ATI Catalyst 8.6

Regeneration · 08:54 PM

ATI/AMD have released a new build of their Catalyst software suite. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters Support
This release of Catalyst introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support for OpenGL applications for the ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products. Using the Edge Detect Custom Filter, users can enable 12X and 24X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 4X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 12X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 8X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 24X Anti-Aliasing.

OpenGL CrossFireX Support
This release of Catalyst introduces CrossFireX QUAD support for OpenGL applications. Users with any combination of a ATI Radeon HD 3870, ATI Radeon HD 3850, and ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics accelerators running with 3 or 4 GPUs will be able to run in CrossFireX QUAD mode (when used in a CrossFireX compatible PC).

Users are also able to run in CrossFireX QUAD mode while running in extended desktop mode on the Windows Vista desktop.

Catalyst Install Enhancement
This release of Catalyst introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst installer. Users are no longer required to reboot their system after Catalyst has finished installing (as long as the installation is an upgrade from a previous Catalyst install).

Performance Improvements
• 3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
• Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
• Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
• Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
• Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
• ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
• Bioshock: Corruption is no longer noticed in the water's reflection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35077
• Call of Duty 4: Enabling AA no longer results in intermittent corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon HD 38x0 series of product installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35072
• Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599
• Crysis: Playing a DX10 version of the game no longer results in flickering being noticed within the bushes and on the trees when the in-game advanced setting are set to low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35074
• Frontlines: Fuel of War: Flickering and corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series of product when CrossFire is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35067
• Guitar Hero III: Shadows are no longer seen in the middle-bottom portion of the display where the music score is located. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35071
• Lost Planet: Running the cave test on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 38x0 series of product no longer results in low FPS values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35073
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing either an ATI Radeon X1xx0 or 9700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35068
• Stalker: Enabling CrossFire no longer results in the clear sky failing to scale properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35070
• Unreal Tournament 3: Scaling is now functioning when using 24 or more bots when CrossFire is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35069
• Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569
• The Catalyst Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
• Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
• Enabling CrossFire on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
• Inconsistent behavior is no longer noticed in the Catalyst Control Center when clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32610
• Shared applications are no longer removed after selecting Restore desktop when virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611
• Certain benchmark applications no longer report lower benchmark scores with CrossFire enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33464
• Hot-plugging an HDTV to an HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34323
• The OverDrive option is no longer missing in the Catalyst Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34123
• Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34150
• Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34151
• Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center reporting the connector type as component. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35026
• Connecting an HDTV using the Component Video connector no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center (Basic View) failing to respond when switching to HDTV only mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35029
• Catalyst Control Center: Selecting the User Windows Display Language setting no longer results in the incorrect language being selected in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35030
• A Catalyst Control Center Host Application error message is no longer displayed when performing a fast user switch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35031
• Changing the saturation value found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV-Avivo page no longer results in the new values failing to take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35036
• Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to respond when disabling the primary display device and attempting to set the secondary display device as the primary. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35039
• The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to respond when modifying or assigning any hotkey in Hotkeys Manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34416
• Enabling and disabling GPU Scaling no longer results in some of the supported display resolutions no longer being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35047
• Hot-plugging an HDTV using the HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35048
• Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
• Hot-plugging an HDTV to the HDMI port no longer results in the LCD failing to display an image when hot-unplugging the HDTV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35052
• Playing a Blu-Ray DVD title using WinDVD 8.1 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35064
• Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device being detected as a DVI display device resolving the audio out issue. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35065
• The OverDrive option is no longer missing in the Catalyst Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35066
• Enabling CrossFire on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) intermittently failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
• The Catalyst Control Center version number no longer fails to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center 737-28493
• Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35075
• Hot-plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to detect the correct setting of the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35076
• The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive option 737-30584
• Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the TV failing to display an image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33466
• Hot swapping a display device to the second DVI connector no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35078
• Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35079
• Corruption may be noticed when resuming a second time during the playback of a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35080
• Seeking several times when playing an MPEG4 files using WinDVD no longer results in the video become 4 small videos windows within the playback screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35081
• Enabling Closed Captioning no longer results in a green line at left side and bottom of the text being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35082

