ΑΤΙ Catalyst drivers 3.2

[MY80-]

Performance Improvements

As with most CATALYST releases, the performance has increased in many various situations. Here are some examples observed in CATALYST version 3.2.

 

CATALYST 3.2 corrects a problem with 2D applications running in the background that can cause a momentary reduction in framerate (i.e."stuttering") in fullscreen Direct3D and OpenGL games. Specific instances of "stuttering" have also been addressed (e.g. Rallisport Challenge when the sun enters or exits the scene).

Dungeon Siege framerates are improved as much as 24% across multiple products, especially when running at higher resolutions.

Framebuffer read-back performance has improved dramatically (500% or more) in CATALYST3.2. This feature allows an application to retrieve a fully rendered frame from the graphics adapter and manipulate it or store it in the system RAM or on the hard disk.

Vertex Shader performance has improved dramatically (as much as 100% in some situations) for our DX8.1-class products such as RADEON 8500, 9000 and 9100. This brings significant gains to Vertex Shader intensive scenes such as the Battle of Proxycon and the Troll's Lair (both up 15-25% on RADEON 9000 PRO).

 

Fixed in this driver:

Display Driver

Playing a video using the RealOne Player no longer results in display corruption and an error message being displayed by the RealOne Player

Running the game Combat Flight Simulator 3 with 4x Anti-Aliasing enable no longer results in texture corruption being displayed.

Running the demo ATI-9700-NPRHatching with Anti-Aliasing enabled at 2x and the display set to 1024x768 32bpp no longer results in corruption being displayed on screen

Selecting D3D 8.1 renderer in Nascar 2003 followed by selecting Replay Studio in the main menu no longer results in the car having missing textures.

Setting the display to 1024x768 32bpp followed by changing the AGP speed from 8x to 4x no longer results in the AGP speed not retaining its setting

Setting the Hardware Acceleration slider to None no longer results in a reboot of the system and the settings not being retained

A reboot is no longer required when making changes to the Wait for Vertical Sync under the ATI Direct3D Tab

Running the game Myth 3 with the display set to 1600x1200 and Full Screen Anti-Aliasing set to 2x no longer results in corruption being displayed when entering the Save game screen window

Running the application There no longer results in segmentation violation occurring when Pbuffer is enabled in the application

Selecting a Daytona single race in the game Nascar 2003 beta with OpenGL enabled no longer results in the system not responding.

Running the OpenGl test found in Nascar 2003 Beta no longer results in the system not responding.

Running the 3D Winbench 2000 v1.1 Quality test for Anisotropic and Linear Mipmap Anisotropic no longer reports the tests as Not Capable.

The Windows 2000 display driver no longer requires two reboots of the system to load

Connecting a TV and enabling the TV as a secondary CRT with the display set to 1024x768 16bpp no longer results in the DVD overlay not being displayed on either the CRT or the LCD

The 3D Pipes (OpenGL) screen saver no longer renders incorrectly in preview mode when the display is set to 16bpp and FSAA is enabled

Setting the display to 1024x768 32bpp and setting the TRUFORM option to Application Preference in the ATI OpenGL tab no longer results in the game Myth III not responding

Switching between OTM Theatre Mode Settings in Clone Mode Options no longer results in the apply button not becoming active

Setting the display to 1024x768 32bpp and enabling Anti-aliasing to 4x and running the game Harry Potter II no longer results in the system not responding

 

Known Issues

The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of CATALYST.

 

Playing the game SimCity 4 with the display set to 1024x768 32bpp and Anti-aliasing 4x enabled results in the system not responding

Playing *.rm files using the RealPlayer with Overlay Theater Mode enabled results in screen corruption being displayed on a secondary CRT

Running 3DMark 03 Pro with the display set to 1024x768 32bpp and the refresh set to 75Hz results in a minor performance drop

3Dmark2003 GT4 runs a little slower than expected on certain chipsets where AGP writes are disabled. A future CATALYSTwill resolve this and provide a higher benchmark score

Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 may hang when using High Quality setting in the video quality selector. This is a known issue for the RADEON 7500. Try lowering your video quality slider

 

[privateer]

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[ChrisAce]

Όποιος δεν θέλει να ψάξει στο site της ATI και έχει 9700pro & winxp ας τα κατεβάσει απο ΕΔΩ

ή αν θέλει να διαλέξει το λειτουργικό σύστημα και ποιά κάρτα ATI έχει ας πάει ΕΔΩ

[pyro]

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[MY80-]

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[ChrisAce]

MY8O$ σε παρακαλώ πές μου αξίζει να τους κατεβάσω και να τους εγκαταστήσω, και αν ναι απο πού; Δέν ξέρω γρή απο γερμανικά.

[MY80-]

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[IKARIWTHS]

mythos,arxhge exw directx8,1 kai radeon 9000pro mhpws mporeis na mou peis pious catalyst axizei na xrhsimopoiw?endiaferome se epidwseis sto dx8,1 pada.