AMD Catalyst Drivers 13.9 XP

# New Features:
* AMD Steady Video
- Steady Video is currently an AMD exclusive feature based on AMD APP Technology
- By applying advanced algorithms behind the scenes, users do not have to deal with shaky or unstable video ever again!
- Capabilities scale with hardware and are end user controlled
* Image Stabilization brought to YouTube!
* Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content
- AMD has enabled decode acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content in Microsoft video player applications (through MFT support) for all AMD Radeon 6000 Series

# Performance Enhancements
* Performance gains in Crysis of up to 7% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
* Performance gains in F1 2010 of up to 8% in DirectX 11 mode on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
* Performance gains in Far Cry 2 of up to 5% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
* Performance gains in HAWX of up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
* Performance gains in the Unigine OpenGL tests of up to 10% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.

# Windows XP
* World of Warcraft no longer randomly crashes or fails to launch when using an A-Series APU.
* Random graphics corruption is no longer observed while playing World of Warcraft.
* Playing Dead Rising 2 no longer causes the system to hang.

# New Features:
* Hydravision enhancements for Eyefinity configurations.
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision is now aware of user created Bezels.
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision now also includes as “Automatic Grid” option that aligns to the user defined Eyefinity display layout.

# Windows XP
* Civilization V no longer stops responding during game launch when Crossfire is enabled.

# New Features:
* Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD Catalyst Control Center
- New task based Display Management controls
> Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings
- New Eyefinity setup group
> Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier
- AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)
> This feature notifies users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available
* GPU Compute enhancements:
- The OpenCL runtime (included in AMD Catalyst 11.4) includes performance enhancements supporting zero-copy on APUs and increased performance for PCIe transfers between a CPU and discrete GPU.
* Performance Enhancements
A number of performance enhancements are seen with the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
- Call of Duty Black Ops – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single GPU configurations.
- Battleforge – gains of up to 15% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Batman Arkham Asylum – gains of up to 20% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Aliens vs. Predator – gains of up to 8% with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Civilization 5 – gains of up to 15% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Far Cry 2 – gains of up to 6% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Just Cause 2 – gains of up to 9% on single and multiple GPU configurations.
- Lost Planet 2 – gains of up to 10% on single and multiple GPU configurations.

# Windows XP
* System no longer displays random corruption when playing World of Warcraft.
* Star Wars –The Force Unleashed no longer causes random system reboots.

# New Features:
* Seamless GPU Compute support
- The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst. Applications that leverage OpenCL for GPU based compute tasks will automatically benefit from the significant performance boost that this provides.

# Windows XP
* Need for Speed Shift no longer randomly crashes during gameplay.

# New Features:
* Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
- The Quality setting has now been improved to match the High Quality setting in all respects but one; it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere. This optimization offers a way to improve filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
- The Performance setting has been updated to address the sharpness of the default Quality setting causing shimmering in certain cases. It now provides a smoother filtering option that eliminates most shimmering while preserving the improved detail provided by anisotropic filtering.
* Tessellation Controls
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
- New settings give users full control over the Tessellation levels used in applications.
> The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting is intended to set the best level of Tessellation on a per application basis. The “AMD Optimized” setting is designed to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the performance impact associated with enabling Tessellation. Currently no applications have been profiled.
> The “Use Application Settings” option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level.
> Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control
* Morphological Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- AMD Catalyst now includes official support for Morphological Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series

# Support Video Quality settings during Blu-ray 3D playback
* Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
* Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
* Users can now enable the Video Quality settings within the Catalyst Control Center when playing Blu-ray 3D content

# Performance Improvements:
* Call of Duty: Black Ops:
- Performance increases up to 11% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing enabled
* Batman Arkham Asylum:
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

# Windows XP
* Flickering is no longer randomly observed when applying Video Gamma settings.
* The system no longer hangs intermittently when playing Medal of Honor.
* Civilization V no longer generates a VPU Recovery faulty when Crossfire mode is enabled.
* Warhammer – Dawn of War 2 no longer randomly displays a wireframe when running at High game settings.

