Right on cue, AMD has delivered the second Catalyst driver of 2009. Coming with support for almost every Radeon card since the 9500, Catalyst 9.2 features:

Performance improvements

- Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
- Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
- World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Resolved issues for Windows Vista

- Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications.
- Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message "The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version."
- Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor maximum refresh rates
- Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained on system restart
- Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
- In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when soften smoke edges is enabled
- Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating system to fail
- Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be noticed when moving to the extended desktop
- Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test Custom Clocks test
- With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some Crossfire systems
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main menu no longer occurs
- The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8 GB of system RAM
- Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly reported back as DVI
- Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate AVCHD files
- Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering
- Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was enabled
- Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite video in extended modes
- Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special Features
- Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain Blue-ray titles
- Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations
- Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
- Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
- The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is enabled

Resolved issues for Windows XP

- System instabilities no longer happens after mode switching in extended mode while playing some copy protected DVDs
-Catalyst Control Center, CrossFire option can no longer be toggled on/off during playback of video on a CrossFire enabled system
- Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
- With Overlay Theater Mode and stretched desktop enabled, dragging media player to extended desktop no longer shows corruption or causes system instability
- High CPU usage and choppy playback issues have been resolved during Blu-ray playback on WinDVD 9
- Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are now retained on system restart

To download the Catalyst 9.2 check out the links below:

- Catalyst 9.2 (Windows XP 32bit)
- Catalyst 9.2 (Windows XP 64bit)
- Catalyst 9.2 (Windows Vista 32bit)
- Catalyst 9.2 (Windows Vista 64bit)