Disponibili online i nuovi driver Catalyst per la famiglia di schede video ATI, release 8.9 per sistemi operativi Windows XP, Vista, MCE

Versione per Windows Xp Home/Professional Edition (QUI)

Versione per Windows XP 64 bit (QUI)

Versione per Windows Vista a 32 bit multilingua (QUI)

Versione per Windows Vista a 64 bit multilingua (QUI)

Versione per Windows XP Media Center Edition (QUI)

Scrivo qui per non frammentare troppo l'argomento.
Ho un problema da parecchi mesi con i driver ATI. Ho una (ormai obsoleta) x1600pro AGP; sta proprio qui il guaio: nei driver dal 7.8 (cioè da luglio) in poi non c'è il supporto all'AGP, quindi tantissime persone si sono trovate impossibilitate ad aggiornare e usufruire dei miglioramenti delle nuove versioni.
Segnalo che per i possessori del sistema operativo XP sono stati molto fortunati e recentemente sono stati rilasciati i driver non ufficiali della OMEGA (basta fare una ricerca con google) che risolvono il problema.
Ma per chi ha Vista (come me)???
Sono mesi che la ATI promette di risolvere la cosa, ma ad ogni uscita dei Catalyst rimango deluso.
Non so voi ma credo proprio che la mia prossima scheda sarà Nvidia.
Inoltre la ATI ha comunicato che d'ora in poi usciranno aggiornamenti per le schede AGP ogni 4 mesi cioè solo 3 volte l'anno, mentre per le altre scheda resterà il rilascio mensile. Assurdo! Perchè fare una cosa del genere se non per spingere la gente a spendere soldi per comprarsi un sistema PCI, il che significa rinnovare la maggior parte dell'hardware....

Si chiude così un'altra era di driver (la serie 7 per l'esattezza) e ne comincia una nuova con i primi Catalyst 8.1 che come al solito oltre a correggere gli svariati bug nei titoli compresi nella release note, introducono tra le nuovissime feature il supporto alla tecnologia Multiview con le librerie OpenGL.

Il download è caldamente consigliato e di seguito potete vedere gli aggiornamenti effettuati con questo nuovo set.

Changelog

New features

OpenGL: MultiView support

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces MultiView support. This feature provides for full hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters setup in an extended desktop display configuration.

Resolved Issue highlights

* Bioshock: Flickering is no longer noticed during the cinematic introduction of the game.

* Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series of product no longer results in the game failing to the desktop when CrossFire™ is enabled.

* F.E.A.R.: A black screen no longer occurs when the display is set to 2048x1536 and the in-game AA option is enabled.

* Lightsmark 2007: Running the benchmark no longer results in the robot character not being drawn properly.

* Oblivion: Task switching between the game and the Windows Vista desktop no longer results in corruption being noticed when AA is enabled.

* Oblivion: Flickering is no longer noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire™ is enabled and AF is set to 16X.

* Oblivion: The game no longer fails and display corruption is no longer noticed when the game is minimized to desktop and then restored.

* World In Conflict: The game no longer fails to the Windows desktop when the display resolution is set to 1280x768 and AF is set to 16X.

* Call of Juarez and Stalker and Timeshift: Launching the games under Windows XP no longer results in intermittent corruption or flashing being noticed.

* Enemy Territories Quake Wars v1.2: Flickering is no longer noticed when enabling Triple Buffering, setting AA to 8X and setting the display resolution to 2560x1600.

* TianJi: Logging into the game no longer results in the function buttons not working and the system setting window failing to open.

* World of Warcraft: Launching two game windows and switching between the game windows on a system with an Apple 30 inch display device no longer results in the game image failing to be drawn properly.

* Google SketchUP: the application no longer fails to launch on systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product.

può migliorare anche le presazioni della scheda grafica?

