Performance Improvements
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%

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:
• Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications.
• Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message “The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version.”
• Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor maximum refresh rates
• Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained on system restart
• Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
• In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when soften smoke edges is enabled
• Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating system to fail
• Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be noticed when moving to the extended desktop
• Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test Custom Clocks test
• With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some Crossfire systems
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main menu no longer occurs
• The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8 GB of system RAM
• Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly reported back as DVI
• Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate AVCHD files
• Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering
• Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was enabled
• Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite video in extended modes
• Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special Features
• Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain Blue-ray titles
• Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations
• Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
• Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
• The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is enabled

Vista 64bit driver
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.../common-vista64

Vista 32bit driver
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.../common-vista32

Windows XP driver
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst...p=xp/radeonx-xp

for more details check the release note
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2...lease_notes.pdf

This post has been edited by Gamer: Feb 21 2009, 01:57 AM

thanks for the update

This post has been edited by cyew86: Feb 21 2009, 01:56 AM

Thanks!

Thanks for update!

will see how it performs...

Thanks for the update n info...

thanks...

thx for the info
downloading now

thx dude...
updating now...

those mentioned "Benefits" i will going to try and see whether is bullshit or what.. but why don't have FEAR 2 in the list.

i feel got abit improvement for fear 2 after updating this...

tested with Crysis .... i don't few any difference at all in Very High setting with 1920x1200...

Why only 3 games..look at nvidia driver,..come'on ATI..d*mn!!

Known Issues

Windows Vista
Windows XP

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP

Thanks for the update...
Time to update my ATI 9550 AGP...

guys look at this...
the test from these people show that...catalyst 9.2 actually sucks....in terms of performance..
very upset with the result actually after this long waiting...
it doesnt even hv 1% boost for MOST games...(crysis gets even sux for 1GB version!!!) except a bit for world in conflict and actually a bug fix for FEAR 2...so that 4800 series card can run at a "normal fps" like its competitors...

they lie...
check the website below....

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...92_4.html#sect1

check the table of content for other games in their testing...

catalyst 9.2?? my opinion is....dun update it if u are not playing FEAR2 and doesn't hv bugs issue with catalyst 9.1...

This post has been edited by terryble: Feb 23 2009, 07:23 PM

thats why i'm still with 8.12 version.. lol

according to the xbitlabs.com testing, no bad, cause i'm using 4870x2 with 1920x1200 resolution.

ATI Catalyst 9.2 Performance Gains


-xbitlabs-
So far...runs good for some games like F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and GTA 4.

ya, i feel the GTA 4 run more smooth then before.

anyway...9.1 is much better than 8.2...this im very sure