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ATI Catalyst 8.3 Vista/XP

6 03 2008

AMD ATI just released Catalyst 8.3 for Windows Vista and Windows XP.

The Catalyst team has been hard at work to bring you some very significant performance gains in a number of games (details listed below), so be sure to install Catalyst 8.3!

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

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

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with default game settings no longer results in the gadget sidebar bleeding through. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32545

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Playing the game under Windows Vista (64 bit version) no longer results in corruption being noticed when loading multiple maps. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32544

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: The game no longer fails with an error pointing to atioglxx.dll when exiting the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32540

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32532

Guitar Hero 3: Poor performance is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32539

Halo 2: Enabling AA in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the Halo 2 logo flickering when loading or quitting a campaign. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32541

Halo2: Starting a new campaign with the default Catalyst™ Control Center setting and the default game settings no longer results in texture corruption being noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon™ HD 2100 series of product installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32655

Oblivion: Flickering is no longer noticed when first making a move if the in-game settings are set to maximum, CrossFire™ is enabled and AF is set to 16x. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31581

Resident Evil 4: Minor flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista along with CrossFire™ being enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32536

Splinter Cell Double Agent: Multicolored rectangles are no longer noticed when UBM is enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 34×0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32526

World of Conflict: Text corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32537

World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32538

Installing the WDM driver on systems containing an ATI TV Tuner product and an ATI graphics adapter no longer results in the WDM driver failing to install. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30571

Resuming from hibernation mode with HDMI display connected no longer results in a black screen with only a mouse cursor being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31149

The OverDrive™ page is no longer grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks are no longer displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire™ on systems containing and ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version). Further details can be found in topic number 737-31586

Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product and running Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31583

Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the display resolution to 1280×800 or higher, followed by playing an HD-DVD using PowerDVD, no longer results in the HD-DVD title failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31584

Dragging player window to secondary display while playing back HD content and moving it back to primary no longer results in blank player window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31585

The OverDrive™ page may be grayed out and the GPU and memory clocks as may be displayed as 000 after enabling CrossFire™ on systems containing and ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition and running Windows Vista (64 bit version). Further details can be found in topic number 737-31586

The color temperature control settings no longer defaults to 4000K (yellow tint) when monitor unplugged during driver silent installation. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32527

A Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays option no longer appears when an HDMI display device is connected using an HDMI-DVI cable. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32528

Playing DVD content using the Windows Media Player no longer results in the playback being choppy. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32529

Hot plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device multiple times during one windows session no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32530

Enabling clone mode on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1200/1250/1270 series of product no longer results in the resolution and color depth changing to 640×480 8bpp. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32531

An error message is no longer displayed when attempting to set both the primary (HDMI) display device and secondary (DVI) display device to a display resolution of 1280×1024. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32533

The secondary display device no longer fails to resume from sleep mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32534

Setting the display resolution to 1920×1200, followed by playing a DVD title no longer results in playback of the DVD appearing jittery. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32535

Corruption is no longer noticed at the beginning of a DVD title or when resizing the media player window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32540

Connecting a CRT and an HDMI display device followed by enabling clone mode and setting the resolution to 1024×768 32bpp 60Hz. no longer results in corruption being noticed on the secondary display device when resuming from suspend mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32656

Connecting a DFP display device to a system running Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit versions) no longer results in the display modes of 1024×768, 800×600, and 640×480 being missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32542

Connecting multiple display devices no longer results in the primary, secondary and other monitors swapping positions within the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32543

The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to resume from suspend mode when the HDMI display device is set to 1024×768 60Hz.on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32549

Configuring a system with two ATI Radeon™ HD 3870s or two ATI Radeon™ HD 3850s no longer results in the CrossFire being enabled even after one display device is disabled yet still connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32547

Enabling extended desktop mode, followed by enabling Overlay Theater Mode no longer results in Overlay Theater Mode failing on the secondary display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32546

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

Call of Duty: Enabling AA in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32582

