Catalyst 4.6: Thread Ufficiale

[Fire Fox II]

Sono stati rilasciati i nuovi catalyst serie 4.6

Link per il download

Qui trovate una comparativa dai 3.0 ai 4.6

User Defined Component Video HDTV Modes

The CATALYST 4.5 driver provided a new interface that allows users to define the optimized modes for their HDTV's. This allows for images to be properly centered on their HDTV. The interface allows users specify a mode through a test window. Once the user saves this information, it will be saved as a user defined preference. This feature was not available in 4.5 and is now enabled.

OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for ATI Rotation

OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for ATI Rotation Mode. This feature is supported across the current shipping ATI Desktop product line, and is supported under both Windows XP, and Windows 2000.

Performance Improvements

As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:

- Pixel Shader compiler improvements bring significant performance gains to PS 2.0 applications such as Halo (2-3%), Tomb Raider (4-5%) and Mother Nature (4-5%). ShaderMark 2 shows numerous gains in the 3-6% range. The High Dynamic Range scenes in ShaderMark (Tests 20 & 21) gain 10-15%.

- RADEON X800 driver tuning improves performance for several Vertex-Shader-heavy tests. For example, Battle of Proxycon, Troll's Lair and Mother Nature gain 9-15% on the RADEON X800 PRO.

- Improvements in our surface allocation and texture management code have increased performance for resource-challenged cases.
Re-Volt scores improve 25% at 1600x1200 across several RADEON configurations. ShaderMark Test 14 (Veined Marble) improves dramatically (up 380% at 1600x1200) on some 256MB products.

- Improvements in OpenGL driver efficiency bring numerous small gains (1-3%) in Call of Duty, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Star Trek - Elite Force II, Serious Sam, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake III Arena.

- X800 memory tuning improves Anti-Aliasing performance in a number of games and benchmarks. For example, at 4xAA, 3DMark2001 gains 4-7%, UT2003 Antalus and Asbestos Flybys improve 2-7%, and the CodeCreatures score rises 15%.

Issues Resolved in CATALYST™ Version 4.6

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™ 4.6. These include:
Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues
Resolved Game Issues
Resolved Application Issues
Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues

This section provides information on CATALYST™ driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following:

- Display corruption is no longer seen when rotating the primary desktop 90 degrees or 180 degrees under Windows 2000 with extended desktop enabled

- Display corruption is no longer seen when running the ATI demo Dolphin v1.1 with the Truform option set to Application Preference
The operating system no longer fails to respond when doing a monitor swap while running an overlay image on the secondary display

- Rotating a display of 1024x768 60Hz followed by entering standby mode no longer results in display corruption being seen briefly when resuming

- Using the ATI icon in the system tray or using a hotkey stroke to rotate the display image no longer results in the operating system intermittently failing to respond for approximately 90 seconds
Playing a DVD with DXVA enabled and attempting to rotate the display 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond

- Moving an OpenGL window around the Windows desktop no longer results in the operating system intermittently failing to respond

Resolved Game Issues

This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following:

- While playing the game Halo, under certain conditions, images that should be hidden behind solid foreground objects are no longer showing through

- Starting a game of Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9000 PRO installed and the display set to 1024x768 and the graphics quality set to high no longer results in flickering textures

- Display corruption is no longer seen when using particular air craft in "Century of Flight" games found in Flight Simulator 2004
Textures are now applied correctly in the game Silent Storm when setting the resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and the quality option set to high

- Enabling AF to 8x and running the game Battlefield Vietnam with the graphics set to high and the display set to 1280x1024 32bpp no longer results in display corruption being seen at a certain point of the game

- The display menu for the game 4x4 EVO 2 is now available when the rotation option is used to set the display to 180 degrees
Circular grid corruption is no longer seen when launching World Fables under Windows XP with Anti-Aliasing enabled at 4X
The Windows XP operating system no longer intermittently fails to respond when restarting the game Homeworld 2

- Adobe Gamma and other colour calibration software now have the ability to adjust their independent gamma values. Note: In certain situations when closing the application, the default desktop gamma is not restored.

Resolved Application Issues

This section provides information on application issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following:

- The wireframe in edit UVWs is now drawn correctly after zooming in on an object in 3ds max

- Running Solidworks 2004 under Windows XP and dragging the grapicstest2004.sldprt window to a secondary display no longer results in the planes being highlighted after the mouse is moved off the plane

- The Solidworks 2004/SP3 application no longer fails to respond when opening the shaderstest.sldasm test with Real View enabled

- Enabling extended desktop followed by setting the display resolution to 1280x1024 on the secondary display adapter no longer results in the application ProEngineer terminating
Known Issues

[Yagami]

Ottima comparativa dei driver. Thx per il link!

Ciaoooz!

[Manp]

novità previste:
- nuovo control panel
- grossi miglioramenti in OGL

in realtà:
- una MAZZA

namo bene

[david-1]

Bene!
Allora, hanno il pannello per il TAA?

[Yagami]

Boh!
Ora ho su una nvidia, quindi per ora non li installo

[MaBru]

Originariamente inviato da Manp
novità previste:
- nuovo control panel
- grossi miglioramenti in OGL

in realtà:
- una MAZZA

namo bene

Per i miglioramenti sotto OpenGL io aspetterei i 4.7 per metà luglio in concomitanza all'uscita di Doom3...

