AMD Catalyst Drivers (XP 64-bit) 歷史版本列表
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
更新時間：2009-05-20
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 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
CrossFireX™ configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
* Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 10% for both single GPU and ATI
CrossFireX™ 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 Catalyst™ 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
更新時間：2009-04-09
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
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 Overdrive™ auto-tune application to accurately determine the best over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Overdrive supported ATI Radeon™ Graphics accelerators
# Designed for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series
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:
# "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 Catalyst™ 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
更新時間：2009-03-19
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
ATI Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
* Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ 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 Catalyst™ 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
Catalyst™ 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 Catalyst™
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 Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
* Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using
PowerDVD
ATI Catalyst™ 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
更新時間：2009-02-21
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 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
Catalyst™ 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
更新時間：2009-01-30
更新細節：