ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 for Vista and Windows 7 32-bit

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The Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 contains the following:Radeon display driver 8.62HydraVision for both Windows XP and VistaHydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only)WDM Driver Install BundleSouthbridge/IXP DriverCatalystTM Control Center Version 8.62Performance ImprovementsCatalyst 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 seriesCrysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurationsCrysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurationsWorld in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limitedResolved Issues for All Windows Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 for Vista and Windows 7 32-bit release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop respondingCatalyst Control Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling the primary display is now possibleChanging the bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop respondingCatalyst Control Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no longer fails to displayCatalyst Control Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic deinterlacing is enabledCatalyst Control Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a CRT display in clone modeCatalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled when using a non-HDTV resolutionFixed a regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no longer work properly with Catalyst 9.4 or laterKnown Issues for All Windows Operating SystemThis section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system with the latest version of CatalystTM. These include:Garbled text may appears on resume splash screen after hibernation with some ASICsCatalyst Control Center: Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window may blank outOpening Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASICCatalyst Control Center: Enable dialog reposition does not show on proper monitor when system is configured with 4 displaysConfirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically Interlaced modes might not be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control CenterCatalyst Control Center: The wrong help pages are displayed for Component video propertiesCatalyst Control Centre may fail to launch when CrossFire has been disabled on some multi-adapter systemsCatalyst Control Center: Text in some of the panels may be cut when running on a Russian operating systemsCatalyst Control Center: Some text in the Basic View may be cut after using the “Rotate Desktop” optionsResolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 for Vista and Windows 7 32-bit release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:On some configurations, video artifacts are no longer visible during playback of transcoded video filesSecond adapter will now run at default minimum clock values, instead of custom GPU clock values, without requiring the user to launch and exit the 3D game in full screen modeCorruption and flickering no longer visible when switching between window and full screen mode when playing CrysisKnown Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating SystemThis section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst. These include:On some system configurations, a delay may be noticed when task switching between the desktop and a game in progressSome system configurations may prevent the playback of Blu-ray content on DVI ports at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 display modes [Vista 64] Re-installing the graphics driver may cause a “No ATI Graphics driver installed...” error dialog on rebootHDMI audio may not be enabled in some DX10 games when Crossfire is enabledResolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:Some systems with both a component video display and a secondary display, ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 for Vista and Windows 7 32-bit is now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settingsCatalyst Control Center: Graphics corruption no longer visible when updating the ATI Graphics Power settingsCatalyst Control Center: System no longer fails to set the Component Video modes Catalyst Control Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabledCatalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properlyEnabling CrossFire under specific system configurations no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop respondingIntermittent corruption no longer visible throughout Enemy Territory Quake Wars levelsKnown Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating SystemThe 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:Playing back Blu-ray content in extended desktop might not switch to primary display after unplugging the secondary displayPower Cinema may have to be launched twice to start Blu-ray playbackCatalyst Control Center may report Crossfire as disabled for some quad crossfire configurationsCatalyst Control Center: Some of the default HDTV modes may not be enabled with particular monitors

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