What's New: AMD's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers

by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010 12:00 AM EST
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  • bhaberle - Monday, March 8, 2010 - link

    It looks like ATI Catalyst 10.3 Beta leaked out. I am pretty happy with it. You can download it here ( http://www.geekmontage.com/ati-catalyst-10-3-beta-...">http://www.geekmontage.com/ati-catalyst-10-3-beta-... ) I see it on a few other sites too, just do a google search.
  • dvdreplication - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link

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  • Scali - Monday, February 22, 2010 - link

    Is it just me, or did ATi not talk about OpenCL support at all?
    As far as I can tell, it's still not included in the 10.2 drivers, I still need to install the Stream SDK to get the actual OpenCL runtimes.
    This is not acceptable for distribution to end-users. They will just need to include the OpenCL runtimes in the driver package.
  • DanaGoyette - Saturday, February 20, 2010 - link

    Mobility drivers for HD-series graphics cards sounds great... but what about laptops that have the FireGL-branded cards, such as mine?
    For example, HP's latest Win7 driver for my laptop is 8.632 -- which is really old.
    http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/S...">http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te...ng=13&am...
    My ideal case: mobility drivers that offer the professional features (such as "10-bit pixel format", though I don't have a display capable of using that) -- even if they're not ISV-certified.

    Also, ATI has had some form of quad-buffered stereo on the workstation cards for a while; it's cool to see it now expanded to cover consumer cards (and hopefully laptops, as well).
  • LordanSS - Friday, February 19, 2010 - link

    I had to, one more friggin time, revert back to 9.12 hotfix because the darned mouse cursor bug is back.

    Why the hell can't they get this straight? Geez.
  • Quidam67 - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    Sorry if this is off-topic, but it seems like a place I might get soem help on this:

    Having recently returned to AMD with the purchase of a HD5770 I'm having problems with the latest drivers, specifically they just don't seem to (properly) recognise my Panasonic V series LCD. The result is there is no DVI or HDMI (have tried both) Item added to the root tree menu in CCC. This means that amoungst other things, I can't alter the scaling -which by default results in a desktop screen that is significantly shrunk in the middle of my display.

    Luckily for me I also own a Samsung LCD. CCC recognises the Samsung and I get the DVI tree menu, which then allows me to adjust the scaling to zero. This setting is "remembered" when I plug back into my Panasonic -but what a headache, and I assume I'll need to do this everytime I update to a new ccc/driverset.

    So is this a fault with the Panny and the EDID data it sends, or is this an issue with ATI's software? The ting is I tried a much older rig running a HD3850 AGP and 8.9 drivers, and they seemed to detect the TV fine.

  • Quidam67 - Friday, February 19, 2010 - link

    For what it is worth, the 10.2 drivers seem to have fixed the problem I referred to above. I know get a menu item titled +DVT(DVI)4 in ccc giving me the scaling options back again.
    Thank god for that. I can only assume that between driver releases 9 thru 10.1 they broke something
  • Bolas - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    Last year I came up with a joke about this subject. Hope you like it.

    How is ATI like a VW commercial?














    They're both "drivers wanted".
  • Roland00 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Does this mean you can use 3 monitors without buying a Displayport monitor and an active adapter? For if you have 4 cards you will have 4 TMDS signal generators.
  • Roland00 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Meant to say 2 cards with 4 TMDS signal generators
  • bhaberle - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I found a download for ATI Catalyst 10.2, and the release notes...

    http://www.geekmontage.com/ati-catalyst-10-2-downl...">http://www.geekmontage.com/ati-catalyst-10-2-downl...

  • BelardA - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    2D performance under Windows is horrible.

