AMD Catalyst Drivers 15.7.1 Windows 7 64

Performance Improvements

Catalystâ„¢ 9.5 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
* Unigine Tropics DX9 – performance gains of up to 11% for single GPU and ATI
CrossFireXâ„¢ configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
* Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI
CrossFireXâ„¢ configurations
* BattleForge – performance gains of up to 10% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations


Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

* Windows 7 default driver may take a long time to start on some integrated ASICs
* Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU
* Catalyst Control Center may stop responding when Windows Hotkeys have been assigned
* Catalyst Control Center: On "Available Display Devices" detection page, when selecting the secondary display, the radio button is not greyed out for the monitor already chosen as the main display
* "Fan Speed Control" may change to default settings when Crossfire is enabled/disabled
* Catalyst Control Center: At the end of the auto-tuning, it might not report that the process has completed successfully
* Fan Speed Control is missing in OverDrive5 aspect
* On some systems the Catalyst Control Center Over drive pages may fail to display
* Audio Control Panel might show the HDTV entry even when unplugged
* Audio Control Panel might not reflect configuration change from 7.1 Audio to Stereo
* Corruption might be observed in some OGL games with Super Anti-Alias and "Show
CrossfireX" enabled on 3-4 display configurations


Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

* Dropped frames may be noticed while playing certain Blu-ray interlaced content
* "World in Conflict": Blank screen may be observed after the introduction trailer
completes
* On some PowerExpress systems a secondary display may be displayed for single
monitor configurations
* Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or the media player to stop functioning ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note Version 9.5 6
* Device manager mistakenly identifies the adapter as Standard VGA Adapter for some ASICs
* "Yes" and "No" buttons might disappear while moving confirmation windows on
desktop during driver installation

ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 - New ATI OverDrive™ auto-tuning application (AMD’s product warranty does not cover damages caused by over clocking, even when enabled via AMD OverDrive software):
# ATI Catalyst 9.4 includes a new ATI Overdriveâ„¢ auto-tune application to accurately determine the best over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Overdrive supported ATI Radeonâ„¢ Graphics accelerators
# Designed for the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 Series


Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
# "World of Warcraft" or "World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering no
longer occurs when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire
# Google Sketchup no longer displays blank screen
# Resolutions above 10 x 7 will now full screen properly for specific HDMI displays
# Artifacts no longer visible while playing Age of Conan DX10
# VC-1 progressive disc playback no longer exhibits block corruption


Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
# The Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver now functions properly under Windows XP
# Overlay Theatre Mode display no longer corrupt after enabling 3D screen saver
# OS Display Settings no longer shows extra resolutions for Component Video

ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows
Vista

* AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and
Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and
focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
* Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000
Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
* Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
* All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7
and Windows Vista


ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

* Using ATI Streamâ„¢ technology, owners of the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeonâ„¢ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with
ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.3


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

* As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically
included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
* The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an
HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed


New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

* AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality
for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
* The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
* The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
- samples are provided within the SDK
* The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site


Performance Improvements

Catalystâ„¢ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
* Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on
4600, 4500 and 4300 series products


Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢
Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
* Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast
forwarding or rewinding
* Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
* Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in
extended modes
* Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out
and preview is now functional
* OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
* Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off


Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢
Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using
PowerDVD
ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note Version 9.3 6
* FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some
ASICs
* Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables
with some ASICs
* Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using
Catalyst Control Center
* Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
* Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow
when using the Alt-Tab key

Performance Improvements

Catalystâ„¢ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
• Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
• Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
• World in Conflict gains up to 5%


System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI
Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10
applications.
AMD Chipset Product Support
AMD Chipset Product Support
ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3300 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 3200 CrossFire
ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3200 Series AMD 690 Series Chipset
ATI Radeonâ„¢ 3100 Series AMD 580X Series Chipset
ATI Radeonâ„¢ 3000 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1150 Series
ATI Radeonâ„¢ 2100 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1100 Series
ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1250 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 200 Series
ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1200 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1250 Series
Note: When installing the Catalystâ„¢ Vista driver for Windows Vista,
the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator
rights in order to successfully complete the installation of the Catalystâ„¢
Vista driver.
ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note 5
• 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