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Catalyst 10.6 Released

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Drivers are up, use the referrer trick.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/10-6_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_enu.exe

Profiles

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/920...ion_profiles/10-6_ATICatalyst_AppProfiles.exe

DriverVer=05/27/2010, 8.741.0.0000

Release Notes

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_106_release_notes.pdf

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noice. thanks :)


New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

z GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1
z Video De-blocking support
z Mosquito noise reduction
z Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3

GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1

z AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization
z Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms
featuring AMD graphics including:
ƒ ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series
ƒ ATI Mobility ATI Radeon™ HD 400 series (and higher)
ƒ ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher)

Video De-blocking support

z Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback
z Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

Mosquito noise reduction

z Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback
z Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products

Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3

z ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI radeon™ HD 5000 Series
z ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon™ HD Series

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.6:

z 3DMark Vantage
ƒ Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5970

z Batman: Arkham Asylum
ƒ Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations

z Aliens vs. Predator DirectX® 11 Benchmark
ƒ Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
ƒ Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series products

z Company of Heroes – DX10
ƒ Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations

z Crysis Warhead
ƒ CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products

z DiRT 2 – DX9
ƒ Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
ƒ Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products

z The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
ƒ Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
ƒ Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products

z Unigine Tropics
ƒ CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products

z World in Conflict
ƒ Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations

z Wolfenstein
ƒ Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products
ƒ Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations
ƒ Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems

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

z "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
z Assigned hotkeys are now retained for "Desktops & Displays" after Catalyst Control Center restart

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:

z "The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena" no longer displays white pixel corruption on walls while playing the "Pitch Black" stage with Super Anti-Alias and in-game Anti-Alias enabled
z Corruption no longer visible during "Bioshock 2" gameplay in DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 mode with CrossFire™ enabled
z Booting the operating system without displays connected no longer causes CrossFire™ to become disabled
z Grass and crops are no longer rendered randomly at unusual locations in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" game scenes
z Blank/static display no longer observed after loading a game in "TimeShift" with Super Anti-Alias and CrossFire™ enabled
z Enabling Tessellation no longer causes "Unigine Heaven 2.1" to stop functioning
z Graphical settings can now be adjusted to higher values in "Grand Theft Auto 4: Episodes from Liberty City" with Crossfire™ enabled
z Under Multi-GPU configuration with Crossfire™ enabled, setting both "Shaders Quality" and "Post-Processing Quality" to "Enthusiast" no longer causes frame rate drops in "Crysis Warhead" DirectX 9 game

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:

z Toggling from window mode to fullscreen mode now functions properly in "Assassin's Creed" game with DirectX 10
z Toggling between desktop and "Battlefield: Bad Company 2" game no longer causes flickering under Multi-GPU configuration
z Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate
z [Catalyst Control Center] Video basic color controls in the "All Settings" page can now be applied and will not shift to default values
z Disabling CrossFire™ for the first time no longer causes the "Contrast" value to change to zero in Catalyst Control Center - Display Properties Color page
z Flashing texture corruption no longer visible during game play for "Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts"

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:

z Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate
z "Age of Empires" online game no longer displays error and becomes unplayable when the strategy button is clicked

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

z OpenCL™ 1.0 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the ATI Catalyst™ Driver Suite in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.1. If you require an OpenCL™ 1.0 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the ATI Catalyst™ 10.5 Driver Suite

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:

z Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may showing deinterlacing lines
z "Desktop Window Manager has stopped working" error may appear after driver installation on specific cards and will not be enabled until after restart
z [Catalyst Control Center] Customized Avivo video settings may revert to default values after resuming from sleep/hibernation during SD or Blu-ray playback
z Blank screen may be observed when flashlight is turned on in "The Chronicles of Riddick 2" with Screen Space Ambient Occlusion enabled
z Green texture corruption may be observed when resolution/video settings are changed in "Metro 2033" game in DirectX 10 and 11 mode on some cards
z Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may experience audio and video
synchronization issues when viewed on some devices

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

z Performing bezel compensation on 3x2 Eyefinity configuration may cause the bezel group (resolutions) to go missing

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:

z "Age Of Empires: The Rise of Rome" may terminate abruptly and display error message when the diplomacy button is clicked
z Minor frame drops may be observed while viewing HD interlaced content
 
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My CPU usage has doubled for some reason now with these drivers when watching Youtube 1080p.

Before it was around 28-40%, now it hovers at around 58-60%.

If i turn "hardware acceleration" off in Flash, CPU usage jumps and stays at 100%. Never did that before regardless of whether "hardware acceleration" was on or off. Before it stayed around 28-40% as I said.
 
Im using it on my Dell Studio 1555. Shouldn't really matter though, the Mobility 4570 should be able to cope with 1080p fine as well as the Dual Core T4300.

Hmmm. Ill completely uninstall and reinstall them rather than installing over the top of the 10.5's.
 
Just downloaded it for my 5970 and did a quick run of Crysis Warhead before and after ... some nice gains on the max & Average, but look at the min fps!!. Did this a few times and always lower min fps ...

Cat 10.5

//////////// Summary \\\\\\\\\\\\\

06/16/2010 18:28:09 - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 0xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 46.87 Max: 79.78 Avg: 66.65 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 2xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 40.35 Max: 73.64 Avg: 59.26 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 4xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 39.71 Max: 73.52 Avg: 57.31 ]


Cat 10.6

//////////// Summary \\\\\\\\\\\\\

06/16/2010 18:59:05 - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 0xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 37.96 Max: 87.73 Avg: 68.94 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 2xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 35.88 Max: 79.14 Avg: 61.10 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1920 x 1080 AA 4xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 38.97 Max: 78.58 Avg: 59.05 ]
 
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Im using it on my Dell Studio 1555. Shouldn't really matter though, the Mobility 4570 should be able to cope with 1080p fine as well as the Dual Core T4300.

Hmmm. Ill completely uninstall and reinstall them rather than installing over the top of the 10.5's.
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Could you link to the video you were watching so I can do a comparison with the same video?
 
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