    Older cards and even something as weak as intels GMA 4500 is better at AERO than a 5870 card.
  • Stan Zaske - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Good article explaining new features, except it seems clear that being miffed about your communication with AMD over the years clearly shows. This is a MAJOR driver update and Eyefinity is the greatest feature to come along for gamers since Nvidia released Riva 128 with the first onboard 3d hardware. Chill out dudes!
  • jamadaia - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Any news or at least indication that there is possibility of better hybrid crossfire support on IGPs.
    Am thinking of the possibilities, if the HD4200, forthcoming HD4290 and Fusion IGPs could have more options as to what they can be paired with.
    Not expecting the world, but a bit more options like pairing my 785G IGP (HD4200) with something better than a HD3470.
    Before anyone says it I know it is not a n ideal thing to crossfire such IGPs, but I like the idea of having a small simple, lower power GPU running 90% of the time and then having a secondary modestly powerful discrete GPU kick in when i occasionally play games the rest of the 10% of time.
    And with the on board IGP clocked up, a free say even a modest 10% - %20 boost to the discrete GPU is surely not a bad thing?
  • iamezza - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    When the performance delta between the onboard and discrete graphics becomes too large, it becomes near impossible to gain any benefit from the extra 10-20% of theoretical performance boost the IGP could provide. In most instances performance will actually go down.
  • legoman666 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Hook us up with a link to the 10.3 beta, Jared. ;) They have the two features I want most: bezel management and per monitor color profiles in eyefinity.
  • AznBoi36 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Now we just need support for mixed monitor setups.

    I would love to flank my two DELL 2007FPs in portrait mode with my DELL 3007WFP-HC centering them.
  • BernardP - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Despite ATI's current lead in graphics card, I can't buy their product because ATI drivers don't allow creation and scaling of custom resolutions. With NVidia drivers, I can instantly create and scale any custom resolution. With ATI, I am stuck with default resolutions on my monitor's .INF file, or I can try to fiddle with Powerstrip.

    I'm currently running my 24-inch widescreen @ 1536x960: much easier on the eyes. Try to get this resolution with an ATI card.

    Please ATI, give me this feature, and I will switch on my next upgrade.
  • leexgx - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    set your monitor to 1920x1080 (or what ever your default monitor settings are) use the DPI option to 125% or 150% (125% is more then enough for short sited people)
  • BernardP - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    Wait until you get to be my age and start squinting at microscopic 1920x1200 icons and fonts ;-)

    Playing with DPI is only a partial fix and doesn't work with all apps, or works only partailly in some apps.

    With Nvidia drivers, lower-than-native-resolution scaling is excellent and results are not blurry. No need to even enable Clear Type.

    My point is that ATI doesn't offer this feature.
  • iamezza - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    Ever since Vista DPI scaling works on ALL applications, it works completely differently to the way it did in XP, which had lots of compatibility problems with programs.
    It is much more preferable to use the DPI scaling and run the monitor at it's native res.
  • BernardP - Friday, February 19, 2010 - link

    Nice to know. I'll give it a try when I move to Windows 8 (?), as I intend to stay with XP for another 2 years.
  • mariush - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    That's just crazy. You should always you the native resolution of the LCD screen.

    Otherwise, the LCD screen just resizes the image to its native resolution causing blurriness.

    LCD doesn't work like CRTs work, they have fixed pixel sizes.
  • Roland00 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Correct, BernardP should instead increase the DPI under windows to 125%. Same "effective resolution" for everything becomes 25% bigger but the graphics will be much sharper.
  • chizow - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Good to see AMD trying hard to address some of their deficiencies in relation to Nvidia's drivers. Please keep on them about the CrossFireX profiles though...it makes no sense for them to encrypt their profile xml and not expose CrossFire/AA compatibility bits to the end user, especially since they love to claim they're the "open standards" and "community friendly" company.....

    Crossing this hurdle would make CrossFire a much more appealing option for high-end users as CrossFire Performance, buying new games, and expectations for AA support go hand-in-hand for most enthusiasts.
  • poohbear - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I just switched from an nvidia 8800gt to an ATI 5770, and the biggest pet peeve is how CCC doesnt have game specific profiles for us so we can choose which AA setting we want and the type of AA. I dont want transparent AA on any of my strat games because its useless, but would like it in my FPS games. What on earth is so hard for AMD to include a tool so simple like Nvidia has for years????? They already have a clumsy "profile" feauture that we can setup, but its far from convenient and easy to use, unlike Nvidias which is so simple and straight to the point.

    Get w/ the program AMD, your hardware rocks but your drivers are not very convenient or user friendly. If u want the masses to switch from Nvidia to your products atleast give them a user friendly CCC in this regards. It's looooong overdue.
  • Tanclearas - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    While ATI has this OCD issue of releasing monthly drivers for some products, others are left out in the cold.

    http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU39_A...">http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU39_A...

