Ati Catalyst 9.3

[Liquid Snake]

Release Notes:
http://softexia.com/down/Catalyst_93_release_notes.pdf

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™

Display Driver. These include the following:
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all
ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows
Vista
AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and
Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and
focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000
Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7
and Windows Vista



ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3


ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically
included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an
HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed


New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality
for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
- samples are provided within the SDK
The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site


Performance Improvements

Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on
4600, 4500 and 4300 series products


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:

Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast
forwarding or rewinding
Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in
extended modes
Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out
and preview is now functional
OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using
PowerDVD
FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some
ASICs
Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables
with some ASICs
Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using
Catalyst Control Center
Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow
when using the Alt-Tab key


Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:

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:
AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format
“Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264,
mp4 and VC1 file formats
“CCC Host application...” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a
transcoding process
Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format
The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under
Windows Vista 64-bit edition
"World of Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering
may occur when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire
Google Sketchup may show blank screen
Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will
not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU


Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
In this Catalyst 9.3 release, the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver will not
function properly under Windows XP
OS Display Settings shows extra resolutions for Component Video
Transcoding a VOB DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output file
Transcoding falls back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/MPEG2 multiple times in
XP
Media files transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS

Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
Desktop may jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs
Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Express driver uninstall may result in a device manager error
Avivo Video Converter option is not available for Windows 7
Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or
the media player to stop functioning
Changes to display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video
Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may
fail to apply
Catalyst Control Center page is missing under OS Display Properties
Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i
formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
Display configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to
apply

Download:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

[sinisa1989]

Autor Liquid Snake

Release Notes:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ease_notes.pdf



Download:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

jel si probao?ak jesi napisi kakvi su dojmovi.jer ovo sve kaj tu pise je samo crno na bijelo

[DraŽ]

Evo upravo instalirao sad idem probat par igrica.

Instalacija prošla bez grešaka.

Warhead radi bez problema

[McG]

Igre (one koje ja igram) rade kak spada, a i napokon su složili HD akceleraciju koja u 9.1 i 9.2 verzijama nije funkcionirala na XPu.

[Xenomorph]

Evo i ja sam stavio 9.3 i mogu reći da malo bolje idu neke igre kod mene(Tom Clancy:End War,Stalker clear sky,Fallout 3 itd....)Dodao sam dosta efekata i ide puno bolje.

[Cele303]

Na windows 7 x64 9.3 rade bez greške, stavio sam hawx i radi sve ok, cca 2 sata čačkanja za sad...

[Liquid Snake]

Windows 7 x64, driver je super, napokon full OpenGL support, nema vise "flickering-a/stuttering-a"

[Voorhees]

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

sa 8.12 sam imao oko 1800-1850 ppd
sa 9.1 i 9.2 primjetio da je to palo na nekih 1300-1500 ppd
kad god bi pogledao u gpu-z load je bio na 90%
sad sa 9.3 load ide opet do kraja i sad je opet do 1850 ppd

iz kojeg razloga to nazivaju "performance enhancements"

[warlock25]

Ja nemogu vjerovat da jos nisu sredili 2d/3d clock bug na drugom gpu na 4870x2.
Koji to idioti programiraju za ati?
Najednostavniji problem nemogu uklonit.

[DraŽ]

Autor McG

Igre (one koje ja igram) rade kak spada, a i napokon su složili HD akceleraciju koja u 9.1 i 9.2 verzijama nije funkcionirala na XPu.

TO TEK SAD RADI NA XP-U???

[žile]

Sa 8.12 je radilo,pa sa ove dvije nije,pa sada opet radi.

[DraŽ]

A ja konj mislio da mi to uopce nece radit...

EDIT: evo probao konertat mpeg-1 u mpeg-2 i vidim cpu load 90%, ocito da neradi... Hebes to!

[goc_mails]

jel itko probao na win 7 x86? kak se ponaša? Ima li ko kakvih iskustava s integrušama i ovim driverima (serija 3400?)

[McG]

Autor DraŽ

evo probao konertat mpeg-1 u mpeg-2 i vidim cpu load 90%, ocito da neradi... Hebes to!

Nema to veze s HD akceleracijom, to kaj ti pokušavaš je vezano za korištenje GPU snage u svrhu kodiranja i konvertiranja, a AMD je u više navrata objasnil da njihov Stream Converter još uvijek dobrim dijelom koristi CPU, dok GPU "uskače" samo u određenim dijelovim cijelog procesa konvertiranja. HD akceleracija koju sam spomenul, je mogućnost da GPU na sebe preuzme dekodiranje HD materijala (serije, filmovi i sve slično tome), tak da se ne troše sistemski resursi, već da GPU cijeli posao odradi sam uz minimalno zauzeće procesora.

Da sad opet bezveze ne vrtim jedno-te-isto (jer mi se ne da) ovo je HD akceleracija, a za primjer bude poslužil moj malo stariji post...

