ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.3 XP 64
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# New Features
* ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
> This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
> Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers
* ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
> Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
> Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
> Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
> Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
* ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
> AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)
# Performance Improvements
* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.3:
> 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics products
- Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Battleforge
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Call of Duty: World at War
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Company of Heroes
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Crysis and Crysis Warhead
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Devil May Cry 4
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> DiRT 2
- Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Far Cry 2
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
> Resident Evil 5
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
- Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Unigine Tropics
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> World in Conflict
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Wolfenstein
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
# All Systems
* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
> Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3 Eyefinity group
> Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of changing to ‘0’ upon being disabled
> Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear
# Windows XP
* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
> Switching resolution options in "AION" game settings no longer causes the display screen to flicker
> Forward and backward seeking while viewing Hulu video on dailymotion.com with FlashPlayer 10.1 no longer causes the browser to freeze
> Video cut scenes are now rendering properly in "The Saboteur" game
> Corruption no longer visible when performing forward/backward video seeking on Hulu with Adobe Flash Player
> Corruption no longer observed when viewing MPEG2 clips with Windows Media Player
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.3 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.2 XP 64
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# New Features
* ATI Catalystâ„¢ application profiles for ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ supported configurations
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ delivers support for the latest ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ profiles in a separate executable file, ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
> The ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.2 package includes the fully qualified ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.2 application profile list (which includes all ATI CrossFireX profiles) and is installed by default
> The latest application profile list is posted on amd.com in a separate .exe file that users can install to get the absolute latest application profiles (that have not yet been added to the official ATI Catalystâ„¢ release)
* ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for PowerPlayâ„¢ on ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ technology supported configurations
Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5900 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5700 Series setup in ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ configurations.
> Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalystâ„¢ driver for Windows® 7 and Windows Vista
> Sets secondary GPU(s) engine and memory clocks to low levels and reduces voltage when the GPU(s) are not in use
* ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for DisplayPort audio
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels.
* Support for ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ on Eyefinity configurations
The ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups.
Supported on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5700 Series, and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5600 Series.
# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalystâ„¢ 10.2:
* DiRT 2 – Overall performance improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products
* Battleforge – CrossFire ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 performance improves up to 6%
* Unigine Heaven – DirectX 9 CrossFire performance has improved significantly on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
* The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena – Overall performance on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 improves up to 4%
# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* Appropriate prompts will now pop up while creating Eyefinity group with DVI and display port devices in extended mode
* Creating an Eyefinity group on the non-primary display now functions properly
* Catalyst Control Center now responds properly and selection buttons are available when re-creating Eyefinity group
* [Catalyst Control Center] Hotkeys for rotations no longer disappear after disabling rotated Eyefinity mode
* With active display in clone mode, creating an Eyefinity group now functions properly and message prompting user to disable the extended desktop will now popup
* System will no longer freeze while accessing the UVD Decoder
* Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the screen
# Windows XP
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Changes to the AVIVOâ„¢ gamma settings during Blu-ray HD playback are now retained after closing and restarting player
* Flickering and corruption no longer observed while playing "Wolfenstein Multiplayer" at high settings
* Resume playback after standby or hibernation no longer causes PowerDVD 9 to freeze or exit abruptly
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.2 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.1 XP 64
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# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.1:
* Left 4 Dead 2 – Overall performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
* Crysis – Performance improves as much as 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products and as much as 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series products
# All Systems
* Confirmation dialog box will now appear while extending the display through ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center
* "Enable Manual Fan Control" check box will now be checked when utilizing external tools to apply fan speed
* [ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center] The display order will now reflect changes properly when Eyefinity is re-arranged while desktop is rotated to portrait mode
* Hot unplugging one of the displays in an Eyefinity configuration no longer causes rotation modes to disappear from ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.1 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 XP 64
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# New Features
* ATI Catalystâ„¢ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ supported configurations.
* OpenGL 3.2 extension support
- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
- Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
- Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
- Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
- Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
- Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
- Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
- transform_feedback2
- texture_cubemap_array
# Performance Improvements
* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalystâ„¢ 9.12:
- 3DMark Vantage – overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 – Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations
# All Systems
* Confirmation dialog box is now displayed when extending the display through Catalyst Control Center
* Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the Desktop Properties panel
* A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group
# Windows XP
* Tom Clancy's HAWX: VPU recover no longer occurs in some CrossFire configurations
* In some Clone Mode configuration with Windows XP, stretched desktop is now functional
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.11 XP 64
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All systems:
* Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in extended mode
* Catalyst Control Center no longer stops responding when setting Eyefinity SLS (Single Large Surface) mode for extended HDMI display
Windows XP:
* Transcoding of AC3 files no longer shows corruption in transcoded files
* Battlefield 2142 running in CrossFire with "low" in-game settings no longer shows corruption on objects
* Selection for "Add 720P 50Hz in the Display Manager (PAL)" no longer missing under HDTV Support in Catalyst Control Center
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.11 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.10 XP 64
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New Features:
* GPU acceleration for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converting application
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides GPU support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter application found in the Windows 7 Operating System. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5800, ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5700 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 Series of products.
* Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5800 Series. Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels.
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems:
* The video preview in Avivoâ„¢ Video - Basic Quality page in Catalyst Control Center no longer flickers while playing SD/HD Blu-ray titles
* Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the Catalyst Control Center - TV Properties Adjustments page
* The display mode page will now refresh properly when selecting another display from drop down menu in Catalyst Control Center with two displays connected in extended mode
* "Component Video Properties" is no longer incorrectly listed under the "Quick Settings" tab under Catalyst Control Center - Basic view in extended mode
* Changes to the Avivoâ„¢ Video Presets page in Catalyst Control Center can now be applied and will not revert back to the default settings
* The "Use Application Settings" checkbox in Avivoâ„¢ Video Presets page can now be unchecked in Catalyst Control Center
* Changes to the “All Settings†and “Basic Quality†pages in Catalyst Control Center - Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot
* Switching profile settings in Avivoâ„¢ Video - Basic Quality page now functions properly in Catalyst Control Center
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
* Catalyst Control Center: The DTV (HDMI) Pixel Format settings will now be restored when a HDMI display is hotplugged back after a DVI display is hotplugged and unplugged during the interval to the same port
* System no longer reboots or displays a black screen while executing ATI Stream applications with a particular combination of ASICs set as primary and secondary
* "Force maximum performance clocks" option is now available for the second ASIC in the Catalyst Control Center system tray when two R700 ASICs are connected
* Corruption no longer observed during Blu-ray DVD H.264/VC-1 content playback
* Different Presets/Basic Color options can now be selected under Avivoâ„¢ Video in Catalyst Control Center Advanced View
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.10 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.9 XP 64
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Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
* Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust
Video Settings
* Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
* Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an
unhandled exception error
* The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional
information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
* HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the
HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
* Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI
displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
* Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding
process has been completed
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
* Running OpenGL applications in windowed mode on extended desktop no longer
causes the secondary display to go blank for some ASICs
* Task switching between the desktop and a game in progress no longer has a visible
delay (7-10 seconds)
* Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no
longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
* Catalyst Control Center no longer shows both HDMI displays as DVI when they are
connected via HDMI port and to DVI port via HDMI-DVI dongle
* Windows Aero Glass Effects now works properly during HD Blu-ray playback
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
* Resuming video playback after S1 sleep no longer causes HDMI audio to disappear
* Changes to AVIVO Basic color settings are now retained after Catalyst Control
Center is re-opened
* AVIVO Basic color setting changes can now be applied during HD DVD playback
on specific ASICs on XP Media Center Edition
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.9 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.8 XP 64
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New Features:
* OpenGLâ„¢ 3.1 extension support
OpenGLâ„¢ 3.1 extension support:
* Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40
* Instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GLARB draw instanced)
* Data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer)
* Primitive restart (NV primitive restart). Because client enable/disable no longer exists in OpenGL 3.1, the PRIMITIVE RESTART state has become server state, unlike the NV extension where it is client state. As a result, the numeric values assigned to PRIMITIVE RESTART and PRIMITIVE RESTART INDEX differ from the NV versions of those tokens
* At least 16 texture image units must be accessible to vertex shaders, in addition to the 16 already guaranteed to be accessible to fragment shaders
* Texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object)
* Rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle)
* Uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object)
* SNORM texture component formats
Performance Improvements:
* Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - performance improves up to 15-50% in CPU limited settings with the largest gains in CrossfireX configurations
* Company of Heroes DirectX 10 - performance improves by up to 10-77% in CPU limited settings
* Crysis DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 10% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 34% in CPU limited settings ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note Version 9.8 5
* Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 7% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 69% in CPU limited settings
* Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 50% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 88% in CPU limited settings
* Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves up to 40% in CPU limited settings with Quad CrossfireX performance improving up to 60% in CPU limited settings
* UnigineTropics OpenGL - performance improves 5-20%
* UnigineTropics DirectX 10 - Quad CrossfireX performance improves 5-20% in CPU limited settings
* World in Conflict DirectX 10 - performance improves by 5-10%
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems:
* Catalyst Control Center: Diagnostic warning message now appears in CrossFire aspect when the only display is removed from the CrossFire chain
* Catalyst Control Centre will now launch properly with CrossFire disabled on multiadapter enabled/configured systems
* Catalyst Control Center: Some of the missing "Monitor Attributes" options in the Displays tab are now available
* Refresh rates are now applied properly for standard and optimized HDTV modes in Catalyst Control Center
* Catalyst Control Center: Missing update for Windows 7 localized help content is now available
* TV Properties tab now properly displays "Image Quality" instead of "TV Properties" for Catalyst Control Center user interface
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
* Display and mouse rotation now functions properly after reboot with 3 or more displays in clone mode
* “Unreal Tournament 3†no longer fails to respond after performing a taskswitch to desktop
* Hotplugging a secondary display during HD playback with WinDVD no longer causes desktop to go blank
* Intermittent block noise no longer visible during MPEG2-TS content playback with Windows Media Player
* Windows 7 logo no longer displays flickering distortion during Windows 7 loading screen (system reboot up)
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:
* “Call of Duty: World at War†no longer exhibits flickering water corruption when Software CrossFire is enabled
