ATI has released a new Catalyst driver (release notes) bringing them up to version 4.10.
ATI is claiming performance increases from 3-14% for various products, from the Radeon 9700 to the X800 series and most things in between.
Fixed in this driver:
- XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9200 installed
- Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground
- IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
- Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
- PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
- Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
- Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO installed
- Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
- Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
- Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
- Enabling a second display device followed by changing the positions of the two devices in the mapping area, no longer results in the images changing to a different unexpected position when click apply to the changes
- Setting the Overlay option back to the default setting now results in the default setting becoming active when relaunching the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
- Repeatedly switching from one custom profile and another in rapid succession no longer results in the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER failing to respond
- Canceling SMARTGART changes and exiting the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer results in the reboot message reappearing when restarting the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
- A .net error message is no longer displayed under Windows 2000 when the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER is installed from an administrator account an then attempting to launch the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER from the system tray on a secondary account
- Having the display properties page active and attempting to close the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer results in a .net exception error message appearing
- Assigning the same hotkey for Increase 3D Gamma and Decrease 3D Gamma under Windows 2000 no longer results in a .Net exception error when attempting to move the hotkey manager window around the desktop
- Disabling the primary device and selecting the secondary device to be the primary no longer results in the Information Center displaying a blank page
- The CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer reports the CPU type as Intel when installed under an AMD64 system
- Launching the Task Manager and clicking on End Process for the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER system tray option no longer results in the system tray option for the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER still be selected within the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
- Switching from the CATALYST Control Center System Skin option to the CATALYST_Quicksilver Skin option no longer results in the Toolbar area skin becoming corrupted
Supported on the RADEON 9500, RADEON 9600, RADEON 9700, RADEON 9800, RADEON X300, RADEON X600, or RADEON X800 Series of products.
Note you must have Microsofts .NET Version 1.1 Framework installed.
The package contains: RADEON display driver 8.062, Multimedia Center 9.02, Catalyst Control Center 4.10 (requires .NET Version 1.1 Framework), HydraVision 3.25.0006, HydraVision Basic Edition 3.25.9006, Remote Wonder 2.5 and WDM version 4.07 and Southbridge/IXP Driver. ATI is claiming performance increases from 3-14% for various products, from the Radeon 9700 to the X800 series and most things in between.