ATI Catalyst 10.1

AMD released version 10.1 of their ATI video card driver package.

Performance improvements:

Left 4 Dead 2 – Overall performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products

Crysis – Performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and as much as 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:

[ATI Catalyst™ Control Center] Enabling LCD Overdrive will no longer cause mouse cursor to magnify when moved overtop of the "Calibration Preview"

DisplayPort™ "Lower Setting Applied" and "Link Failure" messages will no longer appear after driver installation and reboot with DP displays connected to the mini DP port

Firefox now works properly and video no longer drop frames when playing Youtube clips with Adobe Flash Player 10

CrossFire™ logo now appears properly in CFX enabled applications like "3DMark Vantage" or "Call of Juarez"

[ATI Catalyst™ Control Center] Newly added custom modes will now appear properly in desktop area tree view

Confirmation dialogue window will now appear when setting up Eyefinity mode

120 Hz is no longer missing from display modes for specific digital displays

Specific configurations will no longer cause Ubisoft "Wheelman" to stop responding during gameplay

Loss of HDMI signal may no longer occurs when viewing Blu-ray content, and rescanning for the HDMI signal no longer cause the entire screen to shift and display a green border

Overscan/underscan issue no longer occurs when setting displays to HDTV modes

Performance drop no longer observed during some scenes of Resident Evil 5 cinematics

Blocky grass and trees no longer visible in Unigine "Heaven" in OpenGL mode

View: Release notes
Download: ATI Catalyst 10.1 driver