Download Driver For ATI Catalyst 10.7

AMD has new Catalyst drivers ready and as usual the month and year of release make up the version number. The drivers are available for Windows XP, Vista and 7, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit environments. The new drivers are suitable for all Radeon models from the HD 2400 series; older cards are on the 10.2 release designated. As usual, at the bottom of this posting are the direct links to the pages with the available downloads.

Since version 10.2, AMD no longer supplies the CrossFireX profiles only with the driver, but also as loose download, so that updates can be offered more quickly. New in version 10.7 is hardware acceleration for VLC Media Player. Furthermore, Eyefinity has been improved, CrossFireX can now be used on rotated displays and there are performance improvements in the Borderlands game. Of course, we also see the usual list of bug fixes, followed by a collection of problems that are already known, but are still being worked on.

New Features

ATI Eyefinity – HydraVision enhancements

• Maximizing a window across displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
• Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
• Proper dialog box placement – dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display

Enhanced Pull Down Detection

• The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
• Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series

ATI CrossFireX technology – support for rotated displays

• This release of ATI Catalyst enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX technology

ATI Radeon GPU acceleration or VLC 1.1.1 Media Player

• Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources
• Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products
• Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later

Performance Improvements

Borderlands

• Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series single card and CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
• Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 single card and CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
• Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 and ATI Radeon HD 5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
• Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 series single card and CrossFire configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

Resolved Issues

For All Windows Operating Systems

• “Current Setting” indicator will now appear when “Windows desktop” option is selected in “Catalyst Control Center – Basic” for specific CV resolutions

For the Windows 7 Operating System

• “Desktop Window Manager has stopped working” error no longer appears after driver installation on specific cards
• ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire configurations
• Screen no longer turns blank when flashlight is turned on in “The Chronicles of Riddick 2” with Screen Space Ambient Occlusion enabled
• Running Unigine Heaven 2.1 (OpenGL) with “Tessellation” enabled no longer causes system to fail
• Player no longer exits abruptly while changing basic quality settings in Catalyst Control Center
• Browser no longer fails after repeated system suspend/resume and video playbackpauses while viewing YouTube content

For the Windows Vista Operating System

• ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire configurations

For the Windows XP Operating System

• “Age Of Empires: The Rise of Rome” no longer fails and display error message when the diplomacy button is clicked
• Flickering no longer observed when task switching between game and desktop with Alt+Tab in “Need for Speed: Shift” game

Known Issues

Under All Windows Operating Systems

• OpenCL 1.0 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the ATI Catalyst Driver Suite in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.2. If you require an OpenCL 1.0 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the ATI Catalyst 10.5 Driver Suite
• Catalyst Control Center: Enable dialogue reposition does not show on proper monitor when system is configured with 4 displays
• With Hydravision “ATI Eyefinity Enhancements” enabled and radio button “Show on application’s display” selected, dialogue boxes may continue to pop up beneath the bezels if bezels are corrected to zero
• Catalyst Control Center – Basic wizard pane or resolution combo box in “Display Setting for Desktop Viewing” page may go blank in basic view for component video mode
• HDMI default refresh rate may appear as 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz under HDTV in Catalyst Control Center

Under the Windows 7 Operating System

• Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may showing deinterlacing lines
• “Borderlands” may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay
• PowerDVD may exhibits blue and pink tint and might not display smooth transition when adjusting brightness and contrast in Catalyst Control Center when viewing Blu-ray content
• Green texture corruption may be observed when resolution/video settings are changed in “Metro 2033” game in DirectX 10 and 11 mode on some cards
• Desktop line corruption might be observed after powering off the DP display and then turning it on while viewing Blu-ray content
• Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may experience audio and video synchronization issues when viewed on some devices

Under the Windows Vista Operating System

• Corruption might be visible in “Doom 3” and “Quake 4” with ATI Radeon HD 4700 Series cards
• Performing bezel compensation on 3×2 Eyefinity configuration may cause the bezel group (resolutions) to go missing
• All but the primary display under Eyefinity configuation might become disabled while changing the preferred display at lowest Bezel compensated resolution
• Choppy HD playback might occur while changing color vibrance and fleshtone correction in Catalyst Control Center – Advanced Color

Under the Windows XP Operating System

• Minor frame drops may be observed while viewing HD interlaced content

The following downloads are available:
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows XP (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows XP (mobility)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows XP (64bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows XP (Media Center Edition)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows Vista (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows Vista (64bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows 7 (32bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows 7 (64bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows Vista/7 (mobility, 32bit)
ATi Catalyst 10.7 for Windows Vista/7 (mobility, 64bit)
ATi CrossFireX Application Profiles