ATI CATALYST 4.7 (7.7.2004)

[kloten]

Display Driver

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-...0a-016126c.exe

Control Panel

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/control-...0a-016126c.exe

WDM Capture driver

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/tv-captu...14-10-6240.exe


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Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues
This section provides information on CATALYST™ driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following:


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

Resolved Game Issues
This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following:


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

[flash]

Fixed in this driver:

Display corruption is no longer seen when rotating the primary desktop 90 degrees or 180 degrees under Windows 2000 with extended desktop enabled
Display corruption is no longer seen when running the ATI demo Dolphin v1.1 with the Truform option set to Application Preference
The operating system no longer fails to respond when doing a monitor swap while running an overlay image on the secondary display
Rotating a display of 1024x768 60Hz followed by entering standby mode no longer results in display corruption being seen briefly when resuming
Using the ATI icon in the system tray or using a hotkey stroke to rotate the display image no longer results in the operating system intermittently failing to respond for approximately 90 seconds
Playing a DVD with DXVA enabled and attempting to rotate the display 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
Moving an OpenGL window around the Windows desktop no longer results in the operating system intermittently failing to respond
While playing the game Halo, under certain conditions, images that should be hidden behind solid foreground objects are no longer showing through
Starting a game of Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9000 PRO installed and the display set to 1024x768 and the graphics quality set to high no longer results in flickering textures
Display corruption is no longer seen when using particular air craft in "Century of Flight" games found in Flight Simulator 2004
Textures are now applied correctly in the game Silent Storm when setting the resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and the quality option set to high
Enabling AF to 8x and running the game Battlefield Vietnam with the graphics set to high and the display set to 1280x1024 32bpp no longer results in display corruption being seen at a certain point of the game
The display menu for the game 4x4 EVO 2 is now available when the rotation option is used to set the display to 180 degrees
Circular grid corruption is no longer seen when launching World Fables under Windows XP with Anti-Aliasing enabled at 4X
The Windows XP operating system no longer intermittently fails to respond when restarting the game Homeworld 2
Adobe Gamma and other colour calibration software now have the ability to adjust their independent gamma values. Note: In certain situations when closing the application, the default desktop gamma is not restored.
The wireframe in edit UVWs is now drawn correctly after zooming in on an object in 3ds max
Running Solidworks 2004 under Windows XP and dragging the grapicstest2004.sldprt window to a secondary display no longer results in the planes being highlighted after the mouse is moved off the plane
The Solidworks 2004/SP3 application no longer fails to respond when opening the shaderstest.sldasm test with Real View enabled
Enabling extended desktop followed by setting the display resolution to 1280x1024 on the secondary display adapter no longer results in the application ProEngineer terminating

[: PRASoR :]

.... ty howadsky vovladace maj 30 mega .. uz vidim, jak za rok budem tahat 50 .. holt postavim modemek

[Jendo]

.... ty howadsky vovladace maj 30 mega .. uz vidim, jak za rok budem tahat 50 .. holt postavim modemek

Keby len 50MB, podla doterajšieho vývoja to vyzerá na ovela viac....
Ja som už na DSL takže pre mňa no problem, ale keď si vzpomeniem na dial-up modem tak..

[: PRASoR :]

.... ty howadsky vovladace maj 30 mega .. uz vidim, jak za rok budem tahat 50 .. holt postavim modemek

Keby len 50MB, podla doterajšieho vývoja to vyzerá na ovela viac....
Ja som už na DSL takže pre mňa no problem, ale keď si vzpomeniem na dial-up modem tak..

.... mi ani nemluf .. asponze to f praci zachranuje 2megova lajna dyz uz nic a mezitim snad neco sezenu i nadoma .... kazdopadne sem na tenhle kousek zvedavej, pac mi pride, mozna jen subjektivne, ze dicky vylezou good cataky po 2-3 mezikusech ....

[Spajdr]

User Defined Component Video HDTV Modes
The CATALYST 4.5 driver provided a new interface that allows users to define the optimized modes for their HDTV's. This allows for images to be properly centered on their HDTV. The interface allows users specify a mode through a test window. Once the user saves this information, it will be saved as a user defined preference. This feature was not available in 4.5 and is now enabled.

OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for ATI Rotation
OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for ATI Rotation Mode. This feature is supported across the current shipping ATI Desktop product line, and is supported under both Windows XP, and Windows 2000.

Performance Improvements
As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:

Pixel Shader compiler improvements bring significant performance gains to PS 2.0 applications such as Halo (2-3%), Tomb Raider (4-5%) and Mother Nature (4-5%). ShaderMark 2 shows numerous gains in the 3-6% range. The High Dynamic Range scenes in ShaderMark (Tests 20 & 21) gain 10-15%.
RADEON X800 driver tuning improves performance for several Vertex-Shader-heavy tests. For example, Battle of Proxycon, Troll's Lair and Mother Nature gain 9-15% on the RADEON X800 PRO.
Improvements in our surface allocation and texture management code have increased performance for resource-challenged cases. Re-Volt scores improve 25% at 1600x1200 across several RADEON configurations. ShaderMark Test 14 (Veined Marble) improves dramatically (up 380% at 1600x1200) on some 256MB products.
Improvements in OpenGL driver efficiency bring numerous small gains (1-3%) in Call of Duty, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Star Trek - Elite Force II, Serious Sam, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake III Arena.
X800 memory tuning improves Anti-Aliasing performance in a number of games and benchmarks. For example, at 4xAA, 3DMark2001 gains 4-7%, UT2003 Antalus and Asbestos Flybys improve 2-7%, and the CodeCreatures score rises 15%.

[Spajdr]

hehe .. což to bych mohl dát v battle of proxycon přes 100fps .. uvidíme

[Jezyn]

už opravili to brightnes v openGL ?

