{"id":4164,"date":"2009-07-23T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ati-releases-first-windows-7-certified-driver-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/4164-ati-releases-first-windows-7-certified-driver-update","title":{"rendered":"ATi releases first Windows 7 certified driver update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATi has released the latest Radeon GPU firmware update in the form of Catalyst 9.7.<\/p>\n<p>Catalyst 9.7 is ATi&rsquo;s first Windows 7 certified driver update, and launches just in time as Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is basically finished and ready with Wn7 RTM being sent to manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the update offers &#8220;ehnahced usability and end user efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ATi claims that users can expect 4800 series cards to perform around 8 percent better in Crysis with the new driver, and between 8 and 11 percent better in Lost Planet Colonies.<\/p>\n<p>The update can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/game.amd.com\/us-en\/drivers_catalyst.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/Hardware\/4164-ATi-releases-first-Windows-certified-driver-update.html\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Catalyst 9.7 <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalyst 9.7 goes live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}