ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.7
Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
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
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