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Catalyst 6.4 Driver released

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New Features

This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:

* Video Quality Improvements
* Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion Utility

Video Quality Improvements

Improvements have been made to the Avivo video processing engine during standard definition (SD) video playback. Edge enhancement or sharpening effectively improves image quality by enhancing details lost during encoding and processing. Noise reduction algorithms are improved to ensure original detail is preserved, while removing unwanted noise.
Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion Utility

Catalyst® 6.4 introduces a Windows MCE Video Conversion utility. This utility allows users to convert video content that is recorded by MCE, or video content that is available to MCE, to variety of different formats. The video content can be converted to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, MPEG-4 AVC and Windows Media. Ipod Video and PSP video are listed as separate formats for easy recognition.
Performance Improvements

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.

* 3DMark06 CPU scores improve as much as 4.9% across all product lines
* 3DMark06 HDR 2 Deep Freeze (SM3.0) test improves as much as 2%
* Call of Duty 2 improves approximately 1.4-2% on Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 Crossfire™ configurations. Gains are slightly less (1.3%) for non-Crossfire™ Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 products
* FarCry improves 2-3% on ATI Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF
* Half Life 2 improves as much as 3.8% on Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF
* Unreal Tournament 2004 gains 3-5% on all Radeon® X1x00 non-Crossfire configurations

Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.4

The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include:

* Doom 3: Setting the in-game resolution to 2560x1600 no longer results in green circles appearing around energy projectiles of demons. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21778
* DoVAIO: Running the application on a system containing an ATI Xpress 200M series and running the Japanese version of Windows XP, no longer results in an error message being displayed when exiting the event viewer. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21986
* EarthSim: Missing textures are no longer noticed on the terrain of both Mars and Earth when running the application on systems containing an ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1600 XT product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22076
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Crossfire™ AFR mode support is now enabled. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22015
* Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight: The frames per second are no longer lowered when moving the mouse cursor over a chat window during a multiplayer game. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21453
* GLView V2.22 Build 203: Checking Multisample and changing the level to either 5 or 6 no longer results in text corruption being noticed when running the Rendering tests. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21994
* GLView V224 Build 206: Running the Rendering Test for Fog and Benchmark no longer results in the fog function failing and black cubes being displayed. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22002
* Maya 7.0: The Frame Marker located near the bottom of the screen is now displayed when connecting a secondary CRT and enabling extended desktop. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21777
* Quake 4: The game no longer fails to respond after lying dormant for approximately 10 minutes, followed by switching between the game and notepad.exe. This issue was known to occur when extended desktop was enabled on systems containing an ATI dual display graphic card. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21993
* Serious Sam SE: Entering the Technology Test mode no longer results in display corruption being noticed in the Reflections and Portals screens. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22005
* TVFunStudio: Launching the MediaPlayer and playing a movie no longer results in frame drops being noticed. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21775
* WARHAMMER: DAWN OF WAR: Starting a skirmish game on a 4 player map under Windows XP, no longer results in the game performance appearing choppy when using an ATI Radeon® X800 series, and having all of the game options set to high. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-20974
* Zera: Holding down the right mouse button to pan the on-line game display in a circular motion, no longer results in missing and flashing textures being noticed when playing the game with both AA and AAA enabled. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22003
* Display corruption is no longer noticed when returning from a full screen DOS session under Windows XP or Windows 2000 when using an ATI Radeon® X800 series. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21452
* Connecting a display device to the DVI connector on systems containing an ATI Xpress 200 series no longer results in the display device failing to respond when attempting to resume from an S3 state. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21772
* Entering hibernation mode and disabling a secondary display device no longer results in the extended desktop option still being active when resuming from hibernation. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21773
* Connecting both a CRT and a TV, followed by enabling extended desktop no longer results in the Underscan/Overscan slider bar overlapping the Screen Position and Size heading found in the TV Properties aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center. This issue was known to occur when the CRT is set as the primary display device. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21776
* Connecting an HDTV and selecting all available formats in the CV properties page of the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the custom mode of 1080i failing to be available. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21780
* The default 1080i 30Hz mode is no longer missing from the Advanced aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21779
* Setting the language to Korean no longer results in corruption being noticed within the ATI Help. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21985
* Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a secondary CRT display device no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display an image after completing the Catalyst® Control Center->Easy Setup Wizard. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21987
* Catalyst® Control Center: Advanced Mode: Incorrect text and cropped text is no longer noticed when selecting Japanese as the language for the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21988
* Playing a movie file with extended desktop enabled no longer results in the playback image appearing in the center of the secondary display device when Theater mode is enabled. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21989
* Using the hot-key function Fn+F5 to swap between display devices no longer results in the current display device setting being incorrect. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21990
* Playing a DVD using WinDVDv5 no longer results in frame drop being noticed when plugging or un-plugging the AC power supply. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21991
* Catalyst® Control Center: Setting the language to Japanese no longer results in an extra line being added to the drop down menu for Preferences. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21992
* Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 series no longer results in the Display Data Channel being shown as not supported in the Monitor Attributes page of the Catalyst® Control Center when using Advanced view. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21995
* Catalyst® Control Center: Using hot-keys to toggle between the secondary and primary display devices no longer results in the display setting not reflecting the current setting. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21996
* Setting the CRT as the primary and the LCD display device as the secondary, no longer results in the full-screen video playback being displayed in a centering mode on the secondary display device. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21997
* Setting the font size to 120 dpi no longer results in text corruption appearing in the Avivo Video->Standard Setting. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21998
* Incorrect rendering is no longer noticed when running the OGL AAsphere demo found in the GGLSLDemo. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21999
* Using the Catalyst® Control Center to change the skin to the ATI Catalyst® Quicksilver no longer results in the ATI Crimson skin being applied. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22000
* Connecting a display device using either the S-Video or Composite connectors no longer results in the display resolution changing to 640x480 16bpp. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22001
* Connecting a DFP using the DVI connector no longer results in the optimized 720p mode (1152x648@60hz) not appearing in the resolution list after adding the 720p60 formats to the Displays Manager. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22004
* Connecting an HDTV using the component video connection no longer results in the optimized modes of 1080i and 720p not being available within the Component Video Properties page of the Catalyst® Control Center, after creating a customized mode for both 1080i and 720p. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22006
* The HDTV Support aspect is now available under the Monitor Properties when using Advanced View in the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22007
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Anyone notice that the WDM drivers now have a new name? It used to be called WDM specialization codec (or something to that effect) to me but is now called ATI T200 Unified AVStream Driver (I also needed the XP cd on hand for soemthing called a 'BPE Filter' [sp?]).
 
