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New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format.
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.
High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and
converting interlaced video content to progressive.
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:
Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in
extended mode
Catalyst Control Center no longer stops responding when setting Eyefinity SLS
(Single Large Surface) mode for extended HDMI display
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:
calMemCopy() no longer causes some systems with 2 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2s to become unresponsive
Resolved, high bit rate audio from Blu-ray discs might not output when using PowerDVD 10
World in Conflict (DX10) no longer exhibits corruption when exiting from multiplayer game with extended desktop
Resolved Tom Clancy's HAWX (in DX9 and DX10) no audio output during game play on some systems
Choppy video and audio no longer occurs when more than one digital audio source is enabled
Wolfenstein no longer stops responding when running in display mode of 2560x1600
Resolved WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been minimized and restored
WinDVD application now repaints and no longer remain on screen
Resolved display driver incompatibility with Resident Evil 5 Japanese release
Desktop is no longer cut short when 720P 60Hz HDTV custom mode is added in Windows 7 for some ASICs
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:
ANNO 1404 (also known as "Dawn of Discovery") no longer displays black texture corruption instead of surface terrain for some ASICs
A green line at the bottom when playing some interlaced content no longer occurs.
Age of Conan no longer shows flashing corruption when played under CrossFire with medium or high settings
Video corruption no longer occurs when playing some H.264 video files under Cyberlink Power DVD
PowerDVD no longer intermittently terminates when playing HD MPEG2 content in extended/clone mode
Supreme Commander no longer shows flickering on the primary display with extended desktop
Vista: Extended display are no longer disabled when CrossFire is enabled for the primary adapter
The de-noise value in the Avivo Video - Advanced Quality page is now set to the proper default value after driver installation
Crysis Warhead no longer stops responding when playing at very high settings with CrossFire enabled
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:
Transcoding of AC3 files no longer shows corruption in transcoded files
Battlefield 2142 running in CrossFire with "low" in-game settings no longer shows corruption on objects
Selection for "Add 720P 50Hz in the Display Manager (PAL)" no longer missing under HDTV Support in Catalyst Control Center
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:
Catalyst Control Center, changing the deinterlace mode may default to adaptive deinterlace mode when playing videos
Confirmation dialog box might not appear while extending the display through Catalyst Control Center in Windows 7
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:
AAMode appears in Catalyst Control Center under Graphics - 3D when it should not
No sound output from Display Port audio in some extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
Using drag and drop to transcode certain video files may not use the hardware accelerator
Cyberlink PowerDVD; setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable Windows Aero to optimize Blu-ray playback" may cause the system to become unresponsive during Blu-ray playback
Some video artifacts might be noticed when playing HD video files in fullscreen under Windows MCE or Windows Media player
FarCry2 (DX10) may stop responding when played at 2560X1600 and in-game anti-alias is set to 4X or higher
Cyberlink PowerDVD Blu-ray playback video may fail to render when swapping primary displays in a multi-monitor configuration
Catalyst Control Center, changing video gamma setting may have no effect on Adobe Flash Player
On some systems with WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been minimized and restored
Adobe Flash player, dropped frames and browser lag may be noticed when playing multiple instances of Youtube clips in Firefox
On some system configurations changing desktop resolution may causes the OS to stop responding when real-time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
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:
Crysis (DX10); with some system configurations flickering may occur during game play when Crossfire has been enabled
Corruption is observed while playing "The Witcher" video game on the Radeon HD 58xx products
WinDVD may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multimonitor setup
No audio when hot plugging HDMI display while media file is being played
Horizontal line may appears at the bottom of video playback window when playing H.264 content in PowerDVD
Some Flash videos may fail to render when system is restored from sleep
Refreshing IE web page may cause the Adobe flash player hardware acceleration to be enabled after having been disabled
Adobe Flash player may show some block corruptions when playing certain videos files
Hardware acceleration may become disabled and browser may stop responding when running multiple instances of Adobe flash player
Running multiple instances of Adobe flash player may cause video playback to drop frames or flickering
Adobe Flash Player; some block corruption might be noticed when Youtube HD video is buffering
Some video artifacts may occur when playing two or more SD video files with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
On some systems playing multiple H.264 files may cause the Adobe Flash player to stop responding
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:
Tom Clancy's HAWX; VPU recover may occur in some CrossFire configurations
Some MP4 video files may not playback properly with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
Some system may intermittently stop responding when playing video clips with hardware accelerated Flash player
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format.
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.
