ATI Catalyst Driver 9.4 available

With the launch of the HD4890, AMD has advanced the release of monthly Catalyst drivers, and not just because they are here at the April 8, while we were accustomed to trips to a minimum of 20 months. Among the news, there is a new auto-detection frequencies for maximum overclocking the HD4000 and bugfixes, in World of Warcraft for example, or the famous problem of cals in Windows XP.

The ATI Catalyst 9.3 driver was only released 22 days ago, so don’t expect a lot of optimizations, but the driver team has built in a few goodies for ATI Catalyst 9.4 that are worth the update.

ATI Catalyst 9.4 includes a new ATI Overdrive auto-tune application finds over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Overdrive supported ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators. This new added support is designed for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of GPUs.

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After the Catalyst 9.3 the following graphics cards series will be filed under "Legacy Support Status”:

• ATI Radeon 9500 Series
• ATI Radeon 9550 Series
• ATI Radeon 9600 Series
• ATI Radeon 9700 Series
• ATI Radeon 9800 Series
• ATI Radeon X300 Series
• ATI Radeon X550 Series
• ATI Radeon X600 Series
• ATI Radeon X700 Series
• ATI Radeon X800 Series
• ATI Radeon X850 Series
• ATI Radeon X1050 Series
• ATI Radeon X1300 Series
• ATI Radeon X1550 Series
• ATI Radeon X1600 Series
• ATI Radeon X1650 Series
• ATI Radeon X1800 Series
• ATI Radeon X1900 Series
• ATI Radeon Xpress Series
• ATI Radeon X1200
• ATI Radeon X1250
• ATI Radeon X2100 Series
• ATI FireGL X1-128
• ATI FireGL X1-256
• ATI FireGL X2-256
• ATI FireGL X2-256t
• ATI FireGL X3-256
• ATI FireGL Z1
• ATI FireGL V3100
• ATI FireGL V3200
• ATI FireGL V3250
• ATI FireGL V3300
• ATI FireGL V3350
• ATI FireGL V3400
• ATI FireGL V5000
• ATI FireGL V5100
• ATI FireGL V5200
• ATI FireGL V7100
• ATI FireGL V7200
• ATI FireGL V7300
• ATI FireGL V7350
• ATI FireMV 2200
• ATI FireMV 2250

In addition, the driver resolves quite a few issues:

Windows Vista fixes

• World of Warcraft or World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King: Flickering no longer occurs when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire
• Google Sketchup no longer displays blank screen
• Resolutions above 10 x 7 will now full screen properly for specific HDMI displays
• Artifacts no longer visible while playing Age of Conan DX10
• VC-1 progressive disc playback no longer exhibits block corruption

Windows XP fixes

• The Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver now functions properly
• Overlay Theatre Mode display no longer corrupt after enabling 3D screen saver
• OS Display Settings no longer shows extra resolutions for Component Video

Windows 7 fixes

• City of Villains: Display now redraws correctly after changing graphics settings
• Catalyst Control Center: 1080i@30hz and 1080i@25hz Component Video modes can now be applied via Component Video - Advanced aspect
• Custom formats modes can now be applied properly and will be available under "List All Modes"
• Display profiles will now be restored when displays are swapped while the system sleeps
• WinDVD9 HD playback doesn't cause the desktop to jitter or flicker anymore
• Device Manager no longer displays error during express driver uninstall