New ATI Catalyst Video Driver Released
Information
| | Release Date: November 17th 2009
Version: 9.11 |  |
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Catalyst™ 9.11 introduces the following new updates: NOTE: See the Release Notes PDF link on the driver download page for more details on this update.
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
- GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
- High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.
High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
- Catalyst Control Center; Confirm/revert dialog now available when setting the Extend options for the display
- Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in extended mode
- Catalyst Control Center no longer stops responding when setting Eyefinity SLS (Single Large Surface) mode for extended HDMI display
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
ANNO 1404 (also known as "Dawn of Discovery") no longer displays black texture corruption instead of surface terrain for some ASICs
A green line at the bottom when playing some interlaced content no longer occurs
Age of Conan does not show flashing corruption when played under CrossFire with medium or high settings
Video corruption no longer occurs when playing some H.264 video files under Cyberlink Power DVD
PowerDVD no longer intermittently terminates when playing HD MPEG2 content in extended/clone mode
Supreme Commander no longer shows flickering on the primary display with extended desktop
Vista: Extended display are no longer disabled when CrossFire is enabled for the primary adapter
The de-noise value in the Avivo Video - Advanced Quality page is now set to the proper default value after driver installation
Crysis Warhead no longer stops responding when playing at very high settings with CrossFire enabled
Known Issues For All Windows Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
Crysis (DX10); with some system configurations flickering may occur during game play when Crossfire has been enabled
Corruption is observed while playing "The Witcher" video game on the Radeon HD 58xx products
WinDVD may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multimonitor setup
No audio when hot plugging HDMI display while media file is being played
Horizontal line may appears at the bottom of video playback window when playing H.264 content in PowerDVD
Some Flash videos may fail to render when system is restored from sleep
Refreshing IE web page may cause the Adobe flash player hardware acceleration to be enabled after having been disabled
Adobe Flash player may show some block corruptions when playing certain videos files
Hardware acceleration may become disabled and browser may stop responding when running multiple instances of Adobe flash player
Running multiple instances of Adobe flash player may cause video playback to drop frames or flickering
Adobe Flash Player; some block corruption might be noticed when Youtube HD video is buffering
Some video artifacts may occur when playing two or more SD video files with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
On some systems playing multiple H.264 files may cause the Adobe Flash player to stop responding