# Performance highlights includes:

* F1 2010:
- Performance increases up to 12% on AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
- Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
* Left 4 Dead 2:
- Performance increases up to 17% on AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series single and Crossfire configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.
- Performance increases up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

# Windows XP

* Frame drops are no longer observed when playing HD interlaced content in Windows Media Center.
* Call of Duty – Black Ops no longer randomly hangs on AMD Radeon HD 57xx series products.
* Crossfire using AMD Radeon HD 68xx series products no longer hangs intermittently when running 3dMark 2006.
* “Host Application not responding” error message is no longer randomly displayed when launching the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

# New Features:

- Support for DivX on the AMD Radeon 6800 Series
- With DivX® software installed on an AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series and later GPU and the DivX Accelerated™ solution, consumers can enjoy an improved DivX video playback experience by lowering CPU load, extending computer battery life on notebooks, reducing noise on home theater PCs and improving overall computer operation.
- Grab the DivX Accelerated download from here http://go.divx.com/accelerated
- Support for OpenGL 4.1
- New features introduced in OpenGL 4.1
- Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms
- The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time
- The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility
- 64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision
- Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility
- New ARB extensions introduced with OpenGL 4.1
- Linking OpenGL sync objects to OpenCL event objects for enhanced OpenCL interoperability
- The ability to set stencil values in a fragment shader for enhanced rendering flexibility
- Features to improve robustness, for example when running WebGL applications
- Callback mechanisms to receive enhanced errors and warning messages
- AMD Stream 2.3 SDK release
- Performance improvements for AMD’s OpenCL toolset
- Support UVD video hardware component through OpenCL driver (Windows 7 only)
- Support for the Stream Profiler on Linux (command line version)
- Support added for AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
- Support for FFT and BLAS-3 libraries
- Stream Profiler enhancements (including timeline visualization)
- Resolves a number of bug fixes from the Stream SDK 2.2 release

# Windows XP

* The water surface in World of Warcraft no longer displays random corruption when Anti Aliasing is enabled.
* Random flickering is no longer observed in F1 2010 in systems with Crossfire enabled and forced Anti Aliasing enabled in the Catalyst™ Control Center.

# Performance Improvements:
- Battleforge™ : Performance increases up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing disabled.
- STALKER – Call of Pripyat™ benchmark: Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations

# Resolved Known Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
- Running fullscreen DirectX 9 applications/games after enabling Aero effects and rebooting no longer causes the system to randomly stop responding
- Primary display no longer blanks out intermittently during "World in Conflict™: Soviet Assault" DirectX10 gameplay with CrossFire and Dual Monitor enabled
- "Stone Giant" DirectX 11 demo no longer intermittently fails in fullscreen mode with CrossFire enabled under Multi-GPU configurations on some cards
- Task switching out of "Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2" and then back into the game no longer causes CrossFire to become disabled
- Enabling in-game Anti-Aliasing and utilizing Edge-Detect filters no longer causes smoother lines but blurry textures when compared to the Standard filter on some cards
- Desktop line corruption is no longer observed after hotplugging the HDCP display on some cards
- Enabling Overdrive through the Catalyst™ Control Center for single display systems no longer results in GPU clocks running at high levels in non-GPU intensive scenarios

# Resolved Known Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
- Running fullscreen DirectX 9 applications/games after enabling Aero effects and rebooting no longer causes the system to randomly stop responding
- When "World of Warcraft" is launched via TriDef® 3D and hardware cursor is enabled, the mouse cursor no longer intermittently flickers and disappears
- Hot swapping a HDCP display panel with a non-HDCP display no longer causes the display to turn blank after resuming from sleep/hibernate during Blu-ray disc playback

# AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing ("APP") technology
There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
1. AMD Catalyst (comparable to prior versions in features and components) –
currently includes the Direct3D®, OpenGL®, display driver and AMD
Catalyst Control Center components
2. AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing (“APP”) technology Edition –
AMD Catalyst plus the OpenCL driver
- Users can still obtain the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will
also include the OpenCL driver as well)

# Video accleration for WMV HD® video content
- This release of AMD Catalyst provides video acceleration support for WMV HD®
(Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
- Compatible with the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

# Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls

# Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology
- Blu-ray 3D™ Support
* This release of AMD Catalyst enables Blu-ray 3D™ playback
* Requirements include Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D
Stereoscopic glasses
* Compatible with the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
- Stereo 3D Gaming Compatibility
* This release of AMD Catalyst enables Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D
Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD™) and iZ3D™
* Requirements include 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
* Compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
*More information on AMD HD3D Technology, including Stereo 3D Conversion
Software and a list of supported displays, can be found at www.amd.com/hd3d

