ATi Catalyst 4.4

Op de site van ATi heeft erwinrom nieuwe Catalyst-drivers gevonden. De update is genummerd als 4.4 en werkt op WIndows 2000- en Windows XP-systemen. Het team achter de stuurprogramma's hebben vooral veranderingen aangebracht op het gebied van games, maar ook kleine bugs met betrekking tot de core zijn verholpen. Tweakers met een vaste internetverbinding kunnen hier het hele pakket neerhalen, daarentegen kunnen mensen die gedoemd zijn om in te bellen gebruik maken van de losse downloads waartoe de Display Driver, Control Panel en WDM Capture Driver behoren. Hieronder zijn de aanpassingen van deze release geplaatst, deze zijn ook terug te vinden in de release notes:

Fixed in this driver:

• Connecting a secondary CRT and enabling VPU Recover no longer results in the operating system failing to restore itself
• The new rotation implementation no longer fails to update the desktop when doing a mode set on exit
• Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and switching the DVI connector for HDTV to 480i no longer results in the HDTV device not working within the ATI Control Panel
• Setting the display resolution to 1152x864 32bpp under Windows XP and playing an MPEG or AVI file using the Windows Media Player no longer results in display corruption on the TV output
• Setting the display resolution to 1920x1080 on an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO when connected to a specific monitor no longer results in the image not being display
• The file version and the product version information is now correct
• Worms 3D no longer fails to properly play. Launching in game movies no longer results in only the sound being heard with the display being corrupted or black
• Intermittent texture corruption and flashing is no longer seen when playing the game Battlefield 1942
• The shadow of the characters in the game Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow are now being displayed properly
• Display corruption is no longer noticed when switching between 2D and 3D modes in the game Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
• The performance of the game Tomb Raider AOD is no longer compromised when running the game at the display resolution of 1600x1200
• The brightness option found in certain games is now working properly when extended desktop is enabled and both monitors are set to 1280x1024 32bpp
• Configuring the game RACER version 0.50 to run at full screen, 1600x1200 32bpp, no longer results in the game failing to respond
• Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 and running the game Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy no longer results in display corruption being noticed at a specific point in the game
• Display corruption is no longer seen when playing the demo version of the game Far Cry