AMD rolls out ATI Catalyst 10.5 drivers

AMD has made available a new release of its ATI Catalyst graphics driver.

Version 10.5, available to download from game.amd.com, brings with it support for 120Hz displays on Radeon HD 4000 and 3000 series GPUs, as well as ATI Overdrive improvements for multi-display configurations.

Available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux operating systems, the new release also adds support for Novell Linux distribution SLES 11 SP1.

Although AMD isn't touting specific performance boosts, the driver release notes do highlight a number of bug fixes - including resolved issues specific to the likes of Battlefield Bad Company 2, Mass Effect 2 and Empire: Total War.

AMD details the driver's new features as follows:

Support for 120 Hz displays on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series

ATI Catalyst now supports 120 Hz Displays for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 and ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series

ATI Overdrive enhancement – full support for multiple display configurations

ATI Overdrive has been enhanced – delivering full support for over-clocking functionality on supported ATI Radeon HD graphics accelerators connected to multiple display configurations

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Installed these today and have same issue that many have reported on different forums which is the base clocks does not return to 157/300, but 400/1200, or what ever you have overclocked your memory too for me that is 1275, when overdrive is used.

I have had issues with 10.2,10.3,10.4 a&b&whql versions in BFBC2. I have looked at many posts around the web and have changed my sound card setting to 16bit from 24bit and also running the game at 1920x1080 @59hz rather than 60hz to try and stop the freezing/crashes etc..

Will now try 10.5 and see if it still crashes.

Not sure on the base clocks, but wasn't the drop and rise causing crashes, I believe it was the change in memory clocks which was the main problem.

Will get these installed sometime soon.

The map loading issue in Battlefield Bad Company 2 was resolved with the previous 10.4 release.

For me 10.4 fixed the bc2 maploading, but 10.5 broke it again.