Does this come with the chuck(Oblivion AA + HDR) patch build in?
 
I keep seeing improvements for the X1xxx series of cards (which I will eventually get one), but I haven't seen any new improvements for the X800XT series of cards for the last several drivers (unless I missed something somewhere).

I'm currently using 5.12 (5.11 maybe?) and it's been working just fine, so I'm wondering if I should even bother upgrading to 6.4? or *any* of the 6.'s versions???

Suggestions??
 
BlackDragon323 said:
I keep seeing improvements for the X1xxx series of cards (which I will eventually get one), but I haven't seen any new improvements for the X800XT series of cards for the last several drivers (unless I missed something somewhere).

I'm currently using 5.12 (5.11 maybe?) and it's been working just fine, so I'm wondering if I should even bother upgrading to 6.4? or *any* of the 6.'s versions???

Suggestions??
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It sucks but I don't think the X800 series is going to get any love. They want us to upgrade :p


Plus, a lot of their tweaks focus on the memory controller of the x1k series. I wonder if they will ever optimize opengl for multithreading like they did D3D? And can these be used without installing CCC? Such as, using the old control panel applet?


I think im using 5.13 because they introduced the D3D multithreading tweaks in 5.12 or 5.13...
 
Honestly, a good way to quickly check how good a driver is, is to run RTHDRBL at max res. If you see a FPS increase good, FPS decrease bad. Takes all of 5 seconds and has more relevance than 3dmark.
 
Devnull said:
It sucks but I don't think the X800 series is going to get any love. They want us to upgrade :p
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Remember back when the X800 series was brand new? Every catalyst release introduced a performance increase in applications because they were still streamlining the drivers. Now we are seeing the same thing with the X1x00 line.

How can they provide a performance increase using optimized drivers if the X800 is already optimized as much as it possibly can be?
 
IDK why I keep updating my drivers. I have an X850XT PE and the last real performance upgrade was from the 5.13's. Oh well, I supppose they could be fixing bugs I'm not aware of.

In case anyone is wondering: 6.4 display drivers work fine with the 5.11 control panel.
 
chiablo said:
Remember back when the X800 series was brand new? Every catalyst release introduced a performance increase in applications because they were still streamlining the drivers. Now we are seeing the same thing with the X1x00 line.

How can they provide a performance increase using optimized drivers if the X800 is already optimized as much as it possibly can be?
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New games, new technologies(dual core)... There are always areas for improvement.
 
