ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.3 Vista/Windows 7 (64-bit)

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The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.3 contains the following:

• Radeon™ display driver 8.591
• HydraVision™ for both Windows XP and Vista
• WDM Driver Install Bundle
• Southbridge/IXP Driver
• Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.591


AMD Desktop Product Family Support

ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 X2 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4670 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4650 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

ATI Radeon™ X1950 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1900 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1800 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1650 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1600 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1550 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1300 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1050 Series
ATI Radeon™ X850 Series
ATI Radeon™ X800 Series
ATI Radeon™ X700 Series
ATI Radeon™ X600 Series
ATI Radeon™ X550 Series
ATI Radeon™ X300 Series

ATI Radeon™ 9800 Series
ATI Radeon™ 9700 Series
ATI Radeon™ 9600 Series
ATI Radeon™ 9550 Series
ATI Radeon™ 9500 Series


ATI All-in-Wonder™ HD
ATI All-in-Wonder™ 2006 Edition

ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1900 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X600 Series

ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9600 Series

ATI Theater 650™
ATI Theater 600™
ATI Theater™ 550 PRO

Note: ATI All-in-Wonder™ boards operate with AMD’s Windows
Vista ready display and capture drivers under the Windows Vista
operating system. However, the Windows Vista Media Center application does not support TV/Capture functionality provided by the ATI All-in-Wonder™.
TV/Capture functionality is qualified to function with Snapstream’s BeyondTV 4.6 for Windows Vista. Other third party solutions (such as Arcsoft’s Total Media 3) may support TV/Capture with the ATI All-in-Wonder™, but these applications have not been fully tested by AMD.


AMD Chipset Product Support

ATI Radeon™ HD 3300 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3100 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2100 Series

ATI Radeon™ Xpress 3200 CrossFire
ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1250 Series
ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1150 Series
ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1100 Series
ATI Radeon™ Xpress 200 Series

AMD 580X Series Chipset
AMD 690 Series Chipset

ATI Radeon™ X1250 Series
ATI Radeon™ X1200 Series

Note: When installing the Catalyst™ Vista driver for Windows Vista,
the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator
rights in order to successfully complete the installation of the Catalyst™
Vista driver.

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver.

These include the following:

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all
ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows
Vista

• 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


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements


• 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


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages


• 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


New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

• 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


Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. 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


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:

• 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


Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™.

These include:

• AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format

• “Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264,
mp4 and VC1 file formats

• “CCC Host application...” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a
transcoding process

• Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format

• The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under
Windows Vista 64-bit edition

• "World of Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering
may occur when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire

• Google Sketchup may show blank screen

• Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays

• Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will
not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU


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:

• Desktop may jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs

• Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays

• Express driver uninstall may result in a device manager error

• Avivo Video Converter option is not available for Windows 7

• Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or the media player to stop functioning

• Changes to display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video

• Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may fail to apply

• Catalyst Control Center page is missing under OS Display Properties

• Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i
formats; the resolution will be applied automatically

• Display configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to apply

• Catalyst Control Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied