Catalyst 8.9: drivers from ATI

23rd September 2008

Drivers for ATI video cards have come out. The drivers are designed for videocards of the series Radeon HD 4800, HD 3800, HD 3600, HD 3400, HD 2900, HD 2600, HD 2400, X1950, X1900, X1800, X1650, X1600, X1550, X1300, X1050, X850, X800, X700, X600 , X550, X300, 9800, 9700, 9600, 9650, 9550 and 9500. They run under Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit versions).
The latest version of Catalyst Control Center has support of the user-mode displaying mode 1080p @ 50Hz for HDTV using video cards ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000, HD 2000 and X1000. It also adds support of Overdrive for configurations QUAD CrossFireX, adds support of extensions OpenGL 3.0. At the moment, drivers are working with the following extensions: ARB_half_float_pixel, ARB_draw_instanced, ARB_instanced_arrays, EXT_texture_compression_3dc, EXT_texture_compression_rgtc, EXT_texture_compression_latc, EXT_texture_shared_exponent, EXT_depth_buffer_float, EXT_gpu_shader4, ARB_map_buffer_range.