The PC Report

As per every month, ATI has released a new Catalyst driver for their range of graphics cards. Version 10.8 brings with it full OpenGL ES 2.0 support for Windows XP and up as well as Linux, anti-aliasing for StarCraft II and performance improvements for Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Stormrise. The usual amount of bugs have also been fixed.

Interestingly enough, in these new drivers from AMD a number of code names for as many as 35 unreleased ATI graphics cards have been uncovered. These code names are for the upcoming Radeon HD 6000 Series GPUs (codenamed “Southern Islands”), and include a number of related codes including Cayman, Antilles, Blackcomb, Barts, Whistler, Onega, Turks, Seymour, Caicos, and Caspian.

While we await more details of the HD 6000 series, head over to the AMD Game website where you can download the latest ATI Catalyst 10.8 driver. Head below if you want the release notes for the driver.

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Today’s the day another update for the ATI range of graphics card drivers (known as Catalyst if you haven’t been following our posts) has been released. It supports enhancements for ATI’s Eyefinity Technology and HydraVision including new support for Eyefinity on all ATI-supported Linux distributions, enhancements for those of you using rotated displays on CrossfireX setups and finally a fix for allowing GPU acceleration in VLC 1.1.1, which you can see how well it works below.

If you care about the full released notes to see what your updating you can head below as usual, or if you feel like downloading the drivers straight off head to the ATI Catalyst driver website. Don’t forget to check out how well GPU decoding in VLC 1.1.1 performs on the latest drivers, previewed below.

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Close to the release of the Nvidia drivers for this month, ATI has released an update to their drivers for the month of June. The update brings support for GPU acceleration in Flash Player 10.1, a few video playback enhancements and support for OpenGL 4.0 and 3.3. 2D acceleration has also been improved for Linux users. Full feature changelog is below as usual.

If you are an ATI graphics card user, take the time to download and update your drivers now. You can download the Catalyst 10.6 update from the usual location.

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ATI Catalyst is back this month with another driver release for May: 10.5. Apart from the usual bug fixes, ATI has added support for 120 Hz monitors for Radeon 3000 and 4000 series cards. Numerous games have also received updates including Alien vs. Predator, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mass Effect 2, Resident Evil 5, Splinter Cell Conviction and more. To download the drivers, head to the Catalyst website here or you can just view the release notes below.

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ATI has pumped out their Catalyst drivers for this month kinda late, which is unusual but good all the same. The new drivers – 10.4 – add support for 5.1 channel H.264 playback through all players as well as transcoding improvements and new formats supported. The usual amount of bugs fixes and performance updates are also packed into this release. The full list of new features for the ATI Catalyst 10.4 drivers are below and you can download them from the usual place.

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ATI has pumped out another iteration of their Catalyst graphics card drivers for March – 10.3. ATI Catalyst 10.3 comes loaded with new features for those with Eyefinity-supporting cards, including bezel compensation and multiple Eyefinity groups. Also on the list of new features is support for stereoscopic 3D glasses at 120 Hz so 3rd party vendor’s glasses will work.

Of course, along with major feature releases is the usual list of bug fixes and performance improvements. You can download the latest drivers from the ATI website. Check below for the full list of new features in Catalyst 10.3, or leave your comments on the performance of the drivers below.

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ATI has pumped out their latest drivers for their graphics cards, Catalyst 10.2, bringing a few big additions (unlike some of the last drivers). 10.2 packs a lot of new features for those who have a CrossFireX setup; application profiles are now supported, ATI PowerPlay power saving technology will now work if you have a CrossFireX setup with some HD 5000 series cards and ATI Eyefinity is supported as well on HD 5000 series CrossFireX setups.

In non-CrossFire news, DisplayPort audio is now supported as well as openSUSE 11.2. For the full list of benefits as well as what they do, check below. Otherwise go ahead and download the drivers from the usual source.

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If you have an ATI graphics card then now is the time to update your drivers to 10.1 – the first batch of the year. Not much has been improved upon this time around except for the usual bug fixes, but production support for Ubuntu 9.10 has been added. To grab the drivers, head over to the AMD website as usual. Stay tuned, because the next few Catalyst updates are said to contain “major features.”

The latest drivers for your ATI graphics cards have been released, version 9.12 – the last driver update for this year. Included in this update is support for the latest DirectCompute and OpenGL versions, as well as a huge heap of Catalyst Control Center changes for the Linux version. You can download the drivers here; check out the full list of updates below:

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As usual, the monthly updates for ATI graphics cards continues with the released of the ATI Catalyst 9.11 drivers for this month. The drivers mainly feature support for the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta, which adds GPU hardware acceleration to H.264-encoded flash videos as well as some other video formats. You can grab the latest drivers from the ATI website right now.

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