B.Ob. Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Catalyst™ Software Suite Version 7.9 Release Notes New Features Catalyst 7.9 introduces the following new features: - Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista (64-bit) - Catalyst Control Center: Color Temperature Control Performance Improvements The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.9: - Far Cry performance improves up to 14 % on the ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT CrossFire™, ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT single card, and ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ configurations - Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 12% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on the ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT CrossFire™ and single card configurations - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 performance improves at most 9% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT CrossFire™ and as much as 6% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ configurations. - Serious Sam 2 performance improves up to 46% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ and up to 27% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT single card and CrossFire™ configurations with Anti-Aliasing enabled. - Quake 4 performance with Anti-Aliasing improves 9% or more on the ATI Radeon™ X1600/X1650Pro and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 products in both single and CrossFire™ configurations 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: - Bioshock: Missing, blackout, and flashing surfaces are no longer noticed in the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29549 - Bioshock: Random polygons shooting up in the sky are no longer noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29551 - LostPlanet: Display flicker is no longer noticed when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29560 - Prey: Texture tearing is no longer noticed in certain areas of the game. This issue was known to occur on ATI Radeon™ HD 2x00 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29563 - Quake3: Moving the mouse pointer over the options listed in the System Setup no longer results in the option being highlighted and the option being overdrawn by the highlight. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29531 - World of Warcraft: Playing the game with wide or narrow tent Anti-Aliasing filters no longer results in wireframe flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28807 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: - Adobe After Effects 8.0: The Fragment Shader no longer fails when rendering shadows. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29565 - Bioshock: Frame stutter associated with time spikes in random components of the render stats is no longer noticed as the character walks around. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29041 - PowerDVD: Playing a DVD on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in missing pixels being noticed on the DVD menu selection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28511 - PowerDVD: Playing a DVD on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in missing pixels being noticed on the DVD menu selection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28511 - World of Warcraft: Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed when enabling AA. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29569 Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System - 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 Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System - DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled may result in the game failing to launch and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29554 Keep in in mind those are just the highlights.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Nice, hating 7.8's on VT 64Bit. Installing these now and hope I will atleast be back to where 7.7s were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 They fixed an error I was having w/ the profiles... I couldn't create a profile before w/ out some error coming up everytime I typed a letter trying to name a profile... now it works... kinda... I try to have 3 profiles, one for default, one for the videocard OC for 1 monitor and OC for 2 monitors... Switching between the profiles hasn't been the most reliable thing, but atleast it's an improvment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 They added Vista 64Bit support for Catalyst Software Suite and Avivo Video Converter. Needed improvement as has been in the WinXP 64Bit package for a few months now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Shhh, new Cats today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 Shhh, new Cats today. Looks like some spanky performance enhancements too!!! AMD's ultimate performance driver released Third interesting part is the performance boost. This driver was internally know as performance one, and the list of potential improvements is quite impressive. ATI lists "possible improvements" and "at least" improvements. CrossFire scaling issues have been resolved, and the list of boosts goes as follows: - BioShock DX10 performance improves at least 70% on Crossfire configurations on ATI HD2000 Series - World in Conflict DX10 performance improves 14-67% on Crossfire configurations; single card performance improves by 20% or more with ATI HD2000 Series - DX9 performance improves 70% or more on ATI HD 2000 in Crossfire mode - Lost Planet DX10 performance improves at least 20% on ATI HD 2000 in Crossfire - Call of Juarez DX10 performance improves up to 42% on Crossfire configurations and single card performance improves up to 34% on the entire ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series - Company of Heroes DX10 performance improves up to 80% on ATI Radeon HD 2000 in Crossfire configuration and single card performance improves as much as 31% on the ATI Radeon HD 2600/2900 - Battlefield 2142 performance improves 5-23% on Crossfire configurations using the ATI Radeon HD X1300/X1550/2400/2600 - Call of Duty 2 performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and Crossfire configurations using the ATI Radeon HD 2400/2600 - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars performance improves on Crossfire configurations as much as 23% on the ATI Radeon X1000 Series and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both the entire ATI Radeon HD 1000/2000 Series - F.E.A.R. performance improves as much as 16% on Crossfire configurations using the ATI Radeon X1300/X1550/X1650XT/X1950XTX and all HD2000 Series - Supreme Commander performance improves on Crossfire configurations up to 30% on the entire ATI Radeon X1000/HD2000 Series. Crossfire configurations using the ATI Radeon X1300/X1550/X1650 see improvements of 82% or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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