ATi Catalyst 8.9 – Hardwaretreiber.de

Von AMD gibt es die September-Ausgabe der ATI Catalyst Treibersoftware.

Release Highlights:

Catalyst™ Control Center: New Display mode support:
This release of Catalyst™ introduces 1080p @ 50Hz custom mode support for HDTVs for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, and ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products. Users can configure their own custom 1080p @ 50Hz modes to best fit their display.
OverDrive™ support for QUAD CrossFireX configurations:
This release of Catalyst™ introduces Overdrive support for QUAD CrossFireX configurations. Users can now over-clock each graphics accelerator’s engine or memory speed when running in QUAD CrossFire configurations using manual controls or the automated auto-tuning utility.
OpenGL™ 3.0 extension support:
This release of Catalyst™ introduces OpenGL™ 3.0 extension support. In upcoming Catalyst™ releases AMD will continue to expand its support for OpenGL 3.0 extensions.

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Release Notes Windows Vista:

Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels no
longer results in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has
completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number
737-32600
Quake 4: Corruption is no longer noticed during the new game introduction
Playing a Blu-ray DVD title may result in corruption being
intermittently noticed when using certain display resolutions such as
1360×768, 1360×1024, or 1600×1200
DiRT: Setting shadows to ultra quadCF no longer results in a
performance drop being noticed. Further details can be found in topic
number 737-37320
Assassins Creed: Brightness and saturation distortion is no longer
observed during game play with ForceAA enabled. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-37327
Grid: Enabling CrossFire and starting a new game no longer results
in flickering bands being noticed across the display device. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-37331
Jericho: Corruption is no longer noticed when AA is enabled and the
in-game option Advanced Smoothing is enabled. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-37332
Age of Conan: Playing the game for a short period of time no longer
results in flickering corruption being noticed. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-37333
Enabling BOB de-interlacing no longer results in a green line being
noticed on the bottom of the playback window when playing a 1080i clip.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-35895
Playing certain Blu-Ray DVD titles using the Cyberlink player no
longer result in color corruption being noticed. This issue may be
experienced under the Windows Vista (32 bit version) operating system
when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 product
The Blu-ray DVD movie image no longer fails to rotated when the
player window is drag to an extend monitor which rotated 180 degree.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37329
Switching from h.264 to MPEG2 video titles no longer results in the
operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in
topic number 737-37322
VC1 streams with Interlaced Frame and Slice features no longer
results in picture corruption and flicker in VLD sites. Further details
can be found in topic number 737-37324
Playing a DVD title using the Windows Media Player no longer
results in the user defined Avivo Video settings failing to be applied.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37317
Playing a DVD title using the PowerDVD player no longer results in
the PowerDVD player failing to respond when DXVA is disabled, closed
captioning is enabled and the user is fast forwarding the DVD title
anywhere from 4x to 32x. Further details can be found in topic number
737-37328
Clicking on the seek slider when playing a DVD title using the
PowerDVD player no longer results in corruption being noticed on the
playback window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-37323
Resuming from power saving mode on a system with an HDMI TV
connected no longer results in the operating system failing to resume.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37318
Using a hot-key command to switch between an HDMI display device
and any other display device no longer fails. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-37330

Release Note Windows XP:

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Flickering is no longer noticed when changing chapters
Stranglehold: Setting the in-game options to 1024×768, and Decals
off no longer results in the game failing to respond after a short
period of game play
World in Conflict (DX9): Enabling CrossFire no longer results in
flashing corruption and the game intermittently failing to respond.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37341
Oblivion: Setting the display option to 2048X1536 and AA to either
8x or 16x, while having the in-game options remain at their default
values no longer results in the game failing to respond. Further
details can be found in topic number 737-37342
Hellgate London: Enabling AA to 8x, AF to 16x and setting Mipmap
Detail Level to High Performance, along with AAA set to Performance no
longer results in textures being missing when playing the game 8x.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37343
Witcher: Game corruption is no longer noticed when setting all of
the in-game options to their maximum values and having CrossFire
enabled along with AA set to 16x and AF set to 8x. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-37344
Spore: Playing the game in a windowed mode on the secondary display
device no longer results in poor performance being noticed when AA is
set to 8x. Further details can be found in topic number 737-37345
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts: Enabling CrossFire no longer
results in the displays flashing corruption when setting the in game
graphics options to off or their lowest settings. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-35118
Age of Conan: The inventory icons may show corruption when playing
the game with CrossFire™ enabled. This issue may also be experienced
under the Windows Vista operating system as well. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-34825
Catalyst Control Center->Theater Mode->Video Aspect Ratio:
The default settings no longer fail to be restored when clicking on the
Default button. Further details can be found in topic number 737-37337
Setting the display mode to 1080p50 and rebooting the system no longer results in the display mode failing to be retained
Cropped text is no longer noticed when changing the language option
and DPI setting from their default values. Further details can be found
in topic number 737-37334
Setting the language option to Polish no longer results in the
hot-key Ctrl+alt+C being active resolving issues with Polish keyboards.
Further details can be found in topic number 737-37335
Certain supported languages no longer display cropped text within
the Display Options of the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can
be found in topic number 737-37336
Resuming from hibernation mode no longer results in the TV signal
failing to be restored. Further details can be found in topic number
737-37338
Closed captioning no longer fails under the Windows XP and Windows
XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be
found in topic number 737-37339
The FM seek function under Windows MCE no longer fails to find
radio stations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-37340
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Operating System
64-Bit: Momentary screen flicker may intermittently be noticed when
launching or exiting a D3D or OpenGL application. This issue may be
experienced on systems running the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
operating system and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 product