No, le prestazione prettamente hardware rimangono quelle che sono ma magari puoi guadagnare qualche frame in determinate applicazioni o giochi a patto che tu abbia una delle ultime Radeon uscite sul mercato.

be io ho l'hd2600 pro

Rilasciati proprio oggi i nuovi driver Catalyst, release 8.2, che correggono diversi bug in alcuni titoli a seconda del sistema operativo utilizzato e migliorano la compatibilità con la piattaforma Linux.

Changelog Windows Vista

# Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32141

# World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32140

# .NET Framework an Unhandled Exception error no longer occurs when upon booting or re-booting the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32115

# A white dot no longer appears on the windows desktop when launching the Catalyst Control Center. However, this issue may still be experienced under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31715

# Audio stutter is no longer noticed when using the HDMI connector. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32118

# Running the Spanish version of the Windows operating system no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center option failing to be available when right-clicking the Windows desktop menu bar. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32125

# The Catalyst Control Center options are no longer missing for the secondary extended display when hot unplugging and hot plugging the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32126

# Native CrossFire™ can now be enabled when the primary display device is connected to the master card using a CV or TV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32131

# Enabling clone mode on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1200/1250/1270 series of product no longer results in the resolution and color depth changing to 640x480 8bpp. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32132

# Playing DVD content using the Windows Media Player no longer results in the playback being choppy. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32136

# Hot plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device multiple times during one windows session may result in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32137

# Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1950 series of product no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system intermittently failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32138

# The lower portion of the Catalyst Control Center is no longer cropped when changing the display resolution from 640x480 to 1920x1200. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32139

# An error message is no longer displayed when attempting to set both the primary (HDMI) display device and secondary (DVI) display device to a display resolution of 1280x1024. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32142

# The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer reboots when installing the T200 driver. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32143

# Setting the DPI to 120 in the Display Properties no longer results in the combo box being cut-off. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32144

# The antenna signal strength is no longer reported by Vista Media Center as low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32145

# A black line is no longer noticed when using VIVO for capturing and using Radeon™ HD 2900. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32146

# The PAL-N video captured from the ATI Radeon™ HD2900 no longer displays colors and with vertical bars. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32147

# The T200 NTSC capture card no longer fails to capture the Closed Captioning signal. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32148

# A Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays option no longer appears when an HDMI display device is connected using an HDMI-DVI cable. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32149

# Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492

# Oblivion: Flickering is no longer noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire™ is enabled and AF is set to 16x. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31581

# Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31189

# Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin may result in the Catalyst™ Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569

# The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570

# Installing the WDM driver on systems containing an ATI TV Tuner product and an ATI graphics adapter may result in the WDM driver failing to install. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30571

# Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in the WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30579

# The Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst™ Control Center OverDrive™ option. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30584

# Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios may result in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145

# The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146

# Resuming from hibernation mode with HDMI display connected may result in a black screen with only a mouse cursor being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31149

# Setting the desktop resolution to 1600x1200 or greater may result in green pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31150

# Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh times, School for Scoundrels using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31155

# The OverDrive™ page may be grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks as may be displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire™ on systems containing and ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version). Further details can be found in topic number 737-31586

# Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163

# An error message may appear when installing the display driver package through setup.exe. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31577

# Using the pound key (#) as the first character in the user name may result in an error when installing the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31578

# The OverDrive™ page may be missing in the Catalyst Control Center after disabling CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31579

# The color depth may change to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire™ for the first time. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31580

# Display corruption may be noticed when enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900/1950 series of product when the display resolution is set to 1600x1200 70Hz and running a 3D application in full screen mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31582

# Hot-plugging an HDMI display device may result in the display device failing to be detected on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product and running Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31583

# Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the display resolution to 1280x800 or higher, followed by playing an HD-DVD using PowerDVD, may results in the HD-DVD title failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31584

# Dragging player window to secondary display while playing back HD content and moving it back to primary may result in blank player window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31585

