В драйверах Catalyst 8.9 были добавлены следующие возможности:

    Catalyst Control Center: New Display mode support: представлена поддержка пользовательских режимов 1080p @ 50Hz (с уникальными параметрами) для HDTV на продуктах серий Radeon HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000, ATI Radeon HD 2000 и ATI Radeon X1000. Данная возможность позволяет подобрать наиболее подходящие разрешения для каждого монитора.
    OverDrive support for QUAD CrossFireX configurations: представлена поддержка Overdrive для конфигураций QUAD CrossFireX. Пользователи теперь смогут разгонять любой графический акселератор в системе (частоты ядра и памяти), используя ручную или автоматическую настройку.
    OpenGL 3.0 support - Phase 1: добавлена поддержка новых возможностей OpenGL 3.0. В следующих версиях работа над совместимостью с OpenGL 3.0 будет продолжена. 

В Catalyst v.8.9 исправлено множество ошибок при работе с различными продуктами и приложениями. 




Download ATI Catalyst 8.9 Windows XP 32-bit drivers.

The all new Radeon Catalyst update for September. Obviously including the new X2, Radeon HD 4600 support and a lot of new features and updates.

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 Catalyst Control Center:  New Display mode support

    This release of Catalyst? introduces 1080p @ 50Hz custom mode support for HDTVs for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, and ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products.  Users can configure their own custom 1080p @ 50Hz modes to best fit their display. 

Overdrive support for QUAD CrossFireX configurations

    This release of Catalyst? introduces Overdrive support for QUAD CrossFireX configurations.  Users can now over-clock each graphics accelerator?s engine or memory speed when running in QUAD CrossFire configurations using manual controls or the automated auto-tuning utility. 

OpenGL? 3.0 support ? Phase 1

    This release of Catalyst? introduces OpenGL? 3.0 extension support.   Future Catalyst? releases will continue to expand support for OpenGL 3.0 extensions. The following is a list of supported extensions in Catalyst 8.9: 

        ARB_half_float_pixel
        ARB_draw_instanced
        ARB_instanced_arrays
        EXT_texture_compression_3dc
        EXT_texture_compression_rgtc
        EXT_texture_compression_latc
        EXT_texture_shared_exponent
        EXT_depth_buffer_float
        EXT_gpu_shader4
        ARB_map_buffer_range 

Resolved Issue highlights

    Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels no longer results in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading.
    DiRT: Setting shadows to ultra quadCF no longer results in a performance drop being noticed.
    Assassins Creed: Brightness and saturation distortion is no longer observed during game play with ForceAA enabled.
    Grid: Enabling CrossFire and starting a new game no longer results in flickering bands being noticed across the display device.
    Jericho: Corruption is no longer noticed when AA is enabled and the in-game option Advanced Smoothing is enabled.
    Age of Conan: Playing the game for a short period of time no longer results in flickering corruption being noticed. 

ATI Radeon HD 4670 - Guru3D.com 2008