Driver Update: Hercules Display Drivers 7.97

Hercules has new drivers available posed for its video cards with a Radeon video chip. The drivers are based on Catalyst 4.1 and ship with the same changelog as 4.1. The complete download package weighs approximately 32 megabytes and consists of the display drivers, control panel and WDM drivers. The list of changes looks like this:

Fixed in this driver:

• Display corruption is no longer seen when running the applications 3DSMax or Inventor
• Moving a sample in the program SolidWorks 2003 or 2004 from one display to a secondary display no longer results in the sample not being refreshed on the secondary display
• Starting the TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio in Overlay Theater Mode along with video out enabled no longer displays an error if the video window is dragged off screen
• Playing the game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9000 series card installed no longer results in the skaters’ shadow not being completely drawn
• Playing the game Line of Sight Vietnam under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9200 series installed no longer results in the game menu appearing black when setting the Anti-Aliasing option to 1 or 2
• Changing the resolution in Halo while playing in the middle of a Campaign no longer results in a reboot of the machine. This issue was known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9000 series installed
• Running the game Halo PC under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9700 series installed no longer results in display corruption being seen on the barrel of the shot gun
• All cars are now being drawn properly when Anti-Aliasing is enabled and playing the game Race Driver by ToCA
• The game Ford Racing 2 no longer stutters when Anti-Aliasing is enabled
• The Star Wars game; Knights of the Old Republic is no longer failing to respond when moving the mouse to view the shore
• Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 demo, no longer results in the game failing to respond when OpenGL is enabled
• Setting the graphics option to 1024×768 in the game Beach Head 2002 no longer results in the game failing to launch and displaying an error message
• The Windows 2000 operating system no longer fails to respond when ending the game World Racing in a windowed mode
• Playing the game Neverwinter Nights under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9600 series card installed no longer results in the game failing to respond
• Playing the game IL2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles in OpenGL mode no longer results in flashing triangles and textures when playing the Black Death Track

[break]The 7.97 drivers are also offered in separate downloads, which look like this:

Display Driver Windows 98/Me 8.8MB
Display Driver Windows 2k/XP 8.2MB
Control Panel Windows 98/Me/2k/XP 12.5MB
]WDM Drivers Windows 98/Me/2k/XP 3.3MB
Complete Package Windows 98/Me/2k/XP 31.8MB