ATI Catalyst 5.10 drivers up

[rbV5]

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Release notes: Check the release notes on the driver page.

New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the Catalyst? 5.10 software suite. New features include:

CrossFire? Support
Default Screen Rotation Keystrokes
Display Control Panel Extension Enhancements for Windows XP MCE
CrossFire? Support
The Catalyst? software suite 5.10 introduces support for ATI CrossFire?. ATI CrossFire? allows for multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to be placed within a single PC, providing superior gaming performance.

Default Screen Rotation Keystrokes
The Catalyst? software suite 5.10 introduces default screen rotation keystrokes. The following default hotkeys will be assigned for rotating the display:

CTRL-ALT-Up Arrow
0 degrees rotation (Normal landscape mode)

CTRL-ALT-Left Arrow
Rotate 90 degrees left (Portrait mode)

CTRL-ALT-Right Arrow
Rotate 90 degrees right

CTRL-ALT-Down Arrow
Rotate 180 degrees

Display Control Panel Extension Enhancements for Windows XP MCE
The Catalyst? software suite 5.10 introduces enhancements for the display control panel extensions for Windows XP MCE. Enhancements include the following:

Placing the ATI Setting within the Windows XP MCE main menu
A display resolution slider bar with preset display resolutions of 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p
Adjust picture to fit your desktop display
Ability to force display with current settings for display devices with incomplete or with an inaccurate EDID

Issues Resolved in Catalyst? Software Suite 5.10
The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of Catalyst?. These include:

3Dmark03: Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bbp and having Anti-Aliasing set to 6x no longer results in Windows crashing when running 3Dmark03 Mother Nature test
Dungeon Siege 2: The cursor image is now displayed properly when playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® X800 series installed
Graphedit: Watching and listening to audio/video using the composite input found on the ATI Radeon® X300/X600 no longer results in the left and right audio being swapped
Max Payne 2: Erratic mouse pointer behavior is no longer noticed within the game's menu after a short time period of game play
Pacific Fighters: Setting the display device to 1024x768 32bpp and enabling Anti-Aliasing to 6x no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the game
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: Attempting to launch the game under Windows with an ATI Radeon® X800 XL installed no longer results in an error message being displayed
Silent Hunter 3: Enabling all video options within the game and setting the particle density to 100, along with setting Anti-Aliasing to 6X and Anisotropic Filtering to 16x, no longer results in display corruption on the left portion of the display
Stronghold 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP Professional x64 edition no longer results in the game failing to load and the operating system rebooting itself
The German language control panel text no longer appears truncated when using 96 DPI
Overlay Theater Mode no longer fails to be applied on the secondary display device when using extended desktop mode
Catalyst? Control Center: Entering the Adjustments page and deselecting the option to Let the Application Decide no longer results in the Hue value not changing when moving the slider bar
Connecting two display devices to the ATI Radeon® X300/X600 no longer results in the Overlay Theater Mode failing to be applied to the primary display device
Attempting to toggle between the CRT and TV using ALT+F5 shortcut no longer fails
The red/blue components are no longer intermittently swapped when rendering images with OpenGL based Java 2D pipeline
IBM DFP BN68-30012B-06: Connecting the display device to an ATI Radeon® X300/X600 no longer results in display corruption being noticed after the installation of the ATI display driver
The ATI Radeon® X850 Pro is now properly identified in the Display Properties
Attempting to enabling clone mode under Windows XP MCE while watching TV in a windowed mode no longer results in the operating system crashing
Using a PAL version of the Microsoft operating system (XP, or XP MCE) no longer results in the region being switched from PAL to NTSC when clicking the video list found in the tuner tab of the TV function of the ATI MMC
The FM seek function found in the ATI MMC no longer operates the same as the tune function when using an ATI All-in-Wonder X800 (PAL) under the Windows XP MCE operating system

Known Issues for Catalyst? Software Suite 5.10
The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst?. These include

City of Heroes: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition may results in display corruption being notice when attempting to task-switch between the game and the desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19792
Beyond Good or Evil: Flickering artifacts are noticed on the game characters after approximately 15 minutes of game play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20795
Dark Age of Camelot: The game exits to the desktop immediately after launching, or may play for up to 15 minutes followed by a VPU Recover error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20794
Medal of Honor Allied Assaults: The game does not launch with Spearhead or Breakthrough expansion packs installed under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number. 737-20793
Neverwinter Nights: Installing the 1.66 patch along with Shadows of Undertide and Hordes add-ons result in features of the game being missing when using an ATI Radeon® 9600 SE. Further details can be found in topic number. 737-20792
Catalyst? Control Center: The SmartShader? effect is not removed from the 3D preview when attempting to restore the default values in the Catalyst? Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20846
The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode found under the Catalyst? Control Center Video standard settings is grayed out when playing a media file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-497
Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X700 series may result in the HDTV being detected as a CRT or TV under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20783
Attempting to install the integrated WDM driver under Windows XP may result in an error message being displayed indicating that the hardware is not installed because the install Wizard cannot find the necessary software. Further details can be found in topic number. 737-20784
Connecting a CRT and a TV may result in the TV not being automatically detected under Windows XP MCE when using an ATI Radeon® 9550/9600/9650 series. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20785
Using the Custom option when installing the software driver results in the Theater 550 software driver not being present. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20786
Catalyst? Control Center: The menu items in the Deinterlacing aspect page of the Catalyst? Control Center maybe missing when selecting Simplified Chinese as the supported language. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20787
Catalyst? Control Center: Enabling East Asian language support may result in the Apply, Discard and Defaults buttons being invisible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20788
Vertical striping corruption maybe noticed when running the Windows XP MCE TV when using an ATI All-in-Wonder? X600 series. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20789
Connecting a DVD player to the ATI All-in-Wonder? X600 may result in the left and right audio channels being reversed when using the Windows XP MCE operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20790
Enabling CrossFire support on a system using three display device may result in corruption remaining on the secondary or third display devices when disabling the displays. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20791

Edit: Removed Release notes link due to "unauthorized access" message began appearing (link was good)

 

[Megatomic]

I'll give 'em a go when I get home later tonight. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Unkno]

...wonder when they would add multi-threaded drivers...