    There are no drivers for a Windows OS that has been for sale for MONTHS, for a currently shipping product.

  • papapapapapapapababy - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD? THE HD 4xxxUSERS? LETS THINK ABOUT 1% OF THE MARKET AND GTFO THE REST. ARG. GREAT. EYEFINITY? CROSSFIRE? WHO GIVES ASHT! I HATE ATI DRIVERS. HATE. GIVE ME A CLEAN, FAST, FUNCTIONAL CONTROL PANEL YOU SILLY MONKEY INSIDE A SUIT ( LIKE NVIDIA DOES) NO MORE Microsoft .NET Framework !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Zstream - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I really have to wonder about half you people. Are you seriously complaining about using .net? Are you going to tell me that installing the CCC pannel is going to ruin a machine? It has all the options as most 3rd party programs do. What exactly are you referring to when saying the panel is not fast?

    What world do you live in... I had 2x3870 and use 2x4850. What exactly are you doing to the card that requires a rant like this?
  • papapapapapapapababy - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    let me explain, the 4850 is the perfect card for the sill user. Why? excessive heat. To much power power consumption. (that's why i waited for the better option >4770) Now if you are a 2x4850 user that beyond silly. thats stupid. Why? there are better options. Now about the net part. Yes. I dont need that bloatware. LIL BACK STORY: ATI DITCHED THE OLD CONTROL PANEL, INTRODUCED A SLOW, BROKEN, BLOATED, INFERIOR CCC PANEL, AND REMOVED THE OPTION OF USING THE OLD ONE, GREAT BUT THE BEST PART THEY HAVE THE FKN BRAINFART OF ASKING ME TO USE .NET? MORE GARBAGE? Nvidia doESNT DO THAT. ID DOESNT FORCE ANY KIND OF bloatware. NO EXTRA SERVICES. NO .NET UPDATES. NOTHING. EXCEPT THIS: FAST AND VERSATILE CONTROL PANEL
  • anactoraaron - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    yeah "fast and versitile control panel" that doesn't include any overclocking option. And why is that again? Oh yeah, Nvidia cards these days (provided you acutally are getting "new" technology and not a rebrand) run HOT. And looking at load temps/power usage from any other article on this fine website will show proof of that. OC with them with no water cool and you are asking for trouble. And don't even get me started with all of the issues with nTune... I lost count of all the times nTune crashed my pc with my 8800...
  • leexgx - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    stop useing caps (please press report post to remove users post like this)
  • bim27142 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    man, chill... if you don't want CCC, then just download the drive only and then get yourself some other softwares (say ATI Tray Tools perhaps?)
  • cheinonen - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I'm just glad they will finally have monthly drivers for my wife's laptop so I'm not at the mercy of HP deciding they want to support it. Her machine can't do full screen Flash with the CPU only, and HP has refused to release an updated driver with Flash 10.1 acceleration support, even though they could, so hopefully by next month she'll be watching Hulu on her laptop full screen.
  • RaynorWolfcastle - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    While all this is great, I think ATI should instead focus on fixing the grey screen bug that shows up on Win7 x64. My 5770 is all but unusable because it crashes every 30 mins while I'm browsing the web. Unfortunately, this issue is not a bad card but a widespread issue with the current drivers that affects several brands and models. Google "grey screen of death" to see what I mean.

    So AMD, how about we start with the basics, and get your cards to work without crashing instead of these new features?
  • heymrdj - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Now if only drivers would get rid of this random problem..
  • FXi - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    If AMD manages to get mobile drivers out this could be doom for Nvidia in the mobile space.

    DX11 (judging by Nvidia's silence on the mobile DX11 topic) is apparently not within Nvidia's capability this year. It's not even on the roadmaps. Fermi is big and hot, not mobile. Now mind you, AMD has been "talking" mobile drivers for a year and has yet to deliver, so there is that weakness to this. But if AMD is DX11, and the only mobile DX11 solution, with drivers on top of that, Nvidia can wave bye bye to all their mid to high end GPU solutions for laptops.

    To top it off AMD's mobile solutions are all 40nm, so they are lower power than Nvidia's high end mobile solutions.

    If Nvidia has a flag to wave, they had better wave it soon. The DX11 mobile parts are here. Drivers come in 30 days. And the marketshare shift comes after that. That spells doom and gloom for Nvidia's sales.
  • Ramon Zarat - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Very nice article.

    Despite the fact that I recognize ATI tremendous progression on the driver front in recent years, in many respects, they are unfortunately still behind Nvidia.

    On the other hand, they definitively have the current hardware market lead and momentum. And to be honest, their drivers have not been this close to Nvidia, ever. So close, but still so far at he same time...

    To really take the longterm control of the GPU market, they must pull all the stops and take the lead from Nvidia within the next 10 months. Once you have missed this windows of opportunity, it's too late. ATI have proven they can execute flawlessly on the hardware level with the impressive roll-out of the 5000 series. Now they need to do the same of the software side of the equation.

    In the mid-term, GPGPU, or more to the point OpenCL, will become much more than just the niche market CUDA is right now, more or less confined to the role of marking bragging rights and branding technological statement. It will soon become, if not already the case, a major purchasing decision factor.

    Just like Adobe flash, despite currently being based on Microsoft proprietary DXVA2, more and more apps will become GPGPU aware. Logically, sooner than later, every applications will take advantage of it simply because of the decisive market edge it will provide. Anything that don't will instantly become obsolete. That mean all and every applications requiring more juice than Microsoft calculator or Solitaire...

    2011 is shaping up to be the Opencl year and as such, a significant turning point in the overall computing balance of power. ATI can't afford to miss that boat and must in fact imperatively be ahead of that game. That's crucial for them as for the AMD's branch fusion platform. Integration and convergence will be more prevalent than ever.

    There are much more things to do than just OpenCl, but in my opinion, that should be priority number one. The fact they are so behind in that department is obvious if you compare Stream with Cuda market penetration, drivers maturity, OpenCL SDK and their overall strategy. Add to this the need to be ahead 10 months from now means only one thing: MAJOR R&D spending and hire A LOT of software engineers!

    Anything less would qualify as a monumental missed opportunity as such fundamental transitive market vectors (GPGPU and OpenCL) are a very rare occurrence in the computing technological evolution cycle. It's not everyday that a technology goes from a totally exclusive vertical gaming centric focus to a complete horizontal, general purpose capable device delivering, in a variety of applications, 30 to 100% processing speed acceleration, and in some situations a lot more than that compare to CPU alone!

    In fact, I can't even remember anything close the near-paradigm of the current situation since the inception of electronic digital computing device with the introduction, in 1937, of the Atanasoff–Berry computer. In all that time, we have witnessed many incredible innovations and actual real paradigms shift, but as far as I know, nothing like this transmutation of an existing technology. It's like the GPU went from the confine of its larva state to finally hatch and achieve its full GPGPU potential! OpenCL is the mean to open that floodgate. That's why it's so important ATI make this happen, fast.


    Ramon
  • R3MF - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I want it AMD, and it want it installed by default in the catalyst driver.
  • tntomek - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    The 5000 series mobile GPU adoption is seriously hurting. Dell has nothing, HP only has the envy which is great if only if were available in Canada/UK for less than $2199

    And what really is the point of i5 if I can't switch and run on Intel graphics when I'm working in Word, doesn't have to be pretty and automatic just give me the option if even via reboot or logout. No need for slow notebook and sweaty palms in 2010.
  • Blahman - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    From what I've read, the i5 version of the HP Envy 15 does have switchable graphics.
  • Aircraft123 - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    no the HP Envy 15 does not have switchable graphics. Something to do with the HM55 vs PM55 chipset (one supports it one doesn't).

    I know it won't b/c I have one.
  • tntomek - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Sadly it does not. HP originally had rumors about this but have since turned out to be false.
  • FlyTexas - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    AMD driver quality is one reason why my gaming rig continues to have a nVidia card in it. I have ATI cards in my secondary machines, but don't play games on them. nVidia simply makes better drivers than AMD does.
  • Tempered81 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Hi Ryan,

    Nice article on the new drivers. Looking forward to 10.3 bezel management.

