AMD posts Catalyst 11.9 graphics driver

by Parm Mann on 29 September 2011, 15:23

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Catalyst Drivers

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If you're enjoying the BattleField 3 beta, there's a good chance you're already rocking AMD's Catalyst 11.10 preview driver for that extra ounce of performance.

But if you prefer to stick to all things stable, or you're a CoD fanatic who sees BF3 as sacrilege, you may want to pick up the newly-released Catalyst 11.9.

September's official release, now available from game.amd.com, doesn't offer any notable performance boosts but includes support for AMD HD 3D on DisplayPort monitors and a variety of bug fixes.

If you've been crashing out of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, or you're done suffering from random black pixels in HAWX 2, this is the update for you. A full list of resolved issues can be found below, and AMD's complete release notes are available here.


Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 Windows release includes:

New Features: 

  • Enables AMD HD 3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays 

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System: 

  • STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game.
  • Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on some video cards.
  • The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading :
    • Call of Duty – Black Ops
    • F1 2010
    • Dungeon Siege 3
  • The following games no longer hang intermittently during gameplay:
    • Battlefield  - Bad Company 2
    • Borderlands
    • Dead Rising 2
  • The following games no longer hangs while running the benchmark :
    • Serious Sam 2
    • Resident Evil 5
    • HAWX 2
  • HAWX 2 no longer displays random flashing black pixels
  • Flashing pixel corruption is no longer experienced while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2
  • The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors.
  • Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX
  • Video corruption is no longer observed while playing full screen HD WMV format files using PowerDVD with Windows Aero Mode turned off.
  • Blank video playback is no longer observed when hardware accelerations is enabled in VLC 1.1.10
  • Dawn of War II – Retribution no longer exhibits a black screen when alt-tabbing in and out of the game
  • Random display corruption is no longer observed when playing WMV format files using Windows Media Player
  • City of Heroes no longer experiences stuttering after excessive use if in-game Anti-Aliasing slider

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:

  • The screen no longer goes black on when the Aero Desktop is enabled on some Radeon products.
  • Lost Planet 2 no longer randomly crashes when running the benchmark

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:

  • Enemy Territory – Quake Wars no longer displays random screen corruption
  • Cyberlink PowerDVD no longer hangs when attempting to play a BluRay disc.


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Was the automatically detect and install link on their website there before? It's neat :) Now it just needs to be added to the CCC to save one more click.
kalniel - automatic updates are already on the AMD VISION Engine software that seems to have replaced CCC on mine, its under Information > Software Update.

its just that it doesnt work properly. it doesnt detect any more recent than 10.7 for me :)


and no that link on their website wasnt there a few weeks ago when i downloaded 10.8 that i forgot to install :p
Bring on BF3 ! but I think there will be another Driver before then…
What's with display port only? I hope they will release it for hdmi monitors too for us who don't have display port.
This is a really minor fix:
“The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors.”

But that has annoyed me for months so I'm glad it's finally been resolved :)