# The OverDrive™ page may be grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks as may be displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire™ on systems containing and ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version). Further details can be found in topic number 737-31586

Changelog Windows XP

# Doom3: Running an OpenGL application with CrossFire™ enabled and AA set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when the display resolution is set to 2048x1536 or higher. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32150

# TianXia2: Launching the game no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32152

# Playing an H.264/VC1 title on a system with a display resolution higher than 1440x900 no longer results in the content failing to play in hardware mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32154

# Changing the display resolution when CrossFire™ is enabled no longer results in the running 3D application failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32155

# After installing the graphics driver an error message may be displayed when attempting to launch DirectX based games when using an ATI AGP product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31625

# Call of Juarez: Setting the game level with Optimal Quality and high in-game settings may result in the game level being blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30591

# Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947

# Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may intermittently result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492

# STALKER: Shadows may not be rendered properly when CrossFire™ is enabled along with AA being enabled at 4x and Full Dynamic Lighting also being enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31597

# Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587

# Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31166

# The Catalyst Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570

# Setting the display resolution to 1440x900 or lower may result in corruption being noticed when playing a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31168

# Setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024 and using PowerDVD to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title may result in corruption being noticed when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31171

# On certain products, changing display resolution while playing back High Definition content may results in instability. It is recommended to set appropriate resolution while playback is stopped. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31172

# Cyberlink: Playing a DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31173

# Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587

# The floppy drive may fail to read or write under Vista on a Dell XPS410 system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31148

# World in Conflict: Text corruption may be noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 30 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31619

# Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29556

# Hot plugging a display device to a system running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and containing an ATI Radeon™ X1250/1270 series of product may result in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31618

# Standard PAL mode may fail to be available in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31620

Aggiornata la release list del set di driver ATI, numerata come 8.3 che introducono consistenti migliori al CrossfireX e all'Hybrid Crossfire.

Highlights of the Catalyst 8.3 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

* Call of Juarez: Performance scores increased up to 20% on ATI CrossFireX™ configured systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of product

* Company of Heroes (DirectX 10): Performance scores increased up to 17% (especially at lower resolutions), on ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 products

* Crysis (DirectX 10): Performance scores increased up to 15% on all supported ATI Radeon™ products

* Lost Planet (DirectX 9): Performance scores increased up to 36% across all supported ATI Radeon™ products and in ATI CrossFireX™ configured systems

* Shadermark 2.1: Performance scores increased up to 35% across all supported Radeon™ products and in ATI CrossFireX™ configured systems

* Unreal Tournament 2004: Performance scores increased up to 10% on ATI CrossFireX™ configured system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD2400, HD2600, or HD3400 series of products

New features

CrossFireX (QUAD) support – 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire mode

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces CrossFireX QUAD support for DirectX® 9 and DirectX® 10 applications. Users with any combination of a ATI Radeon™ HD 3870, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850, and ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 graphics accelerators running with 3 or 4 GPUs will be able to run in CrossFireX QUAD mode (when used in a CrossFireX compatible PC). CrossFireX QUAD will deliver significant performance improvements in a number of applications. Users can expect to see further DirectX 10 QUAD CrossFireX performance improvements in future Catalyst releases.

* Users are also able to run in CrossFireX QUAD mode while running in extended desktop mode on the Windows Vista desktop

* Windows Vista support only

Hybrid Graphics support

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces Hybrid Graphics support. Hybrid Graphics delivers a significant 3D performance boost for systems featuring an AMD 780G integrated graphics motherboard and an ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series graphics accelerator.

* Support for up to four independent displays

* Windows Vista support only

DirectX 10.1 support

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces WHQL certified support for the DirectX 10.1 API found in Microsoft’s Windows Vista Service Pack 1 update for all ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series products.

Anti-Aliasing enhancements

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces anti-aliasing support for all Unreal Engine 3.0 based games (running in DirectX 9 mode). Users can enable Anti-Aliasing for titles such as Gears of War™ and Unreal Tournament™ 3 by simply enabling Anti-Aliasing within the ATI Catalyst Control Center.

