4.9 Catalysts

[Razorfish]

New Ati 4.9 Catalyst drivers are out, their avalible with the old style of control panel or the new control center

get them here:

http://www.ati.com/

[RussianMissile1]

did they skip 4.8?

i dont remember a 4.8 being out yet.

[Daniel ~]

Please upload to AOA Files, it's the nice thing to do! ":O}

[Razorfish]

doing it now dan.

RM1: not but it was an unbeliably quick release...not tried them yet.

If anyone tries them before me can you post your results. Thanks you in advance!

[cadaveca]

maybe this will fix the issues i've had!

[cadaveca]

btw, thanks for the info...4.8 was only out like 2 weeks...



hmmmm 5.0 on the horizon?

[Razorfish]

NO worries, i stumbled across it tring to get the control center to work. You tried i yet?

[dod]

From the ATI site

Fixed in this driver:

* XIII: Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9200 installed
* Far Cry v1.2: Texture corruption is no longer seen on the ground
* IL2 Forgotten Battles: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
* Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
* PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
* Serious Sam SE: Running the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
* Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
* Tabula Rasa: Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9700 PRO installed
* Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
* Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
* Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
* Enabling a second display device followed by changing the positions of the two devices in the mapping area, no longer results in the images changing to a different unexpected position when click apply to the changes
* Setting the Overlay option back to the default setting now results in the default setting becoming active when relaunching the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER
* Repeatedly switching from one custom profile and another in rapid succession no longer results in the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER failing to respond
* Canceling SMARTGART changes and exiting the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER no longer results in the reboot message reappearing when restarting the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER
* A .net error message is no longer displayed under Windows 2000 when the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER is installed from an administrator account an then attempting to launch the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER from the system tray on a secondary account
* Having the display properties page active and attempting to close the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER no longer results in a .net exception error message appearing
* Assigning the same hotkey for Increase 3D Gamma and Decrease 3D Gamma under Windows 2000 no longer results in a .Net exception error when attempting to move the hotkey manager window around the desktop
* Disabling the primary device and selecting the secondary device to be the primary no longer results in the Information Center displaying a blank page
* The CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER no longer reports the CPU type as Intel when installed under an AMD64 system
* Launching the Task Manager and clicking on End Process for the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER system tray option no longer results in the system tray option for the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER still be selected within the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER
* Switching from the CATALYST™ Control Center System Skin option to the CATALYST_Quicksilver Skin option no longer results in the Toolbar area skin becoming corrupted

[keithwalton]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

btw, thanks for the info...4.8 was only out like 2 weeks...



hmmmm 5.0 on the horizon?

heh nope, it'll be 4.10 then 4.11 and 4.12 first then 5.1,
ati release catalyst drivers officially once a month, the first number represents the year whilst the second number is the month, ie 4.8 is 2004, august.

[Pitch]

The ATI Control centre is good.

[Razorfish]

Any improvment im the benchmarks when using 4.9???

[Pitch]

I'll tell you in 5 mins

[Razorfish]

Thanks?

[karbon86]

5 mins eh? Where are the results

[Pitch]

Sorry, the new drivers kept crashing my system so I had to underclock my x800(?!) Obviously now I my scores are lower.

Took me ages to get a stable bench, so I've gone back to 4.8.

Maybe because it is a flashed Pro, but It work bench 5 about 20 seconds and then freeze.

Anyone else got a similer experience?

[cadaveca]

you bet ya...and the issue is kinda touched on...

but they are more issues with the control center than meets the eye, methinks

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/catalyst...es.html#175658

[Gizmo]

I've finally gotten to posting them in AOAFiles. You can download them here.

Thanks RazorFish!