Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
• Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
• Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
• World in Conflict gains up to 5%

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

Can somebody do some benchies and see if the 8.12 drivers are still faster?

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Excellent!

My girlfriend and I finished upgrading her PC last night. Glad these have been released!

 

[TheMailMan78]

Excellent!

My girlfriend and I finished upgrading her PC last night. Glad these have been released!

Is that what you kids call it nowadays? "Upgrading the PC"? Careful I ended up with a kid last time I "Upgraded" one

 

[InnocentCriminal]

:d

 

[Homeless]

My radeon 4550 i still getting those atikmdag errors :\

 

[kiriakost]

I hold my old P4 system for more many reasons ,
but still this "Upgrading the PC" task ,

sounds fun ...

 

[InnocentCriminal]

 

[devguy]

Yeah, but they should be using the Submit News button instead of posting it

Heh, if I had the ability to put up a new thread in the "News" section, I would've, but I don't have the authority. As I posted in the other thread, looks like the hd 4850x2 is now part of the regular driver suite (sweet!) for both Windows and Linux.

Unfortunately, though, the AVIVO converter for Vista x64 is still absent...

 

[truehighroller1]

My radeon 4550 i still getting those atikmdag errors :\

This is probably because you haven't been doing a complete clean install. Just a stab, maybe you are but in most cases people still having issues don't wipe everthing as clean as they should.

 

[Marineborn]

im gonna give it a week and see how they test out and make up my mind

 

[csendesmark]

DXVA still broken on XP ...

 

[TheMailMan78]

im gonna give it a week and see how they test out and make up my mind

No you will download it now and love it.

 

[trt740]

if this is true AMD cards just got a bunch faster.

 

[truehighroller1]

if this is true AMD cards just got a bunch faster.

That is what I was thinking as well. If this is true then GTA IV should see a big increase as well.

 

[kiriakost]

Good news for me .... with 9.2 Photoshop works again as normal ( 9.1 was messed up)

About the 20% gain , thats + 20 fps at 100 fps so at 50 fps that my HD3850 can do ,
its just 10 fps gain , well i test COD5 1600x1200 and i think that i got that 10 extra fps.
My max 45 fps become 55 fps.

The 9.2 its not certified ... but who cares .

EDIT :
On my AGP system scores looks messed up , lightmark marks fall at half ?? still testing.

More EDIT :
3DMark06 scores at individual scenes dropped down 2-5 fps !!
Crysis Benchmark Tool dropped too 2-3 fps .

Ahhh enough for me , back to 8.12 .

This hotfix resolves the following issues:

* Fix for problems with DirectX and Radeon HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series AGP Graphics cards.

Never had any ... long live DX9

 

[DRDNA]

Can somebody do some benchies and see if the 8.12 drivers are still faster?

Yes Sir I will tonight after work I have the HD4870X2 and Vista 64
Sure cant be worse than 9.1's as I found lots of little issues and big issues with OpenGL ...

 

[TheMailMan78]

Good news for me .... with 9.2 Photoshop works again as normal ( 9.1 was messed up)

About the 20% gain , thats + 20 fps at 100 fps so at 50 fps that my HD3850 can do ,
its just 10 fps gain , well i test COD5 1600x1200 and i think that i got that 10 extra fps.
My max 45 fps become 55 fps.

The 9.2 its not certified ... but who cares .

EDIT :
On my AGP system scores looks messed up , lightmark marks fall at half ?? still testing.

Um how did ATI drivers mess up your Photoshop?

 

[kiriakost]

Um how did ATI drivers mess up your Photoshop?

The only that i have to say , is that ATI all that it does is to tweak drivers , to offer fixes for the latest hardware , and this causes troubles to backwards compatibility.

About the Photoshop story i had post an image on another post.