# Catalyst™ Application Profiles
The following application profiles are available with this release of AMD Catalyst 10.10:
- Multiplayer Medal of Honor™ (DirectX® 9/DirectX® 10/DirectX® 11) CrossFire™
update
- Darksider™ (DirectX 9) performance and CrossFire anti-aliasing update
- NBA 2K11™ (DirectX 9) CrossFire update
- Stone Giant™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- Civilization V™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) tweak CrossFire update
- H.A.W.X.™ 2 (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- Formula 1™ (DirectX 10/DirectX 11) CrossFire update
- World of Warcraft™ (DirectX 11) version CrossFire update

# Performance Improvements
The following performance improvements were observed with this release of AMD
Catalyst 10.10:
- Aliens vs. Predator™ DirectX 11 Benchmark
* Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and
CrossFire
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and
CrossFire
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
* Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series
- BattleForge™
* Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and
CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and
CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
- Crysis Warhead®
* Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
with anti-aliasing enabled
- Far Cry™ 2
* Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Metro 2033™
* Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and
CrossFire configurations
* Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and
CrossFire configurations
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11
and 10 modes
* Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11
and 10 modes
* Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11
and 10 modes
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ : Call of Pripyat Benchmark
* Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Unigine™ Heaven
* Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and
CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
* Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and
CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
- World in Conflict™
* Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
* Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

# Resolved Known Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst software suite for Windows. These include:
- Catalyst Control Center page will now report the correct video memory type

# Resolved Known Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst software suite for Windows 7. These include:
* Screen no longer becomes static after changing resolution in "Just Cause 2™" with CrossFire enabled under Multi-GPU configuration
* Secondary (Slave) GPU and Memory Clock values will now increase when D3D
samples/games are running in fullscreen mode
* The maximum support mode will now be properly displayed when the CRT is
connected via the DP-to-VGA dongle
* Negative CrossFire scaling no longer experienced in "Need for Speed™: Shift 2" on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 card
* Tearing corruption no longer visible in "Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2" with
CrossFire enabled
* VGA display will now light up when hotplugged into the VGA port on a system
booted without any displays connected
* Changing the HDMI™ display output to 1776x1000 through the operating system resolution setting no longer causes the refresh rate to default to 30Hz
* Frame drops no longer visible during WinDVD® Blu-ray playback with display
resolution set to 25x16
* Changes to HDMI display scaling are now retained after system reboot
* System no longer displays blue screen during HDMI audio driver upgrade if existing version is not uninstalled prior to installation
* Unwanted desktop experience no longer visible while viewing Blu-ray content on
120 Hz displays

# Resolved Known Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst software suite for Windows Vista. These include:
- Optimized and custom modes for 720p60, 1080p60 and 1080i30 are no longer
missing for specific DVI displays
- Display no longer turns black when rotated 90 or 270 degress with resolution set to 1080i30 and Aero® enabled

# Catalyst™ Application Profiles
The following application profiles are available with this release of Catalyst™:
* Aliens Vs. Predator – Profile update
* Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Profile update
* F1 2010 – Profile update
* Kane & Lynch 2 – New profile

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™:
* STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Performance increases up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
- Performance increases up to 12% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations with Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX11) and anti-aliasing enabled
* The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
- Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
- Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
- Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Copy protection message will no longer appear when viewing a DVD with Windows Media Player on a Windows XP system with PowerDVD 9 installed

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
* OpenGL ES 2.0 support
- ATI Catalyst™ 10.8 delivers full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 specification
- Enables 3D accelerated graphics within a web browser that supports OpenGL ES 2.0
- Supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
* Video Quality default options
The Default video options for ATI Catalyst™ have been greatly enhanced to deliver the best quality video viewing experience. Users can also choose to apply these settings to Internet Video via a new checkbox control within the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center
- In the “Advanced Color” section, the following defaults are now enabled:
> Color vibrance (default = 40)
> Flesh tone correction (default = 50)
> Brighter Whites
- In the “Advanced Quality” section, the following defaults are now enabled:
> Edge-enhancement (default = 25)
> De-noise (default = 64)
> Mosquito Noise Reduction (default = 50)
> De-blocking (default = 50)
* Performance enhancement for Eyefinity Quad ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
- Performance has been greatly improved for users running with ATI Eyefinity on a
* Quad ATI CrossFireX™ configuration Anti-Aliasing support for StarCraft II
- ATI Catalyst™ Control Center enabled Anti-Aliasing is now available for StarCraft II

