AMD Catalyst Drivers (Vista 64-bit) 歷史版本列表
更新時間：2010-04-29
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
# 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 Vista
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
* Audio playback devices now properly displays "ATI HDMI Output" when a HDMI display is connected
* Display no longer flashes black when high settings of 19x12 are applied to in-game settings for "Dawn of War 2"
* Corruption no longer visible during full screen playback with Flash Player 10.1 on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series
* A high CPU usage is no longer observed when GPU encoding is enabled for dual core systems
# Windows 7
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
* "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
* Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
* Catalyst Control Center - Advanced options no longer becomes disabled after connecting second display in clone mode
* Video Gamma now functions properly during SD/HD video playback with Adobe Flash Player 10.1
* Video corruption no longer visible while watching live HD Jade Channel (Hong Kong) with Windows Media Center
* Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire™ enabled
* Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration
* Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
* In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games
* Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company"
* "NecroVisioN" game now launches properly in DirectX 10 mode
* Desktop corruption no longer observed on enabling Aero effects or updating graphics score
* Blank screen no longer observed when 8X anti-aliasing is applied in "The Chronicles of Riddick 2" game
更新時間：2010-03-25
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
# 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 Vista
* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
> Sporadic frame drops no longer visible while viewing H.264 interlaced Blu-ray content during fast moving scenes
> Video playback no longer displays checkerboard pattern on background after resume from sleep
> Blank screen no longer observed while exiting "Heaven-OGL" or "GL View" applications
> Tint adjustments in Catalyst Control Center Basic Color now transitions smoothly when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
> Displays no longer go blank when CrossFire is disabled for the first time under specific configurations
> Laser designator beam now focuses on target properly in "Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2" during Act II: Exodus mission
# Windows 7
* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
> Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
> Saturation value for a hotplugged digital display will no longer intermittently be set to `0` by default
> Enabling detail enhancement no longer causes dynamic contrast to stop functioning
> Catalyst Control Center system tray now displays the proper number of physical adapters
> Force EDID override now displays options above 85 Hz
> Resolutions no longer missing in Catalyst Control Center Graphics Desktop Properties with CV connected and displays in extended mode
> Forced anti-alias now functions properly in "The Saboteur" game
> Refresh rate changes no longer revert back to 60 Hz (default) when "Enable GPU Scaling" is enabled under Digital Panel Properties attributes
> "Aliens vs. Predators" game now loads properly when run in DirectX 11 mode on DirectX 9/10 graphics cards
> Mouse cursor no longer disappears on cloned displays after swapping the displays in primary and extended cloned mode
> Displays no longer goes blank on some of the ports after display is hot-unplugged and then hotplugged back
> Media Center no longer displays corruption when viewing DVB-T content
> Forced AF now works properly in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games
更新時間：2010-02-18
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
# New Features
* ATI Catalyst™ application profiles for ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations
This release of ATI Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest ATI CrossFireX™ profiles in a separate executable file, ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
> The ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 package includes the fully qualified ATI Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ release)
* ATI Catalyst™ support for PowerPlay™ on ATI CrossFireX™ technology supported configurations
Significant power saving benefits for users with ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series setup in ATI CrossFireX™ configurations.
> Automatically enabled in the ATI Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ support for DisplayPort audio
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels.
* Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations
The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ 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 Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 Series.
# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ 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 Vista
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
* SiSoftware Sandra 2010 STREAM benchmarks will now complete properly
* Resuming DVD or Blu-ray playback after sleep or hibernation no longer causes system to stop responding
* Desktop no longer flickers during fullscreen Blu-ray playback with dual-link display on some ASICs
* HDTV custom modes being added are now listed under the Desktop Area of the Display Desktop Properties in Catalyst Control Center
* Resume playback after sleep or hibernation no longer causes green block corruption on video
* Viewing 1080p videos with Adobe FlashPlayer no longer causes display driver to TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery)
* Catalyst installation log no longer report properly installed HDMI audio drivers as failed to install
# Windows 7
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
* Flickering grass and white borders are no longer visible in Unigine "Heaven" benchmark in DirectX 9 mode
* Performance drop no longer visible on "Resident Evil 5" cinematics scenes
* Corruption no longer visible when viewing Unigine "Tropics" demo
* [Win7 32-bit] Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 now functions properly while dragged back and forth between the extended split display
* During HD playback, unplugging and hotplugging back the display connector no longer causes player to freeze and display incompatible graphics driver error message
* Performing rotation or resolution changes no longer causes the player to stop responding during H.264 HD content playback
* Pixelation in distant background lights no longer visible in "The Saboteur" game
* Enabling Catalyst A.I. in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes severe flickering in Ubisoft "R.U.S.E." beta game
* Enabling split screen demo mode now functions properly on WinDVD during Bluray content playback
* Corruption in specific chapters are no longer visible during "Resident Evil 5" gameplay
* System no longer fails and screen distortion no longer visible during Blu-ray content playback with 1680x1050 resolution
* Corruption no longer visible in "Resident Evil 5" during in game cut scenes with specific settings and HDR value set to high
* Fixed various identified memory leaks in CAL runtime
* Exiting "The Saboteur" game no longer causes the mouse cursor to freeze and the game to become unresponsive
* 120 Hz support is now available for all resolutions
* HDTV optimized modes will now appear under the desktop area tree view without a custom mode added first
