ATI has released version 4.12 (non beta) of
its Catalyst driver suite for the Radeon family of graphics cards. This new version promises
increases in performance for games such as Doom III, Call of Duty and Half-Life 2 of up to
20 per cent.
Performance Improvements
- Driver efficiency has improved
considerably for both Direct3D and OpenGL.
- Numerous D3D games show 2-3 per cent gains
at low resolution. The small batch size tests in 3DMark05 show improvements as large as 15
per cent on some products.
- In OpenGL, several game titles show improvements in the
lower settings. Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, for instance, shows gains as large as 15 per
cent in low resolution (driver-bound) cases. Doom III performance improves 5-10 per cent at
low settings. Call of Duty improves 5-6 per cent.
- Half-Life 2 performance also improves
as much as 20 per cent over Catalyst 4.11 in certain sections of the game.
Issues
Resolved
- Half-Life 2: Playing the game on a system containing an Athlon XP CPU no
longer results in missing textures occasionally being noticed
- Half-Life 2: Intermittent
psychedelic patterns are no longer seen when playing the game under Windows XP
-
CounterStrike: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no
longer results in display corruption being seen in the floor in de_chateau map
- Doom 3:
Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition no longer
results in display corruption being seen when pressing CTRL+Alt+Delete followed by clicking
Cancel
- Everquest: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 XT Platinum
Edition installed results in the game displaying a black screen when setting the texture
quality to high and having all radio buttons selected
- Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault:
Setting the model detail to high and change the game resolution to high no longer results in
the game failing to respond under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed
-
Tron2.0: Setting the display device resolution to 1280x1024 32bpp and setting the display
option for the game to 800x600 32bpp no longer results in display corruption being seen in
the game cinematics
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Playing the game under
Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in triple buffering
failing when enabling the option in the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
- Attempting to rotate
the display 90 degrees and play an OpenGL game under Windows XP may result in the game
failing to launch
- Enabling clone mode along with theatre mode option under overlay no
longer results in WinDVD and the operating system failing to respond when dragging the
WinDVD window around the desktop
- Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing a
DVD using WinDVD and having subtitles enabled under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800
series installed
- Attempting to make a change to a saved profile within the CATALYST
CONTROL CENTER no longer results in the Save button being greyed out
- Connecting a
secondary CRT and clicking the X button to close the Enable this display window found in the
CATALYST CONTROL CENTER Advanced view, no longer results in the window not closing
-
Muting the audio during the playback of full screen HDTV video under Windows Media Center
Edition no longer results in the video being paused
- Angle information in the rotation
modes is now correct for the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
- Enabling Overscan under Windows XP
with an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9600 installed no longer results in the image not being centered
properly on the display device
- Connecting a secondary CRT display device and extending
the desktop, followed by unplugging the secondary device and hot-plugging a DFP device no
longer results in the DFP remaining in the Additional display area when attempting to swap
devices
- The Windows desktop brightness no longer dims when playing a DVD and having an
HDTV connected as the primary display device
- Playing a DVD under Windows XP MCE with an
ATI RADEON X800 XT installed no longer results in VPU Recover being activated when
attempting to drag or resize the Media Center window
- 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.
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