Official ATI/AMD 7.4 are available now

[beezee]

Just an FYI peeps...

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[Tefra]

thx beezee

Let's see how this release is doing, i wasn't very impressed by the 7.3 iq in some specific games was awful.

New Features

This release of Catalyst™ introduces the Avivo Video Converter for the Vista (32-bit) operating system. The Avivo Video Converter is a tool that provides a quick and easy way of converting videos from one format to another. The Avivo Video Converter found within the Catalyst™ Control Center accepts a wide variety of file formats as a source, and outputs to file formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX, WMA, H.264/AVC and more.
Performance Improvements

OpenGL performance under the Microsoft Vista operating system improves for all Radeon™ X1000 series of products, in both single card and hardware CrossFire™ configurations. Typical Improvements of 15% or more can be seen in games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey, with enthusiast class of products seeing improvements of 30% or more.


Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

- * Battlefield 2: A momentary split screen is no longer seen when launching the game with AA enabled.
- * City of Heroes: Changing the display resolution to 2560x1600 or higher no longer results in the game failing to run.
- * Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Undrentide: Attempting to play the game under the Windows Vista operating system (64bit version) no longer results in the opening cinematic failing to play when using an LCD display device.
- * Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Under tide: Attempting to play the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X800/850 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in game failing to respond after playing the opening cinematic.
- * Quake 4: game corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system when using an ATI Radeon™ 9800 XT product.
- * Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI: Texture corruption is no longer noticed in the terrain of the game.
- * Unreal Tournament 2004: Playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1600 and running the Vista operating system no longer results in display corruption being noticed.
- * OverDrive™ now functions as expected under the Windows Vista operating system when running an OpenGL application.
- * The Reactivate ATI color controls option found in the Catalyst™ Control Center->color aspect no longer remains greyed out when attempting to reactivate the option.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center: Making changes to the color depth for the first time no longer results in the color depth reverting to 8bpp.
- * Attempting to run TV in the Windows Vista media center no longer results in the operating system rebooting.
- * Connecting a TV as a secondary display device no longer results in the extended desktop feature failing to be applied on the first attempt.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center: The 60Hz option is no longer listed twice in the Display Option->3D Refresh Rate Override.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->Color aspect: An unhandled exception error is no longer displayed when clicking both the mouse buttons on the sliders.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->Video->Color Page: The Help page is now displayed when pressing F1.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->Basic View->3D: Setting the slider to Balanced mode followed by exiting the Catalyst™ Control Center and then re-launching the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the slider position moving to High Performance.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->Basic View->Incorrect Current Setting is no longer shown in Content Viewing Selection for Component Video aspect.
- * The product name no longer fails to be displayed when editing the custom view of the Catalyst™ Control Center.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->Hotkeys Manager: The option to Toggle Internal Panel Scaling modes is no longer listed when connecting a non-LCD display device.
- * The ATI OverDrive™ Defaults button is now enabled.
- * Multiple entries are no longer listed for some the aspects found in the Catalyst™ Control Center Help contents.
- * The Force TV option is no longer active after deselecting the option and then re-launching the Catalyst™ Control Center.
- * The LCD brightness level is now be retained when resuming from an S3 or S4 state.
- * Attempting to resume from an S3 state no longer results in the display remaining blank and only the mouse cursor becoming active.
- * Connecting a CRT and a TV to a system containing an ATI Radeon X1200/1250 series of product no longer results in the TV going blank when changing the TV format from NTSC to PAL or visa versa.
- * Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATI Radeon X1200/1250 series of product no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when attempting to resume from an S3 state by pressing the power button.
- * The Catalyst™ Control Center no longer fails to launch under the Windows Vista operating system.
- * The Windows Vista operating system no longer reports and incorrect amount of shared system memory on 512MB integrated systems.
- * Performing a custom un-install of the graphics driver no longer results in the Vista operating system failing to respond.
- * Connecting a TV using an S-Video cable to a system containing an ATI Radeon X1650 series of product no longer results in a blank display when attempting to resume from an S3 state.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

- * 3DMark03-GT3: Display corruption is no longer noticed when running the application on a system using an ATI Radeon X1650 product.
- * Call of Duty: Setting AA to either 2 or 4x no longer results in display corruption or the Vista operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Radeon X800/850 series of product.
- * Dungeon Lord: Minor and intermittent display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled.
- * Prey: Using the mouse to maneuver around the game screen no longer results in corruption being noticed.
- * Tribal Trouble: Launching the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900/1950 product and running Windows XP no longer results in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond.
- * Choppy playback of media previews and captured files is no longer noticed in the media center and movie maker after applying WMP 11 update. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
- * A Microsoft .NET Framework error no longer appears when switching between user accounts and or toggling between Catalyst™ Control Center skins.
- * Making changes to the 3D-All Setting aspect no longer results in the SmoothVision slider and labels failing to be redrawn properly.
- * The response time for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer appears slow when attempting to make changes to the display devices when having both a CRT and HDTV connected and extended desktop mode enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system.
- * Catalyst™ Control Center->3D: Setting AA to 4x and attempting to read a PDF using Adobe PDF Reader version 8.0 no longer results in corruption being noticed when setting the reader preferences to Page Display found within the Categories options.
- * Desktop brightness is now restored on the secondary display device after a full screen OpenGL game exits.
- * Momentary display corruption is no longer noticed when changing the color depth on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon X1800 series product.


Important notice:
Catalyst 7.4 does not support X1600 Pro with HDMI, please continue to use Catalyst 7.3.

[Widkidone]

You both beat me to it! Good Job guys! Seems like this is an update week for alot of things. Catalyst, Thunderbird, etc....

[weasel]

damn the 7.3's where replaced fast are they that bad?

[Tefra]

Quote:

Originally Posted by weasel damn the 7.3's where replaced fast are they that bad?

Yeap

Cat 7.4 are much better, in 7.3 i had a lot of flickering even artifacts in many games.

[GIBF4]

Sounds promising Tefra.
Have downloaded these set and shall install tonight! Hope those bring me something too

[GIBF4]

Yahoo!! It indeed brought me some improvement alright!
Games do load faster (so I believe they now do at least), gameplay more smooth, more fluent! FPS remain the same, but who cares.

Best set up to now I reckon! I am happy.
Anyone else with these same experiences?

[Widkidone]

Download

Enjoy!

[weasel]

lol the ati users are happy waranakin can make'em even better with his warcat magic !

[GIBF4]

Hey Weasel!
The "Red" squad is happy alright
How are things on the "green" side of life??.....