Driver-update: ATi Catalyst 7.4

Advanced Micro Devices heeft zojuist de vierde Catalyst-release van dit jaar voor zijn Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht en deze volgens goed gebruik versienummer 7.4 meegegeven. De driver is beschikbaar voor XP en Vista, in zowel de 32bits-, 64bits- en Media Center-uitvoering, en zijn geschikt voor alle Radeon-modellen vanaf de 9500-serie. Nieuw in deze release is de Avivo Video Converter, die vooralsnog alleen beschikbaar is voor de 32-bits versie van Windows Vista. Hiermee is het mogelijk om video van het ene naar een ander formaat te converteren. Ook is de OpenGL performance verbeterd en bevat het de gebruikelijke lijst aan bugfixes voor een groot aantal spellen en applicaties. De volledige release notes voor versie 7.4 zien er als volgt uit:

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 CrossFire configurations. Typical Improvements of 15% or more can be seen in games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey, with enthusiast class of products seeing improvements of 30% or more.

ATI's Folding@Home

• Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed by the Stanford University. The application performs intensive simulations of protein folding. This simulation will help researchers uncover how certain diseases develop. Folding@Home uses distributed computing to simulate protein folding, the workload is broken up into small work units and distributed across hundreds of thousands of computers over the internet. You can help find the cure to many different diseases! To join Folding@Home, follow these steps:
  • Download ATI's Catalyst software suite
  • Download the Folding@Home GPU client application

Resolved Issues for Windows Vista:

• Battlefield 2: A momentary split screen is no longer seen when launching the game with AA enabled.
• City of Heroes: Changing the display resolution to 2560x1600 or higher no longer results in the game failing to run.
• Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Undrentide: Attempting to play the game under the Windows Vista operating system (64bit version) no longer results in the opening cinematic failing to play when using an LCD display device.
• Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Under tide: Attempting to play the game on a system containing an ATi Radeon X800/850 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in game failing to respond after playing the opening cinematic.
• Quake 4: game corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system when using an ATi Radeon 9800 XT product.
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI: Texture corruption is no longer noticed in the terrain of the game.
• Unreal Tournament 2004: Playing the game on a system containing an ATi Radeon X1600 and running the Vista operating system no longer results in display corruption being noticed.
• OverDrive now functions as expected under the Windows Vista operating system when running an OpenGL application.
• The Reactivate ATi color controls option found in the Catalyst Control Center->color aspect no longer remains greyed out when attempting to reactivate the option.
• Catalyst Control Center: Making changes to the color depth for the first time no longer results in the color depth reverting to 8bpp.
• Attempting to run TV in the Windows Vista media center no longer results in the operating system rebooting.
• Connecting a TV as a secondary display device no longer results in the extended desktop feature failing to be applied on the first attempt.
• Catalyst Control Center: The 60Hz option is no longer listed twice in the Display Option->3D Refresh Rate Override.
• Catalyst Control Center->Color aspect: An unhandled exception error is no longer displayed when clicking both the mouse buttons on the sliders.
• Catalyst Control Center->Video->Color Page: The Help page is now displayed when pressing F1.
• Catalyst Control Center->Basic View->3D: Setting the slider to Balanced mode followed by exiting the Catalyst Control Center and then re-launching the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the slider position moving to High Performance.
• Catalyst Control Center->Basic View->Incorrect Current Setting is no longer shown in Content Viewing Selection for Component Video aspect.
• The product name no longer fails to be displayed when editing the custom view of the Catalyst Control Center.
• Catalyst Control Center->Hotkeys Manager: The option to Toggle Internal Panel Scaling modes is no longer listed when connecting a non-LCD display device.
• The ATi OverDrive Defaults button is now enabled.
• Multiple entries are no longer listed for some the aspects found in the Catalyst Control Center Help contents.
• The Force TV option is no longer active after deselecting the option and then re-launching the Catalyst Control Center.
• The LCD brightness level is now be retained when resuming from an S3 or S4 state.
• Attempting to resume from an S3 state no longer results in the display remaining blank and only the mouse cursor becoming active.
• Connecting a CRT and a TV to a system containing an ATi Radeon X1200/1250 series of product no longer results in the TV going blank when changing the TV format from NTSC to PAL or visa versa.
• Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATi Radeon X1200/1250 series of product no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when attempting to resume from an S3 state by pressing the power button.
• The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to launch under the Windows Vista operating system.
• The Windows Vista operating system no longer reports and incorrect amount of shared system memory on 512MB integrated systems.
• Performing a custom un-install of the graphics driver no longer results in the Vista operating system failing to respond.
• Connecting a TV using an S-Video cable to a system containing an ATi Radeon X1650 series of product no longer results in a blank display when attempting to resume from an S3 state.

