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Version: 10.3
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Catalyst™ 10.3 introduces the following new updates:
NOTE: See the Release Notes PDF link on the driver download page for more details on this update.
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
- ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
- ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
- ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™:
- 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics
- products
- Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
- products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Battleforge
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Company of Heroes
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Crysis and Crysis Warhead
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Devil May Cry 4
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- DiRT 2
- Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Far Cry 2
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Resident Evil 5
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
- Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Unigine Tropics
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- World in Conflict
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Wolfenstein
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3 Eyefinity group
Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of changing to ‘0’ upon being disabled
Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
Sporadic frame drops no longer visible while viewing H.264 interlaced Blu-ray content during fast moving scenes
Video playback no longer displays checkerboard pattern on background after resume from sleep
Blank screen no longer observed while exiting "Heaven-OGL" or "GL View" applications
Tint adjustments in Catalyst Control Center Basic Color now transitions smoothly when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
Displays no longer go blank when CrossFire is disabled for the first time under specific configurations
Laser designator beam now focuses on target properly in "Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2" during Act II: Exodus mission
Known Issues For All Windows Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
Loading time between maps in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" may be long
[Catalyst Control Center] Changing to deinterlace mode may default to adaptive deinterlace mode instead when playing videos
Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group may cause the bezel user interface to close instead of switching to the next display
Desktop mouse cursor may intermittently appear enlarged
Utilizing hardware shaders (perfect mode) may cause text to become corrupted and unreadable while loading any mission in "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" game
Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
"1776x1000" and "1152 x 648" HDTV resolutions might be missing from the Desktop Area for Catalyst Control Center - Desktop Properties
With one of displays connected via the DisplayPort, PowerDVD may terminate during Blu-ray content playback in Eyefinity mode
Audio playback devices may list "ATI DP Output" instead of "ATI HDMI Output" when a HDMI display is connected
Display may flash black when high settings of 19x12 are applied to in-game settings for "Dawn of War 2"
Corruption may be visible during fullscreen playback with Flash Player 10.1 on some ASICs
Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" may result in screen flickering under Multi-GPU configuration; relaunching game will resolve issue
