ATi veröffentlicht Catalyst 6.12
ATi hat den letzten Grafiktreiber dieses Jahres gestern Abend veröffentlicht. Großartige Neuerungen gibt es diesen Monat nicht zu vermelden, aber ein paar kleine Neuerungen, Verbesserungen und angebliche Geschwindigkeitsvorteile hat das neueste Catalyst-Treiberpaket wieder einmal mit im Gepäck.
Als ersten Punkt wurde die DirectX-Videobeschleunigung für CrossFire-Systeme hinzugefügt. Des Weiteren wurden Fehler in einigen Spielen sowie mit dem Catalyst Control Center behoben, 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.
- Black&White 2: Slow frame rate is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP when setting the graphics to the lowest possible settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23714
- Neverwinter Nights: Enabling super AA and CrossFire within the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the game's main menu. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23718
- Catalyst Control Center->CrossFire: Attempting to resume from a standby state no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing to respond when using a Radeon X19x0 CrossFire Edition series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23713
- Catalyst Control Center: Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the text found in Catalyst Control Center being cropped. This issue was known to occur under all supported operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23716
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing choppy. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23719
- Catalyst Control Center: The translation for Centered Timings is now translated properly for Simplified Chinese. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24337
- The index in the Catalyst Control Center help no longer contains double entries for various aspects. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24338
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the CrossFire help no longer results in a page not found error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24339
- Using the Avivo Video Converter to convert a video file no longer exceeds the 300MB for a VCD encoded file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24340
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on certain help file links no longer results in the incorrect help file being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24341
- Catalyst Control Center: The Profile Manager is now translated properly for Italian. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24342
- Catalyst Control Center: Various options such as Select a Language and Deinterlacing for the Thai language are now translated properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24343
- Changing the language to Korean in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the degree symbol appearing corrupted within the rotation page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24344
- Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Selecting Japanese as the language no longer results in various aspects of the Easy Setting Wizard and Setup Display Settings not being translated properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24345
- Using hotkeys to switch between LCD mode and CRT+LCD mode no longer results in the hotkey function failing when attempting to switch back to LCD mode only. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24288
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing jittery. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23719
- CrossFire: Playing Windows XP games such as Labyrinth or HyperBowl no longer results in display corruption being noticed in the game's menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24335
- Hardware acceleration no longer becomes disabled when running the HQV benchmark DVD with CrossFire enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24336
Wie üblich eignet sich der Grafiktreiber für Karten ab der Radeon 9500. Auch die hauseigenen Chipsätze kommen im Treiber nicht zu kurz. Windows XP ist natürlich Voraussetzung, für das CCC benötigt man das Microsoft .NET Framework. Ferne gibt es ebenfalls einen Vista-Treiber, welcher sich aber noch im Beta-Stadium befindet.
Im kommenden Jahr dürfen wir uns dann auf den Catalyst 7 freuen, welcher uns in regelmäßigen Abständen mit den nötigen Verbesserungen versorgt.
Fabian und 
Jan-Frederik