Resolved Issues for Windows XP:

• 3DMark03-GT3: Display corruption is no longer noticed when running the application on a system using an ATi Radeon X1650 product.
• Call of Duty: Setting AA to either 2 or 4x no longer results in display corruption or the Vista operating system failing to respond when using an ATi Radeon X800/850 series of product.
• Dungeon Lord: Minor and intermittent display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire enabled.
• Prey: Using the mouse to maneuver around the game screen no longer results in corruption being noticed.
• Tribal Trouble: Launching the game on a system containing an ATi Radeon X1900/1950 product and running Windows XP no longer results in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond.
• Choppy playback of media previews and captured files is no longer noticed in the media center and movie maker after applying WMP 11 update. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• A Microsoft .NET Framework error no longer appears when switching between user accounts and or toggling between Catalyst Control Center skins.
• Making changes to the 3D-All Setting aspect no longer results in the SmoothVision slider and labels failing to be redrawn properly.
• The response time for the Catalyst Control Center no longer appears slow when attempting to make changes to the display devices when having both a CRT and HDTV connected and extended desktop mode enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• Catalyst Control Center->3D: Setting AA to 4x and attempting to read a PDF using Adobe PDF Reader version 8.0 no longer results in corruption being noticed when setting the reader preferences to Page Display found within the Categories options.
• Desktop brightness is now restored on the secondary display device after a full screen OpenGL game exits.
• Momentary display corruption is no longer noticed when changing the color depth on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATi Radeon X1800 series product.

Known Issues Under Windows Vista:

• Doom3/Quake 4: Setting the in game options for Video Quality to Medium and Screen Size to 1024x768 may result in display corruption being noticed when setting AA to 4x.
• Homeworld2: Setting the game options to default and starting a single player game may result in display corruption being noticed.
• IL2 Sturmovik->Forgotten Battles: Setting the in-game hardware options to custom and landscape detail to perfect may result in the water textures appearing corrupt when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system.
• NHL 07: The in-game display settings may fail to be applied when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system when using a supported ATi Radeon product.
• Quake 4/Serious Sam: Attempting to launch the games with AA set to 2x or higher and the Catalyst Control Center->Advanced View->3D preview running in the background may result in the operating system failing to respond.
• X-Plane: Playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system may result in display corruption being noticed when using an ATi Radeon X1900/1950 series of product.
• A "Fatal Uninstall Error" of ATi Catalyst Install Manager may be experienced on some hardware configurations running Vista.
• On certain hardware configurations the Catalyst Control Center "Content Viewing selection for Component Video" page is blank in the Basic view with only a HDMI display connected.
• CrossFire: The text and buttons found in the CrossFire disable warning message are cropped in all supported languages excluding English.
• Switching between users with Catalyst Control Center->Color aspect open, may incorrectly enable "Reactivate ATi Color controls" button on some hardware configurations.
• In the Catalyst Control Center the localization "Select a Skin" window page is not localized with the appropriate languages on some hardware configurations.
• In the Catalyst Control Center, a blank page may be seen in the basic view when changing extended desktop to clone mode with CRT and SDTV connected on some ASIC families.
• In the Catalyst Control Center, the Help buttons drop down box appear towards left side of the window instead of right side for some languages on certain hardware configurations.
• In some Cross Fire configurations, enabling CrossFire automatically but incorrectly enables 'Triple Buffering' and disables 'Support DXT texture format' in 3D->More Settings.
• Playing a DVD under the Windows Vista operating system using the Windows Media Player may result in the DVD failing to play when switching between display devices using the hot-key function.
• Resuming from an S3 state may result in a longer than expected time for the Windows Vista operating system to resume.
• Hot-plugging a CRT to a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATi Radeon X1100/1150 series of product may result in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.
• The desktop shortcut to the Catalyst Control Center may disappear after performing a Windows Anytime Upgrade on some hardware configurations running Vista.
• IL2 Sturmovik->Forgotten Battles: Setting the in-game hardware options to custom and landscape detail to perfect may result in the water textures appearing corrupt when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system.
• The position of the TV as reported by the Catalyst Control Centre when switching from underscan to overscan differs between the OS'es Win XP and Vista leading to incorrect behavior.
• Mode changes including extending the desktop may be observed to be extremely slow with two monitors attached and enabled on the ATi Radeon X1800 series of products.
• On some hardware configurations the CIM video driver installer lists "The Catalyst Install Manager" and "Microsoft Visual C++" among components of the Component Selection Menu whereas these should not appear since they are mandatory and not optional.
• Overlay Theater Mode may fail under the conditions that the desktop is extended to a secondary display on ATi Radeon X1300/X1550 series of products.

