ATI Catalyst 9.10 Released

Source:http://blogs.amd.com/play/2009/10/22...E2%80%99s-new/

New Features: Official ATI Catalyst WHQL release supporting ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs

ATI Catalyst 9.10 now includes full GPU support for the award winning ATI HD Radeon 5800 series GPUS!
Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

ATI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series. Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels.
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 release for Linux includes:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems


This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
Ubuntu 9.10 early look support



Highlights of resolved issues

Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560×1600
Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in “Riddick 2 Dark Athena” no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology in tri and quad modes
Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and ATI Fire Stream™ ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
“Combat Mission Shock Force” no longer fails after a duration of game play
Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the ATI Catalyst ControlCenter – TV Properties Adjustments page
Changes to the “All Settings” and “Basic Quality” pages in ATI Catalyst Control Center -Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot

TI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series. Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels.

FUCKING GREAT!

I think when i polish off my new i7 920, and 5870 system, I want to run some SS comparisons with older dx 8/9 games with SSAA 8x.

Probably even test some very old junk games too, simply because.

Now we just need supported Ati tray tool version!

The beta 9.11 do super sampling also.

About damn time. Too bad I won't be able to do any extensive testing till the weekend, after i install my retail copy of Windows 7. Can't wait to see if the Windows 7/SSD match is really it's all hyped up to be.

Originally Posted by kioras

I think when i polish off my new i7 920, and 5870 system, I want to run some SS comparisons with older dx 8/9 games with SSAA 8x.

Probably even test some very old junk games too, simply because.

Supersampling AA has been working on the 9.10 Betas since the 5870 released. I recently installed my old copy of Call of Duty 2, at 1920X1200 with 8XSS, and I have to say, it wasn't a big difference compared to regular 8x adaptive AA. But, there is definitely a bigger performance hit. My frame rates would plummet to the 30's when there were a lot of particle effects, like explosions and smoke.

Not really, not in all games.Also to notice big difference we need working Ati tray tool to set the LOD to -2 to avoid blurry textures.


E.G

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...eviews/?page=6

This is example why you dont see big difference click on the pictures,to compare what negative LOD achieve SS/AA by default makes the textures blurry.

I just went to Amd Ati for the new drivers and it still shows update 10/13/2009.

I'm on 7 x64 bit. Where are they?

Originally Posted by SicKlown42012

Supersampling AA has been working on the 9.10 Betas since the 5870 released. I recently installed my old copy of Call of Duty 2, at 1920X1200 with 8XSS, and I have to say, it wasn't a big difference compared to regular 8x adaptive AA. But, there is definitely a bigger performance hit. My frame rates would plummet to the 30's when there were a lot of particle effects, like explosions and smoke.

I am thinking of playing with it in older games, just to see what it looks like, like some of the earlier dx9 games, and dx8 games. Maybe even see what it does to morrowwind.

They have NOT been released yet. And now the blog discussing it has bombed out..

Sad

Originally Posted by psyside

Not really, not in all games.

Hmm, at least it's worked in the 3 games I've tested, which have all been CoD(2,4,5). I'm curious to see if GTA4 at 2XSS improves image quality noticeably without too much of a performance hit. Should work fine since it's so CPU dependent. Add another scenario to my ever growing test list...

Originally Posted by openedge1

They have NOT been released yet. And now the blog discussing it has bombed out..

Sad

When they do get released, AMD's server is going to be hit hard. Every 5800 owner has been awaiting these drivers since day 1.

So...can anyone post all the changes? Have they fixed the powerplay crap.

Did they fix the Powerplay issues???

I edited the post SickClown, you can chek what i'm talking about thats why we need ATT.

Originally Posted by openedge1

They have NOT been released yet. And now the blog discussing it has bombed out..

Sad

Yep i can't post about the ULPS mode it turns off my 2nd card even after i disabled it via registry

Originally Posted by psyside

I edited the post SickClown, you can chek what i'm talking about thats why we need ATT.

Yep i can't post about the ULPS mode it turns off my 2nd card even after i disabled it via registry

I really hope Ray Adams is still working on this program. It's hard to get used to not having it. But one thing that I would really want from him is to remove all the legacy options that no longer work with the newer cards. I've had to re-install that program a few times from going to the advance options and messing with the wrong options.
As far as the problem with blurry texture under SS, hopefully AMD has been tweaking it since they wrote the beta drivers. It would really benefit everyone if they got everything working properly without making use have to resort to a third-party program.

Post deleted cuz it was late

Downloading. They are up!

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Maybe these will get GPU image scaling working in Win 7 (for me).