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ATI Catalyst v9.3 released for all Windows OSes

ATI Catalyst v9.3 released for all Windows OSes

Thrax Robert Hallock 18 Mar, 2009 at 2:07pm ET Article published in Tech

ati_logoATI has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for all Radeon 9500 and newer GPUs. Weighing in at 75-100MB, the WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

  • ATI CatalystTM 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
  • ATI CatalystTM 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
  • ATI CatalystTM 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
  • New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
  • Improved Windows 7 gaming performance vs. Windows Vista
  • Added WDDM v1.1 support for Radeon 4000/3000/2000 GPUs

There is also a huge chunk of bug fixes for both Vista and XP, so be sure to check the release notes (PDF).

Downloads

Windows 7 x86-64: Here
Windows 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista x86-64: Here
Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here

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Comments

  1. revorocks
    18 Mar 2009 ~ 5:52pm revorocks Woo more PPD for all us 4XXX owners :)
  2. revorocks
    18 Mar 2009 ~ 6:32pm revorocks Just did a before and after Crysis Warhead benchmark and my min fps has gone up by 6 fps and my average has risen by 1fps.
    Not much but it didnt cost me anything so im not complaing :)
    Im glad ATI has finally got its drivers back on track.
  3. Cliff_Forster
    24 Mar 2009 ~ 11:44am Cliff_Forster While I have not benchmarked it, I did notice a couple of minor visual isuues in COD World at War seem to have been corrected with this release. (I had some issues with some odd AA behavior in the prior Windows 7 build, minor visual flaw in certain spots, but it seems fixed now)

    Everything else I have played has felt butter smooth on my Radeon 4870. UT3, Crysis, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Half Life 2 DM, all run flawless as far as I can tell. So far, so good.

    Now if we can get those slackers at Evenbalance to implement a Windows 7 punkbuster build, I could game on it full time and not have a reason to boot XP.

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