NEW: ATI CATALYST Drivers v4.9

**TechZ** · September 11th, 2004, 12:36 AM

ATI has released a new ATI Catalyst drivers (release notes) bringing them up to version 4.9. The package contains: RADEON display driver 8.051, Multimedia Center 9.02, HydraVision 3.25.0006, HydraVision Basic Edition 3.25.9006, Remote Wonder 2.4 and WDM version 4.07 and Southbridge/IXP Driver. There is one release with the usual ATI control panel, and another with the new Catalyst Control Center which requires .NET Version 1.1 Framework. Fixed in this driver:
XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9200 installed
Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground
IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO installed
Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
They also claim that Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled, UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 PRO RADEON 9800 PRO and RADEON 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.

**eedmond** · September 11th, 2004, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by TechZ

ATI has released a new ATI Catalyst drivers (release notes) bringing them up to version 4.9. The package contains: RADEON display driver 8.051, Multimedia Center 9.02, HydraVision 3.25.0006, HydraVision Basic Edition 3.25.9006, Remote Wonder 2.4 and WDM version 4.07 and Southbridge/IXP Driver. There is one release with the usual ATI control panel, and another with the new Catalyst Control Center which requires .NET Version 1.1 Framework. Fixed in this driver:
XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9200 installed
Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground
IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO installed
Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
They also claim that Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled, UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 PRO RADEON 9800 PRO and RADEON 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.

Anybody know what this Catalyst Control Center is? Is it worth installing or should I stick with the download without it?

**TechZ** · September 11th, 2004, 03:48 AM

control center looks damn good

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...902/index.html

**TechZ** · September 11th, 2004, 04:07 AM

Download: All-in One for Win2k/XP (Display Driver, Control Panel, WDM Capture driver)
Download: All-in-One for Win2k/XP (Display Driver, Control Panel, CATALYST Control Center, WDM Capture driver)
Download: Catalyst 4.9 Drivers for Windows 2000/XP
Download: Control Panel | CATALYST Control Center | WDM Capture driver