# Catalyst™ Application Profiles
The following application profiles are available with this release of Catalyst™ :
* Singularity – CrossFire™ profile update
* Mafia 2 – CrossFire™ profile update
* Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark – new CrossFire™ profile
* Lord of the Rings Online – new CrossFire™ profile
* Aliens Vs. Predator – CrossFire™ profile update

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.8:
* Far Cry 2
- Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
- Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
- Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series single and CrossFire™ configurations
* Left 4 Dead 2
- Performance increases 3-5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series configurations
* Stormrise
- Performance increases 5-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 series and ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 series configurations

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* HDMI default refresh rate now appears properly as 60 Hz under HDTV in Catalyst™ Control Center
* Catalyst™ Control Center - Basic wizard pane or resolution combo box in "Display Setting for Desktop Viewing" page no longer turns blank in basic view for component video mode
* "FSAA" is a selectable option in City of Heroes / City of Heroes Going Rogue™

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Hardware acceleration is now enabled in PowerDVD
* Minor frame drops are no longer observed while viewing HD interlaced content

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
* ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements
- Maximizing a window across displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
- Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
- Proper dialog box placement - dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display
* Enhanced Pull-down detection
- The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX™ technology
* ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player
- Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of products
- Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.7:
* Borderlands
- Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
- Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
- Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
- Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* "Current Setting" indicator will now appear when "Windows desktop" option is selected in "Catalyst™ Control Center - Basic" for specific CV resolutions

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* "Age Of Empires: The Rise of Rome" no longer fails and display error message when the diplomacy button is clicked
* Flickering no longer observed when task switching between game and desktop with Alt+Tab in "Need for Speed: Shift" game

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
* GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
- AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including:
> ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series
> ATI Mobility ATI Radeon™ HD 400 series (and higher)
> ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)
* Video De-blocking support
- Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
* Mosquito noise reduction
- Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
* Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon™ HD Series

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.6:
* 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5970
* Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
* Aliens vs. Predator DirectX® 11 Benchmark
- Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
- Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products
* Company of Heroes – DX10
- Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
* Crysis Warhead
- CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products
* DiRT 2 – DX9
- Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
- Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products
* The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
- Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
- Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products
* Unigine Tropics
- CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products
* World in Conflict
- Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
* Wolfenstein
- Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
- Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
- Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
* Assigned hotkeys are now retained for "Desktops & Displays" after Catalyst Control Center restart

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate
* "Age of Empires" online game no longer displays error and becomes unplayable when the strategy button is clicked

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
* 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

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
- "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
- Enabling hardware shaders (perfect mode) no longer causes text and on-screen menu corruption while loading missions in "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" game
- Re-logging into a system after a Remote Desktop connection no longer results in "Catalyst Control Center is not supported..." warning message or the Graphics menu for Catalyst Control Center Advanced view to go missing
- HDTV resolutions are now properly reported by the tooltip when the mouse cursor hovers over the CV display icon under "Desktops & Displays" in Catalyst Control Center

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
- "Resident Evil 5" now launches properly with a HDMI display connected to an AGP card
- PowerDVD no longer exhibits blue and pink tint when adjusting brightness and contrast in Catalyst Control Center when viewing Blu-ray content

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
* ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements
> H.264 Level 5.1 support
- ATI Catalyst™ can now playback 5.1 level streams on all supported players
- Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K)
* AMD video transcoding updates
> This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter
- Performance improvements
- New formats supported (H.264 file formats – MTS, and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content)
- ATI Catalyst™ Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU acceleration
* Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.4:
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
* Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics products
* Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 graphics products
* Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
* Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface
* Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly

# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* [Adobe Flash Player] Resume from standby no longer causes hardware acceleration may become disabled
* "Resident Evil 5" now launches properly on a HDMI display on an AGP card
* "Golfstar" game no longer encounters nProtect GameGuard security program compatiblity issues