OK Cat 6.4 is really messed up for some reason or another. I had to uninstall 6.4 then clean my registry, then use driver cleaner 2x already. My problems started when XP hung during the "shutting down" phase after the initial install. I should have known there was more problems ahead of me. I could run 3d06 fine...even a nice bump in performance from 5800s to 5900s. But it would not run BF2. And, I would get artifacting with a black/white screen when in the XP bootup screen (which I never modified). After uninstalling 6.4 I have no more artifacting and that black/white screen during bootup.

Cat 6.4 is a pure pile of you know what! This Cat 6.4 is messing everything up on my system. I am getting a lot of "flashes" across text within popup screens on the desktop like windows task manager, etc. And, Cat 6.4 renders ATI TOOL useless now for my x1900xtx. Was that their intention with 6.4? It will no longer close the CCC services when your start ATI TOOL and when you try to run a game all I got was artifacts. BF2 artifacted like crazy at the menu screen. Wired, 3d06 ran flawless and I got a boost from 5800x to 5900s wired, very berry wired. Try Cat 6.4 at your own risk...
link that other people are having problems with Cat 6.4
 
Eastcoasthandle said:
OK Cat 6.4 is really messed up for some reason or another. I had to uninstall 6.4 then clean my registry, then use driver cleaner 2x already. My problems started when XP hung during the "shutting down" phase after the initial install. I should have known there was more problems ahead of me. I could run 3d06 fine...even a nice bump in performance from 5800s to 5900s. But it would not run BF2. And, I would get artifacting with a black/white screen when in the XP bootup screen (which I never modified). After uninstalling 6.4 I have no more artifacting and that black/white screen during bootup.

Cat 6.4 is a pure pile of you know what! This Cat 6.4 is messing everything up on my system. I am getting a lot of "flashes" across text within popup screens on the desktop like windows task manager, etc. And, Cat 6.4 renders ATI TOOL useless now for my x1900xtx. Was that their intention with 6.4? It will no longer close the CCC services when your start ATI TOOL and when you try to run a game all I got was artifacts. BF2 artifacted like crazy at the menu screen. Wired, 3d06 ran flawless and I got a boost from 5800x to 5900s wired, very berry wired. Try Cat 6.4 at your own risk...
link that other people are having problems with Cat 6.4
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ah thank god I wasn't the only one with those problems. I was experiencing the EXACT same problems with my games and on bootup. I couldn't get anything 3D to run with or without ATITool. I tried BF2 and Guild Wars and both would lock up my system with 6.4's, but I never tried 3d06. I went back to the 6.3's and everything works fine again - only after my comp BSOD'd when I went to reboot after uninstalling the 6.4's.
 
Another pissed off ATi user here, i installed cat 6.4 and right after the windows loading screen just before the login screen i get like 2-3 seconds of weird yet total screen corruption then it goes away, i think i'll be going back to 6.3
 
Anybody else have trouble getting CCC to force AA & HQAF?

I force 4x AA from CCC but still I get no AA in Oblivion. Only when I set 4x AA from Oblivion settings the AA kicks in. Same can be said with HQAF, I messed around taking screenshots with HQAF on/off but I did not notice any difference with very angled surfaces.

This seems to be only Oblivion related as with Galactic Civilization 4 the forcing AA from CCC works just well. This is naturally with 6.4 catalyst.

Is there somekinda voodoo trick Iam missing or what :)
 
sam0t said:
Anybody else have trouble getting CCC to force AA & HQAF?

I force 4x AA from CCC but still I get no AA in Oblivion. Only when I set 4x AA from Oblivion settings the AA kicks in. Same can be said with HQAF, I messed around taking screenshots with HQAF on/off but I did not notice any difference with very angled surfaces.

This seems to be only Oblivion related as with Galactic Civilization 4 the forcing AA from CCC works just well. This is naturally with 6.4 catalyst.

Is there somekinda voodoo trick Iam missing or what :)
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I think Catalyst AI has to be on. Shame really, but it lets me run HDR + 8x HQAF + 4xAA, remaining above 30fps at all times so far. It may only be 1024x768, but still looks awesome. Can't remember the last time I had to game at this res.
 
I think the biggest news isn't this 3dmark refresh, but that there are new(?) linux drivers with X1000-series support! Let's see some "reviews" of that instead:

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:
Radeon® X1900 series
Radeon® X1800 series
Radeon® X1600 series
Radeon® X1300 series
[...]

