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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™ Release Note Version 9.3 5
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
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 9.3 6
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
ATI Catalyst™ Release Note Version 9.3 7
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
Catalyst Control Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied
Installing the Catalyst™ Vista Software Driver
For further information and general help on software driver installation, game issues, and
more, visit AMD Customer Care.
Installation information can be found at: www.ati.com/install.
Catalyst™ Crew Driver Feedback
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the Catalyst™ CREW
Driver Feedback program. To provide us with your feedback, visit Catalyst™ Crew
Driver Feedback.
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Strange, I uninstalled the Ati drivers from Win7 so that I could install the new ones, but now it says that my operating system has become corrupted, so I can't log in :(
 
Well spec as sig @1680x1050. GTA4 benchmark just gone from 39/40 to 48.52 fps ! I have been hoping for this with the last few driver releases
 
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any mention on the image quality?

i have a high spec nvidia card aswell as a 4870 x 2 and i have to say, currently the Nvidia card owns it for image quality.
 
Voltage said:
any mention on the image quality?

i have a high spec nvidia card aswell as a 4870 x 2 and i have to say, currently the Nvidia card owns it for image quality.
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By image I hope you mean FPS.
Put it this way I have a 4870 X2 and after installing the 9.3 drivers, I ran Crysis and Crysis Warhead on a res of 1920x1200, VERY HIGH settings and 2xAA. Now with the Crysis I was getting FPS of about 15-20 when I was using 9.2 drivers. with the new one I now get 40+FPS and with Crysis Warhead I now get 45+FPS. So it has a made some serious difference.

dazz25 said:
Hmmm, these caused my screen to stop responding and all I got was 'No Signal'.

Have gone back to 9.1 and everything fine!
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yeah people have said the same thing about this. Someone turned off their machine and booted it back up and the drivers worked fine after that...I installed it on my machine and it was fine...didnt stall on a blank screen...
 
I missed the 9.2's and just installed these but so far I'm not impressed :(

Just had a quick go on gta4 and I've started getting as low as 10fps in some areas! I know its gta4 but with the 9.1's I rarely saw below 30 :rolleyes:

Think I'll try the 9.1's again.

SW.
 
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