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Adaptive Anti-Aliasing
ATI Catalyst® 5.11 introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon® X1800 and Radeon® X1300. A check box called Enable Adaptive Anti-Aliasing within the 3D option of the Graphics Settings, found in the Catalyst® Control Center. A slider bar is also provided and provides two setting; Performance, or Quality. The slider bar is grayed out when Adaptive Anti-Aliasing is disabled.
Stretch Desktop Support for ATI FireMV™ Products
ATI Catalyst® 5.11 introduces Stretch desktop support for both dual and quad output ATI FireMV™ products. This support allows for the operating system to see the display output as a single large display. This allows for the operating system's task bar stretch across all display devices connected to the ATI FireMV™ product line.
Overlay Theater Mode Enhancement
ATI Catalyst® 5.11 introduces an enhancement to Overlay Theater Mode. Overlay Theater Mode will allow for video mode to enabled automatically when a TV is connected as a secondary display device. Enabling video mode automatically sets the display to 720x480 and improves the video playback on standard Televisions.
Catalyst® Control Center Enhancement
ATI Catalyst® 5.11 introduces a Catalyst® Control Center enhancement that will allow users to switch between display modes. When using a multiple monitor system the feature will provide hot-key shortcuts that will allow users to switch from clone mode to extended desktop mode, and the ability switch between display devices
CrossFire™ and the ATI Radeon® X1300 series
Catalyst® 5.11 introduces CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon® X1300 series. CrossFire™ provides the ultimate multi-GPU performance for all 3D applications by permitting users to run 2 Radeon® X1300 graphic cards in the same system with no special interconnection required between the two cards (other than your PCI Express Motherboard).
Performance Improvements
As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.
The ATI Radeon® X1800 has massive gains in OpenGL when 4X Anti-aliasing is enabled. Increases include:
• Doom 3 performance improvement of up to 38%
• Quake 4 performance improvement of up to 60%
• Older OpenGL titles such as Quake 3, Arena, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, have performance improvements of up to 50%
The ATI Radeon® X1300 has a performance improvement of 10-15% in Quake 4.
The Vertex Shader has performance improvement of 3-5% across multiple products.
Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 5.11
The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of Catalyst®.
These include:
• 3DMark05: Running the application under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled no longer results in a warning message being displayed when closing the application
• Battlefield 2: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® 9200/9250 series no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
• Call of Duty: Starting a single player game at any skill level no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Xpress™ 200 series product
• City of Heroes: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition no longer results in display corruption being notice when attempting to task-switch between the game and the desktop
• Doom3 Resurrection of Evil: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled and Catalyst® A.I. disabled no longer results in scissor mode corruption being noticed
• Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled no longer results in ghosting effect being noticed
• FarCry: Installing the 1.32 patch for the game followed by changing the lighting quality no longer result in corruption being noticed when reaching a certain point in the game
• F.E.A.R.: Playing the game under Windows XP using an ATI Radeon X1800 no longer results in poor performance being noticed
• Max Payne 2: Playing the game under Windows XP with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in a loss of sync being noticed
• Neverwinter Nights: Installing the 1.66 patch along with Shadows of Undertide and Hordes add-ons no longer results in features of the game being missing when using an ATI Radeon® 9600 SE
• Quake 4: The fire effect no longer becomes corrupt after using GLSL
• Serious Sam: Two directdraw samples are no longer displayed as a blank screen
• Windows Movie Maker: Inputting the video source from the S-Video connector, and using the application to capture from source, no longer results in the Windows 2000 operating system failing to respond once the capture is complete
• Wurm Online: The water reflection displayed within the game is now rendered properly
• Connecting a CRT and a TV no longer results in the TV not being automatically detected under Windows XP MCE when using an ATI Radeon® 9550/9600/9650 series
• Catalyst® Control Center: All the menu items in the Deinterlacing aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center are now displayed when selecting Simplified Chinese as the supported language
• Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling East Asian language support no longer results in the Apply, Discard and Defaults buttons being invisible
• Vertical striping corruption is no longer noticed when running the Windows XP MCE TV when using an ATI All-in-Wonder™ X600 series
• Connecting a DVD player to the ATI All-in-Wonder™ X600 no longer results in the left and right audio channels being reversed when using the Windows XP MCE operating system
• Enabling CrossFire support on a system using three display device no longer results in corruption remaining on the secondary or third display devices when disabling the displays
• Water reflection textures are now displayed correctly when running ViewMarseille.bat found in the Use Debug Version of Direct3D
• Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X800 CrossFire™ Edition no longer results in the HDTV being detected as a CRT monitor when the smart dongle switches are set to off
