Advanced Micro Devices heeft op de valreep nog een twaalfde editie van zijn Catalyst-release voor dit jaar voor de ATi Radeon-videokaarten uit weten te brengen. De driver is beschikbaar voor Windows 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 beschikbare downloads staan. Deze release bevat de gebruikelijke lange lijst met verbeteringen en een verzameling van problemen die reeds bekend zijn, maar waar de oplossing nog niet voor is meegeleverd. De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar, daaronder zijn de release notes te vinden voor versie 7.12 van de Catalyst-drivers:
- ATi Catalyst 7.12 voor Windows XP (32bit)
- ATi Catalyst 7.12 voor Windows XP (64bit)
- ATi Catalyst 7.12 voor Windows XP (Media Center Edition)
- ATi Catalyst 7.12 voor Windows Vista (32bit)
- ATi Catalyst 7.12 voor Windows Vista (64bit)
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating SystemResolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
- Call of Duty: Enabling Super AA and CrossFire no longer results in the game failing to respond when the player dies.
- Combat Mission: Shock Force Demo v1.02: Setting the ATI left-click compatibility option to off and starting a new battle no longer results in the game failing to respond when clicking the left mouse button on various options within the game.
- Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game.
- Crysis: The ice level is no longer too bright which was making the game nonplayable.
- Dark Messiah, Might and Magic, or Sin Episodes: Too much fog or incorrect fog no longer occurs during game play. This issue was known to occur on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2x00 series of product.
- El Matador: Shadow corruption is no longer noticed throughout the game.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Enabling Super AA and soft particles no longer results in corruption being noticed in the main menu and through-out game play.
- FEAR: The slow motion visual effects is now functioning.
- FlightSim X: Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product no longer results in the shadows being incorrect or failing to appear.
- Google Sketchupno longer fails to pan when AA is enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon X1300/1550/1600 series of product.
- GTA San Andreas: Enabling AA within the game and within the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the game failing to start.
- GTA: San Andreas: Enabling high quality settings within the game no longer results in Vsync loss, no video, or artifact corruption.
- Hellgate: MSAA is now working with the DX10 version of the game.
- Hellgate: Screen flashing or the game failing no longer occurs when attempting to start a multiplayer game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of product.
- Infernal: the game no longer fails when attempting to launch a new game.
- Lord of the Rings Return of the King: The game background no longer flashes when CrossFire is enabled.
- Lost Planet: Setting the in-game options to maximum along with AA ste to 2x and AF set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when CrossFiore is enabled.
- Quake 4: Enabling CrossFire and setting the in game options to 1600x1200 and AA to 4x no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- The Sims 2: Flickering and corruption are no longer noticed in certain areas of the game.
- World in Conflict: Setting the in-game AA option to 4x and running the benchmark no longer results in flickering being noticed.
- When running certain OpenGL samples, the ATI Radeon graphics adapter now runs at the requested clock values on a CrossFire configured system.
- Catalyst Control Center: German character are no longer truncated in the ProfileManager Applications tab.
- Connecting a secondary display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon x1200/1250/1270 series of product and enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in horizontal line corruption being noticed when using a high refresh rate and display resolution.
- Connecting a secondary display device no longer results in the Anisotropic Filtering option being missing for second adapter until the system is rebooted.
- Connecting a secondary display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon x1200/1250/1270 series of product and enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in horizontal line corruption being noticed when using a high refresh rate and display resolution.
- TV corruption is no longer noticed when using an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 series of product.
- Cyberlink: Playing an h.264 disk no longer results in corruption being noticed on the lower portion of the playback window.
- Playing an HD-DVD title using the Cyberlink player no longer results in corruption or the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond after a short period of playback time.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and dragging the media player window between the desktops no longer results in the playback stopping.
- Setting the frame buffer size to 256mb in the CMOS setup no longer results in the ATI graphics driver failing to be installed.
- The display no longer become white when resuming from an S4 state.
- The display no longer becomes white for several seconds before entering hibernation mode.
- Setting the display device to 1600x1200 75Hz no longer results in the HD DVD playback window appearing blank.
- TV corruption is no longer noticed when using an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 series of product.
- A black screen is no longer displayed at the DVD menu when using WinDVD8 to play a DVD title with DXVA enabled.
- Rotating the display device when playing a DVD using the WinDVD player no longer results in the display going blank.
- Connecting a display device via Component Video as the primary display device and a DFP as a secondary display device no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.
- Cyberlink: Playing an h.264 disk no longer results in corruption being noticed on the lower portion of the playback window.