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.24.8.html

(yeah, I know the link probably won't work. Stupid)
 
Cat 6.4 is not working correctly with the x1900 series.
-corruption at the boot up screen
-corruption when entering into any game
-ATI- Tool and Overclocker no longer function

I am not the only one having these problems.
 
The link provided gives me this:

Knowledge Base | Troubleshooter
Knowledge Base

No Results Found - 640

I don't know what the deal is, but for the last few driver releases, I haven't been able to get the ATI support links to work:

ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Windows XP > RADEON >

Subcategories in 'RADEON'
Display Drivers and Software for RADEON Products

Previous Drivers and Software
1. RADEON Previous Windows XP Drivers and Software versions prior to CATALYST 5.1 / Multimedia Center 9.03
2. CATALYST 5.5 Windows XP - Driver Download
more...

I have to click more..., then go to the second page of 'Previous Drivers' to find the most recent one.

I wouldn't rule out a problem between the keyboard and the chair, but all I'm doing is clicking...

[Edit] Deleted cache and cookies and everything is fine. Please go about your business [/Edit]
 
brighton said:
don't know why you guys are having a problem 6.4 works perfect on my comp
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as said above...
Eastcoasthandle said:
Cat 6.4 is not working correctly with the x1900 series.
-corruption at the boot up screen
-corruption when entering into any game
-ATI- Tool and Overclocker no longer function

I am not the only one having these problems.
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maybe it's because you don't have an x1900
 
Installed the 6.4's on an A8N32 with an X1900XTX last night. WoW dropped me to the character screen once but worked as before afterwards. Star Wars Battlefront 2 worked without issue too. No problems booting Windows XP either. I did not see if my temperature/fan profile in ATITool was being adheared to but it was warmer room temp wise so I know the GPU temp went up to 70C and the fan was definitely louder so my guess is ATITool did it's thing. I'll try and confirm later but so far so good here.

All I did was uninstall the 6.3s, rebooted and installed 6.4s. In hindsight, I should have ran Driver Cleaner too but hey.
 
but 6.3 is cool right? I'm getting a 1900xt tommorow and would like to use a driver without issues.
 
rincewind said:
I think Catalyst AI has to be on. Shame really, but it lets me run HDR + 8x HQAF + 4xAA, remaining above 30fps at all times so far. It may only be 1024x768, but still looks awesome. Can't remember the last time I had to game at this res.
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Got Catalyst A.I set on Standard, but still it won´t force AA on Oblivion :( It´s not a huge deal to set it in game options, but a annoyance still :)
 
spaceman said:
but 6.3 is cool right? I'm getting a 1900xt tommorow and would like to use a driver without issues.
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i've been running the 6.3's since I bought my 1900xtx
 
Quake 4: The game no longer fails to respond after lying dormant for approximately 10 minutes, followed by switching between the game and notepad.exe. This issue was known to occur when extended desktop was enabled on systems containing an ATI dual display graphic card. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21993
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What a bizarre and trivial bug. Oh well, any fix is a good fix.
 
kdog said:
Honestly, a good way to quickly check how good a driver is, is to run RTHDRBL at max res. If you see a FPS increase good, FPS decrease bad. Takes all of 5 seconds and has more relevance than 3dmark.
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What is that "RTHDRBL" ?
 
Major problems on my X1900XTX

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http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/8899/obld2yl.png

Clearly this is not a typical sort of artifacting, but a display driver bug. bogomark06 hdr/sm3 tests work fine as do battlefield 2, aquamark 3, 3d05, etc. Oblivion? fucked.

you can't make stuff like that up. Indoors the game works fine. Outdoors it dies, even with HDR/bloom off and all the LOD mods uninstalled, ini file reset. never seen anything like it. I have the same problem with the 'chuck' patch.

The drivers break ati tool functionality as well, it was necessary to completely remove ati tool to get this display driver to work at all. With it installed I got a green screen of death, if you can believe that.

I get (temporary) graphical corruption when the display driver is initializing after windows bootstraps itself. One wonders if they did any QA at all with these piles of crap. WHQL must have just rubber stamped them.

I created a support ticket with that ss attached, we'll see if they have any response besides the ass scratching prototypical of tech support pukes.

6.3 WHQL? Golden
 
My 1900xt is doing the same thing as the others, going back to 6.3
 
Ugh another problem found with latests 6.3 & 6.4 catalyst. They won´t work with Samsung monitors using MagicTune software. Well atleast not for me, Iam using Samsung 193P+ monitor with X1900XT.

ATI do something :D
 
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