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Catalyst® 6.11 Display Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition - 34.4MB Release Notes - might need to go to above link and hit Release Notes from there New Features This release of Catalyst® introduces software CrossFire™ support for any combination of Radeon® X1900 and X1950 installed in a system running either the Windows XP or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system. Performance Improvement A performance increase is noticed in Call of Duty 2. Performance improves as much as 12.5% at 19x12 settings and as much as 10.5% at 12x10 settings on X1900 Software Crossfire configurations. Largest gains seen with 4xAA enabled. Issues R…
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Catalyst® 6.12 Display Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition New Features This release of the ATI Catalyst™ software suite introduces DirectX video acceleration for CrossFire™ enabled configurations. Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.12 The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include: Black&White 2: Slow frame rate is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP when setting the graphics to the lowest possible settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23714 Neverwinter Nights: Enabling super AA and CrossFire within the Catal…
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Catalyst 6.3 got released today!! Catalyst® Release Notes Version 6.3 Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.3 The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include: * 3DMark06: Setting the display to 2560x1600 with AA set to 4x no longer results in graphic corruption being noticed when running the HDR tests. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21768 * Battlefield 2: The game no longer exit to the Windows desktop after the game logo is displayed. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21660 * City of…
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Catalyst 6.4 Performance Improvements As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations. * 3DMark06 CPU scores improve as much as 4.9% across all product lines * 3DMark06 HDR 2 Deep Freeze (SM3.0) test improves as much as 2% * Call of Duty 2 improves approximately 1.4-2% on Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 Crossfire™ configurations. Gains are slightly less (1.3%) for non-Crossfire™ Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 products * FarCry improves 2-3% on ATI Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF * Half Life 2 improves as much as 3.8% on Radeon® X1900 …
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Catalyst 6.5 Windows XP - Driver Download New Features This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features: * Overlay Theater Mode Update * Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above Overlay Theater Mode Update Catalyst® 6.5 introduces a new option for Overlay Theater Mode. The new option, Standard Dual Mode is available for Radeon® X1x00 series of graphics cards. This new feature now allows users to playback video using hardware acceleration when it is played on both displays (clone mode). Hardware acceleration decreases CPU utilization, allowing the PC to run smoother and faster. When using two displays in clone mode, video p…
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Catalyst 6.7 Available for Download MadBoxPC has a leaked copy of the Catalyst 6.7 driver "It’s unknown when ATI will officially release the Catalyst 6.7 driver package, though ATI’s new Catalyst every month driver policy leads us to believe Catalyst 6.7 should officially be released sometime this week or before July 31st."
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Catalyst 6.8 Windows XP 6.8 Release Notes Performance Improvement As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations. Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the entire Radeon® X1000 series of products. These include: * Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5% * Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18% * Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen * Prey performance improves as much as 16% Optimizations made to ATI's gr…
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Cat 6.9 WinXP download Release Notes New Features: This release of Catalyst® introduces CrossFire™ support for the Intel 965 Chipset. This feature is available for D3D applications, and is supported on ATI Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ edition products. This feature is supported under the Windows XP operating system. Performance Improvement: * 3DMark2006 overall performance improves 6.7-23.7% with anti-aliasing enabled due to improvements in HyperZ efficiency on the Radeon® X1300, X1600 and X1800 series of products. The largest gains can be seen on Crossfire™ configurations and/or 256MB card configurations at resolutions of 1280x1024 or greater * Doom3 …
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Catalyst® 7.1 Release Notes New Features This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite includes Crossfire™ enhancements that enable the Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Crossfire rendering mode by default so that users will see significant performance benefits across all AFR compatible applications immediately (including newly released applications, so users do not have to wait for a future ATI Catalyst™ release to add Crossfire™ support for newly released titles). Future ATI Catalyst™ releases will add further Crossfire™ performance gains once new applications have been profiled specifically for Crossfire™. Known Issues for the ATI Catalyst™ Software S…
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Catalyst 5.12 Dual core CPU optimisations "Also, as this article is intended to be a look at the theoretical possibilities of the Dual Core optimisations we have used 3 of the games which ATI indicated should receive boosts from the Dual Core Optimisations. Our results will be checking if ATI's suggested gains are realised and the benefits which would be achieved in real world usage as we will be testing sections of gameplay with FRAPS."
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ATI Interview w/ Catalyst team "Allan: As both of you are involved with improving your customers experience with drivers and gaming, do either of you actually play computer games in your spare time, either for “research purposes” or just for the hell of it? What has been your favourite titles this year? Either of you own a console(s)? Terry: No I don’t play any games I actually do have a PS2 for a console and play a lot of sports games when I have people over. My girlfriend beats me bad on the latest game we are hooked on Burnout3: Takedown (which is one of the best PS2 games of all time) As for PC games I played quite a few this year. Aside from all the obvi…
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Catalyst® 7.3 Display Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition Release Notes for XP and Vista Performance Improvements Dark Messiah Might and Magic performance improves 12.5% or greater on all Radeon™ X1000 series configurations when running in CrossFire™ mode under both the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. Larger gains of 60% or more can be seen on high end products. 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: * Uninstalling the graphics drivers no longer results in some of the f…
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Catalyst® 7.4 Display Driver Release Notes New Features This release of Catalyst™ introduces the Avivo Video Converter for the Vista (32-bit) operating system. The Avivo Video Converter is a tool that provides a quick and easy way of converting videos from one format to another. The Avivo Video Converter found within the Catalyst™ Control Center accepts a wide variety of file formats as a source, and outputs to file formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX, WMA, H.264/AVC and more. Performance Improvements OpenGL performance under the Microsoft Vista operating system improves for all Radeon™ X1000 series of products, in both single card and hardware Cr…
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Catalyst™ 7.10 claimed a lot of performance enhancements: ATI Catalyst 7.10 Analysis - XP & Vista "Performance is the name of the game this month, performance increases are what AMD have promised with Catalyst 7.10. Labeled as the “Shoot em’ Up Driver” we have a huge line up of improvements. Unfortunately while we don’t test all of the programs there are a number that we do. You want to read this as much as I want to write it so let’s not ramble on and just get straight into it."
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Catalyst™ 7.11, grab them here! Hmmm, no mention of improvements for Crysis yet (maybe a hotfix before Dec's), nor mention of improvements for the 38xx series, although they are in the supported list for these!!!! Release Notes Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System - Bioshock: Pulling the lever in the chamber no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30493 - Bioshock, Lost Planet, and World In Conflict: Connecting certain dual link display devices to certain ATI Radeon™ 2x00 series of cards no longer results in limited display resolutions being available. Further details can be found in topi…
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