New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon Display Driver. These include the following:
- ATI Catalyst support for ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics solutions
- ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
- ATI Catalyst support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
ATI Catalyst support for ATI Mobility Radeon Premium
Graphics solutions
- This release of ATI Catalyst introduces support for the production version of
Windows 7 and Windows Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI
Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series of
products
- Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers
ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology
enhancements
- Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
- Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove
the pixels occupied by their display bezels
- Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
- Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst Control Center
profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
ATI Catalyst support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party
middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye).
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 10.3:
3DMark Vantage
Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics
products
Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Aliens vs. Predator
Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Battleforge
Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Call of Duty: World at War
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Company of Heroes
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Devil May Cry 4
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD
5700 Series products
Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Far Cry 2
Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000
Series products
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Resident Evil 5
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI
Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Unigine Tropics
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
World in Conflict
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Wolfenstein
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for Windows. These include:
- Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3
Eyefinity group
- Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of
changing to ‘0’ upon being disabled
- Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes
the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
- Saturation value for a hotplugged digital display will no longer intermittently be set
to '0' by default
- Enabling detail enhancement no longer causes dynamic contrast to stop functioning
- Catalyst Control Center system tray now displays the proper number of physical
adapters
- Force EDID override now displays options above 85 Hz
- Resolutions no longer missing in Catalyst Control Center Graphics Desktop
- Properties with CV connected and displays in extended mode
- Forced anti-alias now functions properly in "The Saboteur" game
- Refresh rate changes no longer revert back to 60 Hz (default) when "Enable GPU
- Scaling" is enabled under Digital Panel Properties attributes
- "Aliens vs. Predators" game now loads properly when run in DirectX 11 mode on
DirectX 9/10 graphics cards
- Mouse cursor no longer disappears on cloned displays after swapping the displays in
primary and extended cloned mode
- Displays no longer goes blank on some of the ports after display is hot-unplugged
and then hotplugged back
- Media Center no longer displays corruption when viewing DVB-T content
- Forced AF now works properly in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"
games
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:
- Sporadic frame drops no longer visible while viewing H.264 interlaced Blu-ray
content during fast moving scenes
- Video playback no longer displays checkerboard pattern on background after resume
from sleep
- Blank screen no longer observed while exiting "Heaven-OGL" or "GL View"
applications
- Tint adjustments in Catalyst Control Center Basic Color now transitions smoothly
when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
- Displays no longer go blank when CrossFire is disabled for the first time under
specific configurations
- Laser designator beam now focuses on target properly in "Call of Duty: Modern
Warefare 2" during Act II: Exodus mission
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:
-
Switching resolution options in "AION" game settings no longer causes the display
screen to flicker
- Forward and backward seeking while viewing Hulu video on dailymotion.com with
FlashPlayer 10.1 no longer causes the browser to freeze
- Video cut scenes are now rendering properly in "The Saboteur" game
- Corruption no longer visible when performing forward/backward video seeking on
Hulu with Adobe Flash Player
- Corruption no longer observed when viewing MPEG2 clips with Windows Media
Player
Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
-
Loading time between maps in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" may be long
- [Catalyst Control Center] Changing to deinterlace mode may default to adaptive
deinterlace mode instead when playing videos
- Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity
group may cause the bezel user interface to close instead of switching to the next
display
- Desktop mouse cursor may intermittently appear enlarged
- Utilizing hardware shaders (perfect mode) may cause text to become corrupted and
unreadable while loading any mission in "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" game
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
-
Black video may appear on one monitor when switching to clone mode during Bluray
playback on PowerDVD
- Green video may be visible in the beginning during AVCHD content playback with
PowerDVD 9
- Alt-Tabbing to desktop and back into "Mass Effect 2" game may cause the display to
go black
- Display may flash black when high settings of 19x12 are applied to in-game settings
for "Dawn of War 2"
- Catalyst Control Center might not remember the position of fourth monitor in
Eyefinity group
- Video corruption might be visible when watching live HD Jade Channel (Hong
Kong) with Windows Media Center
- Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" may result in screen flickering
under Multi-GPU configuration; relaunching game will resolve issue
- In-game anti-alias might fail to apply when other in-game options like Volumetric
Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games
- Flashing black block corruption may be visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" on
some ASICs
- Intermittent flickering and flashing textures may be visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad
Company" on some ASICs
- In-game V-sync option might not function in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" until
resolution/refresh rate mode change
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
-
"1776x1000" and "1152 x 648" HDTV resolutions might be missing from the
Desktop Area for Catalyst Control Center - Desktop Properties
- With one of displays connected via the DisplayPort, PowerDVD may terminate
during Blu-ray content playback in Eyefinity mode
- Audio playback devices may list "ATI DP Output" instead of "ATI HDMI Output"
when a HDMI display is connected
- Display may flash black when high settings of 19x12 are applied to in-game settings
for "Dawn of War 2"
- Corruption may be visible during fullscreen playback with Flash Player 10.1 on some
ASICs
- Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" may result in screen flickering
under Multi-GPU configuration; relaunching game will resolve issue
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
-
Corruption may be visible during fullscreen playback with Flash Player 10.1 on some
ASICs
- 75 Hz refresh rate might fail to apply with GPU Scaling enabled in digital panel
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