Call of Juarez: Intermittent flashing textures are no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38×0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32579

Call of Juarez: Setting the game level with Optimal Quality and high in-game settings no longer results in the game level being blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30591

DaTang: Texture errors are no longer noticed when attempting to select a character or in the game map. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32575

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Enabling CrossFire™ an attempting to run either application no longer results in the applications exiting to the Windows XP desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32583

STALKER: Shadows are now being rendered properly when CrossFire™ is enabled along with AA being enabled at 4x and Full Dynamic Lighting also being enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31597

TianXia2: Launching the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 36×0/38×0 series of product no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32578

World of Warcraft: Connecting an Apple 30″ display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 26×0 series of product and running Windows XP no longer results in poor performance and intermittent flashing display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32576

World of Warcraft: Playing the game in a windowed mode under Windows XP no longer results in the game failing to respond when attempting to go full screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32586

World of Warcraft: Poor performance and flashing on screen are no longer noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32584

After installing the graphics driver an error message is no longer displayed when attempting to launch DirectX based games when using an ATI AGP product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31625

Setting the desktop resolution to 1280×1024 and using PowerDVD to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title no longer results in corruption being noticed when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31171

On certain products, changing display resolution while playing back High Definition content no longer results in instability. It is recommended to set appropriate resolution while playback is stopped. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31172

Cyberlink: Playing a DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31173

Disabling the blackmambo driver or unplugging the power source no longer results in the Vista operating system failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32551

The antenna signal strength is no longer reported by Vista Media Center as low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32552

The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer reboots when installing the T200 driver. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32553

Setting the DPI to 120 in the Display Properties no longer results in the combo box being cut-off. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31566

.NET Framework an Unhandled Exception error no longer occurs when upon booting or re-booting the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32554

The information provided in the 3D Help for preview changes no longer provides the incorrect information on where the current settings and new settings are displayed when using the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32657

The Catalyst™ Control Center aspects are no longer missing for the secondary extended display when hot unplugging and hot plugging the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32555

Native CrossFire™ can now be enabled when the primary display device is connected to the master card using a CV or TV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32556

Running the Spanish version of the Windows operating system no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center option failing to be available when right-clicking the Windows desktop menu bar. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32557

The lower portion of the Catalyst™ Control Center is no longer cropped when changing the display resolution from 640×480 to 1920×1200. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32559

The display resolution of 3840×2400 13Hz is now available on system running Windows Vista and having a display device connected that can support this resolution. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32560

The help files for both Component Video and Avivo have been updated to reflect supported products for these options. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32561

The video preview in the Catalyst™ Control Center->Avivo Video->Basic Quality no longer disappears when toggling between different option within the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32563

Catalyst™ Control Center->Display options->Force TV detection: The text is no longer cropped at 144dpi settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32566

The advanced color slider values are now changing when clicking the Up/Down spin buttons in the Catalyst™ Control Center->Avivo2. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32569

Catalyst™ Control Center: Setting the skin to either Crimson or Classic no longer results in OverDrive option failing to display a clear image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32572

Enabling CrossFire™ followed by hot-unplugging a display device and then hot plugging the display device back in no longer results in the CrossFire™ option in the Catalyst™ Control Center being greyed out. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32573

The video output window size is now set correctly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32574

Setting the display resolution to 1920×1200 or 1920×1080 on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3100/3200 series of products, followed by enabling clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in horizontal line corruption being noticed when playing an SD DVD. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32658

Connecting a TV as the primary display device on a system containing either an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 or 34×0 series of product no longer results in the TV displaying green flashes during the welcome screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32577

Connecting both a CRT and DFP display device to a system running Windows XP and enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the DFP display device failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32581

Catalyst™ Control Center–>3D–>All settings–>Setting the slider to Quality no longer results in the Wait for vertical refresh failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32587

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. These include:

Doom3: Running an OpenGL application with CrossFire™ enabled and AA set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when the display resolution is set to 2048×1536 or higher. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32591