High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and
converting interlaced video content to progressive.
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:
Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in
extended mode
Catalyst Control Center no longer stops responding when setting Eyefinity SLS
(Single Large Surface) mode for extended HDMI display
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:
calMemCopy() no longer causes some systems with 2 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2s to become unresponsive
Resolved, high bit rate audio from Blu-ray discs might not output when using PowerDVD 10
World in Conflict (DX10) no longer exhibits corruption when exiting from multiplayer game with extended desktop
Resolved Tom Clancy's HAWX (in DX9 and DX10) no audio output during game play on some systems
Choppy video and audio no longer occurs when more than one digital audio source is enabled
Wolfenstein no longer stops responding when running in display mode of 2560x1600
Resolved WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been minimized and restored
WinDVD application now repaints and no longer remain on screen
Resolved display driver incompatibility with Resident Evil 5 Japanese release
Desktop is no longer cut short when 720P 60Hz HDTV custom mode is added in Windows 7 for some ASICs
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:
ANNO 1404 (also known as "Dawn of Discovery") no longer displays black texture corruption instead of surface terrain for some ASICs
A green line at the bottom when playing some interlaced content no longer occurs.
Age of Conan no longer shows flashing corruption when played under CrossFire with medium or high settings
Video corruption no longer occurs when playing some H.264 video files under Cyberlink Power DVD
PowerDVD no longer intermittently terminates when playing HD MPEG2 content in extended/clone mode
Supreme Commander no longer shows flickering on the primary display with extended desktop
Vista: Extended display are no longer disabled when CrossFire is enabled for the primary adapter
The de-noise value in the Avivo Video - Advanced Quality page is now set to the proper default value after driver installation
Crysis Warhead no longer stops responding when playing at very high settings with CrossFire enabled
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:
Transcoding of AC3 files no longer shows corruption in transcoded files
Battlefield 2142 running in CrossFire with "low" in-game settings no longer shows corruption on objects
Selection for "Add 720P 50Hz in the Display Manager (PAL)" no longer missing under HDTV Support in Catalyst Control Center
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:
Catalyst Control Center, changing the deinterlace mode may default to adaptive deinterlace mode when playing videos
Confirmation dialog box might not appear while extending the display through Catalyst Control Center in Windows 7
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:
AAMode appears in Catalyst Control Center under Graphics - 3D when it should not
No sound output from Display Port audio in some extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
Using drag and drop to transcode certain video files may not use the hardware accelerator
Cyberlink PowerDVD; setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable Windows Aero to optimize Blu-ray playback" may cause the system to become unresponsive during Blu-ray playback
Some video artifacts might be noticed when playing HD video files in fullscreen under Windows MCE or Windows Media player
FarCry2 (DX10) may stop responding when played at 2560X1600 and in-game anti-alias is set to 4X or higher
Cyberlink PowerDVD Blu-ray playback video may fail to render when swapping primary displays in a multi-monitor configuration
Catalyst Control Center, changing video gamma setting may have no effect on Adobe Flash Player
On some systems with WinDVD Blu-ray playback will not start until application has been minimized and restored
Adobe Flash player, dropped frames and browser lag may be noticed when playing multiple instances of Youtube clips in Firefox
On some system configurations changing desktop resolution may causes the OS to stop responding when real-time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
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:
Crysis (DX10); with some system configurations flickering may occur during game play when Crossfire has been enabled
Corruption is observed while playing "The Witcher" video game on the Radeon HD 58xx products
WinDVD may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multimonitor setup
No audio when hot plugging HDMI display while media file is being played
Horizontal line may appears at the bottom of video playback window when playing H.264 content in PowerDVD
Some Flash videos may fail to render when system is restored from sleep
Refreshing IE web page may cause the Adobe flash player hardware acceleration to be enabled after having been disabled
Adobe Flash player may show some block corruptions when playing certain videos files
Hardware acceleration may become disabled and browser may stop responding when running multiple instances of Adobe flash player
Running multiple instances of Adobe flash player may cause video playback to drop frames or flickering
Adobe Flash Player; some block corruption might be noticed when Youtube HD video is buffering
Some video artifacts may occur when playing two or more SD video files with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
On some systems playing multiple H.264 files may cause the Adobe Flash player to stop responding
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:
Tom Clancy's HAWX; VPU recover may occur in some CrossFire configurations
Some MP4 video files may not playback properly with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
Some system may intermittently stop responding when playing video clips with hardware accelerated Flash player
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