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ATI/AMD has released a new version of its drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Version 7.6 of the ATI Catalyst drivers bring many bug fixes and comes with: Display Driver, Catalyst Control Center and WDM Drivers.

Performance Improvements
- Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Dark Messiah Might and Magic performance improves on the ATI Radeon™ HD2900 XT Crossfire configurations. Improvements of 16% or more can be seen with HDR enabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
* Installing the display driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the display resolutions of 1680×1050, 1800×1440, 1920×1080 and 1920×1200 not being available when using an analog CRT display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27464
* IL2 Sturmovik->Forgotten Battles: Setting the in-game hardware options to custom and landscape detail to perfect no longer results in the water textures appearing corrupt when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26687
* Quake 4: Playing the game with CrossFire enabled no longer result in corruption being noticed after a short time of game play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28172
* The Overdrive™ clocks no longer fails to revert back to the default settings and the Apply and Discard buttons no longer become enabled when changing the clock settings for both the primary and secondary display devices. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27619
* Playing a DVD using either WinDVD or PowerDVD no longer results in corruption being noticed if the players is rotated to any position other than landscape. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27463
* Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in changes being made to the secondary display device being reflected on the primary display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27460
* Setting UMA to 512MB and enabling AERO no longer results in screen corruption being noticed when booting up Windows Vista on systems containing an ATI Radeon X1200/1250 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28173
* Enabling DXVA no longer results in a slow response time being noticed when playing a DVD on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon Xpress 1200/1250 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28175
* An error message is no longer reported when attempting to enable CrossFire on a system containing the Intel Gen2 chipset. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28177
* Playing an HD DVD and attempting to do a random seek or change to a different chapter of the movie no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28179

Download : ATI Catalyst 7.6 For Vista 32bit | Vista 64bit

Download : ATI Catalyst 7.6 For XP 32bit | ATI Catalyst 7.6 For XP 64bit | ATI Catalyst 7.6 For MCE

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.
Display and WDM Drivers included in this bundle.

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This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.
The drivers provided below are qualified for use under Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home editions. For Windows XP Media Center Edition, we provide CATALYST display drivers for certified and compatible RADEON products.

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Catalyst 6.6 Windows XP:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=640
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Catalyst 6.6 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista Beta 2:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=19933

Notes:
1. ATI recommends Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher to be installed.
2. You must have Microsoft .NET Framework installed prior to downloading and installing the Catalyst Control Center
3. The Catalyst Uninstaller is an optional download. We recommend using this utility to uninstall any previously installed Catalyst drivers prior to installation.
4. Catalyst Control Center is available in a bundle supporting other languages .

ATI has released the February update to its Catalyst Display Drivers. Highlighted here are the more important bug fixes and feature improvements. For a full list please refer to the release notes. Notable Fixes:
- BattleField 2 Special Forces: A blooming or ghosting effect is no longer noticed when playing the game in night vision mode. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21648
- City of Heroes: Running Shadertest 7 no longer results in slow performance being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21463
- Fable: The Lost Chapters: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE may result in the shadows found within the game appearing jittery, when the desktop resolution is set to 1024×768 32bpp, and all the game options are set to default. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21184
- Half-Life2: Enabling Catalyst AI no longer results in the outer edges of the water appear dark or black in color. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number. 737-21649

Note: The Catalyst Control Center (included) requres Microsoft .NET Framework

Download: ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP2K 6.2

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

Includes Display Driver, Control Panel and WDM Integrated Driver.
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ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP2K 5.12

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

This download includes the Display Driver, Control Panel, CATALYST Control Center, and WDM Capture driver.

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This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.This download includes the Display Driver, Control Panel, CATALYST Control Center, and WDM Capture driver.

Latest Changes:
Note:
This driver is intended only for Serious Sam II and Quake 4 has not been fully tested at this point for other applications

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ATI Catalyst Drivers for Win2k/XP 5.10a Beta

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability. ATI is one of the first graphic providers to make a 64-bit driver that supports the Longhorn Driver Display Model (LDDM) – the Microsoft Vista revolutionary graphic driver standard – as well as the first to provide LDDM drivers for integrated graphics processors. By making LDDM drivers available more than a full year prior to Windows Vista release, ATI provides developers with a stable, feature-enabled and performance-optimized platform for application development. ATI is also the first to provide Catalyst Windows Vista driver feedback via our Catalyst Crew Feedback program.
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This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

This download includes the Display Driver, Control Panel, CATALYST Control Center, and WDM Capture driver.Latest Changes:

• 1080p Display Support Option
• Catalyst鈩?Control Center Un-install Option
• Enhancements to the driver’s internal memory management bring significant benefits to 64MB and 128MB framebuffer configurations
• Flight Sim 2004: Launching the application under Windows XP and enabling Anisotropic Filtering (AF) within the Catalyst鈩?Control Center no longer results in the AF functionality not being enabled within the game
• Trackmania Sunrise: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when attempting to exit the game after leaving the PC idle for an extended period of time
• Warcraft III: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in display corruption being noticed when rotating the display 90 degrees counter-clockwise
• Creating a custom hot-key for rotation currently no longer results in the custom hot-key to become unavailable for the secondary display device when extended desktop is enabled and the display devices are set to 1280×1024
• Changing the format from NTSC to any PAL format no longer results in the PAL format not working
• Changing the regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver no longer results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option
• Changes to the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center are now retained
• The Scale to full screen option found in the Theater Mode Settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now working properly
• Rotating the display by 180 degrees no longer results in all the text on the desktop failing to appear
• Truncated text in the localized French version of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now resolved
• The profile manager hotkey notification dialog box is now translated for all supported languages
• ATI Color Controls can now be reactivated using a hotkey combination if the ATI Color Controls have changed by the color management tool of a third party application

