News Catalyst 6.5 Released

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This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:
- Overlay Theater Mode Update
- Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations. The PCI Express bandwidth optimization code in Catalyst® 6.5 brings performance improvements for both the ATI Radeon® X1600 and Radeon® X1300 Crossfire configurations, including:
- Up to 23% gain in UT2004
- Up to 20% gain in Splinter Cell

Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.5
- 3DMark05: Running the application with CrossFire enabled and then attempting to hot un-plug and then hot-plug the CRT no longer results in 3DMark05 failing to respond.

- Aquamark 3: Exiting the Start Measurement benchmark test once it is complete no longer results in the display device displaying a black desktop image with only the mouse cursor being available.

- Doom 3: Beginning a new game and selecting the shotgun in the give all console no longer results in corruption being noticed when Ultra Quality is disabled in the in game video quality settings.

- Far Cry: Installing the v1.33 patch and selecting D3D along with setting the display to 1024x768 English no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when running the benchmark.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling clone mode no longer results in the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI Radeon® X700 series product.

- The MCE encoder no longer fails to install after the installation of the ATI display driver, WDM driver, and MMC software.

- The display device no longer fades to black when attempting to do an inf install of the display driver.

- Connecting a CRT and disconnecting a TV followed by entering suspend mode and disconnecting the CRT no longer results in the LCD display failing to resume from suspend mode.

- Disconnecting a TV and connecting a CRT while in hibernation mode no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image when resuming from hibernation mode.

- Connecting a Sharp 32 inch LCD TV using the DVI connector no longer results in the a display mode of 659x496 being displayed when setting the display to 640x480.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Advanced Mode: Incorrect text and cropped text is no longer noticed when selecting Japanese as the language for the Catalyst® Control Center.

- Clicking Start->All Programs->Catalyst® Control Center->Advanced->Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the Catalyst® Control Center Basic View launching.

- The HDTV formats list no longer becomes empty after changing the display mode from extended desktop mode to clone mode.

- The Windows MCE operating system no longer fails to respond when doing a TV channel scan when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 (PAL).

- A .net 2.0 error message is no longer displayed during the installation under the Windows 2000 SP4 Chinese version.

- Using the Catalyst® Control Center to change the skin to the ATI Catalyst® Crimson no longer results in the ATI Quicksilver skin being applied.

- Running the automated clock configuration utility found in the Overdrive aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.

- Enabling Picture-in-picture no longer results in the windowed TV image failing to respond when changing the TV channel.

- Catalyst® Control Center: A VPU Recover warning window no longer fails to be displayed when an ASIC reset occurs.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a secondary CRT display device no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display an image after completing the Catalyst® Control Center->Easy Setup Wizard.

- Applying the Custom settings found in the CV aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the custom setting being lost when the system is rebooted.

- Running SFR in 720p on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X1800 series no longer results in line corruption being noticed when CrossFire is enabled.

- Connecting a TV and a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 series no longer results in the secondary LCD being display when shutting down and disconnecting the TV.

- The operating system no longer fails to respond when connecting a DVO dongle to an ATI Radeon® 7000 series.

- Adding a new custom HDTV mode no longer results in the custom mode not being available in the Catalyst® Control Center Display Manager.

- The predefined HDTV modes are no longer missing from the CV aspect page in the Catalyst® Control Center.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling clone mode may result in the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI Radeon® X700 series product.

- The display mode of 1024x768@60Hz is now included in Catalyst® Control Center for component video output.

- The HDTV Support aspect is now available under the Monitor Properties when using Advanced View in the Catalyst® Control Center.

- Connecting an HDTV using the CV dongle and setting the power option to turn the monitor off after one minute no longer results in the HDTV failing to resume.

- An HDMI detection message is now displayed when hot plugging an HDMI display device.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Truncated and cut-off text is no longer noticed in various supported languages.

- Black cubes and fog function no longer fail when testing GLView.

- Two error messages are no longer displayed in the event viewer after the installation of the driver

- Using the hot-key function to change an LCD display panel setting no longer results in the LCD Panel Properties found in the Catalyst® Control Center failing to be updated with the current setting.

- Catalyst® Control Center: Basic View: Enabling Use Advanced view 3D settings in the 3D Quality and Performance Setting no longer results in the Catalyst® Control Center reverting back to Use Basic 3D setting below.

- Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 series and toggling between a full screen DOS session and Windows, no longer results in vertical lines appearing on the secondary display device.

- The operating system no longer restarts multiple verdana after unplugging the power cable to the slave card and using only the master card.

- Using the composite connectors to connect a CRT and TVout to an ATI Radeon® X1600 or 1300 no longer results in the TVout failing to display the desktop image when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.

- NaviSet V1.1.10: Connecting an NEC display device to an ATI Radeon® X1600 series may result in the Monitor Adjustment dialog box stating No DDC/CI monitors detected.

- The Catalyst® Control Center TV Properties no longer lists H/PAL as an appropriate, third format for countries that do not support this format.

- An un-necessary hyphen next to the Go to ATI.com option found in the German version of the Catalyst® Control Center is now removed.

- Connecting two display devices using a DVI-CRT and DVI-CV dongles no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.

- The submenu Formats fields found in the TV Properties are no longer blank when setting the TV standard to PAL within the Catalyst® Control Center.

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