Advanced Micro Devices heeft zojuist de zevende Catalyst-release van dit jaar voor zijn ATi Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht en deze logischerwijs dus versienummer 7.7 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. Onderaan deze posting zijn voor het gemak de directe links te vinden naar de pagina's waar de diverse downloads staan. In deze release is onder andere de performance in diverse velden van het spel Far Cry verbeterd op de ATi Radeon HD2400-, HD2600- en HD2900-modellen en is er natuurlijk weer een gebruikelijke hoeveelheid aan bugfixes voor een groot aantal spellen en applicaties. Welke dat precies zijn, kan in de release notes worden gevonden:
New FeaturesPerformance Improvements
- New Catalyst Control Center Avivo features
- 12X and 24X Anti-Aliasing support for the ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT and ATi Radeon HD 2600 Series
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
- The ATi Radeon HD2400, HD2600 and HD2900 (single and CrossFire) can see performance improvements of 13.2% or more in various Far Cry maps.
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
- Call of Juarez: Enabling AA no longer result in occasional corruption being noticed.
- Doom3: Flashing is no longer observed when loading the game, or during some of the cinematic, or during game play when Catalyst AI is disabled, AA is set to 8x, and CrossFire is enabled.
- Lost Planet: Corruption is no longer noticed after a short time period of game play.
- Monsters.Inc: Enabling DXVA no longer results in certain scenes being choppy.
- Pacific Fighters: Corruption is no longer noticed when enabling superAA.
- Prey: A blank screen is no longer displayed when trying to load game if AA is set to either 4x or 8x and filter wide tent is used.
- Quake 3 and 4: Resuming from a standby state no longer results in the display image appearing too bright.
- Quake 4: Playing the game with CrossFire enabled no longer results in corruption being noticed after a short time of game play.
- Playing a DVD under the Windows Vista operating system using the Windows Media Player no longer results in the DVD failing to play when switching between display devices using the hot-key function.
- The desktop shortcut to the Catalyst Control Center no longer disappears after performing a Windows Anytime Upgrade on some hardware configurations running Vista.
- Playing a DVD using the Windows Media Player and enabling subtitles no longer results in the playback of the DVD flashing.
- The button sizes found in the Catalyst Control Center (Japanese version) are no longer displayed as different sizes than the previous versions of the Catalyst Control Center.
- The Avivo preview video no longer appears blank when changing from extended desktop mode to single desktop mode.
- The SuperAA values found in the Catalyst Control Center->All Setting->3D aspect page are no longer reset to zero when rebooting the system.
- Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary display device no longer results in the display device failing to be selected in all of the aspect pages of the Catalyst Control Center where the Graphics Adapter drop down menu exists.
- The select a skin aspect page found in the Catalyst Control Center is now localized for all supported languages.
- Making changes to the Avivo aspect, but not applying the changes no longer results in OverDrive becoming unlocked.
- Capturing video to AVI format no longer results in the recording function failing to work.
- HDMI audio stutter is no longer heard when playing MPEG clip at certain resolutions on specific HDMI device.
- The display resolution of 2048x1536 60Hz. is now available within the Catalyst Control Center.
- The edges of the subtitles no longer appear transparent when playing a DVD using DVD 8.0 or Windows Media Player 11.
- Playing HD DVD content followed by attempting to hot unplug a display device and then hot-plugging the same display device to a different port no longer results in the HD DVD playback failing to resume.
- Catalyst Control Center: Attempting to change the Core clock settings within the OverDrive aspect no longer results in the new setting failing to be applied.
- Connecting two display devices and performing a mode change no longer results in the change taking an extraordinary long time to complete.
- Connecting a Lenovo 19" Wide Slim LCD display device to either an ATi Radeon HD 2600 or 2400 and setting the display resolution to 1440x900 60Hz. no longer results in an image failing to be displayed.
- The cancel button is now translated to Chinese-Traditional within the ATi Catalyst Install Manager.
- Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center->Avivio Basic aspect options failing to be applied when watching a DVD using either WinDVD or PowerDVD on the secondary display device.
- Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or 2048x1563 no longer results in line flicker being noticed when resizing the media player.
- Blinking video is no longer observed when using PowerDVD to playback 1080i content in the 30 FPS mode.
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
- Call of Duty 2: Setting the in-game resolution to 640x480 no longer results in visual static and interrupted audio during cinematic and within the menus.
- Google Earth: The fog is displayed in the image no longer has a checkered effect.
- Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide no longer exhibits missing textures on characters under some circumstances on some hardware configurations.
- Enabling CrossFire on a system containing the Radeon HD2900 XT no longer results in an error message and CrossFire not being enabled.
- Launching the release notes under the Japanese or Chinese version of Windows no longer results in the release notes displaying a blank page. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
- Pixilated corruption is no longer observed while running the game Prey while hovering over the health packs from a distance on some hardware configurations running Win XP.
