AMD Catalyst 11.9 Now Available

AMD recently released their Catalyst 11.9 drivers. There are a bunch of updates, but since it’s two days old the hotfix for Battlefield 3 will still need to be applied. You can read the release notes here and download the drivers here. The Windows 7 fixes follow:

• STALKER – Call of Pripyat no longer hangs randomly when launching a new game or opening a previously saved game.

• Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting a Digital monitor to the Display port on some video cards.

• The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading :

  • Call of Duty – Black Ops
  • F1 2010
  • Dungeon Siege 3

• The following games no longer hang intermittently during gameplay:

  • Battlefield - Bad Company 2
  • Borderlands
  • Dead Rising 2

• The following games no longer hangs while running the benchmark :

  • Serious Sam 2
  • Resident Evil 5
  • HAWX 2

• HAWX 2 no longer displays random flashing black pixels

• Flashing pixel corruption is no longer experienced while playing F1 2010 and Dirt 2

• The Windows Event Log no longer reports unwanted Distributed DCOM errors.

• Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX

• Video corruption is no longer observed while playing full screen HD WMV format files using PowerDVD with Windows Aero Mode turned off.

• Blank video playback is no longer observed when hardware accelerations is enabled in VLC 1.1.10

• Dawn of War II – Retribution no longer exhibits a black screen when alt-tabbing in and out of the game

• Random display corruption is no longer observed when playing WMV format files using Windows Media Player

• City of Heroes no longer experiences stuttering after excessive use if in-game Anti-Aliasing slider