    I really wanted to point out that your Farcry2 results in the 5970 review were maxed at 75 because of Vsync & not CPU limit.
  • ATWindsor - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Have they fixed the audio-droput-bug over HDMI? THat is the most critical bug on the 5-series drivers today IMHO.
  • n00bxqb - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Really ? Worse than the Adobe Flash crash bug ?
  • ATWindsor - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Well, I guess its a matter of perspective, that at least is downgradable, audio-dropouts are not, at least not guaranteed. Not having useful sound is a showstopper if you use hdmu.
  • velis - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    While ATI drivers are steadily improving, they still lack a lot in comparison to Nvidia's. AMD really should try harder with this.

    Currently, these are the absolute musts IMHO:
    1. OpenCL drivers!!!! Come on AMD. NV is beating your sorry ass for years now. First they had cuda, you had nothing. Now they also have OpenCL and you still have nothing. Do something about this already.
    2. Per game (application) quality settings in CCC (might even have that, but I just can't find them) + editable CF profiles. It's not like it's hard to do, right?
    3. OpenCL drivers!!!
    4. A tree view of all available options in CCC. There used to be a tree view, now there isn't any more. It's ridiculous how many clicks it takes to set one preference when all the groups could be plainly listed on the left side of CCC window.
    5. OpenCL drivers.
    6. What's with the bloat? Reduce drivers size and CCC memory footprint. Especially CCC. It's just a few dialogs bunched together. Why on earth does it have to use a gazillion MB of my RAM?
    7. Did I mention OpenCL drivers?
  • leexgx - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    i love them to bring back Tree view i really hate CCC when under vista or 7 but they still do tree view for XP, so why cant they make an classic mode that every one wants to use

    OpenCL must be in the drivers as its not at the moment, Direct compute, CUDA, Physx, and Open CL you get when your with Nvidia Drivers, ATI need to catch up
  • KoVaR - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    AMD already has working support for OpenCL.
    All you need is to install STREAM™ package located here http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/Pages/de...">http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/Pages/de...
  • velis - Friday, February 19, 2010 - link

    ...
    Which I did.
    However, that doesn't help me distribute my OpenCL app, does it?
    I need EVERYONE to have the SDK installed if they want to see what I have made.
    Which currently isn't such a big problem since most apps (including mine) are in development stage.
    But lacking end-user drivers this just means that no app can go final right now.
    Not to even mention that many developers simply skip OpenCL ports of their work (also) because half the world couldn't use such optimizations.
  • leexgx - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    But you Must make an account that most users are not going to do

    OpenCL and Direct compute should be part of the drivers (maybe physx as well but not as important)
  • dzoni2k2 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    AMD already has OpenCL drivers for a while. You just have to download them separately.

    If that is so very hard for you to do, you don't really need OpenCL that badly.
  • Griswold - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    LoL, what do YOU need opencl for anyway...?
  • mariush - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I'm just dissapointed that they had to change the installer and make it NOT work on Windows 2003.

    Yes, Windows 2003 is officially unsupported but the drivers and software installed with no problems with all the previous setup packages. Now, the setup doesn't install anything.

    I managed to install the driver manually unpacking the driver only setup and using "Update driver" in the control panel but the software was a no go.
  • mariush - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Yeah... so new 10.3 drivers posted and the setup still ignores Windows 2003... it only updates the "Installation Manager" and doesn't show anything else.

    So back to unpacking the "driver only" pack, Update driver from the Control Panel and install CCC from the 9.10 setup which has the old installer.
  • ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    While I do appreciated ATI's dedication to monthly driver releases, it does sometimes seem to me that they sacrifice breadth and length of support for it. For example, ATI no longer offering unified driver releases or official Windows 7 support for DX9.0c GPUs of the X1000 series whereas nVidia still fully supports even their first gen 6000 series in unified driver releases and the latest OSs. It does make me worry whether/when my newer ATI GPUs will have their driver support curtailed, likely earlier than similar gen nVidia cards.

    I haven't heard that Windows 2003 support was so finicky though. Even for newer gen DX10 or better ATI GPUs?
  • mariush - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    It's a 4850, and as I said 9.12 drivers work fine.

