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ATI Catalyst 9.9 drivers released
Sean Ridgeley - Friday, September 11th, 2009 | 10:28AM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)


Bug fix release covering HD2000 series cards and newer

ATI Catalyst 9.9 drivers released Image 1

ATI 9.9 set of drivers are newly available for HD2000 series and newer cards running under Windows XP, Vista or 7. This release is strictly for bug fixes and contains no performance improvements, sadly, but hey, a release is a release.

Your resolved issues are below; hit the source for the full release notes (and the drivers) to check any remaining known issues if you wish. As always, uninstall your old set of drivers first via Control Panel and clean them out with something like Driver Sweeper before installing the new set.


Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems

  • Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
  • Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
  • Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
  • The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
  • HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
  • Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

  • Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

  • Running OpenGL applications in windowed mode on extended desktop no longer causes the secondary display to go blank for some ASICs
  • Task switching between the desktop and a game in progress no longer has a visible delay (7-10 seconds)
  • Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
  • Catalyst Control Center no longer shows both HDMI displays as DVI when they are connected via HDMI port and to DVI port via HDMI-DVI dongle
  • Windows Aero Glass Effects now works properly during HD Blu-ray playback 

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

  • Resuming video playback after S1 sleep no longer causes HDMI audio to disappear
  • Changes to AVIVO Basic color settings are now retained after Catalyst Control Center is re-opened
  • AVIVO Basic color setting changes can now be applied during HD DVD playback on specific ASICs on XP Media Center Edition 
  • 1 thumbs!
    Superfast Oz since Nov 2001 | Sep 12, 09
    awesome, thanks.
  • 0 thumbs!
    wooblenoo | Sep 15, 09
    The next release won't be 10.0, it'll be 9.10... The first number is the year, the 2nd number is the month. They haven't deviated from this for a long while.
  • 0 thumbs!
    chautemoc since Mar 2008 | Sep 16, 09
    Thanks for that. I'm relatively new to driver news.
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