Known Issues Under Windows XP:

• Call of Duty: An error message may appear when task switching between the game and the Windows desktop. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• Homeworld 2: The application may fail to run when CrossFire is enabled and an Anti-Aliasing setting of greater than 2 is selected on certain ATi Radeon X1800 series of products.
• Just Cause: The game may fail to run cinematic at 1600x1200 game resolution on ATi Radeon X1200/1250/1270 series of products.
• Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide may show dithering corruption on the loading screen(s) with Anisotropic Filtering enabled on certain graphics families.
• Starwars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Setting the in-game display option to low settings may result in corruption being noticed within the game.
• Enabling CrossFire may result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6.
• Catalyst Control Center->OverDrive: The OverDrive setting are not retained for individual accounts. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• Installing an ATi Radeon X1900 CrossFire Master and X1900 slave under Windows XP may result in AA settings failing to be retained when rebooting the system. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• Launching the release notes under the Japanese or Chinese version of Windows may result in the release notes displaying a blank page. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
• Uninstalling the graphics drivers may result in some of the files and folder failing to be removed in the Program File folder.
• Some pixilated corruption may be observed while running the game Prey while hovering over the health packs from a distance on some hardware configurations running Win XP.
• The system may become unresponsive and require a reboot while randomly moving Video Player window from primary to extended desktop under certain hardware configurations where the second adapter is an ATi Radeon X1200/1250/1270 series of product.
• When operated from the Start Menu->All Programs->Catalyst Control Center, the Catalyst Control Center fails to display the expected choices "Catalyst Control Center->Wizard" and "Catalyst Control Center->Advanced" on some hardware configurations.

[break]De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
ATi Catalyst 7.4 voor Windows XP (32-bit)
ATi Catalyst 7.4 voor Windows XP MCE
ATi Catalyst 7.4 voor Windows XP (64-bit)
ATi Catalyst 7.4 voor Windows Vista (32-bit)
ATi Catalyst 7.4 voor Windows Vista (64-bit)[break]

Versienummer	7.4
Besturingssystemen	Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows XP Media Center 2005, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64
Website	Amd
Download	http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Licentietype	Freeware

Reacties (49)

[HanZwo]

Mijn ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 in mn Asus M6Ne schijnt ook niet compatible te zijn met deze catalyst (de Mobile versie dan), terwijl die wel ondersteund wordt volgens het artikel... Vaag

[bennovb]

The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to launch under Windows Vista.

ben benieuwd
erg vervelend dat dit in vorige releases niet functioneerde, heb de diverse voorgestelde oplossingen geprobeerd in Vista Home Premium 32bits maar niets hielp
ik hoop dat nu wel alle extra opties voor mij beschikbaar zijn

[icegodd]

CCC werkt weer voor geen meter .
vista WOOW wat een fout aankoop

[Verwijderd]

Omdat CCC niet willen werken onder (jou) Vista zeg je maar gelijk dat Vista fout is .
Dat slaat nergens op imo.

[maartena]

Vista werkte bij mij alleen niet in 7.1

Vanaf versie 7.2 heeft het CCC altijd prima gewerkt.

[Verwijderd]

Bij mij werkte het niet op een versie installatie. Maar deze is wel te starten met de volgende work-around.
Start->Alle programma's->Catalyst Control Center->Runtime opnieuw starten (uitvoeren als Administrator).
Even wachten.
Start->Andere gebruiker
Je eigen gebruikersaccount weer kiezen.
En nu kun je het CCC wel starten.
Althans dit werkte voor mij.