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:
* Catalyst Control Center: Predefined and custom HDTV formats can now be applied via HDTV support
* Intermittent video artifacts no longer visible when playing a DVD in stretched desktop mode
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.8 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.7 XP 64
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Performance Improvements
Catalystâ„¢ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
* Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
* Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢
Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
* Added support for OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
* Catalyst Control Center in some multi-display configurations Extend Desktop no longer causes the secondary display to become the primary display
* Catalyst Control Center, "Make Primary" option no longer fails to function in some "Extended Desktop" modes
* Opening Catalyst Control Center no longer results in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
* Catalyst Control Center, HDMI configuration aspects no longer fail to launch on some systems
* Catalyst Control Center hotkeys now toggle through all desktop modes
* Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
* Catalyst Control Center duplicated display options no longeer become available in some multi-adapter configurations
* Interlaced modes can now be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control Center
* Confirmation dialog box now appears when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
* Catalyst Control Center, add custom modes is now available in the Digital Panel HDTV support page
* Catalyst Control Center Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window no longer blanks out
* Catalyst Control Center Overdrive Auto-Tune no longer stops responding on some CrossFire configurations
* Catalyst Control Center does not show a "System restart required ... " message for some multi adapter CrossFire configurations
* Catalyst Control Center an additional window no longer appears when running in Wizard mode
* Catalyst Control Center tab is now available in advance Display Settings with Windows 7
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:
* Displays on some HDMI devices no longer fails to scale to the full display when running at resolutions greater than 1152 x 864
* A delay no longer occurs when resuming from sleep on some system configurations
* Systems no longer become unresponsive when entering sleep mode when running Google Eearth in Open GL mode
* Cyberlink Media Show Espresso no longer stops responding when transcoding some videos to WMV with hardware decode enabled
* Resolved frames drops when playing Blu-ray video with PowerDVD8
* Avivo video converter/transcoder generic image quality fixes
* Catalyst Control Center CrossFire configuration options now are displayed on subsequent system restart
* Disabling and re-enabling CrossFire no longer causes flickering on certain direct 3D applications running in full screen
* Cybelink Media Show Espresso no longer show corruption when transcoded to ipod touch or PSP devices formats
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:
* Catalyst Control Center image scaling options, "Maintain aspect ratio" and "Use centered timings" now function on DVI displays
* Catalyst Control Center, the Scaling Option is available on HDMI and Component Video configurations
* Catalyst Control Center, system configurations CrossFire does not become disabled on system restart
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.7 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.6 XP 64
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Performance Improvements
Catalystâ„¢ 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
* Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series
products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
* Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
* Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
* World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings
that were previously CPU limited
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢
Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
* Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
* Catalyst Control Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling
the primary display is now possible
* Changing the bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes
Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
* Catalyst Control Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no
longer fails to display
* Catalyst Control Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic
deinterlacing is enabled
* Catalyst Control Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a
CRT display in clone mode
ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note Version 9.6 5
* Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled
when using a non-HDTV resolution
* Fixed a regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and
executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no longer work properly with
Catalyst 9.4 or later
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:
* On some configurations, video artifacts are no longer visible during playback of
transcoded video files
* Second adapter will now run at default minimum clock values, instead of custom
GPU clock values, without requiring the user to launch and exit the 3D game in full
screen mode
* Corruption and flickering no longer visible when switching between window and full
screen mode when playing Crysis
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:
* Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer incorrectly enabled when
using non-HDTV resolutions
* System instability no longer observed when task switching to desktop when playing
"Tom Clancy's HAWK"
* Catalyst Control Center: On some configurations, the scaling options are no longer
missing for HDMI or component video displays
* Team Fortress 2 some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
* Some systems with both a component video display and a secondary display, it is
now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settings
* Catalyst Control Center: Graphics corruption no longer visible when updating the
ATI Graphics Power settings
* Catalyst Control Center: System no longer fails to set the Component Video modes
* Catalyst Control Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabled
* Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
* Enabling CrossFire under specific system configurations no longer causes Catalyst
Control Center to stop responding
* Intermittent corruption no longer visible throughout Enemy Territory Quake Wars
levels
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.6 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.5 XP 64
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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
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.5 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.4 XP 64
更新細節：
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
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.4 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.3 XP 64
更新細節：
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
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.3 XP 64
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.2 XP 64
更新細節：
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%
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:
• 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
版本下載：ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.2 XP 64