ATi today released new Catalyst drivers for the video cards equipped with a Radeon core. As usual, there are bugs in the code that relate to the source code itself and games. In this release, a bug has even been removed from the code that makes nVidia’s ChameleonMark was rendered incorrectly. The drivers are available for Windows 98/Me and Windows 2k/XPand become delivered with the following changes and new features:
The CATALYST™ software suite 3.9 contains the following:
- RADEON™ display driver 7.95
- Multimedia Center™ 8.7
- HydraVision™ 3.21
- HydraVision™ Basic Edition 3.25
- Remote Wonder™ 2.1
- WDM version 3.09
Resolved Game Issues
- Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp followed by playing Blade of Darkness with the game set to 1027×768 16bpp, and texture resolution set to max, no longer results in a flickering horizontal line of display corruption
- Playing Morrowind under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ All-In-Wonder 9200 installed no longer results in parts of the boat image flashing and portions of the person’s body being missing
- The game Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy no longer fails to respond when enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x or 6x
- Choppy game play is no longer noticed with attempting to play the game Home World 2
- The demo game Panzers no longer fails to respond when Anti-Aliasing is enabled under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500 series card installed
- Setting the ATI 3D tab slider to Performance under Windows XP with a RADEON™ 9800 series card installed no longer results in display corruption when playing the game Grand Prix 4
- Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024×768 or 1280×1024 followed by starting a new flight no longer results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin
- Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp followed by setting the Indy Car demo display option to 1600×1200 32bpp and setting the detail to high no longer results in the fence and car’s shadows flashing
- Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x followed by configuring the game Race Driver to 1600×1200 32bpp no longer results in some of the race cars not being drawn properly
- Attempting to start a new game of Links 2003 no longer results in the system rebooting
- Serious Sam 2 is now able to detect OpenGL TRUFORM when set to Application Preference
Resolved Benchmark Issues
- ChameleonMark no longer displays corruption on DX8-class products
Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues
- The help files for the new VPU Recover feature no longer make reference to that feature as Smartsave
- Connecting a TV as the secondary display and enabling extended desktop no longer results in display corruption on the primary display when attempting to change the color mode and resolution when playing Serious Sam
- Having two monitor connected with only one monitor being active no longer results in two monitors being seen as active in the Monitor tab of the Advanced Display Properties
- Connecting both a CRT and a TV to an ATI RADEON™ 7200 series running in a Windows 9x environment no longer results in corrupted colors being displayed on the CRT
- Setting the secondary CRT display to 1024×768 32bpp with extended desktop enabled no longer results in not being able to swap between the primary and secondary displays
- DVD Region 2 playback no longer stutters during the beginning of the DVD under Windows 2000
- Connecting both a CRT and a TV to an ATI RADEON™ 7200 series running in a Windows 9x environment no longer results in corrupted colors being displayed on the CRT
- The incorrect display resolution and desktop size is no longer indicated when clicking on the ATI icon for the first time
Version number | 3.9 |
Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP |
Website | ati |
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File size |
25.07MB |
License type | Freeware |