ATI Catalyst Driver 11.9 Update for ATi Users

2 months ago, an update for the HD series driver aka ATi Catalyst was officially opened for download (sorry for the outdated news). Though i'm not a fan of ATi (All HAIL Nvidia!),  this update should be important and bring major improvements for the ATi card users. Visit the download page link here to download the driver.Below are the descriptions and improvements gained from the ATi Catalyst 11.9 driver:



New Features:
AMD HD3D support enhancement
Enables AMD HD3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays.
Enables existing Stereo 3D displays, such as the Viewsonic V3D241wm-LED monitor and 3D projectors.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System: 

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• 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 Vista Operating System:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• 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

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.9 software suite for Windows XP. These include:

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 7 operating system:

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

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

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System:

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

Windows Aero options may not be available after installing the driver