[Verwijderd]

Ik heb hetzelfde probleem (CCC start niet op Vista x86) gehad en heb het opgelost met de volgende acties:

- catalyst uninstall
- reboot
- windows installeert nu automatisch de default ATI driver (dit is de standaard bij vista geleverde catalyst driver). Dit is de driver die het probleem veroorzaakt. Uninstall deze middels apparaatbeheer.
- installeer nieuwe catalyst driver
- reboot en klaar

[Ramon]

Dit werkt idd, bedankt!

[Wildfire]

Ik ben ook benieuwd... zit nu nog noodgedwongen op de 7.1 drivers omdat 7.2 en 7.3 niet echt lekker werkten qua CCC. Eens kijken vanavond of 7.4 weer wel wil.

[Snake]

Voor mobile, om voorbij dat stomme verificatieprogramma te geraken:

http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

[savale]

Thanx, maar vrees dat mijn X700 mobile in mijn asus a6va nog steeds niet gaat werken (werkt niet meer vanaf 6.11)

[Klojum]

Jouw Asus A6Va moet prima kunnen werken met je X700, want de mijne doet dat ook. Bijgewerkt tot/met v7.3, en de 7.4 zal zich denk ik ook wel goed gedragen.

Misschien de oude drivers uninstallen, rebooten naar de default ATI-driver, en dan de nieuwste 7.4 installeren?

[savale]

weet je zeker dat je een a6va hebt? Zo ja: windows xp / vista? en hoe heb je dat voor elkaar gekregen? vanaf de 6.11 versie werkt hier niks meer

[paragon]

Dis is voor xp is er ook een vista versie zonder verificatie of is dat standaard al zo?

[Verwijderd]

Iemand een link voor de mobile vista drivers?

[Snake]

Lees de eerste post in dit nieuwsbericht

[Zer0]

Die linkt naar de mobile XP drivers...

[Verwijderd]

Idd,

Ik kon de 7.2 driver nog wel installeren voor mijn Mobility FireGL (IBM Thinkpad T43p), maar sindsdien kan ik precies niet meer updaten... Ik draai Windows Vista Business 32-bit.

[dirkjesdirk]

Ja, shit. Ik zit al te zoeken hoe ik bij de mobile vista drivers kom. Iemand een rechtstreekse link a la http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

[Verwijderd]

Ja, heeft al iemand iets gevonden? ik heb zelf een inspiron 6400 met een X1400.. maar zij blijven erg achter met de drivers...

[dirkjesdirk]

hier idem met een 6400 x1400

[Bra1niac]

Installeren van 7.4 ging probleemloos: gewoon voor "update" gekozen. Ik had catalyst 7.2 en die werkte goed onder Vista premium 32 bit. Alleen OpenGL was zeer matig; mijn x1950 pro had grote moeite met Quake4. Draait nu wel soepel. Gaat de goede kant op met de vista drivers!

[Verwijderd]

Gisteren teruggegaan naar XP

Ik ga eens kijken of het onder Vista nu wel werkt. Zitten hier ook de WDM drivers in?

[Arnaud]

Ik ben ook heel benieuwd of (en wanneer) er WDM drivers uitkomen. Ik heb een Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder en zou heel graag ook TV kunnen kijken onder Vista.

[Bong_Marley]

Iets waar ik me een aantal weken al gruwelijk aan heb geirriteerd is het volgende:

Windows Vista Drivers for Mobility Radeon™ Products

The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s):
* Mobility Radeon™ X2300
* Mobility Radeon™ X1900
* Mobility Radeon™ X1800
* Mobility Radeon™ X1700
* Mobility Radeon™ X1600
* Mobility Radeon™ X1450
* Mobility Radeon™ X1400
* Mobility Radeon™ X1350
* Mobility Radeon™ X1300
* Mobility Radeon™ X850
* Mobility Radeon™ X800
* Mobility Radeon™ X700
* Mobility Radeon™ X600
* Mobility Radeon™ X550
* Mobility Radeon™ X300
* Mobility Radeon™ 9800
* Mobility Radeon™ 9700
* Mobility Radeon™ 9600
* Windows Vista 32bit Edition
* Windows Vista 64bit Edition

Mobility Radeon™ Support for Windows Vista

Currently AMD does not provide any driver support for Mobility Radeon™ products. All driver and technical support for Mobility Radeon™ products is provided by the original laptop or notebook manufacturer. The drivers that are available for download at ati.amd.com are for desktop products only.