HD akceleracija radi bez greške ako je HD materijal kodiran i pripremljan kak spada. Upute za HD akceleraciju su u ovom postu, a ja sam kod sebe iskoristil 720p film i seriju, te četiri 1080p trailera da vidim kak stvar funkcionira u praksi. Na temelju screenshota se vidi zauzeće procesora koje bez obzira na materijal nije prelazilo 10%. Mada PowerPlay ima tri stupnja za različite situacije, kad je HD u pitanju taktovi odma skoče na maksimalne vrijednosti. Za razliku od moje, određene kartice (npr. Sapphire, HiS i vrlo vjerojatno sva sila nereferentnih modela) imaju u BIOSu složen PowerPlay stupanj za UVD, pa se automatski koriste ti taktovi kod preuzimanja HD materijala. Nije da je neka mana, pošto se kartica tak i tak ne zagrijava dodatno radi maksimalnih taktova kod gledanja HDa, ali čisto informacije radi za one koji pate ili paze na takve sitnice.

U biti pošto se uvijek nađe (po)koji Nevjerni Toma, da ne bi bilo da mlatim praznu slamu...

[Jelc]

Autor DraŽ

A ja konj mislio da mi to uopce nece radit...

EDIT: evo probao konertat mpeg-1 u mpeg-2 i vidim cpu load 90%, ocito da neradi... Hebes to!

Kolega em-ce-ge je pričao o reprodukciji HD materijala (i to matroske) a ne o nekom tam niškoristi konverteru

[Mar]

Iz prve sam u MPC sredio da koristi DXVA i radi kao urica

A baš mi stiže Q9550 E0, dammit!

[Jelc]

Autor Mar

A baš mi stiže Q9550 E0

HD slobodno ostavi grafi, sa procom buš tak-i-tak vrtil 06, Vantage i SuperPi

[Mar]

Autor Jelc

HD slobodno ostavi grafi, sa procom buš tak-i-tak vrtil 06, Vantage i SuperPi

Je, baš ja - aj mi nađi Pi skor ovdje i pogledaj datum

Ne, taj CPU će biti od velike koristi pri čitanju maila i browsanju

[McG]

Ma dobro bude quad došel ako AMD opet "sredi" akceleraciju u kojoj od sljedećih verzija drivera.

[Jelc]

Autor Mar

Je, baš ja - aj mi nađi Pi skor ovdje i pogledaj datum

Ne, taj CPU će biti od velike koristi pri čitanju maila i browsanju

Ploča-može proć...
Lenovo monitor-onoooo....
Tri harda-šminka...
ATI 4870-mrak...
Pentijum Kvod u sigu-priceless

[Mar]

Pico jedna.. da te pobijem

Autor Jelc

Ploča-može proć...

Dobivena na reklamaciji kao zamjena za AB9 pro

Autor Jelc

Lenovo monitor-onoooo....

Na prodaju, oš kupit?

Autor Jelc

Tri harda-šminka...

2+1 u ladici

Autor Jelc

ATI 4870-mrak...

Crkla AiW X1900GT i dobio ovu

Autor Jelc

Pentijum Kvod u sigu-priceless

Štedim struju pa se prebacio na 45nm, moramo pazit na ekologiju

[Jelc]

Dosta smo zaspamali, bolje da se držimo teme

[zippo]

Spameri
ja sam jos na 8,11 ne idem na nove dok ne izdaju nesto revolucionarno
Revolucije nidje na vidiku pa ostajem konzerva

[Jelc]

Stavio sam ove nove drivere i novi PowerDVD 9 (kad je bal nek je bal) pa budemo videli...za sad sve dela fino

[Pegasus8]

Mogu pohvalit drivere, super rade, nema nikakvih bugova pogotovo kod CF.
Igre rade super a cak sam u 3dmarku dobio 100 bodova vise

[Fleks]

Idem ih staviti reda radi

[n4d44]

Evo ja imam problema s 9.2, 9.3 i 8.12.

Imam BSOD po ulasku u windows xp x64, s 2x3870. S 9.1 i 8.11 radi normalno.
Problem je koliko vidim poznat i na ATI forumu ali je to nešto što ni u 9.3 nisu riješili.

[trouble]

Rade kaj vurica,cak vise nema GPU Recoverya

[DraŽ]

E kad smo vec kod problema, u hawx-u mi se na 800/1000 i na def. taktovima znalo da nakon 5min igre mi se freeza slika, ja napravim alt+ctrl+delete i dođem u desktop i onda nakon 10sec pocnu pucat teksture u desktopu i javi se vpu recover i moram resetirat comp.
Sa 9.3 driverima to jos nisam primjetio, a ovo je bilo sa 9.2 driverima.

[Jelc]

O-ho, sad čak šljaka i .mkv sa MPC HomeCinema