ATi Catalyst 4.7 final

ATi heeft zojuist in de vorm van finalversie 4.7 nieuwe Catalyst-stuurprogramma's op zijn site online gezet. In midden juni werd eerder al de bèta-uitvoering van de 4.7-tak uitgebracht. De drivers zijn bedoeld voor de mensen die een Radeon-videokaart in hun Windows 2000- of Windows XP-systeem gebruiken. In de 4.7-release zijn wederom een zooi aanpassingen verricht. Hieronder kan je een beknopt overzicht vinden van de release notes:

Further improvements in our Vertex Shader handling bring performance improvements to applications that use stencil shadow volumes. For example, the Battle of Proxycon and Troll's Lair tests gain 10-30% on RADEON™ X800 PRO.

Call of Duty framerates improve 5-10% when anti-aliasing is enabled on RADEON™ X800-series products.

Aquamark performance is up slightly (2-3%) on RADEON™ X800-series products.

Enabling both the CRT and DVI connectors and setting the CRT to primary no longer results in display corruption being seen on the display connected to the DVI when running 3D Labs applications and disabling the display on the DVI connector

The mouse pointer no longer flashes or becomes corrupted when setting the display mode to 1080i and launching Windows MCE

DVD playback hesitation at the beginning of a movie is no longer noticed when using the ATI DVD Player under Windows XP with an ATI 8500 ALL-IN-WONDER™ installed

The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond when a D3D application generates a floating-point exception error

The BIOS Version information is now stated correctly in the Details found in the ATI Options tab. Further, the correct DAC and ASIC information is now displayed in the Adapter tab found in the advanced setting of the display properties

The Overlay Theater Mode table has now been extended to support 1080i and 720p

Launching EVE Online under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500, 9100, or 9200 series no longer results in a VPU recover error before the terms and conditions is displayed

Setting the D3D option to Optimal Quality and configuring the game Freedom Fighters to 1280x1024 no longer results in display corruption being seen on the test resolution window. This issue occurred under Windows XP with an ALL-IN-WONDER™ 9200 installed

The water that surrounds Death Island in the game Halo: Combat evolved is now seen as blue in colour. This issues was known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500 installed

Image rendering issues in the Truform room found in Serious Sam are no longer noticed when increasing the Truform level to maximum under the Advanced Rendering Option

Flashing textures in the water are no longer noticed when running Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT installed

Playing the game TOCA Race Driver under Windows XP no longer results in the shadows being missing under the car when the shadow quality is set to high