ATI Catalyst 3.5 Released

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 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.

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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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