This catalyst 9.5 driver is WHQL certified and was just released by ATI on their servers. We setup a discussion thread over here where you can share your experiences on these drivers.
Release note:
Performance improvements
- Unigine Tropics DX9 performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX configurations with anti-aliasing enabled.
- Company of Heroes performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX configurations.
- BattleForge performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX configurations.
New Features
ATI Catalyst 9.5 Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- Meeting Microsofts WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 9.5 driver for Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMDs focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMDs ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators
- Delivers full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
ATI Stream:
- ATI Video encoder update
- ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 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
Have you read our ATI Radeon HD 4770 review already ?