Catalyst 9.3 Released!

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™
Display Driver. These include the following:

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

• AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware

• Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

• Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

• All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

• Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

• As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
• The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

• AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
• The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux – 32 and 64 bit variants
• The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications – samples are provided within the SDK
• The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:

• Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products

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 combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast forwarding or rewinding
• Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
• Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in extended modes
• Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out and preview is now functional
• OGL games now play properly with “Show Crossfire logo…” option enabled
• Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off

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:

• Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD

Download Here: ATI Catalyst version 9.3 for Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64-bit versions)

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