Despite the fact that ATI had a major product launch nearly a month ago, their first set of updated drivers since the launch has only just been released.

The Catalyst 9.10 drivers cropped up for download on the ATI website only moments ago and hopefully, they should help to alleviate any problems owners of the new ATI GPU’s have been experiencing.

New Features:

Official ATI Catalyst WHQL release supporting ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs

• ATI Catalyst 9.10 now includes full GPU support for the award winning ATI HD Radeon 5800 series GPUS!

Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

• ATI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series.  Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels. 

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 release for Linux includes:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

• • This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
    • Ubuntu 9.10 early look support

Highlights of resolved issues

• Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560×1600
• Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in “Riddick 2 Dark Athena” no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
• Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology in tri and quad modes
• Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and ATI Fire Stream™ ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
• “Combat Mission Shock Force” no longer fails after a duration of game play

• Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the ATI Catalyst Control Center – TV Properties Adjustments page
• Changes to the “All Settings” and “Basic Quality” pages in ATI Catalyst Control Center - Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot

Download:

Release Notes

Full Catalyst Software Suite (Recommended) ^{(?) (?)}

• Windows 7 32-bit
• Windows Vista 32-bit
• Windows XP 32-bit
• Windows 7 64-bit
• Windows Vista 64-bit
• Windows XP 64-bit