  The TV is now detected when both the SVIDEO and the Composite connectors are used

  Windows Movie Maker 2.0: The Movie maker preview playback no longer displays a blank image when attempting to playback an mpeg file

  Windows Movie Maker 2.0: Attempting to record a TV source for 6 hours or more, no longer results in audio corruption being heard after approximately 4 hours of recording

  Subtitles are now displayed when playing a DVD under Windows XP Media Center Edition

  The Catalyst鈩?Control Center Hotkey Manager is now completely localized for Japanese

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This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

Includes Display Driver, Control Panel and WDM Integrated Driver.

Catalyst 5.6 introduces full hardware acceleration of Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) files when using DirectX 9 shaders.

How to enable this feature?

Fixed in this driver:

* MS Works 8.0: Running the application under a German edition of Windows XP no longer results in an error message being displayed when clicking on the calendar

* MVP Baseball 2004: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI PCIe product installed no longer results in brief display corruption being noticed when there is a transition between certain frames

* Shadow Vault: Setting the desktop resolution to 1280×1024 and the D3D slider to Optimal Quality in the ATI 3D tab no longer results in corruption being displayed in the opening cinematic and no longer results in the game failing to respond along with a VPU recover message

* VirtualSkipper3: Launching a challenge in the game no longer results in the game failing to respond while the challenge is loading

* Assigning a hotkey to increase the overlay gamma no longer results in the hotkey not functioning properly when playing an MPEG using the Windows Media Player

* Installing the display driver and the Catalyst鈩?Control Center, no longer results in a runtime error and the system tray failing to start when attempting to create multiple user accounts and enabling fast user switching

* The Catalyst鈩?Control Center installation now checks for the installation of the Microsoft .Net Framework before preceding with the install of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center. This resolves an error message that was displayed when attempting to launch the Catalyst鈩?Control Center

* The Scale to Full Screen option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now available when using multiple display devices and enabling clone mode

* The text that describes the preferred setting for the Plugged-in option found under the Powerplay鈩?settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is no longer missing

* Catalyst鈩?Control Center: The Apply and Discard button are no longer disabled when disabling Overdrive鈩?br />

* Moving the TV to desktop2 and selecting swap device or double up no longer results in the CRT being in panning mode and display corruption being seen on the TV

* The Optimal Performance text string is no longer missing in the Standard settings of the 3D options found in the Catalyst鈩?Control Center

* The Color option found under Smartshader is no longer missing when selecting the option No Preview for the Catalyst鈩?Control Center

* Changing the regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver no longer results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option

* Selecting German as the language for the Catalyst鈩?Control Center no longer results in the heading for the Digital Panel Attributes page being cut-off

* Creating a hotkey to adjust any video overlay option no longer results in the overlay option not changing when executing the hotkey

* Black text boxes are no longer displayed in the Overdrive鈩?option of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center when selecting the Windows XP Silver Color Scheme

* The language translation of Hide Toolbar Text in the Preferences tab of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now correct for the Korean language

* Paragraph truncation is no longer noticed in the confirmation dialog box when using the Korean language option and making a change to the Graphic Settings in the Display Options of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center

* Changes to the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center are now retained

* The Scale to full screen option found in the Theater Mode Settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now working properly

* The title for the ATI Setup Wizard failed dialog box is no longer missing when running the installation under Windows XP Korean version

* Display corruption is no longer noticed when resuming from a full screen DOS session and attempting to run a 3D application under Windows XP in a system containing an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series product

* Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series no longer results in the selection of D3 and D4 in the HDTV properties

* Connecting both a DVI display device and an HDTV to an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series no longer results in the DVI monitor failing to enter power save mode

* The back lighting is no longer disabled after the installing of the display driver in a system containing an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series

* Setting the Anti-Aliasing option to 4x and running an application that supports non-standard modes such as 1360×1024 no longer results in the application being displayed incorrectly

* LCD Response Time Composition is now enabled and automatically turns off if video playback is below a predefined threshold

* Adding a secondary ATI display adapter to a system contain an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series on board no longer results in hesitation being noticed when using the hot-key function to switch between display devices

* Having a TV connected as the only display device and clicking the OK button in the ATI displays tab found in the Advanced section of the Display Properties no longer results in a flash of the TV image being noticed

* Having a TV and CRT connected and clicking on Preview Automatic adjustment in the Optimize Media Center no longer results in both display devices displaying a black screen

- In addition to supporting ATI mobility products, Catalyst 5.6 drivers promise to increase performance in most new games and benchmarks.

No word on any increase in Half-Life 2 based game performance which has suffered in recent releases.

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