* Resuming video playback after sleep/hibernation no longer causes black checkered video corruption or the system to stop responding
* Display will now enter power save mode properly
更新時間：2010-01-28
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of ATI Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ Control Center
* "Enable Manual Fan Control" check box will now be checked when utilizing external tools to apply fan speed
* [ATI Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ Control Center
# Windows Vista
* Changing basic color settings will now reflect properly during playback with Adobe Flash Player using Internet Explorer or Firefox
* The right side of HD progressive playback screen will no longer freeze while enabling split screen mode and dynamic contrast
* Green horizontal line no longer visible at the top of the playback window when viewing SD HQV content with desktop resolution set to 25x16
# Windows 7
* [ATI Catalyst™ Control Center] Enabling LCD Overdrive will no longer cause mouse cursor to magnify when moved overtop of the "Calibration Preview"
* DisplayPort™ "Lower Setting Applied" and "Link Failure" messages will no longer appear after driver installation and reboot with DP displays connected to the mini DP port
* Firefox now works properly and video no longer drop frames when playing Youtube clips with Adobe Flash Player 10
* CrossFire™ logo now appears properly in CFX enabled applications like "3DMark Vantage" or "Call of Juarez"
* [ATI Catalyst™ Control Center] Newly added custom modes will now appear properly in desktop area tree view
* Confirmation dialogue window will now appear when setting up Eyefinity mode
* 120 Hz is no longer missing from display modes for specific digital displays
* Specific configurations will no longer cause Ubisoft "Wheelman" to stop responding during gameplay
* Loss of HDMI signal may no longer occurs when viewing Blu-ray content, and rescanning for the HDMI signal no longer cause the entire screen to shift and display a green border
* Overscan/underscan issue no longer occurs when setting displays to HDTV modes
* Performance drop no longer observed during some scenes of Resident Evil 5 cinematics
* Blocky grass and trees no longer visible in Unigine "Heaven" in OpenGL mode
更新時間：2009-12-18
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
# New Features
* ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX™ 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 Catalyst™ 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 Vista
* Playing some Flash content with hardware acceleration enabled might result in video edges not appearing smooth
* WinDVD 10 may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multi-monitor setup
* No audio when hotplugging HDMI display while media file is being played
# Windows 7
* Sound output from Display Port audio is now heard with extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
* Cyblerlink PowerDVD 9: setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable Windows Aero to optimize Blu?Ray playback" no longer causes the system to become unresponsive during Blu?ray playback
* Cyberlink PowerDVD: Blu?ray playback video no longer fails to render when swapping primary displays in a multi?monitor configuration
* Corruption no longer observed with some DX9 applications when Anti?Alias 8x is enabled.
* WinDVD10: Blu?ray playback will now start and does not require the application has been minimized and restored
* Resident Evil 5 Japanese version is now supported
* Playing back Blu?Ray content on some system with 120 Hz display no longer results in black screen playback
* Changing desktop resolution no longer causes the Operating System to stop responding when real?time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
* Resolved: IL2 ? Sturmovik Forgotten Battles game may stop responding or not free up system resources
* Resolved intermittently system instability when hot unplugging a HDMI display
更新時間：2009-11-19
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
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 Vista:
* ANNO 1404 (also known as "Dawn of Discovery") no longer displays black texture corruption instead of surface terrain for some ASICs
* A green line at the bottom when playing some interlaced content no longer occurs
* Age of Conan no longer shows flashing corruption when played under CrossFire with medium or high settings
* Video corruption no longer occurs when playing some H.264 video files under Cyberlink Power DVD
* PowerDVD no longer intermittently terminates when playing HD MPEG2 content in extended/clone mode
* Supreme Commander no longer shows flickering on the primary display with extended desktop
* Extended display are no longer disabled when CrossFire is enabled for the primary adapter
* The de-noise value in the Avivo Video - Advanced Quality page is now set to the proper default value after driver installation
* Crysis Warhead no longer stops responding when playing at very high settings with CrossFire enabled
Windows 7:
* calMemCopy() no longer causes some systems with 2 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2s to become unresponsive
* Resolved, high bit rate audio from Blu-ray discs might not output when using PowerDVD 10
* World in Conflict (DX10) no longer exhibits corruption when exiting from multi-player game with extended desktop
* resolved Tom Clancy's HAWX (in DX9 and DX10) no audio output during game play on some systems
* Choppy video and audio no longer occurs when more than one digital audio source is enabled
* Wolfenstein no longer stops responding when running in display mode of 2560 x 1600
* Resolved WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been minimized and restored
* WinDVD application now repaints and no longer remain on screen
* Resolved display driver incompatibility with Resident Evil 5 Japanese release
* Desktop is no longer cut short when 720P 60Hz HDTV custom mode is added in Windows 7 for some ASICs
更新時間：2009-10-25
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
New Features:
* GPU acceleration for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converting application
This release of ATI Catalyst™ 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 Radeon™ HD 5800, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of products.
* Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon™ 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 Avivo™ 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 Avivo™ 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 Avivo™ 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 Avivo™ Video - Basic Quality page now functions properly in Catalyst Control Center
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
* EA Sports startup logo screen for "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08" will no longer disappear or turn black
* Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560x1600
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:
* Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
* Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with Tripod and Quad CrossFire enabled configurations
* Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and Firestream ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
* "Combat Mission Shock Force" no longer fails after a duration of game play
* Intermittent flashing no longer visible in Windows with ViewSonic VE150m displays
更新時間：2009-09-12
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
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
更新時間：2009-07-24
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™
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
更新時間：2009-06-16
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™
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