ATI Catalyst Display Driver Suite 9.11 for Vista/Win7 Download

Posted at December 22, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

ATI Catalyst Display Driver Suite 9.11 for Vista/Win7 Description

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 Systems

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

Catalyst Control Center; Confirm/revert dialog now available when setting the
Extend options for the display
Now able to enable and disable Cross Fire 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 7 Operating System

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

calMemCopy() no longer causes some systems with 2 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2s to become unresponsive
Resolved, high bit rate audio from Blu-ray discs might not output when using
PowerDVD 10
World in Conflict (DX10) no longer exhibits corruption when exiting from multiplayer game with extended desktop
resolved Tom Clancy's HAWX (in DX9 and DX10) no audio output during game
play on some systems
Choppy video and audio no longer occurs when more than one digital audio
source is enabled
Wolfenstein no longer stops responding when running in display mode of 2560 x
1600
Resolved WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been
minimized and restored
WinDVD application now repaints and no longer remain on screen
Resolved display driver incompatibility with Resident Evil 5 Japanese release
Desktop is no longer cut short when 720P 60Hz HDTV custom mode is added in Windows 7 for some ASICs

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

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:

Transcoding of AC3 files no longer shows corruption in transcoded files
Battlefield 2142 running in CrossFire with "low" in-game settings no longer
shows corruption on objects
Selection for "Add 720P 50Hz in the Display Manager (PAL)" no longer missing
under HDTV Support in Catalyst Control Center

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:
Catalyst Control Center, changing the deinterlace mode may default to adaptive
deinterlace mode when playing videos
Confirmation dialog box might not appear while extending the display through
Catalyst Control Center in Windows 7

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:
AAMode appears in Catalyst Control Center under Graphics - 3D when it should
not
No sound output from Display Port audio in some extended mode configurations
with VGA or DVI panels
Using drag and drop to transcode certain video files may not use the hardware
accelerator
Cyberlink PowerDVD; setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable
Windows Aero to optimize Blu-ray playback" may cause the system to become
unresponsive during Blu-ray playback
Some video artifacts might be noticed when playing HD video files in fullscreen
under Windows MCE or Windows Media player
FarCry2 (DX10) may stop responding when played at 2560X1600 and in-game
anti-alias is set to 4X or higher
Cyberlink PowerDVD Blu-ray playback video may fail to render when swapping
primary displays in a multi-monitor configuration
Catalyst Control Center, changing video gamma setting may have no effect on
Adobe Flash Player
On some systems with WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application
has been minimized and restored
Adobe Flash player, dropped frames and browser lag may be noticed when
playing multiple instances of Youtube clips in Firefox
AAMode appears in Catalyst Control Center under Graphics - 3D when it should
not

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:
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

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
Tom Clancy's HAWX; VPU recover may occur in some CrossFire configurations
Some MP4 video files may not playback properly with hardware accelerated
Adobe Flash player
Some system may intermittently stop responding when playing video clips with
hardware accelerated Flash player

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

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.

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