 

[Megatomic]

Hopefully not until after they rewrite the OpenGL drivers. They promised that to us long before dual core chips ever hit the streets.

 

[Killrose]

I wonder if the X1800XT/Xl get a boost from these?

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Killrose
I wonder if the X1800XT/Xl get a boost from these?

Thats what you would think after a new gen was just lauched.

 

[TomKazansky]

Originally posted by: Killrose
I wonder if the X1800XT/Xl get a boost from these?

the catalysts don't even support x1800 series as of now (even in the 5.10s)

 

[VIAN]

nothing for me (brother's comp), not gonna bother

 

[Beef Taco]

I'll download it right now and run 3DMark05 and see if the score increases...then i'll actually play BF2 and see if it is any better.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Bah, what's this 'create an account' BS? I've never seen that before. I'll download it later.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Bah, what's this 'create an account' BS? I've never seen that before. I'll download it later.

Maybe its my link?...I'll change it to ATI's homepage in case thats the issue.

 

[Beef Taco]

Wow, i got 2 more points in 3DMark05...now it's at 4754. Not that much better...

 

[NFS4]

Any Cat 10 mobility yet?

 

[Superguy]

Oh good. I was wondering about that funky cursor in Dungeon Siege 2. Glad they fixed that.

 

[BFG10K]

Good to see the MOHAA issue has been added.

 

[ITPaladin]

Didn't they JUST release 5.9?

I JUST installed them bleh.

I see still no mention of EQ II VPU recovery problem.

 

[BigfootKevin]

Bah, i'm probably the only one here who plays Dark Age of Camelot :[ lol

 

[videopho]

Worst ATI driver release ever, at least for me anyway! 3dmark05 drops a whopping 1000 on my rig:-(
It was late & too tired to investigate. Rolled right back to 5.9 and the rig is happy once again

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Any Cat 10 mobility yet?

Customer Care fuburs my links, so look for the notebook drivers at ATI.com

Catalyst? Mobility? 5.10 Release Note

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This release note provides information on the firstposting of the ATI Catalyst? Mobility? software driver version 5.10. This unified driver utilizes the full functionality of ATI Mobility? products, and is Microsoft WHQL certified for the Windows XP operating system.

The Catalyst? Mobility? 5.10 release note for Windows XP provides information on the following:

Web Content
Operating Systems Supported
System Integrator and Original Design Manufactures Support
ATI Mobility? product family support
Resolved Issues
Known Issues
ATI Customer Care
Catalyst? Crew Driver Feedback
Web Content
The Catalyst? Mobility? 5.10 software suite for Windows XP contains the following:

Radeon® display driver 8.18
Catalyst? Control Center version 5.10
Operating Systems Supported
The Catalyst? Mobility? software driver is Microsoft WHQL certified for the Windows XP operating system. ATI Technologies Inc. recommends that Windows XP service pack 2 or higher be installed.

System Integrator and Original Design Manufactures Support
The ATI Catalyst? Mobility? software driver verifies system requirements before installation. The ATI Catalyst? Mobility? software driver provides support for the following System Integrators and Original Design Manufactures:

Alienware
FCI
rockdirect

Arima
HyperSonic PC
Sager

Clevo
Mitac
Uniwill

Eurocom
MSI
Velocity Micro

Falcon Northwest
Pro-Star
VoodooPC



ATI Mobility? product family support
The Catalyst? Mobility? software suite for Windows XP is designed to support the following ATI Mobility? products:

Mobility? Radeon® X800 XT
Mobility? Radeon® X800
Mobility? Radeon® X700
Mobility? Radeon® X600
Mobility? Radeon® X300
Mobility? Radeon® 9800
Mobility? Radeon® 9700 series
Mobility? Radeon® 9600 series

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Note: Certain mobile products are blocked from downloading the Catalyst? Mobility? software driver available from the ATI web site. This is to protect systems from installing drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacture.

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Resolved Issues
This section provides information on issues that have been resolved in the latest release of the Catalyst Mobility software suite.

Changing the PowerPlay? mode to either Balanced or Optimal Battery Life no longer results in display corruption and or the operating system failing to respond
Moving the mouse cursor while hotkey switching from TV to LCD no longer results in the inability to move the mouse cursor to right or bottom of display
DVD playback no longer appears to lag when the Catalyst Control Center has been installed on systems containing an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 series
Using either Windows Media Player or PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in slow performance being noticed when using either AC or DC mode
Known Issues
This section provides information on known issues associated with the CATALYST? 5.10 software driver for Windows XP.

The Apply button found throughout the Catalyst Control Center remains active and the confirmation dialog box for certain aspect changes fails to appear. However, user requested changes do take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20558
Enabling the Same on All option found in the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option of the Theater Mode setting in the Catalyst Control Center followed by swapping the displays by dragging and dropping the main display along with the HDTV display may result in the operating system rebooting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19824
Catalyst Control Center: An MMACEPrev.exe error message may occur when using the Catalyst Control Center for an extended period of time. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20763
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker: An NMI error message occurs after selecting Capture from Video Device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20765

 

[Diasper]

Any improvement on those of still using the late but great 9800s? : )