New ATi Catalyst 9.10 drivers

[evolucion8]

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon?
Display Driver. These include the following:

?? GPU acceleration for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converting application

?? Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

?? GPU acceleration for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video
converting application

?? This release of ATI Catalyst? provides GPU support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop
video converter application found in the Windows 7 Operating System. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon? HD 5800, ATI Radeon? HD 5700 and ATI Radeon?
HD 4000 Series of products.

?? Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

?? This release of ATI Catalyst? provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the
ATI Radeon? HD 5800 Series. Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing
image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance
levels.

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems

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

?? The video preview in Avivo? Video - Basic Quality page in Catalyst Control Center
no longer flickers while playing SD/HD Blu-ray titles

?? Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the Catalyst Control
Center - TV Properties Adjustments page

?? The display mode page will now refresh properly when selecting another display
from drop down menu in Catalyst Control Center with two displays connected in
extended mode

?? "Component Video Properties" is no longer incorrectly listed under the "Quick
Settings" tab under Catalyst Control Center - Basic view in extended mode

?? Changes to the Avivo? Video Presets page in Catalyst Control Center can now be
applied and will not revert back to the default settings

?? The "Use Application Settings" checkbox in Avivo? Video Presets page can now be
unchecked in Catalyst Control Center

?? Changes to the ?All Settings? and ?Basic Quality? pages in Catalyst Control Center -
Avivo? Video will now be retained after reboot

?? Switching profile settings in Avivo? Video - Basic Quality page now functions
properly in Catalyst Control Center

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System


This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst?
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:

?? EA Sports startup logo screen for "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08" will no longer
disappear or turn black

?? Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when
anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560x1600

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:

?? Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" no
longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations

?? Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific
HDMI displays with Tripod and Quad CrossFire enabled configurations

?? Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems
configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and Firestream ASIC in the
secondary PCIe slot

?? "Combat Mission Shock Force" no longer fails after a duration of game play

?? Intermittent flashing no longer visible in Windows with ViewSonic VE150m
Displays

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:

?? Catalyst Control Center: The DTV (HDMI) Pixel Format settings will now be
restored when a HDMI display is hotplugged back after a DVI display is hotplugged
and unplugged during the interval to the same port

?? System no longer reboots or displays a black screen while executing ATI Stream
applications with a particular combination of ASICs set as primary and secondary

?? "Force maximum performance clocks" option is now available for the second ASIC
in the Catalyst Control Center system tray when two R700 ASICs are connected

?? Corruption no longer observed during Blu-ray DVD H.264/VC-1 content playback

?? Different Presets/Basic Color options can now be selected under Avivo? Video in
Catalyst Control Center Advanced View

 

[videogames101]

Installing - What is "Drag and Drop video converting application?"

 

[SunnyD]

I wonder what a "Tripod" configuration is......

 

[bryanW1995]

we had a guy on my football in high school named "tripod". I have no idea why.

 

[MarcVenice]

Originally posted by: videogames101
Installing - What is "Drag and Drop video converting application?"

I think drag and drop means you can drag whatever kind of video, in pretty much any format (but I'm sure some formats aren't supported) and drop it onto your zune. It will automatically convert, and it uses the gpu to accelerate it.

When I asked AMD if this would work for ipods too, I got a big fat no. I asked them what they were thinking, because I could be wrong, but ipods, iphones etc, are the most common. But, I think it has something to do with Apple, Itunes and stuff.

Also, don't get TOO excited, because afaik, the quality kinda sucks. But then again, on such a small screen you might not even notice. I'd have to try it myself, but I don't have a zune, because eh, M$ doesn't sell em in europe )

 

[Barfo]

No NFS:Shift optimizations

 

[SSChevy2001]

Any benchmarks against the 9.11 beta?

 

[mikek753]

looks like no L5.1 profile support for .264 ... :-(

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice

Originally posted by: videogames101
Installing - What is "Drag and Drop video converting application?"

I think drag and drop means you can drag whatever kind of video, in pretty much any format (but I'm sure some formats aren't supported) and drop it onto your zune. It will automatically convert, and it uses the gpu to accelerate it.

When I asked AMD if this would work for ipods too, I got a big fat no. I asked them what they were thinking, because I could be wrong, but ipods, iphones etc, are the most common. But, I think it has something to do with Apple, Itunes and stuff.

Also, don't get TOO excited, because afaik, the quality kinda sucks. But then again, on such a small screen you might not even notice. I'd have to try it myself, but I don't have a zune, because eh, M$ doesn't sell em in europe )

Yeah, AMD is referring to Media Foundation Transcode.

It's really a PITA to use right now, because it's only exposed in a handful of situations. At the moment that's limited to PMPs that do drag and drop file loading through Explorer, and DLNA devices that can receive H.264 video but not something like WMV. There's no way to currently use it outside of those situations.

Apple could conceivably use it, but they would need to program iTunes to use MFT.

 

[ronnn]

So I guess it will be called the zune drag and drop benchmark. I love marketing.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: Barfo
No NFS:Shift optimizations

Although I sense a little bit of a performance improvement over cat 9.9, NFS shift still works like crap on some tracks.

 

[n7]

I'm not seeing anything about Centering Timings WORKING in there. :|

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
we had a guy on my football in high school named "tripod". I have no idea why.

he had a third leg

 

[phexac]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
we had a guy on my football in high school named "tripod". I have no idea why.

It's supposed to mean he's got a huge dick...hence tripod cuz it's so big he rests upon it as well as the 2 legs...do I need to go on?

 

[Mem]

I installed these lastnight on my Win7 x64 Ultimate, tried a few games however no issues to report (as usual).

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: phexac

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
we had a guy on my football in high school named "tripod". I have no idea why.

It's supposed to mean he's got a huge dick...hence tripod cuz it's so big he rests upon it as well as the 2 legs...do I need to go on?

No, I think that's enough. Us males already feel inferior enough after your initial description.

 

[n7]

Awesome :frown:

No centered timing still.

Looks like i'm going to have to go back to Vista, as i'm having that & other video-related issues in 7.

/not happy

 

[nOOky]

Installed these yesterday on my 4870 1 gig/Vista Ultimate machine. First time I've ever had a blue screen in Vista, I'm assuming it was these drivers. Playing Crysis single player the machine restarted on me. It could be coincidence, but I think not. The new ATI drivers were the only change I've made. I intend to see if it happens again, if so I'll revert back to an older version.
Not happy with ATI's or nvidia's drivers of late.