• The extended desktop display profile is now retained after switching between different user account in systems using an ATI Xpress™ 200 series and running the Windows XP operating system
• Using WinDVD to playback a DVD title while having the Catalyst® Control Center running, no longer results in the playback of the DVD pausing momentarily
• Vertical striping corruption is no longer noticed when running the Windows XP MCE TV when using an ATI All-in-Wonder X300/X600 series
• Connecting a DVD player to the VIVO connector no longer results in the video preview window failing to provide a preview when attempting to capture
• Connecting an HDTV as the only display device using the component video connector on an ATI Radeon X1300 no longer results in the display image shrinking when making changes to either AA or AF found in the 3D aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center
• Creating a *.avi file under Windows XP MCE when using an ATI Radeon X800 series no longer results in the color of the captured file appearing corrupt during playback
• 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
• Attempting to play a DVD using the ATI DVD player under Windows XP MCE with an Apple Cinema display device connected no longer results in a blank playback window
Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 5.11
The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst®. These include:
• Beyond Good and Evil: Flickering artifacts are noticed on the game characters after approximately 15 minutes of game play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20795
• Dark Age of Camelot: The game exits to the desktop immediately after launching, or may play for up to 15 minutes followed by a VPU Recover error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20794
• Dragonshard: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition with CrossFire™ enabled, may result screen becoming out of sync, and a scrolling display image occurring shortly there after. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20975
• FarCry: Launching the game on systems using an ATI Xpress™ 200 series product and running the Windows XP operating system may results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20978
• Quake4: Selecting the Ultra Quality option within the game results in the game failing to load after the restart required by the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20981
• Serious Sam 2 Demo: Enabling CrossFire™ may result in a performance drop being noticed when playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20976
• WARHAMMER: DAWN OF WAR: Starting a skirmish game on a 4 player map under Windows XP, may result 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 can be found in topic number 737-20974
• Catalyst® Control Center: The SmartShader™ effect is not removed from the 3D preview when attempting to restore the default values in the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20846
• The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode, within the Catalyst® Control Center Video standard settings, is grayed out when playing a media file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-497
• Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X700 series may result in the HDTV being detected as a CRT or TV under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20783
• Attempting to install the integrated WDM driver under Windows XP may result in an error message being displayed indicating that the hardware is not installed because the install Wizard cannot find the necessary software. Further details can be found in topic number. 737-20784
• Using the Custom option when installing the software driver results in the Theater 550 software driver not being present. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20786
• Enabling clone mode, followed by playing a video clip, results in the underscan/overscan option failing to work when using Theater mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20973
• Connecting a display device using an interlink cable to the ATI Radeon® X800 CrossFire™ Edition, may result in CrossFire™ becoming disabled if the interlink cable is disconnected from the Radeon® X800 CrossFire™ and then reconnected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20977
• The PAL FM fine tuning algorithm is currently using 200 MHz bandwidth which may overlap FM channels resulting in the same FM channel being found several verdana during the scan function. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20979
• Launching the Adobe Gamma calibration application and moving the gamma slider back and forth, results in the Task Manager being filled with cli.exe until the system becomes low on memory. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20980
• Catalyst® Control Center: Attempting to extend the desktop display when using a CRT, TV and DFP display devices may result in display corruption being noticed on the primary display adapter. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20982
• Connecting a CRT and a TV to an ATI Radeon X300/600 series and attempting to enable clone mode, intermittently results in extended desktop mode being applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20983
• Corruption may be noticed within the Catalyst® Control Center once a VPU Recover event is triggered. This issue is known to occur under the Windows XP MCE operating system when using an ATI Radeon X1800 series product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20984
• Connecting a display device to the DVI connector on systems containing an ATI Xpress™ 200 series may result in the display device failing to respond when attempting to resume from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20985
• Catalyst® Control Center: The preview for the Deinterlacing aspect found in the Catalyst® Control Center is currently unavailable when using the ATI Radeon® X1300. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20986
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