ATi bringt Catalyst-Treiber 6.10
Genau am letzten Tag des Monats Oktober hat es der kanadische Grafikchipspezialist ATi doch noch geschafft, den neuesten Treiber für alle aktuellen Radeon-Karten zu veröffentlichen. Mit im Gepäck hat das neueste Catalyst-Treiberpaket wieder einmal ein paar Neuerungen, Verbesserungen und angebliche Geschwindigkeitsvorteile.
So unterstützt dieser Treiber erstmals offiziell die ATi Radeon X1650 Pro, Radeon 1950 XTX und die X1300 XT. Daneben unterstützt man nun auch automatisch das HDR-Rendering in Verbindung mit aktiviertem Anti-Aliasing im Spiel „The Elder Scrolls – Oblivion“ und auch CrossFire-Systeme auf Basis von Intels i965-Chipsatz sollen nun unter bestimmten Bedingungen Zugewinne im zweistelligen Prozentbereich verzeichnen können.
Darüber hinaus wurden wieder einmal einige Fehler beseitigt, auf die ATi in den Release Notes zu diesem Treiber Bezug nimmt. Ferner präsentiert man auch einen neuen Linux-Treiber und auch Notebooks kommen diesen Monat nicht zu kurz.
- 3DMark2006: Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 and AA to either 4x or 6x no longer results in display corruption being noticed when running the HDR1 test. This issue was known to occur on certain specific systems only. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23443
Anarchy-Online: Screen corruption is no longer noticed when walking or running through the terrain. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22016
- Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods: Intermittent display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game in a system containing an ATI Radeon® X1900 series and running the Windows MCE operating system when setting the graphics options within the game to high details. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23275
- Commandos Strike Force: Enabling CrossFire™ and playing the game no longer results in display corruption being noticed when using an Intel 965 motherboard. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23444
- Godfather: Task switching between the game and the windows desktop no longer results in display corruption being noticed when playing the game at a display resolution of 1600x1200 (or higher) when having the in-game video options set to optimal quality. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23440
- Serious Sam 2: Playing the game on a system running the Windows MCE operating system and containing an ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the operating system rebooting after approximately 20 minutes of game play when playing the game in a high setting windowed mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23445
- World of Warcraft: Playing the game for an extended period of time no longer results in the game failing to respond when using a Radeon® X800. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22632
- Catalyst® Control Center: Setting new clock values no longer results in the confirm changes dialog box failing to be displayed and clicking on cancel option may result in the new values still being applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23278
- Setting the display properties to prompt for a restart of the system when making a display resolution change, no longer results in the selected display resolution not being applied when clicking yes to restart the computer for the changes to take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23279
- Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 1150 series product followed by enabling extended desktop mode, no longer results in the both the LCD and the CRT failing to resume when attempting to resume from a standby state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23434
- The LCD Panel Setting no longer becomes Use centered timings when resuming from suspend mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23435
- Display corruption is no longer noticed when switching between normal screen and full screen mode when viewing either a video or a picture slide show under the Windows Media Center Edition operating system using the Media Center application. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23436
- Installing the Catalyst® software driver on a system running the Windows XP Japanese version operating system no longer results in the .NET Framework version requirement dialog box being displayed in English. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23253
- Setting the display resolution to 1400x1080 on a system running the Windows XP operating system and containing an ATI Xpress 200 series product, no longer results in the display appearing jagged. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23437
- Playing a DVD using WinDVD no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the player when resizing the player window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23256
- The ATI VPU Recover functionality no longer fails when using an ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23438
- Catalyst® Control Center: Clicking the Enable ATI Overdrive clocks for 3D application only button followed by selecting the Preserve ATI Overdrive Settings at log on no longer results in a VPU recover event occurring when running the Automated Clock Configuration Utility. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23439
- CrossFire™: Enabling Wait for Vsync within the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the 3D->Anti-aliasing aspect page when setting the pre-view to full-screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23441
- Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a CRT and a TV to an ATI Radeon® X800 series of products no longer results in the display mode for the CRT being incorrect when selecting to swap the display devices and then cancelling the selection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23442
Neu in der Version 6.10 ist auch die Unterstützung des Folding@Home GPU-Clients der Stanford University. Der GPU-Client arbeitet mit Grafikkarten der X1900/1950-Serie zusammen und funktioniert ähnlich dem CPU-Client. Wenn man noch nicht Mitglied in einem Folding@Home-Team ist, ist man herzlich eingeladen, das ATi Folding-Team (Team Nummer 51394) zu unterstützen.