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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
Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
- OpenCL 1.0 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the ATI
Catalyst Driver Suite in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.2. If you require
an OpenCL 1.0 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the ATI
Catalyst 10.5 Driver Suite
- Catalyst Control Center: Enable dialogue reposition does not show on proper
monitor when system is configured with 4 displays
- With Hydravision "ATI Eyefinity Enhancements" enabled and radio button "Show on
application's display" selected, dialogue boxes may continue to pop up beneath the
bezels if bezels are corrected to zero
- Catalyst Control Center - Basic wizard pane or resolution combo box in "Display
Setting for Desktop Viewing" page may go blank in basic view for component video
mode
- HDMI default refresh rate may appear as 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz under HDTV in
Catalyst Control Center
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
- Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may showing deinterlacing lines
- "Borderlands" may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay
- PowerDVD may exhibits blue and pink tint and might not display smooth transition
when adjusting brightness and contrast in Catalyst Control Center when viewing
Blu-ray content
- Green texture corruption may be observed when resolution/video settings are
changed in "Metro 2033" game in DirectX 10 and 11 mode on some cards
- Desktop line corruption might be observed after powering off the DP display and
then turning it on while viewing Blu-ray content
- Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may experience audio and video
synchronization issues when viewed on some devices
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
- Corruption might be visible in "Doom 3" and "Quake 4" with ATI Radeon HD
4700 Series cards
- Performing bezel compensation on 3x2 Eyefinity configuration may cause the bezel
group (resolutions) to go missing
- All but the primary display under Eyefinity configuation might become disabled
while changing the preferred display at lowest Bezel compensated resolution
- Choppy HD playback might occur while changing color vibrance and fleshtone
correction in Catalyst Control Center - Advanced Color
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
- Minor frame drops may be observed while viewing HD interlaced content
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