Radeon-Treiber Catalyst 9.5 WHQL steht zum Download bereit

Die Unterstützung des Catalyst 9.5 beschränkt sich, wie auch die des 9.4, auf Radeon-Grafikkarten der HD-Reihe, ist dafür aber auch für das kommende Microsoft-OS Windows 7 gegeben. Die Relase Notes des Catalyst 9.5 WHQL mit der internen Nummer 8.612 benennen recht viele Änderungen:

Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.5 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited, some measured examples are:
• 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

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
• Windows 7 default driver may take a long time to start on some integrated ASICs
• Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will not
recover until it is switched to discrete GPU
• Catalyst Control Center may stop responding when Windows Hotkeys have been assigned
• Catalyst Control Center: On "Available Display Devices" detection page, when selecting the
secondary display, the radio button is not greyed out for the monitor already chosen as the
main display
• "Fan Speed Control" may change to default settings when Crossfire is enabled/disabled
• Catalyst Control Center: At the end of the auto-tuning, it might not report that the process has
completed successfully
• Fan Speed Control is missing in OverDrive5 aspect
• On some systems the Catalyst Control Center Over drive pages may fail to display
• Audio Control Panel might show the HDTV entry even when unplugged
• Audio Control Panel might not reflect configuration change from 7.1 Audio to Stereo
• Corruption might be observed in some OGL games with Super Anti-Alias and "Show
CrossfireX" enabled on 3-4 display configurations

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
• Dropped frames may be noticed while playing certain Blu-ray interlaced content
• "World in Conflict": Blank screen may be observed after the introduction trailer
completes
• On some PowerExpress systems a secondary display may be displayed for single
monitor configurations
• Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or
the media player to stop functioning
• Device manager mistakenly identifies the adapter as Standard VGA Adapter for some
ASICs
• "Yes" and "No" buttons might disappear while moving confirmation windows on
desktop during driver installation

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Ein Test des Catalyst 9.5 WHQL folgt im Laufe des Tages.