To download Windows Vista Mobility Radeon™ drivers or driver updates for your laptop or notebook product, please visit your laptop or notebook manufacturer's website.

Ik begrijp werkelijk waar niet waarom ze tot deze keuze zijn gekomen Mijn performance onder windows vista 32 bit is nog steeds belabberd en als ik moet wachten op een update van mijn laptop fabrikant...

Als ze dit puur en alleen doen omdat het teveel werk is om de .inf file (Installation INF for the ATI display driver) voor al die verschillende kaarten bij te houden, dan moet ATI zich diep schamen!!! Als Omega het in zijn eentje kan waarom een multinational dan niet?

Ik begrijp goed dat de eigenlijke verantwoordelijkheid bij de laptop fabrikanten ligt. Maar de realiteit is dat er maar bar weinig ooit de moeite nemen om video drivers te updaten. Als ik alleen aangewezen zou zijn op deze drivers (gelukkig komt omega met vista drivers op de proppen) komt het er feitelijk op neer dat ik, omdat het meestal oudere drivers zijn die ze "aanbieden, mijn product niet ten volste kan benutten (aangezien de performance gain met een nieuwe set drivers aanzienlijk kan zijn.) En ik wil wel waar voor mijn geld!

Ondanks de lakse houding van laptop fabrikanten (wat ook niet goed te praten valt) laat ATI laat met deze beslissing een grote groep gebruikers in de kou staan. Want ook ATI weet dat de support van laptop fabrikanten nou niet bepaald oke is. Het enige positieve aan dit besluit is misschien dan ook dat laptop fabrikanten nou eindelijk eens gestimuleerd worden om dit toch eens bij te gaan houden.

...Ik heb al vele mailtjes naar medion gestuurd hierover, maar altijd hetzelfde antwoord gekregen: ze komen nog wel

/edit

Dit vond ik als reactie van Admin Zardon (driversheaven.net) op het mobility support probleem voor windows vista:

Now. With regards to this specific problem, this is in fact quite a grey area, and ill try to briefly explain. When AMD/ATI create a card, this product is then used in various forms within OEM laptops. meaning dell, alienware, etc etc.

When this happens AMD/ATI are licensed into an agreement and a part of this agreement is that the particular laptop maker develops the drivers for their machines. When I say "develops", I specifically mean, they modify them to work on their own hardware configurations. If AMD/ATI allowed everyone to install drivers on ATI powered laptops from their own reference drivers then issues can arise with hotkeys and detailed functionality specific to that laptop maker. Some people, namely enthusiasts like yourself would be happy losing some functionality for updated drivers, but many wouldn't and then ATI would be dealing with unhappy Dell owners (for example).

Trust me I have spoken to several people in ATI about this and it not as clear cut as you might think, it is primarily the responsibility of the laptop maker to supply you with up to date drivers and the only way people are going to rectify this is to continually email or call the laptop makers support line. This way they will know that their end users are not happy with poor support and outdated drivers.

This is why we made the mobility modder for ATI mobility drivers, and while ATI never offically support it, in private circles they like the option that people using ATI GFX can update their own drivers without holding them (or the OEM) responsible.

...thought u might like to know.

Maar waarom is dit dan niet doorgevoerd bij XP? Dezelfde reden zou toch ook toepasbaar moeten zijn...

[Magnolia]

http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

[SiGNe]

Dat zijn helaas nog de oude 7.1 drivers, Omega brengt helaas niet meer elke maand een update uit.
Erg jammer want ik denk dat heel veel mensen liever de omegadrivrs gebruiken dan de officiele.

[breadje]

Ik dacht dat er wel geprobeerd ging worden weer een omega release te doen voor 7.4. Overigens duurt het nu ook zo lang omdat de package van de omega drivers veranderd gaat worden volgens de website van de maker. Misschien dat er in de loop van de tijd dus weer wel regelmatige updates komen.

[SiGNe]

Volgens mij is het aangepast bij de versie 7.1, die ziet er in elk geval wel iets anders uit dan de oude versies
Overlay ziet er in elk geval anders uit..

[sjaakaq]

Heeft het eigenlijk enig nut om de drivers van een 9600XT te upgraden, speel er sowieso alleen Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 op ?

[Countess]

nope geen enkele waarschijnlijk.
dus zeker als je geen problemen hebt gewoon blijven bij de drivers die je hebt.