ATI Catalyst Drivers 5.9 Released

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability. This download includes the Display Driver, Control Panel or CATALYST Control Center, and WDM Capture driver as well as a few other gimmicks. New features and issues resolved include:

• Driver Message Events: Catalyst™ 5.9 introduces Display Abstraction Layer (DAL) activation of driver message events for notification of controller configuration changes. This feature will apply to all supported operating systems.
• Directional Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing Algorithm: Catalyst™ 5.9 introduces directional motion adaptive deinterlacing algorithm through the 3D shader. The algorithm will detect edges in 5 different directions. This reduces artifacts, and improves the overall detinterlace video quality.
• Battlefield 2: The game no longer exits to the Windows desktop after the game logo is displayed
• Endorphin: Running the application under Windows XP no longer results in hesitation being noticed during simulation or playback
• Max Payne 2: Erratic mouse pointer behavior is no longer noticed within the game's menu after a short time period of game play
• MU: Opening a chat window and playing the on-line game no longer results in Hesitation being noticed when pressing the Enter key
• Silent Hunter 3: Enabling all video options within the game and setting the particle density to 100, along with setting Anti-Aliasing to 6X and Anisotropic Filtering to 16x, no longer results in display corruption on the left portion of the display
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Running the Dantoonie level of the game no longer results in hesitation being noticed
• Terminator 3: The game no longer fails to respond and a VPU Recover message no longer occur after loading the game character