Version: 9.7 Publisher: ATI Date added: 2009-07-24 00:54:22 File Size: 58 MB OS Support: Windows 7 (64-bit) License: Freeware Downloads: 9712 downloads Software type: Videocards - ATI Catalyst Vista - Win 7 WHQL Windows 7 | Vista 64-bit Software Description ATI released a new driver for Windows 7 and Vista today, available in 32- and 64-bit flavors. 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 CPUlimited. 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
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