* This release of Catalyst™ allows users to enable “narrow tent” and “wide tent” Anti-Aliasing custom filters while running in the Crossfire Super Anti-Aliasing modes (for DirectX 9 applications), providing an improved image quality experience

ATI Catalyst Control Center: HydraVision support for Windows Vista

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces HydraVision support for the ATI Catalyst Control Center under Windows Vista. HydraVision enables users to more efficiently organize multiple applications across single or multiple displays. High-lights include:

* HydraGrid – A new feature found in HydraVision that divides the Windows Vista desktop into user definable areas helping users to more easily move and organize multiple applications.

* HydraVision Hotkeys – The ATI Catalyst Control Center Hotkey Manager can be used to quickly setup and define their HydraVision specific hotkey commands

* HydraVision Virtual desktops – Users can configure up to 9 virtual desktops, enabling users to manage and group multiple applications across user defined desktops. Application positions, desktop associations and display settings can be saved for every virtual desktop

* HydraVision Wizard – Using the ATI Catalyst Control Center Wizard, users can very quickly configure their HyrdaVision settings.

Digital Panel GPU image scaling

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new setting that allows users to enable GPU accelerated scaling for LCD displays. The new setting “Maintain aspect ratio” improves the display resolution image quality when scaling is enable by maintaining the wide panel aspect ratio (stops the image from looking distorted) on wide aspect LCDs

Catalyst Control Center: Advanced Video Quality controls

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces new advanced video quality controls: Edge enhancement, which adjusts the level of sharpness of video content and Noise Reduction, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The new slider controls can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center.

ATI Catalyst driver: Tessellation support

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces Tessellation support in the Catalyst DirectX 9 driver for the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of products. Tessellation has the potential to simplify development efforts and improve application performance by creating high polygon models from low polygon models all within the GPU. Applications must also be designed to take advantage of this feature.

Resolved Issue highlights

* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with default game settings no longer results in the gadget sidebar bleeding through.

* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Playing the game under Windows Vista (64 bit version) no longer results in corruption being noticed when loading multiple maps.

* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: The game no longer fails with an error pointing to atioglxx.dll when exiting the game.

* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels.

* Guitar Hero 3: Poor performance is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system.

* Halo 2: Enabling AA in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the Halo 2 logo flickering when loading or quitting a campaign.

* Halo 2: Starting a new campaign with the default Catalyst™ Control Center setting and the default game settings no longer results in texture corruption being noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon™ HD 2100 series of product installed.

* Oblivion: Flickering is no longer noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire™ is enabled and AF is set to 16x.

* Resident Evil 4: Minor flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista along with CrossFire™ being enabled.

* Splinter Cell Double Agent: Multicolored rectangles are no longer noticed when UBM is enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 34x0 series of product.

* World of Conflict: Text corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with CrossFire™ enabled.

* World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode.

Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 8.3 release include:

New features

* This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux driver introduces Xvideo extension support for video scaling and color space conversion on Xpress 1200 series hardware

Resolved Issues

* On workstation hardware 3D applications will no longer be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680x1050 wide screen display.

* Display flicker is no longer be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts

* Several image brightness and gamma-correction issues were resolved. Setting the gamma correction using xgamma, fglrx_xgamma, xorg.conf and in OpenGL games will all work as expected now.

* Diagonal tearing will no longer be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension

* Video playback will no longer look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension

quando usciranno gli 8.4? nn se ne sa + nulla?

Probabilmente la prossima settimana, visto che sono a cadenza mensile, un ritardo di qualche giorno o di una settimana può capitare nello sviluppo di driver così complessi.

Ecco finalmente uscire anche la release 8.4 dei driver Catalyst specifici per schede video AMD/ATI.

