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If you're the kind of user who just has to have the latest software - be it tested or not - you've got to be enjoying ATI's Catalyst software suite, as its monthly revisions are landing like clockwork. Today, it's version 9.5 and it's available to download from game.amd.com.

The release delivers a single unified WHQL-certified driver for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, along with a small selection of performance improvements. ATI's complete list of changes can be found below.

Performance improvements

• Unigine Tropics DX9 – performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations with anti-aliasing enabled. 
• Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. 
• BattleForge– performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. 

New Features

ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 – Unified Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

• AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver that has received WHQL certification for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista

• Meeting Microsoft’s WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 9.5 driver for Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD’s focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust  Windows 7 experience on AMD’s ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators

• Delivers full WDDM 1.1 WHQL certified support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

ATI Stream™:

ATI Video encoder update

• ATI Catalyst 9.5 resolves a number of issues previously seen in the ATI Video Converter and is supported under Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Useful links
Download Catalyst 9.5

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