ATI Catalyst Display Driver Suite 9.12 for XP Download

Posted at December 22, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

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Device Name	ATI Catalyst Display Driver Suite 9.12 for XP
Category	Graphics Board
Manufacturer	ATI
File Size	44.4 MB
Supported OS	Windows XP

ATI Catalyst Display Driver Suite 9.12 for XP Description

ATI Catalyst support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalyst provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX supported configurations.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support

This release of ATI Catalyst provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series.

The following is a list of OpenGL 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.12:

Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index
(GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
Shader fragment coordinate convention control
(GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations
(GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
transform_feedback2
texture_cubemap_array

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 9.12:
3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows. These include:

Confirmation dialog box is now displayed when extending the display through
Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the
Desktop Properties panel
A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group
ATI Catalyst Release Note Version 9.12 6

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:

Sound output from Display Port audio is now heard with extended mode
configurations with VGA or DVI panels
Cyblerlink PowerDVD 9: setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable
Windows Aero to optimize BluRay playback" no longer causes the system to
become unresponsive during Bluray playback
Cyberlink PowerDVD: Bluray playback video no longer fails to render when
swapping primary displays in a multimonitor configuration
Corruption no longer observed with some DX9 applications when AntiAlias 8x is
enabled.
WinDVD10: Bluray playback will now start and does not require the application
has been minimized and restored
Resident Evil 5 Japanese version is now supported
Playing back BluRay content on some system with 120 Hz display no longer
results in black screen playback
Changing desktop resolution no longer causes the Operating System to stop
responding when realtime protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
Resolved: IL2  Sturmovik Forgotten Battles game may stop responding or not
free up system resources
Resolved intermittently system instability when hot unplugging a 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:

Video artifacts no longer occur when playing two or more SD video files with
hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
WinDVD 8 no longer stops responding when resuming from sleep or hibernate
ATI Catalyst Release Note Version 9.12 7

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

Tom Clancy's HAWX: VPU recover no longer occurs in some CrossFire
configurations
In some Clone Mode configuration with Windows XP, stretched desktop is now
functional

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:

Setting Eyefinity group may not work for some configurations with DVI and
Display Port devices
Hot unplugging one of the displays in an Eyefinity configuration may cause the
some rotation modes to disapear from Catalyst Control Center

Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:

On some configurations Ubisoft Wheelman may stop responding during
gameplay

Catalyst Control Center: enabling LCD overdrive may cause magnification of the
mouse cursor when moved overtop of the Calibration Preview
Adobe Flash player 10.1 Prerelease: dropped frames and browser lag may be
noticed when playing multiple instances of Youtube clips with hardware
acceleration enabled
A perfromance drop does occur durring Resident Evil 5 cinematics
No sound output on HDMI when playing back some BluRay content in Power
DVD 9

Catalyst Control Center: newly added custom modes may fail to be displayed in
desktop tree view
Loss of HDMI signal may occus on some HDMI TVs, on rescan of the HDMI signal it may apear in the wrong screen location.
Cyberling Power DVD 9: DTS TrueHD option may not be visible in the HDMI tab
on some systems.
City of Heros: with certain graphics adapters some screen flashing might be
observed during game play

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:

Playing some Flash content with hardware acceleration enabled might result in
video edges not appearing smooth
WinDVD 10 may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a
multimonitor setup
No audio when hotplugging HDMI display while media file is being played

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

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