Der Grafikkartenhersteller ATI hat jetzt eine neue Version seines Catalyst-Treibers veröffentlicht. Die Ausgabe 7.8 unterstützt die Betriebssysteme Windows XP sowie Vista in der 32- und 64-Bit-Edition. Wie immer gibt es einige Verbesserungen.
Für Linux-Basierte x86 Systeme liegen ebenfalls
neue Treiber vor. Hier wurden diverse Bugs gefixt und die Performance wurde verbessert.
Die Liste der behobenen Fehler ist wie immer recht lang. Neben kleinen Grafikproblemen in diversen Spielen werden auch allgemeine Probleme aus der Welt geschafft.
ATI Catalyst 7.8 Changelog für Windows Vista
- Call of Duty->United Offensive: Having all of the in-game settings at their maximum levels along with the Catalyst™ Control Center->3D aspect set to Optimal Quality no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit) operating system failing to respond after a short period of game play.
- The default audio device is no longer set to ATI HD Audio after installation of the display driver for the ATI Radeon™ HD2900, HD2600, and HD2400.
- Hot-plugging a CRT to a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ X1100/1150 series of product no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.
- Enabling CrossFire™ followed by disconnecting and then reconnecting the CRT display device no longer results in duplicate video options being seen within the Catalyst™ Control Center.
- Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting AA to 14x and AF to 16x no longer results in the AA showing a setting of 0x level when disabling CrossFire™ and unchecking the AA option in the 3D aspect.
- Making changes to the Color aspect found in the Catalyst™ Control Center without applying the changes no longer results in the Reactivate ATI color controls button remaining active after the Catalyst™ Control Center is closed and then re-launched.
- Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting the OverDrive™ clocks to their maximum settings no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center failing to accurately report the requested OverDrive™ values.
- Performing an un-install of the display drivers on a CrossFire™ configured system no longer results in extended desktop mode becoming active resulting in all of the desktop icons failing to appear.
- Catalyst™ Control Center->3D->Anti-Aliasing: Unchecking the option to Use Application Setting found in the 3D aspect page when CrossFire™ is enabled no longer results in the maximum AA setting being 6x. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.
- Performing either a custom or express install of the display driver no longer results in the system possibly failing to respond and the installation of the driver failing. This issue was known to occur when using an ATI Radeon™ X1950 CrossFire™ Edition product installed on in a system containing an Intel975.
- HDMI audio stutter is no longer heard when playing MPEG clip at certain resolutions on some HDMI device.
- The Scaling options found in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer disappears when relaunching the Catalyst™ Control Center after applying optimized and custom formats for Component Video.
- Connecting a secondary display device (CRT) and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in invalid refresh rates being available in the Display Manager.
- Making adjustments to the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast and not applying the changes no longer results in the desktop image failing to return to its default color values when performing a hot-reboot of the system.
- All supported display resolutions are now available in the Display Manager when connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode.
- Performing an un-install of the display driver no longer results in the display entering an extended desktop mode and the desktop icons failing to be displayed.
- Setting the Avivo Video Brightness to less than 0 within the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in a white frame being created in the Windows Media Player when fullscreen mode is enabled.
- The Enable ATI Overdrive clocks for 3d applications is no longer available on non supported products such as the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product.
- Setting the Avivo Video De-interlacing setting to auto, motion adaptive or vector adaptive no longer results in certain DVDs, menu videos and some special features failing to benefit from the options.
- The color depth no longer changes to 8bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire™ for the first time.
- Connecting a TV followed by removing the display resolution of 640x480 from the mode table no longer results in the both the TV and LCD failing to display an image.
- An unhandled exception no longer occurs when running an OGL application and resuming from S3 under Vista on various ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series products.
- Windows Media Player: Playing a DVD in full screen mode no longer results in vertical bar corruption being noticed during playback.
- DVD display no longer blinks in red when Overdrive is enabled.
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ATI Catalyst 7.8 Changelog für Windows XP
- Star Wars knights of the Old Republic 2: Corruption is no longer seen when running the game on some members of the ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series of products.
- CounterStrike Source, Day of Defeat Source, and Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Excessive fog is no longer noticed when playing these games.
- The Overscan/Underscan slider bar is no longer enabled when setting display resolutions of 1280x1024 or higher on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT series of product.
- Adobe After Effects 8: The application no longer fails to load on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ X700 series of product.
- PowerDVD6: Momentary desktop corruption is no longer noticed when minimizing the DVD playback window after stretching the playback window approximately 80%.
- The system no longer becomes unresponsive and no longer requires a reboot while randomly moving Video Player window from primary to extended desktop under certain hardware configurations where the second adapter is an ATI Radeon™ X1200/1250/1270 series of product.
- A warning message indicating CrossFire™ cannot be enabled because some 3D applications are running or the interconnect cable is not connected, or the motherboard has no communication channels between PCI-Express slots is no longer displayed when using a motherboard with an Intel I965 chipset.
- The CrossFire™ page is no longer greyed out and cannot be enabled when attempting to use a software CrossFire™ configuration on a system using a motherboard with an Intel I975 chipset.
- The Avivo components are now listed in the ADD/Remove Programs after installation of the display driver.
- Switching HD-DVD titles during playback with hardware acceleration enabled no longer results in the playback to be blocked.
- WinDVD8: Playing a DVD and changing the video setting to Hardware Acceleration mode no longer results in corruption being noticed.
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