Ati Catalyst 6.6 (Final) Released

[Tefra]

New Features

This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:

- Avivo™ Video Converter Extension for Windows Media Center Edition
- Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner Support

Avivo™ Video Converter Extension for Windows Media Center Edition

Catalyst® 6.6 introduces a Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility. This utility will allow users to convert video content that is either recorded or available to Media Center Edition to a variety of different formats. The video content can be converted to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, MPEG-4/AVC and Windows Media. iPod video and Sony PSP’s are also supported with an optimized profile for these devices.
Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner Support

Catalyst® 6.6 includes support for NTSC/ATSC and PAL/SECAM/DVB-T products based on the Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner chip. The Theater 650 Pro is a new chip from ATI for multimedia cards and DTV-on-a-chip solutions, integrating hardware video encoding, digital audio with noise reduction, and hardware PVR functions in a single chip.
Performance Improvements

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.
- Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.

- Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.

- Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems.


Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.6

- Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a display device capable of displaying a resolution of 1680x1050 to an ATI Radeon® X1900 no longer results in the display mode of 1680x1050 not being available in the Display Manager aspect.

- Using Catalyst® 6.3 or higher along with the MMC version 9.13 and performing a TV channel scan no longer results in some higher TV channels failing to be detected.

- Catalyst Control Center: Playing a media file using the Windows Media Player version 10 no longer results in Theater Mode exhibiting the same behavior as the Same on All option when clone mode is enabled

- The pulldown detection check box is no longer greyed out under the All Settings for bob and adaptive settings found in the Catalyst Control Center

- Clicking the Default button for AA and AF now restores the default setting for AA and AF

- Placing the mouse pointer over the Temporal anti-aliasing check box found in the Anti-Aliasing aspect of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the tool tip for Let the application decide being displayed

- Theater Mode is now functioning properly under the Windows 2000 operating system when clone mode is enabled

- Audio is no longer lost when quickly and repeatedly toggling between two TV channels

- The Desktop Area list found in the Display Settings is now translated for the Russian language when using the Basic View of the Catalyst Control Center

- Setting the Catalyst Control Center skin to Quick Silver along with the display resolution to 800x600 when the language is set to Greek no longer results in cropped text being noticed in the Video->All Settings aspect

- The Apply button in the CV Properties aspect of the Catalyst Control Center now become active when adding a custom format

- x29: AV no longer occurs when fast window tracking is set to on

- Minimizing the TV window using the TV Adjustments found in the Catalyst Control Center followed by attempting to drag the TV window around the desktop using the mouse no longer results in the TV window failing to move properly

- DVD playback no longer blinks and the system entering a busy state no longer occurs when using the Windows Media Player v10 and having Theater Mode enabled in the Catalyst Control Center

- Connecting a CRT as a secondary display device and enabling clone mode no longer results in unsupported display modes being available in the Catalyst Control Center for the CRT

- HDTV custom format is now maintained when clone mode is enabled

- Enabling Clone mode followed by opening a full-screen DOS prompt no longer results in the DOS command screen failing to exit properly on the secondary display device

- Swapping between the primary (LCD) and secondary (CRT) display devices on a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 series no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display and image when attempting to resume from hibernation mod

- The mouse pointer no longer intermittently fails to be displayed on the lower portion of the secondary display device when the option to Stretch main horizontally found in the Catalyst Control Center is enabled

- Connecting both a CRT and a TV and keeping the TVout disabled, along with setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024x32bpp no longer result in the default color setting found in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be restored when changing the gamma setting

- GLView v 223: Setting the display resolution to 2048x1536 32bpp at 70Hz no longer results in an error message being displayed when attempting to run the Rendering tests

- Setting AA to 8x or higher no longer results in corruption being noticed in the Anti-Aliasing preview of the Catalyst Control Center

- City of Heroes: Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon X1x00 series product

- Enabling extended desktop mode and playing back HD content no longer results in corruption being noticed in the playback window

- An error message is no longer displayed when trying to edit a Hotkey function in the Hotkey Manger under various supported European languages

- Quake4: Texture corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game

- Age of Empires III: All the buildings and silver mines no longer shimmer at the same time when right-clicking on an object

Download Ati Catalyst 6.6
Catalyst 6.6 w/Control Panel

[Strecke]

Can someone post the link of the mobility version 6.6. I can´t download it from official ATI-site, because it says that my Toshiba Notebook isn´t supported, but I know that it work, because the older mobility ATI drivers worked fine.
I hope, someone of you can help me.

P.S. Sorry for my bad English.

[Tefra]

here you are

[Strecke]

Thank you. But this doesn´t work. It says that my Notebook isn´t supported.
Is there not a link, where i can download the driver directly?

[Tefra]

Ati has a leech script in action so you can't download the drivers directly

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...asp?deptID=894