Download Driver For ATI Catalyst 9.11

AMD has released the 11th Catalyst release of 2009 for the ATI Radeon graphics cards with version number 9.11. The drivers are available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 versions, in 32bit, 64bit and Media Center versions. The new drivers are suitable for all Radeon models from the HD 2400 series; older maps rely on the 9.3 release. As usual, at the very bottom of this posting are the direct links to the pages where the available downloads can be found. New in version 9.11 is support for GPU acceleration for high-definition video slide playback via the upcoming version 10.1 of Adobe Flash. Furthermore, ATI’s video converter can now also downsize video to a format usable on a portable media player. Of course, the drivers also contain the usual list of bug fixes, followed by a collection of problems that are already known, but not yet solved:

New Features

• 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 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 (320×240 @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

• Catalyst Control Center; Confirm/revert dialog now available when setting the Extend options for the display
• Now able to enable and disable CrossFire 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• On some system configurations changing desktop resolution may causes the OS to stop responding when real-time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

• 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 appear 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

• 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

The following downloads are available:
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows XP (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows XP (mobility)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows XP (64bit)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows XP (Media Center Edition)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows Vista (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows Vista (64bit)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows 7 (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 9.11 for Windows 7 (64bit)