Di seguito vi posto i changelog di versione:

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

• Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels no
longer results in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed
loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600

• Crysis: Setting the Catalyst™ Control Center->Advanced View->3D->Standard
Settings to Optimal Quality and having certain in game option settings
no longer results in the game failing to render properly. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33395

• Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to
1600x1200 no longer results in the image next to the text failing to be rendered.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603

• Hellgate: London: Flickering is no longer noticed when quitting and then
relaunching the game when the in-game setting are set to their maximum levels.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32604

• Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing
to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492

• Tabula Rasa: Setting the graphics option to enable Deferred Lighting and
Dynamic Shadows no longer results in corruption being displayed. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32597

• Tomb Raider Anniversary: Performance improvements are now noticed
when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-32598

• Playing a game that uses the Unreal Engine 3.0 no longer results in AA setting
not having any effect on the game when CrossFire is enabled. Further details
can be found in topic number 737-33384

• The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running
the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst™ Control Center OverDrive™
option. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30584
Note: If you have an ATI Radeon™ X1600, X1800, or X1900 series
of product, download the GPU client (either console or GUI version) not
to be confused with the CPU “Graphical client”.
If you do not have an ATI Radeon™ product listed above, then download
the CPU client.
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note 6

• Using the pound key (#) as the first character in the user name no longer
results in an error when installing the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-31578

• The color depth no longer changes to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling Cross-
Fire™ for the first time. Further details can be found in topic number
737-31580

• Display corruption is no longer noticed when enabling CrossFire™ on a system
containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900/1950 series of product when the display
resolution is set to 1600x1200 70Hz and running a 3D application in full
screen mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31582

• Connecting a TV as a secondary display device no longer results in extended
desktop mode failing to become active. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32659

• Flashes of white lines are no longer noticed when quickly moving windows
around the Vista desktop. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32660

• Momentary flicker is no longer noticed when rotating the display device. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32661
• Hot plugging an HDMI display device to a system running Windows Vista
(32 or 64 bit version) no longer results in the HDMI display device being
detected as a DTV (DVI) device. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32593

• The signal on HDTV TV is no longer displayed as 480p60 after setting the
format to 576i25/576p50 in clone mode. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32662

• A warning message no longer fails to appear when using an inappropriate
DVI-HDMI adapter. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32596

• Attempting to perform a silent install of the display driver on a system running
Traditional Chinese version of Windows Vista no longer results in an
error message being displayed and the display drivers failing to be installed.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32601

• Catalyst™ Control Center->Display Properties->Settings tab->Advanced:
The adapter information is no longer displayed as ATI Display Adapter
instead of the actual product name. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32602

• Enabling extended desktop mode followed by swapping the primary and secondary
display devices no longer results in all running applications to be displayed
on the primary display device. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32607

• Enabling or disabling CrossFire no longer results in the HydraGrid settings
failing to be retained. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows
XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32609
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note 7

• Exiting a full screen D3D application no longer results in some of the other
running applications failing to retain their current HydarGrid location. This
issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32612

• An incorrect message is no longer displayed when resuming from an S3 state
when extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-33374

• Enabling Overlay Theatre Mode while a movie is playing no longer results in
the secondary display device displaying a black screen when extended desk
mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33375

• Connecting a secondary display device and setting the display resolution to
1280x800 or greater no longer results in corruption being noticed when
attempting to enable extended desktop mode. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-33376

• Playing a Blu-ray or HD DVD title using the Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 no
longer results in an error message being displayed. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33377

• Using MCE to view TV no longer results in the Vista operating system (32 bit
version) failing to respond when resuming from an S3 state. Further details
can be found in topic number 737-33378

• Intermittent corruption when switching between an LCD display device and
an HDMI TV no longer occurs. Further details can be found in topic number
737-33379

• Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in an extra longer time
being noticed when attempting to switch between the LCD display device and
the HDMI display device. Further details can be found in topic number
737-33382

