New Catalyst 10.7 available now!!

[evolucion8]

The New Catalyst 10.7 drivers set were just released 4 minutes ago, download and share your results with us, hopefully it shouldn't be horrible like the 10.6 drivers set.

New Features

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

�� ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements

�� Enhanced Pull-down detection

�� ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays

�� ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player

ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements

�� Maximizing a window across displays will now take user defined bezel compensation
into account

�� Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to
ensure title bar visibility

�� Proper dialog box placement - dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind
bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display

Enhanced Pull-down detection

�� The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on
certain types of video content

�� Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays

�� This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI
CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display
configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX™
technology

ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player

�� Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media
Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources

�� Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of
products

�� Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.7:

�� Borderlands

�� Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and ATI Radeon™ HD
5700 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and
anisotropic filtering is enabled

�� Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 single card and
CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

�� Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI Radeon™ HD
5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering
is enabled

�� Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series single card and
CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
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:

�� "Current Setting" indicator will now appear when "Windows desktop" option is
selected in "Catalyst™ Control Center - Basic" for specific CV resolutions
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:

�� "Desktop Window Manager has stopped working" error no longer appears after
driver installation on specific cards

�� ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire™
configurations

�� Screen no longer turns blank when flashlight is turned on in "The Chronicles of
Riddick 2" with Screen Space Ambient Occlusion enabled

�� Running Unigine Heaven 2.1 (OpenGL) with "Tessellation" enabled no longer causes
system to fail

�� Player no longer exits abruptly while changing basic quality settings in Catalyst™
Control Center

�� Browser no longer fails after repeated system suspend/resume and video playback
pauses while viewing YouTube content
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:

�� ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire™
configurations

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:

�� "Age Of Empires: The Rise of Rome" no longer fails and display error message when
the diplomacy button is clicked

�� Flickering no longer observed when task switching between game and desktop with
Alt+Tab in "Need for Speed: Shift" game

 

[Scali]

Ah, at last... I was starting to worry that they might not get a release out this month.
I'd better grab them right away... could be the last Catalysts I'll be using in quite a while

 

[SSChevy2001]

Finally some performance improvements for the 4800 series. I'll check this out right away!

 

[solofly]

Installing....

 

[Zargon]

will someone tell me if they can run BC2 in crossfire on 4800 series with these please!

had enough fun with 10.6 to not change again for another few months

 

[konakona]

no AA in SC 2 though?

Not that it matters to me, I suck at RTS

 

[stag3]

i think 10.4's with the hotfix was the best bc2 driver set so far

doesnt seem like anything much to the 10.7's

 

[solofly]

...and going back to 10.4s as it is the last stable driver for me and BC2...

Now Im pissed and considering going back to nvidia...

 

[Wreckage]

Now Im pissed and considering going back to nvidia...

Wow, that may be one of the most shocking statements I have read in this forum.

EDIT: On as side note, I do use Catalyst drivers for my tuner card. But I have not seen any updates listed. Are these listed in a separate section maybe? My cable company is dropping analog and I need to see if I can get QAM working.

 

[ParadoxDenmark]

Still using 10.4, the 10.6 kept giving my the BSOD on my Crossfire system.

Let me try this...

 

[Gikaseixas]

i have 10.5 and will not update until they release something GOOD. It's too soon to know about these still so i'm waiting...

 

[ParadoxDenmark]

I was curious about the small increase in overall speed, so I ran the Just Cause 2 Concrete Benchmark with the installed 10.4 drivers and got 48 FPS average.

Installed the 10.7 drivers and profiles, and now I'm getting 37 FPS with the exact same settings.

What the hell

 

[Jacky60]

Oh dear as an ATI fan I'm serisously considering moving back to the green camp. No profile update for Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead means my 5970/5870 tri-fire system uses one (yes just 1!!) of my GPU's. Sort this s**t out ATI I'm losing patience. Oh and some performance increases in demanding games would be nice rather than 3D mark and irrelevant benchmarks.

 

[evolucion8]

Try the following for Crossfire support, go to the registry and find or create a 32-Bit DWORD with the name MVPUMode and use the following values for the desired effect.:

3100 - AFR
3200 - scissor
3300 - super tiling
3400 - super FSAA

Or rename the game's exe to AFR-FriendlyD3D.exe and try. It worked for me in lots of games except Assassin Creed 2 which would flicker, but using V-Sync fixed the issue.

 

[Lord Banshee]

Wow bug fix in Age of Empires: RoR lol.. Glad they are still fixing bugs in games 12+ years old

 

[coolVariable]

Still no bug fix for black screen from waking when using a HDMI connected display!

 

[OCGuy]

No thanks

I dont see any reason to change from 10.4 for my 5850.

 

[Bateluer]

Wow bug fix in Age of Empires: RoR lol.. Glad they are still fixing bugs in games 12+ years old

Hey now, don't dis the classics. Been a long time since they made games that good.

VLC 1.1.1 GPU acceleration is good though.

 

[SolMiester]

...and going back to 10.4s as it is the last stable driver for me and BC2...

Now Im pissed and considering going back to nvidia...

Keeping this for a sig...........

 

[Keysplayr]

...and going back to 10.4s as it is the last stable driver for me and BC2...

Now Im pissed and considering going back to nvidia...

Solofly, at this rate, you're going to run out of vid card companies to hate!
I can't test anything anymore because I got rid of my 5870 even before the 10.4's came out.
But I'll say you guys have my sympathies.

 

[lavaheadache]

and that 5870 is still running happily in my rig keyes....

Ill give these drivers a go in a lil bit and chime back in

 

[solofly]

Now the only question left is, will two 460's be enough or will I need 470's to satisfy my hunger ...

 

[SolMiester]

deleted...missread

 

[happy medium]

Where are the game performance upgrades?
Nvidia just keeps getting faster and I haven't seen a good ATI improvement in games in a while.
Neither has Anand's review crew....
Quote from Anands gtx 460 review...
"As for our Radeon cards,we are continuing to use the 10.3 drivers. Radeon 5000 series performance has not changed for the games in our suite since those driver where released"

The 10.4's did help my powerplay problems though and my dual monitor flickering problem.

 

[Sylvanas]

Where are the game performance upgrades?

10.4's 10.6's had performance improvements, as does this release for Borderlands. Nvidia has release 2 solid performance drivers since release, ATI has released many more than that since release (naturally, they had a 6month head start). The way the driver team operates you cannot expect every month a new driver that increases every game by 5%, it would be nice if that happned but driver teams need to prioritise other things many months prior (it takes 2 months generally from when a driver is 'finnished' to when it arrives with WHQL certification for download). These priorities may be panel scaling, video features or bug fixes, none of which are trivial investments.