ATI Radeon 9550/9600/9700/9800/X300/X600/X700/X800/X1300/X1600/X1900/X1950/HD 2400/HD 2600/HD 2900 XT/HD 2900 XT/HD 3850/HD 3870 Series Graphics Card Driver Catalyst 8.3 Windows Vista x32. Display Driver, Catalyst Control Center, WDM Drivers.
The Catalyst software suite 8.2 contains the following:--Radeon display driver 8.471--Multimedia Center 9.16 (Windows XP only)--HydraVision (Windows XP only)--HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only)--Remote Wonder 3.04 (Windows XP only)--WDM Driver Install Bundle--Southbridge/IXP Driver--Catalyst Control Center Version 8.3
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst.--Call of Juarez: Up to 20% improvement is noticed on ATI CrossFireX configured systems containing an ATI Radeon HD38x0 series of product--Company of Heroes DX10: Up to 17% improvement is noticed, especially at lower resolutions, on ATI Radeon HD38x0 products--Crysis DX10: Up to 15% improvement is noticed on all supported ATI Radeon products--Lost Planet DX9: Up to 36% improvement is noticed across all supported ATI Radeon products and in ATI CrossFireX configured systems--Shadermark 2.1: Performance scores increased up to 35% across all supported Radeon products and in ATI CrossFireX configured systems--Unreal Tournament 2004: Up to 10% increase in performance is noticed on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD2400, HD2600, or HD3400 series of products on in ATI CrossFireX configured systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:--This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:--Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with default game settings no longer results in the gadget sidebar bleeding through.--Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Playing the game under Windows Vista (64 bit version) no longer results in corruption being noticed when loading multiple maps.--Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: The game no longer fails with an error pointing to atioglxx.dll when exiting the game.--Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels.--Guitar Hero 3: Poor performance is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system.--Halo 2: Enabling AA in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the Halo 2 logo flickering when loading or quitting a campaign.--Halo2: Starting a new campaign with the default Catalyst Control Center setting and the default game settings no longer results in texture corruption being noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon HD 2100 series of product installed.--Oblivion: Flickering is no longer noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire is enabled and AF is set to 16x.--Resident Evil 4: Minor flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista along with CrossFire being enabled.--Splinter Cell Double Agent: Multicolored rectangles are no longer noticed when UBM is enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 34x0 series of product.--World of Conflict: Text corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with CrossFire enabled.--World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode.--Installing the WDM driver on systems containing an ATI TV Tuner product and an ATI graphics adapter no longer results in the WDM driver failing to install.--Resuming from hibernation mode with HDMI display connected no longer results in a black screen with only a mouse cursor being displayed.--The OverDrive page is no longer grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks are no longer displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire on systems containing and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version).--Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2400 series of product and running Windows Vista.--Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the display resolution to 1280x800 or higher, followed by playing an HD-DVD using PowerDVD, no longer results in the HD-DVD title failing to play.--Dragging player window to secondary display while playing back HD content and moving it back to primary no longer results in blank player window.--The OverDrive page may be grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks as may be displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire on systems containing and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version).--The color temperature control settings no longer defaults to 4000K (yellow tint) when monitor unplugged during driver silent installation.--A Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays option no longer appears when an HDMI display device is connected using an HDMI-DVI cable.--Playing DVD content using the Windows Media Player no longer results in the playback being choppy.--Hot plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device multiple times during one windows session no longer results in the display device failing to be detected.--Enabling clone mode on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1200/1250/1270 series of product no longer results in the resolution and color depth changing to 640x480 8bpp.--An error message is no longer displayed when attempting to set both the primary (HDMI) display device and secondary (DVI) display device to a display resolution of 1280x1024.--The secondary display device no longer fails to resume from sleep mode.--Setting the display resolution to 1920x1200, followed by playing a DVD title no longer results in playback of the DVD appearing jittery.--Corruption is no longer noticed at the beginning of a DVD title or when resizing the media player window.--Connecting a CRT and an HDMI display device followed by enabling clone mode and setting the resolution to 1024x768 32bpp 60Hz. no longer results in corruption being noticed on the secondary display device when resuming from suspend mode.--Connecting a DFP display device to a system running Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit versions) no longer results in the display modes of 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480 being missing in the Catalyst Control Center.--Connecting multiple display devices no longer results in the primary, secondary and other monitors swapping positions within the Catalyst Control Center.--The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to resume from suspend mode when the HDMI display device is set to 1024x768 60Hz.on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2400 series of product.--Configuring a system with two ATI Radeon HD 3870s or two ATI Radeon HD 3850s no longer results in the CrossFire being enabled even after one display device is disabled yet still connected to the system.--Enabling extended desktop mode, followed by enabling Overlay Theater Mode no longer results in Overlay Theater Mode failing on the secondary display device.