• Corruption is no longer noticed on the Windows Vista desktop when playing a
DVD title when using the Windows Media Player. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33383

• Connecting an HDTV using the HDMI port on a system containing an ATI
Radeon™ HD 3100/3200 series of product no longer results the LCD display
device failing when hot-unplugging the HDTV. Further details can be found
in topic number 737-33384


Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System


• 3DMark05/06: A performance drop is no longer noticed when running the
benchmark under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number
737-33497

• Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing
to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note 8

• Setting the language option to any supported language other than English no
longer results in the Help file for Configure and Diagnostics failing to appear.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32605

• Setting the language option to Russian for the Catalyst™ Control Center no
longer results in some text being cropped for the secondary display device in
the display properties. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32663

• Setting the language option to German for the Catalyst™ Control Center no
longer results in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst
™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32664

• Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst™ Control Center no
longer results in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst
™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32665

• Connecting a CRT and TV and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop
no longer results in Overlay Theater Mode failing on the secondary display
device when attempting to change the TV format to D/PAL. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32606

• Catalyst™ Control Center->3D: AA options are no longer missing on certain
system configurations. This issue may also have been experienced under the
Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-33400

• The Apply button no longer fails to become disabled when changing the display
resolution on a system with extended desktop mode enabled and the secondary
display device having a different color scheme. This issue may also
have been experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64
Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number
737-33401

• Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst™ Control Center no
longer results in cropped text being noticed within the Catalyst™ Control
Center. This issue may also have been experienced under the Windows Vista
and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33402

• The display device no longer displays a green image when launching the Catalyst
™ Control Center when PowerDVD is running. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33405

• The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond when switching
between user profiles. Further details can be found in topic number
737-33414


Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System


• Crysis: Momentary corruption may be noticed in the body of water when a
soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32599

• Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a
map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-31189

• Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available
option other than system skin may result in the Catalyst™ Control Center
menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-30569

• The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing
the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-30570

• Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and
enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in the
WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when
Overlay Theater Mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number
737-30579

• Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios may
result in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details
can be found in topic number 737-31145

• The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation
with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-31146

• Setting the desktop resolution to 1600x1200 or greater may result in green
pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe
noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI
Radeon™ HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-31150

• Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh Times, School for Scoundrels
using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-31155

• Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 Cross-
Fire™ Edition product may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163

• An error message may appear when installing the display driver package
through setup.exe. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31577

• The OverDrive™ page may be missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center after
disabling CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic number
737-31579

• Inconsistent behavior may be noticed in the Catalyst™ Control Center when
clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue
may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32610


• Shared applications may be removed after selecting Restore desktop when
virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the
Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611

• Installing an ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product into a system containing
an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product with the display driver already
installed may result in the operating system entering a continuous reboot. This
issue may be averted by removing the ATI graphics driver prior to the installation
of the ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product. This issue may also be
experienced with the ATI Radeon™ X1300 and 1550 series of products. Further
information may be found in topic number 737-33471

• Certain benchmark applications may report lower benchmark scores with
CrossFire enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33464

• Watching live TV on a system running Windows Vista may result in corruption
being noticed after a short time period. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-33465

• Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone
mode or extended desktop mode may result in the TV failing to display an
image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-33466


Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System


• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky
after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution
or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption.
This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947

• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a
Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if
extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number
737-30587

• Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot
plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode
becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display
device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number
737-31166

• The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing
the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-30570

• Setting the display resolution to 1440x900 or lower may result in corruption
being noticed when playing a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-31168

• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a
Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if
extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number
737-30587

• The floppy drive may fail to read or write under Vista on a Dell XPS410 system.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-31148

• Intermittent flashing may be noticed in the right portion of the display when
playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player
v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666

• The ATI OpenGL driver may fail to be applied on systems containing an ATI
Radeon™ 3600/3650 AGP series of product. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-33467

