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New Features
Catalyst™ 8.6 introduces the following new features:
OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support
OpenGL CrossFireX™ (QUAD) support - 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire™ mode
Catalyst Install enhancement - No reboot required after Catalyst upgrade install
OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support
This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support for OpenGL applications for the ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of products. Using the Edge Detect Custom Filter, users can enable 12X and 24X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 4X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 12X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 8X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 24X Anti-Aliasing.
OpenGL CrossFireX™ (QUAD) support - 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire™ mode
This release of Catalyst™ introduces CrossFireX™ QUAD support for OpenGL applications. Users with any combination of a ATI Radeon™ HD 3870, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850, and ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 graphics accelerators running with 3 or 4 GPUs will be able to run in CrossFireX™ QUAD mode (when used in a CrossFireX™ compatible PC).
Users are also able to run in CrossFireX™ QUAD mode while running in extended desktop mode on the Windows Vista desktop.
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Note: This feature is supported under Windows Vista only
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Catalyst Install enhancement - No reboot required after Catalyst upgrade install
This release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst installer. Users are no longer required to reboot their system after Catalyst has finished installing (as long as the installation is an upgrade from a previous Catalyst install).
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.
3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
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
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Note: The latest GPU client supports the ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of products only.
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Enter the ATI team number 51394 and start folding!
For more information on Folding@Home visit: http://ati.amd.com/technology/stream...g/folding.html
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
Bioshock: Corruption is no longer noticed in the water's reflection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35077
Call of Duty 4: Enabling AA no longer results in intermittent corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35072
Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599
Crysis: Playing a DX10 version of the game no longer results in flickering being noticed within the bushes and on the trees when the in-game advanced setting are set to low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35074
Frontlines: Fuel of War: Flickering and corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series of product when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35067
Guitar Hero III: Shadows are no longer seen in the middle-bottom portion of the display where the music score is located. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35071
Lost Planet: Running the cave test on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product no longer results in low FPS values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35073
Sins of a Solar Empire: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing either an ATI Radeon™ X1xx0 or 9700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35068
Stalker: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the clear sky failing to scale properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35070
Unreal Tournament 3: Scaling is now functioning when using 24 or more bots when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35069
Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569
The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
Inconsistent behavior is no longer noticed in the Catalyst™ Control Center when clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32610
Shared applications are no longer removed after selecting Restore desktop when virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611
Certain benchmark applications no longer report lower benchmark scores with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33464
Hot-plugging an HDTV to an HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst™ Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34323
The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34123
Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34150
Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34151
Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center reporting the connector type as component. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35026
Connecting an HDTV using the Component Video connector no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center (Basic View) failing to respond when switching to HDTV only mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35029
Catalyst Control Center: Selecting the User Windows Display Language setting no longer results in the incorrect language being selected in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35030
A Catalyst Control Center Host Application error message is no longer displayed when performing a fast user switch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35031
Changing the saturation value found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV-Avivo page no longer results in the new values failing to take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35036
Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to respond when disabling the primary display device and attempting to set the secondary display device as the primary. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35039
The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to respond when modifying or assigning any hotkey in Hotkeys Manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34416
Enabling and disabling GPU Scaling no longer results in some of the supported display resolutions no longer being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35047
Hot-plugging an HDTV using the HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35048
Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
Hot-plugging an HDTV to the HDMI port no longer results in the LCD failing to display an image when hot-unplugging the HDTV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35052
Playing a Blu-Ray DVD title using WinDVD 8.1 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35064
Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device being detected as a DVI display device resolving the audio out issue. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35065
The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35066
Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) intermittently failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
The Catalyst Control Center version number no longer fails to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center 737-28493
Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35075
Hot-plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to detect the correct setting of the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35076
The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive™ option 737-30584
Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the TV failing to display an image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33466
Hot swapping a display device to the second DVI connector no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35078
Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35079
Corruption may be noticed when resuming a second time during the playback of a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35080
Seeking several times when playing an MPEG4 files using WinDVD no longer results in the video become 4 small videos windows within the playback screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35081
Enabling Closed Captioning no longer results in a green line at left side and bottom of the text being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35082
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
Call of Duty 4: Intermittent flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled on a systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35092
Lost Planet: Switching from the game to the Windows XP desktop and then back to the game no longer results in corruption being noticed within the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35091
The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
The ATI OpenGL driver no longer fails to be applied on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ 3600/3650 AGP series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33467
Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34116
The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34113
Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34120
Connecting an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3100/3200 series of product no longer results in the display failing to be detected as a DTV(HDMI) in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35083
The scaling option no longer changes from Full Screen to Centered after setting Extended desktop mode using the Quick Launch Buttons or FN+F4. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35084
Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
Audio no longer fails when dragging the InterWinDVD or the Windows Media Player window to the extended desktop display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35085
The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond after completing the installation of the display driver for a second ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product inserted into the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35086
CrossFire™ can no longer be enabled/disabled when running full screen D3D applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35087
A warning message no longer fails to be displayed when reaching the maximum number of modes in the Predefined and Custom HDTV modes section of the Catalyst Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33468
Adjusting the flicker removal in the TV properties of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35088
The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35089
Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the Asian game WOW when using certain in game options. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35090
Installing two ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product into a system running Windows XP no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when attempting to enable CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35093
Installing the Catalyst Control Center on a previously installed version no longer 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 737-28513
Anti-Aliasing no longer becomes disabled after minimizing and restoring any OpenGL window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35094
The CrossFire™ tab is no longer missing when using two ATI Radeon™ X19x0 series of products in a system running Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35095
The display mode of 1776x1000 is now listed in both the Catalyst Control Center and the operating system's display properties. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35096
Connecting a 1080p display device followed by playing h.264 interlaced content no longer results in a slight jitter and frame drops being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35097
Playing an interlaced MPEG2 file no longer results in a grey hue being noticed on the bottom of the playback window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35098
Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35099
Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35100
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. These include:
Unreal Tournament 3: Changing the in-game display resolution no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33470
The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer fails to resume from VPU Recover. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35101
The CrossFire™ option is no longer greyed out after closing OpenGL applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35102
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