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Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

* Setting the language option to Greek no longer results in cropped text being noticed in the Catalystâ„¢ Control Center->Component Video page
* Adobe After Effects: Exiting the application no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) operating system intermittently failing to respond
* Call of Duty 4: Corruption is no longer noticed when having Quad CrossFireâ„¢ enable and an HDMI 1080p display device connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35112
* Devil May Cry 4: Anti-Aliasing no longer fails to function when playing the game with CrossFireâ„¢ enabled
* Dirt: Playing the German Crossover track (Rally World Event) no longer results in the grand stands and chain link fences not being display correctly when CrossFireâ„¢ is enabled and MSAA is disabled

* Many more listed in the Release Notes

Complete ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver Release Notes

Download ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver - Windows XP
Download ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver - Windows Vista

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

* Assassin’s Creed: Attempting to launch the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system (32 bit version) no longer results in the game exiting to the desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35804
* Crysis: Edge detect is now working when playing the DX9 version of the game with UBM enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35765
* Frontlines Fuel of War: Setting the in-game option to 1152×864 and AA to N/A no longer results in corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38×0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35861
* Hellgate London: Setting the display resolution to 2560×1600 no longer results in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35886
* Mahjongg Artifacts: Launching the game on a system running Windows Vista no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35873
* Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Flickering is no longer noticed when switching between the game and the Windows desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35818
* Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Setting AA to 8x no longer results in AA failing to be applied.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

* Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels no longer results in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600
* Crysis: Setting the Catalystâ„¢ Control Center->Advanced View->3D->Standard Settings to Optimal Quality and having certain in game option settings no longer results in the game failing to render properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33395
* Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to 1600×1200 no longer results in the image next to the text failing to be rendered. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603
* Hellgate: London: Flickering is no longer noticed when quitting and then relaunching the game when the in-game setting are set to their maximum levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32604
* Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492
* Tabula Rasa: Setting the graphics option to enable Deferred Lighting and Dynamic Shadows no longer results in corruption being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32597

Complete ATI Catalyst 8.4 Display Driver Release Notes

Download ATI Catalyst 8.4 Display Driver - Windows XP
Download ATI Catalyst 8.4 Display Driver - Windows Vista

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

* Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels no longer results in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600
* Crysis: Setting the Catalystâ„¢ Control Center->Advanced View->3D->Standard Settings to Optimal Quality and having certain in game option settings no longer results in the game failing to render properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33395
* Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to 1600×1200 no longer results in the image next to the text failing to be rendered. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603
* Hellgate: London: Flickering is no longer noticed when quitting and then relaunching the game when the in-game setting are set to their maximum levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32604
* Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492
* Tabula Rasa: Setting the graphics option to enable Deferred Lighting and Dynamic Shadows no longer results in corruption being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32597
* Tomb Raider Anniversary: Performance improvements are now noticed when playing the game with CrossFireâ„¢ enabled.

The wedding cake has been ordered. To give you an idea of what it will look like we’re posting a couple pictures. The arrangement will look like the first picture but the decoration will look like the second with one exception. Instead of the blue frosting it will be more of a garnet or crimson red to match Nicki’s dress. There will be different cake topper decoration used.

AMD has a new driver and a new driver page.

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.9:

* Far Cry performance improves up to 14 % on the ATI Radeon HD2900XT CrossFire, ATI Radeon HD2600XT single card, and ATI Radeon HD2400XT CrossFire configurations
* Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 12% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on the ATI Radeon HD2600XT CrossFire and single card configurations
* Half-Life 2: Episode 1 performance improves at most 9% on ATI Radeon HD2600XT CrossFire and as much as 6% on the ATI Radeon HD2400XT CrossFire configurations.
* Serious Sam 2 performance improves up to 46% on the ATI Radeon HD2400XT CrossFire and up to 27% on the ATI Radeon HD2600XT single card and CrossFire configurations with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
* Quake 4 performance with Anti-Aliasing improves 9% or more on the ATI Radeon X1600/X1650Pro and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 products in both single and CrossFire configurations

ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver Release Notes

Download ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver (Windows XP / Vista)

Download ATI Catalyst 6.2 Display Driver (Windows Extinct)

The good people at TweakTown have posted their performance analysis of the latest ATI Catalyst drivers.

AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT continues to see performance increases and it is clear that this month the driver team had their eye on improving OpenGL performance, which is great considering Enemy Territory is just around the corner.

The bad news is though that there are still no changes to AA tests and this is something that is hurting the HD 2900 XT at the moment. It manages to look impressive when you compare it to the Nvidia cards in non-AA tests (and as far as price is concerned) but as soon as you start to crank up the settings like AA and AF, it can begin to slump.

Hopefully the driver team dives into the AA issue in future releases but as always check out the full release notes and if you didn’t upgrade last month to the Catalyst 7.5 drivers, with the increase in OpenGL performance here, we would suggest the upgrade this month with the 7.6 version!

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The latest ATI Catalyst 7.6 drivers have been released to the public. Performance analysis in the above post.

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Release Notes

I’d like to introduce someone: Ike Pigott. He’s a local blogger that I ran across on Twitter some time ago. I’ve been following his blog, Occam’s RazR, for a while now. He works for Red Cross and has an extensive background in communications.

He’s recently set himself upon a personal quest to utilize the online tools and social media for disaster relief and aid. He’s created the Red Cross Online Disaster Portal and opened the Red Cross Twitter Channel.

The idea is that people in evacuation zones could “follow” the Red Cross Twitter feed from their cell phones, and find out about shelter locations and service delivery sites.

I think it’s a great idea, and I’m personally excited to be able to see first-hand the mediums that we have available to us today being put to use for such a great cause. This will be especially handy for us locally with hurricane season coming up, as well as tornado season!

If you are interested in helping out or would like more information, please contact Ike. I’m sure that he’d love to hear from you and could use any and all help sent his way!

Valve has Informed us about their plans to deliver free games to all owners of ATI RadeonT graphics cards via Steam, a popular platform for the distribution and management of digital content.

Effective immediately, all owners of ATI Radeon graphics cards may receive a free copy of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch via Steam, http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/. Steam will automatically confirm the presence of ATI RadeonT hardware and then enable immediate access to full versions of the games free of charge.

For added convenience to new purchasers of ATI RadeonT products, Steam will be included in all ATI CatalystT Software and Driver packages through early 2008.

And, as recently announced by AMD, customers who purchase the new ATI RadeonT HD 2900 XT will also receive, upon release via Steam, the highly anticipated trio of new games coming from Valve: Team Fortress® 2, PortalT, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

That’s a very good deal, we expect to see more Radeon users within the next few weeks.

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