News ATI Catalyst 7.12 Drivers

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Avivo Update
Catalyst 7.12 introduces an Avivo update. The update allows the ATI Catalyst Control Center to reflect what is supported by the driver taking into account the graphics card installed in the system, and will not expose any video features that is not supported by the driver. The DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) driver will perform a profiling mechanism to query the graphics capability and the Catalyst Control Center queries the caps via the interface defined between the Catalyst Control Center and the DXVA components. This feature will be supported on ATI Radeon 9500 series products and above.

Enhanced ATI OverDrive support for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series
This release of Catalyst introduces an enhanced version of ATI OverDrive for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series. Users can now Overclock both GPU engine and graphics memory clock speeds in CrossFire mode (and over-clock single ATI Radeon graphics accelerators as well). This version of ATI Overdrive also

Performance Improvements
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.12:
3DMark2005 performance improves 5% or more with largest gains noticed when Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are disabled on systems containing either an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of products
Company of Heroes DX10 performance improves up to 5% on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD38x0 series of product

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
- Call of Duty: Enabling Super AA and CrossFire™ no longer results in the game failing to respond when the player dies.
- Combat Mission: Shock Force Demo v1.02: Setting the ATI left-click compatibility option to off and starting a new battle no longer results in the game failing to respond when clicking the left mouse button on various options within the game.
- Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game.
- Crysis: The ice level is no longer too bright which was making the game nonplayable.
- Dark Messiah, Might and Magic, or Sin Episodes: Too much fog or incorrect fog no longer occurs during game play. This issue was known to occur on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2x00 series of product.
- El Matador: Shadow corruption is no longer noticed throughout the game.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Enabling Super AA and soft particles no longer results in corruption being noticed in the main menu and through-out game play.
- FEAR: The slow motion visual effects is now functioning.
- FlightSim X: Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product no longer results in the shadows being incorrect or failing to appear.
- Google Sketchupno longer fails to pan when AA is enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ X1300/1550/1600 series of product.
- GTA San Andreas: Enabling AA within the game and within the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the game failing to start.
- GTA: San Andreas: Enabling high quality settings within the game no longer results in Vsync loss, no video, or artifact corruption.
- Hellgate: MSAA is now working with the DX10 version of the game.
- Hellgate: Screen flashing or the game failing no longer occurs when attempting to start a multiplayer game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product.
- Infernal: the game no longer fails when attempting to launch a new game.
- Lord of the Rings Return of the King: The game background no longer flashes when CrossFire is enabled.
- Lost Planet: Setting the in-game options to maximum along with AA ste to 2x and AF set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when CrossFiore is enabled.
- Quake 4: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the in game options to 1600x1200 and AA to 4x no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- The Sims 2: Flickering and corruption are no longer noticed in certain areas of the game.
- World in Conflict: Setting the in-game AA option to 4x and running the benchmark no longer results in flickering being noticed.
- When running certain OpenGL samples, the ATI Radeon™ graphics adapter now runs at the requested clock values on a CrossFire™ configured system.
- Catalyst™ Control Center: German character are no longer truncated in the ProfileManager Applications tab.
- Connecting a secondary display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ x1200/1250/1270 series of product and enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in horizontal line corruption being noticed when using a high refresh rate and display resolution.
- Connecting a secondary display device no longer results in the Anisotropic Filtering option being missing for second adapter until the system is rebooted.
- Connecting a secondary display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ x1200/1250/1270 series of product and enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in horizontal line corruption being noticed when using a high refresh rate and display resolution.
- TV corruption is no longer noticed when using an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1250 series of product.
- Cyberlink: Playing an h.264 disk no longer results in corruption being noticed on the lower portion of the playback window.
- Playing an HD-DVD title using the Cyberlink player no longer results in corruption or the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond after a short period of playback time.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and dragging the media player window between the desktops no longer results in the playback stopping.
- Setting the frame buffer size to 256mb in the CMOS setup no longer results in the ATI graphics driver failing to be installed.
- The display no longer become white when resuming from an S4 state.
- The display no longer becomes white for several seconds before entering hibernation mode.
- Setting the display device to 1600x1200 75Hz no longer results in the HD DVD playback window appearing blank.
- TV corruption is no longer noticed when using an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1250 series of product.
