Ab sofort steht der Catalyst 6.12 zum Download bereit. Diesmal hat ATI sich nicht sehr viel auf die Leistung konzentriert, sondern diverse Bugs in Spielen und dem Control Center behoben. Darunter z.B. in den Spielen Black&White 2 sowie Neverwinter Nights.
Technic3D schaut sich dennoch die Leistung des wohl letzten Catalyst Treiber im Jahre 2006 an. Der Catalyst 6.12 steht für Microsoft Windows XP, XP 64bit, Linux und Linux x86_64 zur Verfügung. Geeignet ist er für alle Radeon Modelle ab der 9500er Serie. Neu hinzugekommen ist die DirectX Videobeschleunigung für CrossFire (Dual-VGA) Systeme.
Laut den Treiberenwicklern von ATI-AMD sollten Anwender welche Folding@Home der Universität Stanford auf der Radeon Grafikkarte nutzen, nicht auf den Catalyst 6.12 umsteigen, da es damit noch Probleme gibt. Bis zur nächsten Treiberversion soll dies jedoch behoben sein.
Technic3D schaut sich dennoch die Leistung des wohl letzten Catalyst Treiber im Jahre 2006 an. Der Catalyst 6.12 steht für Microsoft Windows XP, XP 64bit, Linux und Linux x86_64 zur Verfügung. Geeignet ist er für alle Radeon Modelle ab der 9500er Serie. Neu hinzugekommen ist die DirectX Videobeschleunigung für CrossFire (Dual-VGA) Systeme.
Laut den Treiberenwicklern von ATI-AMD sollten Anwender welche Folding@Home der Universität Stanford auf der Radeon Grafikkarte nutzen, nicht auf den Catalyst 6.12 umsteigen, da es damit noch Probleme gibt. Bis zur nächsten Treiberversion soll dies jedoch behoben sein.
Die Verbesserungen im Detail laut ATI:
- Black&White 2: Slow frame rate is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP when setting the graphics to the lowest possible settings.
- Neverwinter Nights: Enabling super AA and CrossFire within the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the game's main menu.
- Catalyst® Control Center->CrossFire™: Attempting to resume from a standby state no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing to respond when using a Radeon® X19x0 CrossFire™ Edition series of product.
- Catalyst Control Center: Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the text found in Catalyst Control Center being cropped. This issue was known to occur under all supported operating system.
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing choppy.
- Catalyst Control Center: The translation for Centered Timings is now translated properly for Simplified Chinese.
- The index in the Catalyst Control Center help no longer contains double entries for various aspects.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the CrossFire help no longer results in a page not found error message being displayed.
- Using the Avivo Video Converter to convert a video file no longer exceeds the 300MB for a VCD encoded file.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on certain help file links no longer results in the incorrect help file being displayed.
- Catalyst Control Center: The Profile Manager is now translated properly for Italian.
- Catalyst Control Center: Various options such as Select a Language and Deinterlacing for the Thai language are now translated properly.
- Changing the language to Korean in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the degree symbol appearing corrupted within the rotation page.
- Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Selecting Japanese as the language no longer results in various aspects of the Easy Setting Wizard and Setup Display Settings not being translated properly.
- Using hotkeys to switch between LCD mode and CRT+LCD mode no longer results in the hotkey function failing when attempting to switch back to LCD mode only.
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing jittery.
- CrossFire: Playing Windows XP games such as Labyrinth or HyperBowl no longer results in display corruption being noticed in the game's menu page.
- Hardware acceleration no longer becomes disabled when running the HQV benchmark DVD with CrossFire enabled.
- Battlefield 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP with the in-game display setting at 1920x1440 or 2048x1536 and AA set to 6x may result in the game failing to launch.
- Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with a Radeon® X1600 series installed may result in texture corruption being noticed.
- Enabling CrossFire™ may result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6.
- Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view.
- Intermittent display issues may be noticed when using an Apple Cinema HD 30" display device. Contact AMD Customer Care for a solution. AMD Engineering is aware of the issue and a resolve will be available in an up-coming software driver release.