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
• Call of Duty 4: Intermittent flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire enabled on a systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon HD 38x0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35092
• Lost Planet: Switching from the game to the Windows XP desktop and then back to the game no longer results in corruption being noticed within the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35091
• The Catalyst Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
• Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
• The ATI OpenGL driver no longer fails to be applied on systems containing an ATI Radeon 3600/3650 AGP series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33467
• Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34116
• The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34113
• Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34120
• Connecting an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 3100/3200 series of product no longer results in the display failing to be detected as a DTV(HDMI) in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35083
• The scaling option no longer changes from Full Screen to Centered after setting Extended desktop mode using the Quick Launch Buttons or FN+F4. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35084
• Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
• Audio no longer fails when dragging the InterWinDVD or the Windows Media Player window to the extended desktop display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35085
• The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond after completing the installation of the display driver for a second ATI Radeon HD 38x0 series of product inserted into the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35086
• CrossFire can no longer be enabled/disabled when running full screen D3D applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35087
• A warning message no longer fails to be displayed when reaching the maximum number of modes in the Predefined and Custom HDTV modes section of the Catalyst Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33468
• Adjusting the flicker removal in the TV properties of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35088
• The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35089
• Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the Asian game WOW when using certain in game options. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35090
• Installing two ATI Radeon HD 38x0 series of product into a system running Windows XP no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when attempting to enable CrossFire support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35093
• Installing the Catalyst Control Center on a previously installed version no longer results in a warning message that the setup is installing over an earlier version, and that the previous version needs to be uninstalled before installing a more current version, resulting in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be installed 737-28513
• Anti-Aliasing no longer becomes disabled after minimizing and restoring any OpenGL window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35094
• The CrossFire tab is no longer missing when using two ATI Radeon X19x0 series of products in a system running Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35095
• The display mode of 1776x1000 is now listed in both the Catalyst Control Center and the operating system's display properties. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35096
• Connecting a 1080p display device followed by playing h.264 interlaced content no longer results in a slight jitter and frame drops being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35097
• Playing an interlaced MPEG2 file no longer results in a grey hue being noticed on the bottom of the playback window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35098
• Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35099
• Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35100

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02:11 PM

well I have an ati x1600xt on a msi x200 pci express board and these drivers crash my shit i thought it was cuz i overwrited 8.5 drivers, but I did a fresh install still same thing these are just horrible drivers I am very pissed off with ATI/AMD and thats all I've bought even knowing they were the underdogs now yrs i have trusted them and now they are just being plain stupid making crap decisions left and right AMD too god damn them. MAC hitting the market in 1980's proved that its all in the software to make systems faster more powerful and more stable but no one seems to be doing there work anymore with windows its the most dominate OS on the f-ing market for games START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT MOTHER F-ERS linux sucks for the simple fact that games dont run right on it or i would be running that im a computer guru and I have run all kinds of OS's and im really getting tired of crap all i seem to see is crap on computers anymore u all say PC is the best for gaming no it isnt way to unstable anymore virus's and hacks its rediculous get an F-ing clue stop being f-ing lazy u f-ing programers or say goodbye to a lot of people and money u bastards that are rich from us buying ur crap products with crap software u think we will put up with it for long. I am seriously thinking about sticking with Nintendo u know since they started making systems they have the least amount of failures out of anything on the entire market no one can touch nintendo never in a million yrs i wish they made a PC with their own OS I havent had intel or nvidia hardware since 1998 now I am damn pretty sure its time to go back to them after 10yrs but i hear they crash just as much and IBM makes nintendo's cpu the new IBM processor is Sheet loads faster and stable then both amd and intel why the F arent they in systems specially PC's MACosX Sucks its Unix/Linux again games done run worth sheet on it god damn this world anymore i hope all who makes crap and trouble for others burns in hell