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AI Team Member Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 2723 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota	Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:09 am    Post subject: ATI Catalyst™ 5.7 Video Card Drivers Released   ATI has released the latest version of the official Catalyst™ video card drivers. The Catalyst™ 5.7 drivers can be downloaded from ATI. Of course the driver release notes are also available. Highlights from the release notes include the following: 1080p Display Support Option Catalyst™ 5.7 introduces support enhancement to the display support options found in the Digital Panel Properties of the Catalyst™ Control Center. This enhancement will offer a 1080p standard format option for a displays that are reporting incomplete or incorrect capabilities in their EDID information. This feature will be supported on ATI Radeon® X300 products and above, and will be supported under the Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and the next release of the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating systems. Catalyst™ Control Center Un-install Option Catalyst™ 5.7 introduces a clean un-install option for the Catalyst™ Control Center. When a user chooses to remove the Catalyst™ Control Center, all desktop shortcuts, user defined profiles, and hotkeys will be completely removed from the system. All custom setting will need to be recreated when the Catalyst™ Control Center is installed once again. Performance Improvements Enhancements to our driver's internal memory management bring significant benefits to 64MB and 128MB framebuffer configurations in Catalyst™ 5.7. The resulting performance gains are most apparent in high resolution, everything on modes, when running applications that use a significant amount of graphics memory. Examples include: 5-15% gains in 3DMark05 on some products 20-60% gain in Far Cry Regulator across multiple settings 25-60% gains in Half-Life 2 at 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF 40-60% gains in UT2004 at 1600x1200 6xAA 16xAF 50-100% improvement in Comanche4 at 1600x1200 6xAA 16xAF 50-200% gains in certain ShaderMark tests at high resolution Additionally, an improvement in our OpenGL driver brings a gain of approximately 10-15% to the Unigraphics test in SPECviewperf. This improvement is not framebuffer-specific. The new ATI Catalyst™ 5.7 video card driver also includes numerous fixes and improvements.
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