ATI company, now being AMD part, already for few years follows the tradition when release drivers for video cards. And this tradition supposes presentation to the update version each month. From one side such periodicity does not allow to bring in cardinal changes within the frame of a few updates, but innovations and corrections of errors are embedded can not immediately, but gradually. And after this process it is possible to look after very intently.
Changes are in next Catalyst can touch both the correction of errors and addition new, before disabled and useful function and increase of the productivity in certain games and tests.
The update version of ATI Catalyst 9.1 drivers was presented the other day. List of innovations for Windows-looks like a version the following:
- This release of ATI Catalyst provides full OpenGL 3.0 extension support. The following is a list of OpenGL 3.0 extensions added in Catalyst 9.1:
- ARB_framebuffer_object
- ARB_half_float_vertex
- ARB_texture_rg
- EXT_texture_array
- EXT_texture_integer
- EXT_transform_feedback
- NV_conditional_render
- WGL/GLX_create_context (for new 3.0 contexts)
- GLSL 1.3
- ARB_color_buffer_float
- ARB_vertex_array_object
- EXT_draw_buffers2
List of changes for Linux looks:
- Full OpenGL 3.0 Support. This release of ATI Catalyst provides full OpenGL 3.0 extension support. The following is a list of OpenGL 3.0 extensions added in Catalyst 9.1:
- ARB_framebuffer_object
- ARB_half_float_vertex
- ARB_texture_rg
- EXT_texture_array
- EXT_texture_integer
- EXT_transform_feedback
- NV_conditional_render
- WGL/GLX_create_context (for new 3.0 contexts)
- GLSL 1.3
- ARB_color_buffer_float
- ARB_vertex_array_object
- EXT_draw_buffers2
- Hybrid CrossFire. support for Linux. This release of Catalyst introduces Hybrid Graphics support. Hybrid Graphics delivers a significant 3D performance boost for systems featuring an AMD 780G/780D integrated graphics motherboard and an ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series or ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series graphics accelerator.
- Multiview Support. This release of ATI Catalyst Linux enables users to render applications using a multiple GPU configuration with independent displays.
It is possible to download new driver ATI Catalyst 9.1 from our catalog:
