ATI Catalyst 3.5 Released
This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level ofpower, performance, and reliability. The ATI Catalyst software suite is the ultimate
in performance and stability. This maintenance release focuses on resolving known
issues with the Catalyst software suite.
Read more to read the Official ATI Catalyst 3.5 Release Notes
These release notes provide information on the latest posting of ATI’s industry
leading software suite, Catalyst. This particular posting updates the ATI Display
Driver to version 7.90. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide
the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI Catalyst software
suite is the ultimate in performance and stability. This maintenance release
focuses on resolving known issues with the Catalyst software suite.
Read more…
The CATALYST? software suite 3.5 contains the following:
Radeon display driver 7.90
Multimedia Center 8.5
HydraVision 3.21
Remote Wonder1.5
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The Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop
product family:
RADEON? 9800 series
RADEON? 9700 series
RADEON? 9600 series
RADEON? 9500 series
RADEON? 9200 series
RADEON? 9100 series
RADEON? 9000 series
RADEON? 8500 series
RADEON? 7500 series
RADEON? 7200 series
RADEON? 7000 series
Note: All-in-Wonder products are supported as well.
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Performance Improvements
As with most Catalyst releases, the performance has increased in numerous
situations. Here are some examples observed in Catalyst version 3.5.
Improvements in the ATI OpenGL drivers have experienced performance gains
such as:
GL Excess performance improves 12-14% on the RADEON? 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO.
Modest benefits are noticed on our other graphic products as well.
Unigraphics performance (ViewPerf Ugs-03) improves 27% on the RADEON? 9800
PRO, 52% on the RADEON? 9700 PRO, and 79% on the RADEON? 9500 PRO.
Data Explorer performance (ViewPerf DV-08) improves 9% on RADEON? 9800 PRO,
and the RADEON?9700 PRO. The RADEON? 9500 PRO improves by 14.5%.
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Resolved Game Issues
The system is not responding when playing Quake II with the OpenGL option set
to default, and the video mode set to 1024×768 is now resolved.
Setting the display resolution to 1027×768 and running the Unreal Tournament
2003 benchmark with Anti-Aliasing enabled, no longer results in the system
rebooting.
The system rebooting when attempting to start a new game of Ballistic Forces
is now resolved.
Enabling Direct3D as the rendering device and setting the display resolution
to 1600×1200 in the game Descent 3 no longer results in the game failing to
play.
The shadow flickering beneath the car when choosing Quick Race in Nascar Racing
2003 is now resolved.
Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and enabling OpenGL no longer
results in the ground being discolored in the game IL2 Forgotten Battles.
Connecting a secondary display and enabling extended desktop, followed by running
Soldier of Fortune 2 no longer results in a flickering display.
The game Unreal Tournament 2003 no longer hangs when loading the CTF-December
level.
The game Unreal Tournament 2003 no longer displays corruption when Anti-Alasing
is enabled.
Setting the display options to 1600×1200 32bpp in the Hot Wheels Velocity X
game no longer results in the menu screen not being displayed.
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game Earth 2150 and
the game resolution is set to 1024×768.
Playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 in OpenGL mode no longer results in the
display going black.
Exiting the game Age of Empires II no longer results in display not being restored
properly.
Playing the game Serious Sam 2 with the display resolution set to 1024×768
32bpp no longer results in the wrong OpenGL renderer being listed when setting
the graphics to OpenGL.
The game A Tale in the Desert no longer pauses during game play and no longer
causes the system to randomly stop responding.
Enabling Pixel Shaders in the game Asheron’s Call 2 no longer results in display
corruption appearing as the game is played.
Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON 9700 series card
installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing
as the character is moved.
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Resolved Benchmark Issues
This section provides information on Benchmark issues that have been resolved
in the latest release of Catalyst.
The system no longer stops responding when running 3ds max 2001.
The 3DMark2003 shader optimizations found in previous Catalyst releases have
been removed.
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Resolved Software Application Issues
This section provides information on application issues that have been resolved
in the latest release of Catalyst.
Increased CPU performance is now noticed when enabling the use accelerated
post processing in the DivX player.
Running Maya or SoftImage no longer results in the overly front and backbuffers
not being cleared at allocation time.
Dragging the WinDVD player to the extended desktop when playing a DVD no longer
results in a system hang.
Running certain OpenGL application under Windows XP with a RADEON 7200 series
card installed no longer results in display corruption.
Running the Windows Movie Maker program no longer results in the display corruption
appearing on the preview screen.
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Resolved Catalyst Driver Issues
This section provides information on Catalyst driver issues that have been
resolved in this latest release.
Running the ATI Tranquility screen saver found at http://www.driverheaven.net,
on an ATI RADEON 9000 series card, no longer results in the system not responding
under Windows XP.
When installing the EAZYLOOK TV upgrade the installer now upgrades the Watch
TV scheduled event property in the registry correctly.
Playing a DVD with TheaterMode enabled no longer results in the display not
being maximized on the secondary LCD.
Enabling or disabling the extended desktop when the Media player is running
no longer results in the system not responding.
Previewing the 3D Pipes screen saver with latest video driver installed no
longer results in a slow start and exit of the screen saver.
The monitor shutting down when booting to the Windows XP Service Pack 1 desktop
when a RADEON 9000 Pro is installed in the system is now resolved.
The display resolution is now correct on the first startup after the display
driver install.
Playing an AVI no longer results in a screen delay. This issue was known to
occur under Windows 2000 with the RADEON 9600 series card installed.
Enabling or disabling the extended desktop when the Media Player is running
no longer results in the system not responding.
The OpenGL hardware overlay is now working correctly in panning mode.
The memory size on the RADEON 9800 SE not being reported accurately is now
resolved.
Windows 2000 no longer detects the secondary CRT display adapter as the primary
display adapter.
The HDTV icon is no longer displayed when Disable Component Output Support
is selected.
The information tab found in the advanced display properties for the secondary
monitor now provides information on the driver version installed.
The Bios information is no longer listed incorrectly on the Adapter Information.
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Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated
with the latest version of Catalyst.
When updating to future Catalyst releases your current color control panel
profiles will be lost. This will be fixed in an upcoming release.
Running the 3D Pipes screen saver for an extended period of time (24 hours
or longer), produces an error message indicating that the virtual memory is
not enough.
Setting the Landscape details to Perfect in the game IL2 Stumovik Forgotten
Battles results in the system not responding during the track playback.
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