ATI has just released Catalyst 3.4 drivers and control panel. The CATALYST? software suite 3.4 contains the following: RADEON? display driver 7.88 Multimedia Center? 8.5 HydraVision? 3.2 Remote Wonder 1.5 Supported Cards: RADEON? 9800 series RADEON? 9700 series RADEON? 9600 series RADEON? 9500 series RADEON? 9200 series RADEON? 9100 series RADEON? 9000 series RADEON? 8500 series RADEON? 7500 series RADEON? 7200 series RADEON? 7000 series New Features: DIV FULLSTREAM? Player: The ATI enhanced DIVX player uses the DirectX 9 technology of the RADEON 9500, 9600, 9700 and 9800 Series to deliver amazing quality video Register My ATI Product: Users can register their ATI product, ensuring users get their 30 free days of customer support SMARTGART? enhancements: This feature provides further improvements to system stability Unified Consumer and Workstation driver: This feature provides improved stability and quicker release of features/drivers Windows XP Media Center Edition support: ATI is helping to bring the world of entertainment and digital media to the PC New Color Control Panel: This feature provides new Color Controls, User Profiles, and Hot keys Performance Improvements: As with most CATALYST? releases, the performance has increased in many various situations. CATALYST? 3.4 brings remarkable performance gains to ATI's industry leading DX9 Hardware line-up. Image-enhancing features such as Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering now run faster than ever. Here are some examples observed in CATALYST? version 3.4. DirectX 9 Performance Improvements The following is a list of DirectX9 Performance Improvements noticed in the latest release of CATALYST?. 3DMark03 scores are improved as much as 8% across our entire DirectX 9 (dx9) product line The difficult Mother Nature (dx9) test now runs as much as 20% faster than previous drivers Anti-aliasing performance in 3DMark03 are improved as much as 15% Anisotropic Filtering scores for 3DMark03 are up moderately for the RADEON? 9500 PRO and the RADEON? 9600 PRO (3-7%), while the RADEON? 9700 PRO gains a stunning 32% improvement running 8xAF at high resolution Shader Performance Improvements The following is a list of Shader Performance Improvements noticed in the latest release of CATALYST?. ChameleonMark framerates are up as much as 80% on the RADEON? 9700 PRO CodeCreatures runs as much as 7% faster in 4xAA and 10% faster with Anisotropic Filtering Performance Improvements in Direct3D Games The following is a list of Performance Improvements noticed in Direct3D game in the latest release of CATALYST?. Anti-Aliasing performance for D3D games such as UT2003 has improved as much as 18%. With Anisotropic Filtering enabled, UT runs as much as 13% faster. Performance Improvements in OpenGL Game The following is a list of Performance Improvements noticed in OpenGL games in the latest release of CATALYST?. Anti-Aliasing performance for Quake Engine games is improved by approximately 5%. Serious Sam shows a 14% improvement on the RADEON? 9700 PRO and a remarkable 53% performance gain on the RADEON? 9600 PRO. Anisotropic Filtering performance for OpenGL games is also improved. The RADEON? 9700 PRO gains 10% in Quake III. Jedi Knight II runs 11% faster on the RADEON? 9600 PRO. Serious Sam framerates are up as much as 30% on the RADEON? 9600 PRO. Issues Resolved in CATALYST? Version 3.4 The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST? 3.4. These include: Resolved Game Issues This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. The display corruption noticed around the wheels in the game FI Racing Championship is now resolved The health meter not being drawn in the game Bounty Hunter is now resolved Texture corruption in the game Combat Flight Simulator 3 is now resolved The binocular view not displaying properly in the game Project IGI2 is now resolved Objects flickering in and out of view when playing Deadly Demo is now resolved The display corruption noticed in Battlecruiser Millennium when placing the mouse cursor over the menu buttons is now resolved The ground color not displaying correctly when playing the Jurassic Park demo is now resolved The display corruption noticed when playing Heli Heroes is now resolved The texture disappearing in the game AirStrike3D is now resolved The General Protection Fault error appearing when playing Unreal 2; The Awakening is now resolved The system not responding with playing the game SimCity 4 is now resolved The system not responding when task switching between an OpenGL game and the desktop is now resolved Full Screen Anti-Aliasing not being available when playing Anarchy Online is now resolved The system failing to respond after pressing the ESC key when playing Half-life Counter Strike is now resolved Resolved Benchmark Issues This section provides information on Benchmark issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. The display corruption noticed when running the CodeCreatures benchmark in a system contining a RADEON? 9200 is now resolved Resolved Software Application Issues This section provides information on application issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. The display corruption issue when using the send to DV camera feature found in MovieMaker2 is now resolved Playing *.rm files using the RealPlayer with Overlay Theater Mode enabled no longer results in screen corruption being displayed on a secondary CRT TV performance being slow and choppy when running an application in the background is now resolved Resolved CATALYST? Driver Issues This section provides information on CATALSYT? driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST?. The display corruption noticed when playing a DVD in TV Theater mode on a secondary display is now resolved The ATI D3D/OpenGL tab not retaining the correct format when a secondary CRT is connected is now resolved The display panel's icons disappearing when using an FPD and TV is now resolved The system not responding after previewing the 3D Liquid Desktop screensaver is now resolved The overlay pixel duplication noticed when the display resolution is set above 1600x1200 is now resolved The resolution changing to 640x480 32bpp when checking the optimized format for 480i in the YpbPR settings page is now resolved The display corruption noticed when a system returns from hibernate mode is now resolved The blue box border noticed around cached URL addresses is now resolved The system not responding when hot plugging a DFP monitor is now resolved A TV connection being falsely detected when booting the system is now resolved Only half of the image being displayed on an HDTV when outputting from the VGA connector is now resolved An error message being displayed when attempting to install the display driver from the ATI web site is now resolved Known Issues The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of CATALYST?. When updating to future CATALYST? releases your current color control panel profiles will be lost. This will be fixed in an upcoming CATALYST release Playing Quake II with the OpenGL option set to default, and the video mode set to 1024x768 results in the system not responding. This issue will be resolved in a future CATALYST? release Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON? 9700 series card installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing as the character is moved. This issue will be resolved in a future CATALYST? release The monitor shuts down after booting to the Windows XP service pack 1 desktop with the RADEON? 9000 Pro installed in the system. This issue will be resolved in a future CATALYST? release Running the ATI Tranquility screen saver found at http://www.driverheaven.net, on an ATI RADEON? 9000 series card, results in the system not responding under Windows XP. This issue will be resolved in a future CATALYST? release Running 3D Mark 2001 results in lower than expected test results. This issue is known to occur under all supported operating systems with the RADEON? 9000 Pro installed. This issue will be resolved in a future CATALYST? release ATI Driver Website Download Driver (2K-XP)
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