AMD Catalyst Drivers (XP 64-bit)

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 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