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Öèòàòà: New Features:
ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and ATI CrossFireX™ supported configurations.
OpenGL 3.2 extension support
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series. The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™ 9.12:
• Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50
• BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
• Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
• Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
• Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex)
• Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map)
• Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample)
• Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp)
• Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4)
• Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync)
• transform_feedback2
• texture_cubemap_array
Performance Improvements:
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 9.12:
• 3DMark Vantage - overall performance improves as much as 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series products. GT1 - Jane Nash performance improves as much as 15% and FT4 – GPU Cloth improves up to 15%
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat - Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations
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:
• Confirmation dialog box is now displayed when extending the display through Catalyst Control Center
• Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the Desktop Properties panel
• A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group
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:
• Sound output from Display Port audio is now heard with extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
• Cyblerlink PowerDVD 9: setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable
Windows Aero to optimize Blu-Ray playback" no longer causes the system to become unresponsive during Blu-ray playback
• Cyberlink PowerDVD: Blu‐ray playback video no longer fails to render when swapping primary displays in a multi-monitor configuration
• Corruption no longer observed with some DX9 applications when Anti-Alias 8x is enabled.
• WinDVD10: Blu-ray playback will now start and does not require the application has been minimized and restored
• Resident Evil 5 Japanese version is now supported
• Playing back Blu-Ray content on some system with 120 Hz display no longer results in black screen playback
• Changing desktop resolution no longer causes the Operating System to stop responding when real-time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
• Resolved: IL2 - Sturmovik Forgotten Battles game may stop responding or not free up system resources
• Resolved intermittently system instability when hot unplugging a HDMI display
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:
• Video artifacts no longer occur when playing two or more SD video files with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
• WinDVD 8 no longer stops responding when resuming from sleep or hibernate
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:
• Tom Clancy's HAWX: VPU recover no longer occurs in some CrossFire configurations
• In some Clone Mode configuration with Windows XP, stretched desktop is now functional
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:
• Setting Eyefinity group may not work for some configurations with DVI and Display Port devices
• Hot unplugging one of the displays in an Eyefinity configuration may cause the
some rotation modes to disapear from Catalyst Control Center
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:
• On some configurations Ubisoft Wheelman may stop responding during gameplay
• Catalyst Control Center: enabling LCD overdrive may cause magnification of the mouse cursor when moved overtop of the Calibration Preview
• Adobe Flash player 10.1 Pre-release: dropped frames and browser lag may be
noticed when playing multiple instances of Youtube clips with hardware acceleration enabled
• A perfromance drop does occur durring Resident Evil 5 cinematics
• No sound output on HDMI when playing back some Blu-Ray content in Power DVD 9
• Catalyst Control Center: newly added custom modes may fail to be displayed in desktop tree view
• Loss of HDMI signal may occus on some HDMI TVs, on rescan of the HDMI signal it may apear in the wrong screen location.
• Cyberling Power DVD 9: DTS TrueHD option may not be visible in the HDMI tab on some systems.
• City of Heros: with certain graphics adapters some screen flashing might be observed during game play
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:
• Playing some Flash content with hardware acceleration enabled might result in video edges not appearing smooth
• WinDVD 10 may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multi-monitor setup
• No audio when hotplugging HDMI display while media file is being played |
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