World in Conflict: Text corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 30 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31619

Hot plugging a display device to a system running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and containing an ATI Radeon™ X1250/1270 series of product no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31618

Standard PAL mode no longer fails to be available in the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31620

Standard PAL mode no longer fail to be available in the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32588

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on known issues associated with the ATI Catalyst™. These include:

Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels may result in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600

Crysis: Momentary corruption may be noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599

Doom 3: Setting the in game options to Ultra Quality and the screen size to 1600×1200 may result in the image next to the text failing to be rendered. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32603

Hellgate: London: Flickering may be 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 may result 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 may result in corruption being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32597

Tomb Raider Anniversary: Performance improvement may not be noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32598

Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31189

Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin may result in the Catalyst™ Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569

The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570

Connecting a secondary display device using the HDMI connector and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode may result in the WinDVD 7 player playing in a windowed mode on both display devices when Overlay Theater Mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30579

The Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst™ Control Center OverDrive™ option. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30584

Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios may result in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145

The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146

Setting the desktop resolution to 1600×1200 or greater may result in green pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31150

Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh Times, School for Scoundrels using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31155

Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163

An error message may appear when installing the display driver package through setup.exe. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31577

Using the pound key (#) as the first character in the user name may result in an error when installing the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31578

The OverDrive™ page may be missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center after disabling CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31579

The color depth may change to 8 bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire™ for the first time. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31580

Display corruption may be noticed when enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900/1950 series of product when the display resolution is set to 1600×1200 70Hz and running a 3D application in full screen mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31582

Using the pound key (#) as the first character in the user name may result in an error when installing the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32592

Connecting a TV as a secondary display device may result in extended desktop mode failing to become active. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32659

Flashes of white lines may be notice when quickly moving windows around the Vista desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32660

Momentary flicker may be noticed when rotating the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32661

Hot plugging an HDMI display device to a system running Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit version) may result in the HDMI display device being detected as a DTV (DVI) device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32593

The signal on HDTV TV may display as 480p60 after setting the format to 576i25/576p50 in clone mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32662

A warning message may fail to appear when using an inappropriate DVI-HDMI adapter. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32596

Attempting to perform a silent install of the display driver on a system running Traditional Chinese version of Windows Vista may result in an error message being displayed and the display drivers failing to be installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32601

Catalyst™ Control Center->Display Properties->Settings tab->Advanced: The adapter information may be displayed as ATI Display Adapter instead of the actual product name. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32602

Enabling extended desktop mode followed by swapping the primary and secondary display devices may results in all running applications to be displayed on the primary display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32607

Enabling or disabling CrossFire may result in the HydraGrid settings failing to be retained. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32609

Inconsistent behavior may be noticed in the Catalyst™ Control Center when clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32610

Shared applications may be removed after selecting Restore desktop when virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611

Exiting a full screen D3D application may result in some of the other running applications failing to retain their current HydarGrid location. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-3261

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947

Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x may intermittently result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492

Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587

Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31166

The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570

Setting the display resolution to 1440×900 or lower may result in corruption being noticed when playing a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31168

The floppy drive may fail to read or write under Vista on a Dell XPS410 system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31148

Setting the language option to any supported language other than English may result in the Help file for Configure and Diagnostics failing to appear. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32605

Setting the language option to Russian for the Catalyst™ Control Center may results in some text being cropped for the secondary display device in the display properties. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32663

Setting the language option to German for the Catalyst™ Control Center may result in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32664

Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst™ Control Center may result in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32665

Connecting a CRT and TV and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop may result in Overlay Theater Mode failing on the secondary display device when attempting to change the TV format to D/PAL. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32606

Intermittent flashing may be noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29556

For further information and general help on software driver installation, game issues, and more, visit ATI Customer Care.

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Date : 6 March 2008
Categories : ATI, All, Drivers, Free, I.T, Optimize, PC, Software, Update, Vista, WHQL, Windows, XP

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