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AMD's latest drivers -- Catalyst 10.4 -- are now up for grabs, and there are a handful of reasons why you should be interested (if you own an ATI videocard). The new drivers introduce a few new features, a little bit better performance, and resolves a whole bunch of issues across a number of operating systems.
ATI Catalyst can now play back 5.1 level streams on all supported players, as well as allows for play back of high resolutions (4Kx2K). Support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter has been enhanced with performance improvements, and new formats are now supported, such as H.264 -- MTS and WMV9 Complex interlace content.
The only performance boost AMD mentions is in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. -- Clear Sky, which runs up to 6 percent better on HD 5970 hardware, and up to 3 percent better on both 5800 and 5700 series graphics cards. The bulk of the update appears to focus on resolving updates, some of which include:
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Vausch
April 30, 2010 at 6:27pm
Installed the catalyst and the drivers, resulted in me getting a 1 inch border around my monitor that wouldn't go away. Couldn't open Catalyst Control Center either to fix the issue since apparently the new drivers won't allow it to show up in "Basic view" and Advanced View just doesn't show either.
All in all it's getting to the point where their driver updates cause many more problems than they fix for me. 5770 is the best card I've ever had but unless the 5970s have better support my next card will probably be an Nvidia (as much as I loathe them).
JohnP
April 30, 2010 at 8:12pm
Uninstall the ATI Installation manager, clean the registry (do not know if cleaning reg helped but whatever), then reinstall and reboot.
THEN you can go into the graphic, desktops and displays, find that damn small down arrow by the bottom display, configure and pick scaling options.
TaDa!
PS 3rd post without the SPAM filter hitting me! It's a run!
Vausch
May 01, 2010 at 5:41pm
Thanks! Revo Uninstaller got every scrap of the old drivers and catalyst displays, then I re-installed the CCC again. Everything's hunky dorey!
matthewrohaly
April 29, 2010 at 2:22pm
I can't seem to install any ATi drivers on my Windows 7 x64 with a phenom 9600 BE and a Foxconn mobo. I'm running a 5830 and I can't seem to install any version of the drivers. I click the Install button and it crashes. Any way to manualy install the drivers?
Thanks -Mathieu
CardsFan29
April 29, 2010 at 8:19pm
-Mathieu
I have encountered the same problem as well. You need to download a copy of the Visual Studio 2005 redistributable. It can be found here. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB961894
Once you download it, you should have no problems with the driver install.
jaypers
April 29, 2010 at 2:18pm
And it drops the Hz down on the 2d to 157 Mhz? And then my screen flickers like a strobe light?!
stingray5001
April 29, 2010 at 12:35pm
it deff fixed the loading issue...multi-player games load in 4 sec now
Spacegy4
April 29, 2010 at 7:31am
I'm still waiting for a fix for the Bad Company 2 CTD problems AMD! or if not AMD... DICE!
Caboose
April 29, 2010 at 1:45pm
CTD problems?
I'm experiencing grey horizontal lines in BC2 (2 5770's crossfired)... is that the issue, or am I confused?
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Zefir
April 29, 2010 at 9:28am
This release is supposed to fix that on 5000 series cards, and the preview fixed it on my 4850, but I haven't installed this release.