    It's just the stupid installer they recently use. You actually install an "Install Manager" and then when you try to install anything, the setup actually extracts itself in a temporary directory and starts the "Install Manager" which goes on to show a list of components that can be installed from this setup package and the list of components is empty... because it does the stupid OS check now.

    Every driver and CCC worked perfectly so far on 2003 as they should - basically they're the same drivers as XP.

  • qwertymac93 - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    old graphics cards like the 1xxx series are both too slow and too old to play new games, and by now there should be little if any software problems. 1xxx series based laptops do not need new drivers as they work fine as is and supporting them would make new drivers take longer to make, taking away from new features in newer cards. i think that most people with 4xxx and 5xxx notebooks would be pretty pissed if they had to wait another month for better support and features because some guy with his 5 year old laptop wants to play unreal tournament 2004 5% faster.
  • ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Whether due to the popularity of consoles or Windows XP, in actuality, the majority of new AAA games still support DX9.0c cards like the X1000 series or the nVidia 6000 and 7000 series. Recent big name games include Aliens vs. Predator, Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2, Dirt 2, Modern Warfare 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age Origins, and Wolfenstein. Upcoming major titles like Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943, Assasin's Creed 2, Supreme Commander 2, and Napolean: Total War also support DX9.0c graphics cards.

    The number of major new games that support DX9.0c GPUs are probably higher than those that require DX10 generation GPUs only (for performance rather than requring DX10). Certainly, if you have a higher-end last gen DX9.0c GPU like a X1900 series there'll be new AAA games for you for the forseeable future, even if the driver support is sketchy. And games like Aliens vs. Predator and the new Battlefield games use new engines which won't have existing driver optimizations. For whatever reason, developers seem to want to continue to support DX9.0c generation GPUs, while it may be legacy driver support that give them pause, which of course may be what ATI wants.
  • Exodite - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I'll reiterate what I've been saying since I got my Radeon 4870 way back in 2008, the lack of automatic profiling support in AMD's drivers were the main drawback when switching over from my GeForce 7950GT.

    It still is.

    Sure, there are third party tools that may or may not provide the same functionality but since there must be some support for automatic profiling built-in already for Catalyst AI and CrossFireX profiles to work I find it extremely annoying that I'm unable to tie my CCC profiles into specific titles.

    Heck, just the ability to run automatically one OverDrive profile for 2D and one for 3D would be a major step in the right direction.

    Nice article though, I'll try out the 10.2s later today then and hopefully it'll fix the issues I'm having with the ATI HDMI Sound device getting disconnected every time I resume from sleep that I've been having with the 10.1s.
  • JaLooNz - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Hopefully this will mean better drivers for my T400's HD3470, assuming that it works with switchable graphics. Better still if they can somehow get software switching in before nVidia releases Optimus.
  • Mr Perfect - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Yeah, it's about time they started doing this. Nvidia made universal notebook drivers available almost a year ago, which just about makes them the default video card choice for gameing notebooks.
  • JarredWalton - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Optimus is already available in several notebooks (ASUS UL50Vf and N61J for example), but I'd be curious to hear if the mobile drivers work with your switchable graphics T400 or not. If you can find the pre-release and test, I'd love to hear the result. :-)
  • cactusdog - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Good work AMD. My 5870 is an awesome card but i might look at crossfire if these drivers live up to expectations.
  • ksherman - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    Is a much-needed feature! With Windows's limitation to one monitor color profile per video card, makes it tough to have color-accurate monitors in multi-screen environments. Something OS X handles beautifully. Thanks AMD!
  • samspqr - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    +1
  • Iketh - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    I'm just happy the bugs fixed in 9.12 are finally added to the 10 series... damn the oversized mouse cursor!!
  • blyndy - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    "all the issues we were seeing with the new Radeon 5000 series cards in HTPC use"

    all?

    Is it a laundry-list of issues?
    or is it a few non-show-stopper issues?
    I've only heard of a minor bug or two.

    ULPS and interlacing performance on low-end cards are nit-picking.
  • Iketh - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - link

    the big cursor and crashing during full screen video playback were my show stoppers
  • Iketh - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link

    nevermind the big cursor bug still exists and I'm still locking up playing video captured with fraps
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