- A black screen is no longer displayed at the DVD menu when using WinDVD8 to play a DVD title with DXVA enabled.
- Rotating the display device when playing a DVD using the WinDVD player no longer results in the display going blank.
- Connecting a display device via Component Video as the primary display device and a DFP as a secondary display device no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.
- Cyberlink: Playing an h.264 disk no longer results in corruption being noticed on the lower portion of the playback window.
- Disabling CrossFire™ no longer results in a secondary display device being out of range on the secondary ASIC.
- Installing two Radeon™ HD 2400 series of products into one system no longer results in the AA filter box failing to become greyed out when enabling CrossFire™ and setting AA to 8x.
- Playing an HD-DVD title using the Cyberlink player no longer results in corruption or the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond after a short period of playback time.
- Setting the display resolution to either 1776x1024 or 1920x1024 30i no longer results in the display devices failing to resume from an S3 state.
- The Cyberlink player no longer fails after playing interlaced VC1 video for a short period of time.
- Dithering is no longer noticed with MPEG2 playback.
- Enabling extended desktop mode and dragging the media player window between the desktops no longer results in the playback stopping.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
- Call of Juarez: Enabling Super AA and CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed when playing the game.
- DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the application failing to launch and an error message being displayed.
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Flickering is no longer noticed when SuperAA is enabled.
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars: Setting the in-game options to 2560x1600 and soft particles, along with AA to 8x in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- Globe 2.1: Corruption is no longer noticed during the introduction video when CrossFire™ is enabled.
- Loki demo: Launching the demo no longer results in the introduction movie failing to display.
- STALKER: Flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game with AA set to 4x and full dynamic lighting is enabled.
- STALKER: The operating system no longer fails when attempting to play the game with CrossFire™ enabled and all in-game options set to maximum.
- HD Audio is now working when setting the desktop resolution to 640x480@60Hz under the Windows XP operating system.
- Enabling CrossFire™ and entering hibernation mode no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.
- Hot un-plugging the DFP display device when clone mode is enable no longer results in the DFP display device still appearing in the Catalyst™ Control Center.
- HD-DVD content is no longer blocked over native HDMI when using the cyberlink player.
- Connecting an HDMI display device as the secondary display no longer results in extended desktop mode failing when attempting to apply it.
- Entering hibernation mode under Windows XP no longer results in the operating system hanging when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.
- CrossFire™ no longer fails to become disabled when hot unplugging the display device from the interlink dongle.
- Connecting a Dell 30" LDC display device to an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product no longer results in flashing or no display image.
- The 2D and 3D gamma no longer appears different when using the gamma calibration tool.
- Playing the online game TianLongBaBu for an extended period of time (2 hours or more) on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD2400 or HD2600 no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
- Rotating the display device and running a directX9 sample in full-screen mode no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- Disabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting.
- Connecting a single display device to a secondary graphics adapter no longer results in extended desktop mode being applied.
- Disconnecting display device no longer results in the ability to enable the dis-connected display device within the Catalyst™ Control Center in a CrossFire™ configured system.
- Connecting a TV as the primary display device and setting the signal format to any PAL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the secondary display device when playing a media file using WinAmp or WinDVD.
- The Enable ATI Overdrive clocks for 3D applications only checkbox is now checked and grayed out when the OverDrive option in the Catalyst™ Control Center is unlocked.
- Corruption is no longer noticed when enabling Theater mode and enabling clone mode.
- Dragging the WinDVD player from the primary display to the secondary display no longer results in the player failing to respond. Further, closing the WinDVD player using the Task Manager may result in the operating system failing to respond.
- With some h.264 titles that have MPEG2 intros, playback no longer switches from hardware accelerated to software once the introductory content is finished.
- On certain products, dragging player window from primary to secondary display no longer results in hardware acceleration being disabled which resulted in the CPU usage increasing.
- DXVA is now in use when play H264/VC1 HD content on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product.
- Enabling tiling on the secondary display device when Overlay Theater Mode is enable no longer result in corruption being noticed.
- Corruption is no longer noticed on the secondary display device when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled.
- Enabling clone mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on both display devices when Overlay Theater mode is enabled and the 3D screen saver becomes active.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Prey: Corruption is no longer noticed when a player's face is two toned.
- Catalyst™ Control Center->OverDrive: The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer fails to resume from sleep mode when the ATI OverDrive page is active.


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