[seccio]

Originariamente inviato da Manp
novità previste:
- nuovo control panel
- grossi miglioramenti in OGL

in realtà:
- una MAZZA

namo bene

novità previste da questi driver o dagli utenti??

li hai già provati e hai visto che nn rispecchiano le aspettative??

[Andrewu]

Li sto scaricando,tra pochi minuti vi faccio sapere come vanno!

[MaBru]

Originariamente inviato da seccio
novità previste da questi driver o dagli utenti??

- Pixel Shader compiler improvements bring significant performance gains to PS 2.0 applications such as Halo (2-3%), Tomb Raider (4-5%) and Mother Nature (4-5%). ShaderMark 2 shows numerous gains in the 3-6% range. The High Dynamic Range scenes in ShaderMark (Tests 20 & 21) gain 10-15%.

- RADEON X800 driver tuning improves performance for several Vertex-Shader-heavy tests. For example, Battle of Proxycon, Troll's Lair and Mother Nature gain 9-15% on the RADEON X800 PRO.

- Improvements in our surface allocation and texture management code have increased performance for resource-challenged cases. Re-Volt scores improve 25% at 1600x1200 across several RADEON configurations. ShaderMark Test 14 (Veined Marble) improves dramatically (up 380% at 1600x1200) on some 256MB products.

- Improvements in OpenGL driver efficiency bring numerous small gains (1-3%) in Call of Duty, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Star Trek - Elite Force II, Serious Sam, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake III Arena.

- X800 memory tuning improves Anti-Aliasing performance in a number of games and benchmarks. For example, at 4xAA, 3DMark2001 gains 4-7%, UT2003 Antalus and Asbestos Flybys improve 2-7%, and the CodeCreatures score rises 15%.

[david-1]

Appena messi e.... io ho il pannello vecchio!

[ENGINE]

Originariamente inviato da david-1
Appena messi e.... io ho il pannello vecchio!

appena messi anche io ed il pannello le' i'stess

[david-1]

Provati su una decina di giochi e tutti rullano benissimo (farcry, toca2, we7int, F1 challenge, gtr, broken sword 3)
Solo Hitman 3 mi sembra un po impallato, scattoso.... forse reinstallandolo torna ok

[seccio]

il pannello si è lo stesso , e se nn ho capito male è normale che sia lo stesso ......dai 4.7 probabile che ci siano grosse novità forse anche in OpenGL.....


cmq già un mito mi è caduto:


mi hanno cambiato la vecchia icona.....questA è forse più carina , ma è davvero minuscola!!!!

[VitOne]

A parte i bench di cui sincermaente non mi interessa molto, qualcuno ha notato miglioramenti nei giochi? Io ho provato questa nuova versione proprio adesso con farcay e mi sembra esattamente uguale a prima. Per curiosità o caricato il livello vulcano (quello dove la mia radeon 9800 pro ha più difficoltà) e ho notato che ero calato di ben 2 fps (da circa 18 a 16), che schifo!
In altri game com'è la situazione?

[seccio]

Originariamente inviato da MaBru
- Pixel Shader compiler improvements bring significant performance gains to PS 2.0 applications such as Halo (2-3%), Tomb Raider (4-5%) and Mother Nature (4-5%). ShaderMark 2 shows numerous gains in the 3-6% range. The High Dynamic Range scenes in ShaderMark (Tests 20 & 21) gain 10-15%.

- RADEON X800 driver tuning improves performance for several Vertex-Shader-heavy tests. For example, Battle of Proxycon, Troll's Lair and Mother Nature gain 9-15% on the RADEON X800 PRO.

- Improvements in our surface allocation and texture management code have increased performance for resource-challenged cases. Re-Volt scores improve 25% at 1600x1200 across several RADEON configurations. ShaderMark Test 14 (Veined Marble) improves dramatically (up 380% at 1600x1200) on some 256MB products.

- Improvements in OpenGL driver efficiency bring numerous small gains (1-3%) in Call of Duty, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Star Trek - Elite Force II, Serious Sam, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake III Arena.

- X800 memory tuning improves Anti-Aliasing performance in a number of games and benchmarks. For example, at 4xAA, 3DMark2001 gains 4-7%, UT2003 Antalus and Asbestos Flybys improve 2-7%, and the CodeCreatures score rises 15%.

ok thanks

[Hanamichi]

che palle voglio il nuovo control panellllll!

[Wales]

Povero alinghi! Aveva postato prima lui e gli hanno chiuso il thread... Pazienza... Del resto aveva sbagliato titolo!

Ciao e buoni test! Seguo lo sviluppo e i vostri commenti...

[snakehim]

Originariamente inviato da david-1
Provati su una decina di giochi e tutti rullano benissimo (farcry, toca2, we7int, F1 challenge, gtr, broken sword 3)
Solo Hitman 3 mi sembra un po impallato, scattoso.... forse reinstallandolo torna ok

Che mi dici di toca 2?
Risolti i problemi con AA e i riflessi ad alta risoluzione?
A me coi 4.5 non faceva vedere le ombre... Coi 4.6 funzionano?

[wolverine]

In download...

[Mostro!!]

Presi ma non so se li metto