- The system no longer become unresponsive when randomly moving the Video Player window from primary to extended desktop under certain hardware configurations. This issue was known to occur when the second adapter is an ATi Radeon X1200/1250/1270 series of product.
- Corruption is no longer noticed when playing certain DVD titles when hardware acceleration is enabled on ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT product.
- Connecting a TV using an S-video cable and a CRT display device using a dual VGA adapter cable no longer results in intermittent noise being observed when playing a video using the Windows Media Player or a DVD using PowerDVD.
- Playing a Blu-ray or HD-DVD no longer results in corruption being noticed if several application windows are open and the application windows are dragged around the desktop.
- Connecting an HDTV using the Component Video connector no longer results in a double image being noticed when pressing the ALT+Enter keys.
- Jittering is no longer noticed in cinepak video playback when using the Windows Media Player and having the desktop resolution set to 1280x1024 75Hz or higher.
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
- The default audio device may be set to ATi HD Audio after installation of the display driver for the ATi Radeon HD2900, HD2600, and HD2400. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
- 3DMark06: An error message may be displayed when running the application for an extended period of time (6-8 hours or more).
- City of Heroes: Attempting to play the game on a system with a dual link panel connected to it may result in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond.
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game may result in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond.
- Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may result in the game failing to respond.
- 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.
- Enabling CrossFire followed by disconnecting and then reconnecting the CRT display device may result in duplicate video options being seen within the Catalyst Control Center.
- 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.
- Enabling CrossFire followed by setting AA to 14x and AF to 16x may result in the AA showing a setting of 0x level when disabling CrossFire and unchecking the AA option in the 3D aspect.
- Making changes to the Color aspect found in the Catalyst Control Center without applying the changes may result in the Reactivate ATi color controls button remaining active after the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then re-launched.
- The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATi All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled.
- A blank screen may be displayed after unchecking all the Component Video formats except when the 480i30 custom mode is applied.
- Enabling CrossFire followed by setting the OverDrive clocks to their maximum settings may result in the Catalyst Control Center failing to accurately report the requested OverDrive values.
- A green or black screen may be displayed when configuring MCE to ATSC mode.
- Setting the Avivo Video De-interlacing setting to auto, motion adaptive or vector adaptive may result in certain DVDs, menu videos and some special features failing to benefit from the options.
- The Enable ATi OverDrive clocks for 3d applications may be available on non supported products such as the ATi Radeon HD 2600 series of product. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
- Performing an un-install of the display drivers on a CrossFire configured system may result in extended desktop mode becoming active resulting in all of the desktop icons failing to appear.
- Catalyst Control Center->3D->Anti-Aliasing: Unchecking the option to Use Application Setting found in the 3D aspect page when CrossFire is enabled may result in the maximum AA setting being 6x. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
- Performing either a custom or express install of the display driver may result in the system failing to respond and the installation of the driver failing. This issue is known to occur when using an ATi Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition product installed on in a system containing an Intel975 and nForce590.
- The 3D aspect may appear blank when launching a second instance of the Catalyst Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
- HDMI audio stutter may be heard when playing MPEG clip at certain resolutions on specific HDMI device.
- The color depth may change to 8bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire for the first time.
- Connecting a TV followed by removing the display resolution of 640x480 from the mode table may result in the both the TV and LCD failing to display an image.
- The Catalyst Control Center version number may fail to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center.
- Dragging player window to secondary display while playing back HD content and moving it back to primary may result in blank player window.
- Windows Media Player: Playing a DVD in full screen mode may result in vertical bar corruption being noticed during playback.
[break]De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
- City of Heroes: A fatal error message may be displayed when exiting the game and attempting to launch the Catalyst Control Center in Advanced mode.
- Star Wars knights of the Old Republic 2: Corruption may be seen when running the game when using an ATi Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series of products.
- 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.
- Connecting two display devices to an ATi Radeon X1600 series product may result in the device manager failing to detect the secondary display device.
- PowerDVD: Playing a DVD on a system containing an ATi Radeon HD 2400 series of product may result in missing pixels being noticed on the DVD menu selection.
- Catalyst Control Center: The CrossFire aspect may inadvertently be visible while in dual adapter mode.
- Installing the Catalyst Control Center on a previously installed version may results in a warning message that the setup is installing over an earlier version, and that the previous version needs to be uninstalled before installing a more current version, resulting in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be installed.
- On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher may result in screen flashing.
- On certain products, dragging player window from primary to secondary display no longer results in hardware acceleration being disabled which resulted in the CPU usage increasing.
- With some h.264 titles that have MPEG2 introductions; playback may switch from hardware accelerated to software once the introductory content is finished.
Ati Catalyst 7.7 voor Windows XP (32bit)
Ati Catalyst 7.7 voor Windows XP (64bit)
Ati Catalyst 7.7 voor Windows XP (MCE)
Ati Catalyst 7.7 voor Windows Vista (32bit)
Ati Catalyst 7.7 voor Windows Vista (64bit)[break]