• A warning message may fail to be displayed when reaching the maximum
number of modes in the Predefined and Custom HDTV modes section of the
Catalyst™ Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows
Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-33468

• Underscan may fail when setting the display device to either 1080i 25Hz or
1080i 50Hz. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33469

ottimo corro ad aggiornare

scusate ma questi aggiornamenti ogni quanto escono???

pressapoco una volta al mese.e ringrazia xkè se da una parte le ati hanno una tecnologia( dipende dai campi considerati..) rispetto alle nvidida sulla carta, a livello driver fanno quasi pena e appena uscite sfruttano al minimo la loro potenza

Online i nuovi driver 8.5 che apportano i seguenti cambiamenti:

Catalyst™ 8.5 introduces the following new features:

• Catalyst™ Control Center Component Video
• ATI Graphics Driver Un-install Enhancement
• SECAM TV Out Support
• 1080p HDTV custom mode
• HDMI Audio for non-standard TV modes
• Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst™ Control Center
• 1080p24 Mode Support
• Windows XP Service Pack 3 support

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating
System:

• Clive Barker's Jericho: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the
game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product and
running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-34260

• Colin McRae: DiRT: Setting the display to 1024x768 with AA set to 4x, and
CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in lower performance being noticed.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-34254

• Crysis: Flickering shadow corruption no longer occurs in hallways of the ship
when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number
737-34256

• Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to
1600x1200 no longer results in the image next to the text failing to be rendered.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603

• Farcry: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed
during the introduction of the game. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-34262

• Gears of War: Launching the game under the 64 bit version of Windows
Vista no longer results in momentary corruption of the desktop. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-34261

• Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Launch the game demo on a system containing
an ATI Radeon™ X11x0 series of product and running the Windows Vista
operating system no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-34199

• Halo 2: Enabling AA in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the
Halo 2 logo flickering when loading or quitting a campaign. Further details
can be found in topic number 737-32541

• Hellgate: London: Flickering is no longer noticed when quitting and then
relaunching the game when the in-game setting are set to their maximum levels.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32604

• Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia: Shading over 3D characters no
longer results in flickering being noticed. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-34255

• Shrek: The game no longer fails to launch on systems containing an ATI
Radeon™ HD3100/3200 series of product and running the Windows Vista
operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34197

• Stranglehold: The game no longer fails to load on systems running the Windows
Vista operating system with default values enabled. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-34259

• Tabula Rasa: Setting the graphics option to enable Deferred Lighting and
Dynamic Shadows no longer results in corruption being displayed. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32597

• Team Fortress 2: Enabling CrossFire™ and playing the game on a system
running Windows Vista no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-34257

• Tomb Raider Anniversary: Performance improvement is now noticed when
playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-32598

• Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and
enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the
WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when
Overlay Theater Mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number
737-30579

• The OverDrive™ page is no longer missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center
after disabling CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-31579

• Watching live TV on a system running Windows Vista no longer results in
corruption being noticed after a short time period. Further details can be found
in topic number 737-33465

• Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone
mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the TV failing to display
an image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-33466

• Connecting a CRT and an HDMI display device followed by enabling clone
mode and setting the resolution to 1024x768 32bpp 60Hz. no longer results in
corruption being noticed on the secondary display device when resuming
from suspend mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32656

• The signal on HDTV TV is no longer displayed as 480p60 after setting the
format to 576i25/576p50 in clone mode. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-32662

• Momentary flicker is no longer noticed when rotating the display device. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-32661

• Flashes of white lines are no longer noticed when quickly moving windows
around the Vista desktop. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32660

• Attempting to perform a silent install of the display driver on a system running
Traditional Chinese version of Windows Vista no longer results in an
error message being displayed and the display drivers failing to be installed.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-32601

• Corruption is no longer noticed on the Windows Vista desktop when playing a
DVD title when using the Windows Media Player. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-33383

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