[B]ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows[/B]
[B]Vista[/B]
- AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and
Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
- Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
- Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
- All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
[B]ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements[/B]
- Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3
[B]ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages[/B]
- As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
- The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
[B]New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK[/B]
- AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
- The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
- The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
- The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
[B]Performance Improvements[/B]
Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
- Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products
[B]Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System[/B]
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
- Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast
forwarding or rewinding
- Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
- Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in extended modes
- Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out and preview is now functional
- OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
- Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off
[B]Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System[/B]
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
- Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD
- FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some ASICs
- Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables with some ASICs
- Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using Catalyst Control Center
- Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
- Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow when using the Alt-Tab key