- Disabling CrossFire no longer results in a secondary display device being out of range on the secondary ASIC.
- Installing two Radeon HD 2400 series of products into one system no longer results in the AA filter box failing to become greyed out when enabling CrossFire and setting AA to 8x.
- Playing an HD-DVD title using the Cyberlink player no longer results in corruption or the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond after a short period of playback time.
- Setting the display resolution to either 1776x1024 or 1920x1024 30i no longer results in the display devices failing to resume from an S3 state.
- The Cyberlink player no longer fails after playing interlaced VC1 video for a short period of time.
- Dithering is no longer noticed with MPEG2 playback.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and dragging the media player window between the desktops no longer results in the playback stopping.
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Call of Juarez: Enabling Super AA and CrossFire no longer results in corruption being noticed when playing the game.
- DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire enabled no longer results in the application failing to launch and an error message being displayed.
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Flickering is no longer noticed when SuperAA is enabled.
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Setting the in-game options to 2560x1600 and soft particles, along with AA to 8x in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- Globe 2.1: Corruption is no longer noticed during the introduction video when CrossFire is enabled.
- Loki demo: Launching the demo no longer results in the introduction movie failing to display.
- STALKER: Flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game with AA set to 4x and full dynamic lighting is enabled.
- STALKER: The operating system no longer fails when attempting to play the game with CrossFire enabled and all in-game options set to maximum.
- HD Audio is now working when setting the desktop resolution to 640x480@60Hz under the Windows XP operating system.
- Enabling CrossFire and entering hibernation mode no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.
- Hot un-plugging the DFP display device when clone mode is enable no longer results in the DFP display device still appearing in the Catalyst Control Center.
- HD-DVD content is no longer blocked over native HDMI when using the cyberlink player.
- Connecting an HDMI display device as the secondary display no longer results in extended desktop mode failing when attempting to apply it.
- Entering hibernation mode under Windows XP no longer results in the operating system hanging when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.
- CrossFire no longer fails to become disabled when hot unplugging the display device from the interlink dongle.
- Connecting a Dell 30" LDC display device to an ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of product no longer results in flashing or no display image.
- The 2D and 3D gamma no longer appears different when using the gamma calibration tool.
- Playing the online game TianLongBaBu for an extended period of time (2 hours or more) on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD2400 or HD2600 no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
- Rotating the display device and running a directX9 sample in full-screen mode no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- Disabling CrossFire no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting.
- Connecting a single display device to a secondary graphics adapter no longer results in extended desktop mode being applied.
- Disconnecting display device no longer results in the ability to enable the dis-connected display device within the Catalyst Control Center in a CrossFire configured system.
- Connecting a TV as the primary display device and setting the signal format to any PAL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the secondary display device when playing a media file using WinAmp or WinDVD.
- The Enable ATI Overdrive clocks for 3D applications only checkbox is now checked and grayed out when the OverDrive option in the Catalyst Control Center is unlocked.
- Corruption is no longer noticed when enabling Theater mode and enabling clone mode.
- Dragging the WinDVD player from the primary display to the secondary display no longer results in the player failing to respond. Further, closing the WinDVD player using the Task Manager may result in the operating system failing to respond.
- With some h.264 titles that have MPEG2 intros, playback no longer switches from hardware accelerated to software once the introductory content is finished.
- 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.
- DXVA is now in use when play H264/VC1 HD content on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of product.
- Enabling tiling on the secondary display device when Overlay Theater Mode is enable no longer result in corruption being noticed.
- Corruption is no longer noticed on the secondary display device when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled.
- Enabling clone mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on both display devices when Overlay Theater mode is enabled and the 3D screen saver becomes active.
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
- Prey: Corruption is no longer noticed when a player's face is two toned.
- Catalyst Control Center->OverDrive: The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer fails to resume from sleep mode when the ATI OverDrive page is active.
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
- 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.
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series of product no longer results in the game failing to the desktop when CrossFire is enabled.
- Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may result in the game failing to respond.
- Oblivion: Flickering may be noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire is enabled and AF is set to 16x.
- Oblivion: The game may fail or display corruption may be noticed when the game is minimized to desktop and then restored.
- Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum.
- World In Conflict: The game may fail to the Windows desktop when the display resolution is set to 1280x768 and AF is set to 16x.
- Resuming from an S3 state may result in a longer than expected time for the Windows Vista operating system to resume.
- Catalyst Control Center->OverDrive: The OverDrive setting are not retained for individual accounts.