- During video playback, DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) may not be available when CrossFire mode is enabled. This will result in software mode video playback. To enable DXVA, CrossFire™ mode must be disabled.
- Uninstalling the graphics drivers may result in some of the files and folder failing to be removed in the Program File folder.
- Attempting to maximize an OpenGL application window may result in either the OpenGL window maximizing slowly or the system failing to respond.
- Clicking on the Restore Factory Defaults button found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties may result in the TV position failing to be restored to the factory defaults.
- Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view.
- Setting the display panel attributes to Scale Image to Full Panel Size, followed by entering an S3 state may result in the desktop failing to resume to a full screen mode.
- Catalyst Control Center: Connecting an HDTV or DFP display device may result in some of the HDTV formats being listed twice in the Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support.
- Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support: Adding custom formats to the 1080i and attempting to remove those custom formats may result in the formats failing to removed.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the Monitor and Digital Panel Properties found in the Contents section of the Help may result in a message indicating that the page cannot be displayed.
- Neverwinter Nights: Enabling super AA and CrossFire within the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the game's main menu.
- Catalyst® Control Center->CrossFire™: Attempting to resume from a standby state no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing to respond when using a Radeon® X19x0 CrossFire™ Edition series of product.
- Catalyst Control Center: Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the text found in Catalyst Control Center being cropped. This issue was known to occur under all supported operating system.
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing choppy.
- Catalyst Control Center: The translation for Centered Timings is now translated properly for Simplified Chinese.
- The index in the Catalyst Control Center help no longer contains double entries for various aspects.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the CrossFire help no longer results in a page not found error message being displayed.
- Using the Avivo Video Converter to convert a video file no longer exceeds the 300MB for a VCD encoded file.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on certain help file links no longer results in the incorrect help file being displayed.
- Catalyst Control Center: The Profile Manager is now translated properly for Italian.
- Catalyst Control Center: Various options such as Select a Language and Deinterlacing for the Thai language are now translated properly.
- Changing the language to Korean in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the degree symbol appearing corrupted within the rotation page.
- Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Selecting Japanese as the language no longer results in various aspects of the Easy Setting Wizard and Setup Display Settings not being translated properly.
- Using hotkeys to switch between LCD mode and CRT+LCD mode no longer results in the hotkey function failing when attempting to switch back to LCD mode only.
- Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing jittery.
- CrossFire: Playing Windows XP games such as Labyrinth or HyperBowl no longer results in display corruption being noticed in the game's menu page.
- Hardware acceleration no longer becomes disabled when running the HQV benchmark DVD with CrossFire enabled.
- Battlefield 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP with the in-game display setting at 1920x1440 or 2048x1536 and AA set to 6x may result in the game failing to launch.
- Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with a Radeon® X1600 series installed may result in texture corruption being noticed.
- Enabling CrossFire™ may result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6.
- Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view.
- Intermittent display issues may be noticed when using an Apple Cinema HD 30" display device. Contact AMD Customer Care for a solution. AMD Engineering is aware of the issue and a resolve will be available in an up-coming software driver release.
- During video playback, DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) may not be available when CrossFire mode is enabled. This will result in software mode video playback. To enable DXVA, CrossFire™ mode must be disabled.
- Uninstalling the graphics drivers may result in some of the files and folder failing to be removed in the Program File folder.
- Attempting to maximize an OpenGL application window may result in either the OpenGL window maximizing slowly or the system failing to respond.
- Clicking on the Restore Factory Defaults button found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties may result in the TV position failing to be restored to the factory defaults.
- Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view.
- Setting the display panel attributes to Scale Image to Full Panel Size, followed by entering an S3 state may result in the desktop failing to resume to a full screen mode.
- Catalyst Control Center: Connecting an HDTV or DFP display device may result in some of the HDTV formats being listed twice in the Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support.
- Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support: Adding custom formats to the 1080i and attempting to remove those custom formats may result in the formats failing to removed.
- Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the Monitor and Digital Panel Properties found in the Contents section of the Help may result in a message indicating that the page cannot be displayed.
