Catalyst 10.6 Drivers Are Out for desktop but where for Lappies?

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It's the same driver, if your notebook is not recognized, just use the have disk method.

 

What you want is "10-6_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe", which I think is indeed different from the desktop driver.

Typically you get mobile drivers from here, but that way you have to go through an intermediate step. You can do a direct download through this method, however.

I've already downloaded and installed 10.6 myself, but it looks like the download page is currently down.

 

Yep, the download was down when I was downloading halfway at around 8% and it cut off my download, the online installer from amd site still works though, which is what I used to download.

 

... nice the release notes are for 10.5
So, are there any changes?!? ... Although if there are any they will be for 5xxx series cards ... and most probably none for 4xxx series ...

 

Yeah, funny. Look here.

 

New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
�� GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
�� Video De-blocking support
�� Mosquito noise reduction
�� Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash
Player 10.1
�� AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high
definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
�� Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms
featuring AMD graphics including:
�� ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series
�� ATI Mobility ATI Radeon™ HD 400 series (and higher)
�� ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
Video De-blocking support
�� Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
�� Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
Mosquito noise reduction
�� Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during
playback
�� Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
�� ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon™ HD
5000 Series
�� ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon™ HD
Series
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 10.6 6
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.6:
�� 3DMark Vantage
�� Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5970
�� Batman: Arkham Asylum
�� Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970
configurations
�� Aliens vs. Predator DirectX® 11 Benchmark
�� Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970
configurations
�� Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700
Series products
�� Company of Heroes – DX10
�� Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire™ ATI
Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
�� Crysis Warhead
�� CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000
Series products
�� DiRT 2 – DX9
�� Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970
configurations
�� Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5700
Series products
�� The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
�� Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI
Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
�� Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700
Series products
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 10.6 7
�� Unigine Tropics
�� CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000
Series products
�� World in Conflict
�� Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI
Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
�� Wolfenstein
�� Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800
Series products
�� Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI
Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
�� Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700
Series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows. These include:
�� "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
�� Assigned hotkeys are now retained for "Desktops & Displays" after Catalyst Control
Center restart
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
�� "The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena" no longer displays white
pixel corruption on walls while playing the "Pitch Black" stage with Super Anti-Alias
and in-game Anti-Alias enabled
�� Corruption no longer visible during "Bioshock 2" gameplay in DirectX 9 and
DirectX 10 mode with CrossFire™ enabled
�� Booting the operating system without displays connected no longer causes
CrossFire™ to become disabled
�� Grass and crops are no longer rendered randomly at unusual locations in "Battlefield
2: Bad Company" game scenes
�� Blank/static display no longer observed after loading a game in "TimeShift" with
Super Anti-Alias and CrossFire™ enabled
�� Enabling Tessellation no longer causes "Unigine Heaven 2.1" to stop functioning
�� Graphical settings can now be adjusted to higher values in "Grand Theft Auto 4:
Episodes from Liberty City" with Crossfire™ enabled
�� Under Multi-GPU configuration with Crossfire™ enabled, setting both "Shaders
Quality" and "Post-Processing Quality" to "Enthusiast" no longer causes frame rate
drops in "Crysis Warhead" DirectX 9 game

 

Yeah,
I was right! For the owners of 5xxx series card - congrats

 

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AMD Mobility™ Product Family Support
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5800 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3800 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5600 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3400 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5400 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3200 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5100 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ 3100 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4800 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2700 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4600 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2400 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4200 Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ 4100 Series
ATI PowerXpress enabled notebooks
using AMD chipsets

 

I think he's referring to all the performance boosts on the 5x00 cards.

 

OK, possible.
I see no difference in Dirt2.
Edit: Ah, only DX9. What a ....

 

I installed them yesterday, just needs a good ol fashioned modded .inf.

Its been a while since I've done one of these so I'm not 100% sure its right but enjoy. (For win7 32)

 

I just installed them off the main site. So far I can't say I've noticed any different. Same 3DMark06 score, but actually when I ran the Heaven benchmark I actually LOST a few FPS compared to 10.5. Not good.

EDIT: With great pleasure I realized I can actually resume from hibernate now!

Edit2: Still can't shut down the notebook on battery. If I do then I have to recover the system. Guess I'm going back to 10.5, because uh... slightly lower performance on 10.6, and the other thing is.. the temperature with 10.6 is like 4 degrees higher. I don't like.