- The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled.
- A green or black screen may be displayed when configuring MCE to ATSC mode.
- 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.
- 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.
- Connecting a secondary display device and enabling CrossFire, followed by disabling CrossFire no longer results in CrossFire pages in the Catalyst Control Center showing that it is enabled. Further information on
- The Catalyst Control Center version number may fail to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center.
- Performing an express install of the Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message being displayed when rebooting the system.
- A black window may be displayed when attempting to play a DVD title using WinDVD 7 when Overlay Theater Mode and clone mode is enabled.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the display resolution to 1280x800 or higher, followed by playing an HD-DVD using PowerDVD, may results in the HD-DVD title failing to play.
- Creating a secondary user account and switching from the secondary user account to the primary user account may result in CrossFire failing to be enabled.
- The color depth may change to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire for the first time.
- The Catalyst Control Center version number may fail to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center.
- Frame flipping may occur while playing certain VC-1 content titles.
- Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin may result in the Catalyst Control Center menu options no longer being visible.
- The Catalyst Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin.
- Installing the WDM driver on systems containing an ATI TV Tuner product and an ATI graphics adapter may result in the WDM driver failing to install.
- Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in the WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled.
- The color depth may change to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire for the first time.
- The Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive option.
- Connecting a secondary display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon x1200/1250/1270 series of product and enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in horizontal line corruption being noticed when using a high refresh rate and display resolution.
- Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios may result in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen.
- The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected.
- Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in the WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled.
- Resuming from hibernation mode with HDMI display connected may result in a black screen with only a mouse cursor being displayed.
- Setting the desktop resolution to 1600x1200 or greater may result in green pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product.
- The color depth may change to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire for the first time.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the display resolution to 1280x800 or higher, followed by playing an HD-DVD using PowerDVD, may results in the HD-DVD title failing to play.
- Dragging the player window to a secondary display while playing back HD content and moving it back to primary may result in blank player window.
- Frame flipping may occur while playing certain VC-1 content titles.
- Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh Verdana, School for Scoundrels using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed.
- Connecting a secondary display device and enabling clone mode may result in the inability of changing the display configuration when resuming from an S4 state.
- The OverDrive page may be grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks as may be displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire on systems containing and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version).
- Enabling CrossFire on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition product may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing.
- Connecting an HDMI display device as the primary and setting the display resolution to 1280x1024 may result in an error message when attempting to personalize the display settings.
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Call of Juarez: Setting the game level with Optimal Quality and high in-game settings may result in the game level being blank.
- 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.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon X850.
- Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may intermittently result in the game failing to respond.
- Star Wars Battlefront 2: Setting the in-game options as follows: Overall Quality to High, View Distance to 99, LOD Distance to 99 and Anti-Aliasing to 6x may result in the game's loading bar reaching the end but the game failing to start.
- 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.
- Installing the HDMI audio driver and the VIA audio chipset driver may results in a compatibility issue being noticed and a yellow exclamation mark showing up in the Sound, Video and Game Controllers.
- 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.
- Performing a fast user switch when running overfly.exe in Overlay Theater Mode may result in overfly.exe failing when switching back.
- Catalyst Control Center: Configuring a system with multi-adapters may result in an error message being displayed when running the Test Custom Clocks.
- Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled.
- Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank.
- The movement of pictures may not appear smooth under Excel (Office2007) when the color depth is set to 16bpp.
- The Catalyst Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin.
- The 3D aspect may appear blank when launching a second instance of the Catalyst Control Center.
- Performing an express install of the Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message being displayed when rebooting the system.
- The AVIVO TV controls are not available under the Windows Media Center Edition operating system.
- Setting the display resolution to 1440x900 or lower may result in corruption being noticed when playing a DVD title.
- The scaling function may fail under certain resolutions in the Catalyst Control Center.
- Setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024 and using PowerDVD to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title may result in corruption being noticed when using an ATI Radeon HD 2400 series of product.
- On certain products, changing display resolution while playing back High Definition content may results in instability. It is recommended to set appropriate resolution while playback is stopped.
- Cyberlink: Playing a DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 2400 series may result in corruption being noticed.
- Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled.
- The floppy drive may fail to read or write under Vista on Dell XPS410 system.
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- FAR CRY: Playing the game on a system running either the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows XP operating system may result in corruption being noticed when using an ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 series of products.
- Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed.
- The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled.
- Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed.
- For further information and general help on software driver installation, game issues, and more, visit ATI Customer Care.