ATI Catalyst 9.2 Display Driver

ATI Catalyst 9.2 Display Driver

Marcel Klum on 21 February 2009 - 11:16 · 17 comments & 6722 views

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AMD have released the version 9.2 of their ATI video card driver package.

Catalyst™ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Download: Catalyst 9.2 drivers

View: Release notes

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#1 Beastage on 21 Feb 2009 - 12:00

The release notes still don't work for me, anyone else got it?

(1 reply) #2 StealMySoda on 21 Feb 2009 - 13:03

Here try this one...
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2...lease_notes.pdf

Edit: Guess it doesn't allow hot linking:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.../common-vista32

Just click the link to it there.

#2.1 Beastage on 21 Feb 2009 - 13:38

Working now , it was related to DNS issues with opendns and Akamai I believe , because my DNS cache directed me to local copy of ati.com and opendns directed me to a different mirror of akamai, so it was like the hotlink you provided.

(6 replies) #3 aarste on 21 Feb 2009 - 13:04

Where's the World of Warcraft love? Almost no catalyst release had any.

#3.1 Beastage on 21 Feb 2009 - 13:36

not sure it needs it, WoW is pretty obsolete game in terms of hardware needs.

#3.2 Sacha on 21 Feb 2009 - 15:44

If WoW runs slow on your computer, I'm pretty sure your videocard is no longer supported.

#3.3 sorlag on 21 Feb 2009 - 15:47

The problem is, that it's not fsaa or a nice algorythm that can be optimized... it's the amount of changing and blended textures with effects that are synched and blended and fit on different models etc...
You can't tweak anything in the driver coding to speed things up...
Only blizzard is able to optimize wow...
Better routines... better occlusion and lod, better synching etc...

#3.4 dagamer34 on 21 Feb 2009 - 16:42

$200 easily gets you a card that lets you run WoW like woah!

#3.5 aarste on 21 Feb 2009 - 18:27

Not really, there's a lot of stuff going around that high end systems, such as the i7, still suffers fps drops in Dalaran or in a raiding environment.

#3.6 Lord Zog on 21 Feb 2009 - 21:10

Its an optimization issue in WoW. Most nVidia users are in the same boat.. Dropped FPS in Dalaran and other weirdness.. This is on XP, Vista SP1, and Win 7 7022.. Despite everyone on the nVidia forums complaining, seems ATi is in the same boat, therefore, we can assume this is no longer driver based issues and Blizzard is just not giving us any more love for high end PC users.. My nVidia card has no issues with new games tho like burnout paradise tho.

A little more on topic tho, these drivers work great once modded on my toshiba lappy! Can't wait for Win 7 drivers in 9.3 tho according to the blog..

#4 Hak Foo on 21 Feb 2009 - 17:16

Y'know, at like 8.10 or so, you used to be able to download a single installer that did the (AMD 7x

chipset AND video drivers in one step. What happened to it?

(2 replies) #5 :No-Frost: on 22 Feb 2009 - 05:37

Would this be an improvement for my X800 GTO???

#5.1 Anaron on 22 Feb 2009 - 14:08

I doubt it. Most of the improvements affect the HD 2x00, 3x00, and 4x00 series video cards.

#5.2 PGHammer on 24 Feb 2009 - 04:20

Since I moved from X1650 (AGP mainstream) to HD3450 (PCIe budget/value) I've actually noticed some improvements from the later series of Catalysts (basically, anything after 8.7) in terms of performance in casual gaming. With that being the case, an upcoming upgrade to HD4670/HD4830 is making me Rather Nervous.

(1 reply) #6 tripleXit on 22 Feb 2009 - 21:42

It wouldn't hurt though.

Has anyone actually noticed any improvements in gaming performance though?

#6.1 waruikoohii on 22 Feb 2009 - 22:43

I haven't noticed any performance boost in my games.

I have had one instance, however, where my display wouldn't turn on after my computer was locked for a while. That never happened on 8.12 or 9.2. So...I'm not sure if it's a problem with the 9.2 drives or not.

#7 Atlonite on 23 Feb 2009 - 03:56

i wonder if they fixed their broken opengl icd ... where it doesn't cache textures to the video cards memory but use's them directly from system ram

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