[Spajdr]

už opravili to brightnes v openGL ?

Myslím že né, podle toho co čtu.

Regarding Desktop Gamma:
Also stated in the release notes, that desktop gamma is not always restored correctly coming out of games. They are working on it, and it's taking longer to fix than anticipated, since gamma is actually pervasive throughout all the drivers (gl, 2d, d3d, mm, etc...), and you can't just "fix it". We need to come up with a significant change in how gamma works in the drivers, and then apply this everywhere. It will take some more time to get the right fix in there. Sorry. (od sirerica z ATI)

[bigbalu]

má je smysl stahovat, zvýší se mi nějak výkon nebo kvalitka obrazu?

Kdo je testoval, může napsat výsledek oproti CAL 4.5

[Champion]

pockam na Dna 4.6 tie mi idu naj....

[zimik]

Dosiahol som s nimi -800 bodov v 3dm01 . - 11200
Omega 4.5 -12000

približne, takže spáť na omegy

[Kankal]

.... ty howadsky vovladace maj 30 mega .. uz vidim, jak za rok budem tahat 50 .. holt postavim modemek

Samotný ovladače mají 9,18 mega, dalších 13,6 má Control Panel a 4,16 WDM Capture driver. Dá se to stáhnout zvlášť odsud:

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/w...0&submit=GO%21

to all: Pořád čekám, až to vyzkouší víc lidí (s 9700), ale zatím se do toho moc nehrnete

[bigbalu]

.... ty howadsky vovladace maj 30 mega .. uz vidim, jak za rok budem tahat 50 .. holt postavim modemek

Samotný ovladače mají 9,18 mega, dalších 13,6 má Control Panel a 4,16 WDM Capture driver. Dá se to stáhnout zvlášť odsud:

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/w...0&submit=GO%21

to all: Pořád čekám, až to vyzkouší víc lidí (s 9700), ale zatím se do toho moc nehrnete

právě že na to taky čekám

[Loque]

Veď v tych ovladacoch su spominane len same display corruption. Zase nič poriadne, jedine stoji za zmienku ta oprava v HALO ale inak nic. Ze by opravili mrznutie Painkillera s R8500 to nie, oni všetko opravia, až ked mam tu hru uz 3x prejdenu, loseri. A na vykon sa budu sustredovat uz len ne X800 a na starsie karty sa uz klasicky zabudne...

[Champion]

Veď v tych ovladacoch su spominane len same display corruption. Zase nič poriadne, jedine stoji za zmienku ta oprava v HALO ale inak nic. Ze by opravili mrznutie Painkillera s R8500 to nie, oni všetko opravia, až ked mam tu hru uz 3x prejdenu, loseri. A na vykon sa budu sustredovat uz len ne X800 a na starsie karty sa uz klasicky zabudne...

Jo a co si cakal ze bude vyrabat ovladace na stare karty ??

[bigbalu]

Veď v tych ovladacoch su spominane len same display corruption. Zase nič poriadne, jedine stoji za zmienku ta oprava v HALO ale inak nic. Ze by opravili mrznutie Painkillera s R8500 to nie, oni všetko opravia, až ked mam tu hru uz 3x prejdenu, loseri. A na vykon sa budu sustredovat uz len ne X800 a na starsie karty sa uz klasicky zabudne...

Jo a co si cakal ze bude vyrabat ovladace na stare karty ??

no ale sem tak by se jim věnovat mohli ne?

[Spec]

Catalyst 4.7 jsou venku:

Win2K
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/w...=16&submit.y=8


WinXP
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/w...x=6&submit.y=2

[bigbalu]

zkoušel už je někdo?

[Mymak]

ja uz je mam nahozeny ... ale necekejte od mne nejaky zavery - nedelam uz delsi dobu zadny testy ani benchmarky, a gamesy taky moc nehraju ... proste jen musim mit vzdycky "latest drivers"

[Moralles]

řekl bych že obraz v 2D je o dost lepší.

[bigbalu]

řekl bych že obraz v 2D je o dost lepší.

na PCT měli připomínky k tomu, že je prý vypadávají textury ve FARCRY, setkal se s něčím podobným někdo?

[Dusan]

řekl bych že obraz v 2D je o dost lepší.

na PCT měli připomínky k tomu, že je prý vypadávají textury ve FARCRY, setkal se s něčím podobným někdo?

Myslím že se povedli nárust bodů v 3D Marku 2001 i 2003. Hry plynulé a Far Cry jsem hrál sice jen k druhé větší přestřelce a textury v pohodě.Bylo by škoda kdyby se to nějak pokazilo! Kde mají ty textury vypadávat.

[bigbalu]

řekl bych že obraz v 2D je o dost lepší.

na PCT měli připomínky k tomu, že je prý vypadávají textury ve FARCRY, setkal se s něčím podobným někdo?

Myslím že se povedli nárust bodů v 3D Marku 2001 i 2003. Hry plynulé a Far Cry jsem hrál sice jen k druhé větší přestřelce a textury v pohodě.Bylo by škoda kdyby se to nějak pokazilo! Kde mají ty textury vypadávat.

jo to nevím kde, ale prý se to děje. No zřejmě bylo něco jiného špatně, asi je taky vyzkouším

[zimik]

Nikde som nenašiel riešenie na môj dotaz, ktorý som dával aj do sekcie hry tak ho dám aj sem:

Od Catalyst 4.4 mi pri hre Africa corps vs Desert Rats zobrazuje textúry na vozidlách tmavé - nevidno farebné znaky na bokoch. Neviete čím to je. Jediné ovládače kde to nerobili boli Omegy na báze cat. 4.4.


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