Driver update: ATi Catalyst 4.12 final

By admin On Dec 13, 2004

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New Catalyst drivers are available on ATi’s download site in the form of 4.12 final to download for the video cards with a Radeon chip on board. A month ago, the beta version of the 4.12 family was available for download after it became known that the 4.11 release was causing problems with certain games in combination with PunkBuster. This release contains a number of bug fixes that address issues in Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault. In addition, a number of adjustments have been made to the drivers themselves. For an extensive list of changes and known issues, please contact the release notes† Below is the changelog of Catalyst 4.12 final:

Fixed in this driver:

Half-Life 2: Playing the game on a system containing an Athlon XP CPU no longer results in missing textures occationally being noticed
Half-Life 2: Intermittent psychedelic patterns are no longer seen when playing the game under Windows XP
CounterStrike: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed no longer results in display corruption being seen in the floor in de_chateau map
Doom 3: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum Edition no longer results in display corruption being seen when pressing CTRL+Alt+Delete followed by clicking Cancel
Everquest: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum Edition installed results in the game displaying a black screen when setting the texture quality to high and having all radio buttons selected
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault: Setting the model detail to high and change the game resolution to high no longer results in the game failing to respond under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed
Tron2.0: Setting the display device resolution to 1280×1024 32bpp and setting the display option for the game to 800×600 32bpp no longer results in display corruption being seen in the game cinematics
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed no longer results in triple buffering failing when enabling the option in the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER
Attempting to rotate the display 90 degrees and play an OpenGL game under Windows XP may result in the game failing to launch
Enabling clone mode along with theater mode option under overlay no longer results in WinDVD and the operating system failing to respond when dragging the WinDVD window around the desktop
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing a DVD using WinDVD and having subtitles enabled under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 series installed
Attempting to make a change to a saved profile within the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER no longer results in the Save button being greyed out
Connecting a secondary CRT and clicking the X button to close the Enable this display window found in the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER Advanced view, no longer results in the window not closing
Muting the audio during the playback of full screen HDTV video under Windows Media Center Edition no longer results in the video being paused
Angle information in the rotation modes is now correct for the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER
Enabling Overscan under Windows XP with an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER™ 9600 installed no longer results in the image not being centered properly on the display device
Connecting a secondary CRT display device and extending the desktop, followed by unplugging the secondary device and hot-plugging a DFP device no longer results in the DFP remaining in the Additional display area when attempting to swap devices
The Windows desktop brightness no longer dims when playing a DVD and having an HDTV connected as the primary display device
Playing a DVD under Windows XP MCE with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT installed no longer results in VPU Recover being activated when attempting to drag or resize the Media Center window
An error message is no longer displayed when attempting to switch a secondary display device back to the primary display device when using the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER