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cat 5.1

Release notes for 5.1s


Issues Resolved in CATALYST? Display Driver Version 5.1

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of CATALYST?. These include:

* Men of Valor: Buffering issues are no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 8500 or 9100 series installed
* Myst URU Ages Beyond Myst: Attempting to turn 180 degrees and head towards the barb wire fence displayed within the game no longer results in the system failing to respond. This issue is known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 XT Platinum Edition installed.
* Richard Burns Rally: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? 8500/9100/9200 series installed no longer results in the trees flickering
* Sid Meier's Pirates: Enabling Anti-aliasing no longer results in video flicker being noticed when starting the game
* Playing an mpeg using the media player found in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 no longer results in the ATI VPU Recovery failing if it is disabled and then re-enabled
* Connecting a TV and a monitor to an ATI RADEON? X800 series and having the TV set as the primary display device no longer no longer results in the Video Mode remaining checked when switching to a resolution which is not supported
* Intermittent desktop corruption is no longer noticed when enabling or disabling a secondary display device
* Dragging or resizing the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 window no longer results in a VPU recovery when playing video on an HDTV
* Running Maya under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON? X800 series installed no longer results in display corruption being noticed when moving the mouse
* Attempting to add a custom timing specification such as; 960x724 for the HDTV device properties page, no longer results in the custom timing not being added to the HDTV resolution menu list.
* An error message is no longer displayed when attempting to switch a secondary display device back to the primary display device when using the CATALYST? CONTROL CENTER
* Installing the CATALYST? CONTROL CENTER under the Windows XP operating system (French version) now results in the localized French version being installed
* The text now changes and provides the correct information when changing the slider position for CATALYST? AI
* The Restore Factory Default option is now working for all sub-aspects found in the CATALYST? CONTROL CENTER 3D tab
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Dammit, I checked for these before I left for work today. They must have released them as soon as I turned on my car to leave. 😛
 
I had some installation issues:

First I unistalled Cat 4.12, used driver cleaner etc..

I installed Cat 5.1 and CCC, my CSS (i didnt try any other games) performance was much lower than normal. (Sub 30 FPS)

Uninstalled CCC, and reinstalled Cat 5.1 with normal control panel and things seem to be working fine again.

I always seem to have problems with CCC, wierd.
 
I think they made some slight improvements to CCC this time. At least the interface, because when you click on something like a tab, the response is pretty fast. It used to take like a second to react. And it hasn't crashed yet. So unlike the previous versions of CCC, I will keep this one rather than the Control Panel. Sucks that its CLI.EXE seems to be constantly taking ~8 mb of RAM, though.
 
Guys, there is more to this driver release than the CCC (piece o shite that it is). How are the drivers compared to the 4.12s? In games that is. And did ATI turn on WMV Acceleration?
 
If you don't like CCC why not go with Omega drivers?

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Omega is a beta tester for the Catalyst team and he's incorporated his own control panel bundled with Radlinker (to hell with CCC). Very nice drivers in my opinion......

Heres a quote from Terry Makedon of ATI:

"ATI supports the enthusiast community wholly. Omega Drivers are in fact a good example of ATI's user community at its best. What they are in principle are CATALYST drivers with different settings enabled via registry keys and other such methods. This provides users an alternative to ATI's CATALYST default settings. While there are a few different modification drivers out in the community our relationship with the creator of the Omega Drivers is of the highest working standard. The author of these drivers is part of the CATALYST beta driver testing team and also in direct contact with ATI. In fact we would go so far as to say that if a user chooses to go the mod driver route they go with the Omega Drivers."

 
this seems to be a consolidation release, only bug fixes and a few days ago on the driverheaven forums it was noted that the CCC is a bit faster, and i can vouch for this, it does seem a little faster. Good work ATI!
 
I installed Cat 5.1 and CCC, my CSS (i didnt try any other games) performance was much lower than normal. (Sub 30 FPS)

Uninstalled CCC, and reinstalled Cat 5.1 with normal control panel and things seem to be working fine again.

I always seem to have problems with CCC, wierd.
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I stopped using the CCC,last time I used it (4.11s) my refresh rate was stuck at 60Hz in BNC mode,anyway less bloated without the CCC and no refresh rate problems for me 🙂,btw yes I too used Driver Cleaner.

Bottom line is I`m not going to use the new CCC until I have too.
 
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