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ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM
AMD has delivered its first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver designed for the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing)
ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:
• Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
• Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista graphics driver
• Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and AMD ATI Catalyst features on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Updates
The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center now features:
• A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
• Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7
The new ATI Catalyst™ Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows
Vista
ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7
• ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™
HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in
ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files
Performance Improvements:
Catalyst™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
• Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series
products
• Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on
the HD4800 series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System:
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
• Added support for OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
• Catalyst Control Center in some multi-display configurations Extend Desktop no longer causes the secondary display to become the primary display
• Catalyst Control Center, "Make Primary" option no longer fails to function in some "Extended Desktop" modes
• Opening Catalyst Control Center no longer results in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
• Catalyst Control Center, HDMI configuration aspects no longer fail to launch on some systems
• Catalyst Control Center hotkeys now toggle through all desktop modes
• Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
• Catalyst Control Center duplicated display options no longeer become available in some multi-adapter configurations
• Interlaced modes can now be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via
Catalyst Control Center
• Confirmation dialog box now appears when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the
resolution will be applied automatically
• Catalyst Control Center, add custom modes is now available in the Digital Panel HDTV
support page
• Catalyst Control Center Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window no longer blanks out
• Catalyst Control Center Overdrive Auto-Tune no longer stops responding on some CrossFire configurations
• Catalyst Control Center does not show a "System restart required ... " message for some multi adapter CrossFire configurations
• Catalyst Control Center an additional window no longer appears when running in Wizard
mode
• Catalyst Control Center tab is now available in advance Display Settings with Windows 7
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:
• Displays on some HDMI devices no longer fails to scale to the full display when running at resolutions greater than 1152 x 864
• A delay no longer occurs when resuming from sleep on some system configurations
• Systems no longer become unresponsive when entering sleep mode when running Google Eearth in Open GL mode
• Cyberlink Media Show Espresso no longer stops responding when transcoding some videos to WMV with hardware decode enabled
• Resolved frames drops when playing Blu-ray video with PowerDVD8
• Avivo video converter/transcoder generic image quality fixes
• Catalyst Control Center CrossFire configuration options now are displayed on subsequent system restart
• Disabling and re-enabling CrossFire no longer causes flickering on certain direct 3D applications running in full screen
• Cybelink Media Show Espresso no longer show corruption when transcoded to ipod touch or PSP devices formats
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:
• Catalyst Control Center image scaling options, "Maintain aspect ratio" and "Use centered timings" now function on DVI displays
• Catalyst Control Center, the Scaling Option is available on HDMI and Component Video configurations
• Catalyst Control Center, system configurations CrossFire does not become disabled on system restart
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System:
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
• On some systems with both component video display and a secondary display, it is now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settings
• Playing back Blu-ray content in extended desktop no longer switches to primary display after unplugging the secondary display
• Catalyst Control Center, on some clone mode configuration with a TV, setting the TV Image Quality does not cause the primary display to become disabled on restart
• On some Clone mode configurations restoring from hibernate no longer causes the displays to switch to extended mode
• Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to apply
• Interlaced modes are now listed in the "List all Modes" window with HDTV supported DFP panels
• Catalyst Control Center, "Scaling Options" are available in HDTV modes
• HDTV modes no longer fail to appear in the "Display Properties", "list all modes" settings
• Catalyst Control Center: System no longer fails to set Component Video modes
• Catalyst Control Center no longer reports Crossfire as disabled for some quad crossfire configurations
• DVD playback video no longer fails to render when played on a secondary display
• Some system configurations now allow resolution switching when configured in clone mode with a TV display
• The login screen is centered after a display reconfiguration when the system is in standby
• Power Cinema no longer needs to be launched twice to start Blu-ray playback
• Color corruption no longer occurs when playing back some interlaced video content
• After hot-unplugging a digital display from a multi-display configuration, the current display settings now refresh
Known Issues for All Windows Operating System:
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• Catalyst Control Center, some of the Monitor options in the Displays tab are not available for some system configurations
• Catalyst Control Center may fail to launch when CrossFire has been disabled on some system configurations with multi-adapter enabled
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System:
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• With some system configurations a delay may be noticed when task switching between the desktop and a game in progress
• Game corruption artifacts may be noticed in Call of Duty World at War on some system configurations with Software CrossFire enabled
• Some video playback corruption may be observed when the CrossFire option has been enabled then disabled through the Catalyst Control Center
• HDMI audio may not be enabled in some DX10 games when Crossfire has been enabled
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System:
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• Some video artifacts may intermittently occur when playing a DVD in stretched desktop mode
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System:
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced unde
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• HDMI Audio may not be available on some system configurations with Sony XBR displays
• In some HDTV extended mode configurations, some audio breaks may intermittently be heard when connected through HDMI audio
• Attaching a secondary display may cause the desktop to black screen when playing back Blu-ray with WinDVD
• Some system configurations may not properly resume from hibernation
• On some system configurations with extended/virtual desktop modes, resuming from hibernate may cause the system to become unresponsive |
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