Catalyst 7.10 for Vista: Review and Rate Them Here

*CATALYST maker* · Oct 11, 2007, 08:26 PM

go get em..

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[COLOR=#003c28]Performance Improvements

[/COLOR]The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10:

Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550
BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations
Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products
FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products

[COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System [/COLOR]

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

Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the in-game graphics options to higher settings no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29541
Call of Juarez: Setting up a multi-player LAN game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product no longer results in corruption being noticed 737-29917
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28491
GTA San Andreas: Enabling AFR mode and CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed in the opening cinematic of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29543
Might and Magic Heroes V: Display flicker and corruption is no longer noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29913
The composite video slider values are no longer automatically applied without clicking on the Apply button. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28812
Setting the language option to any of the supported languages other than English no longer results in the help page for Advanced Color failing to be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28822
Using live TV on a system containing an ATI HD 2900 XT product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the application failing if the Catalyst™ 7.6 driver is installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28823
A Windows error message no longer occurs when game settings are set to their highest levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28830
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29534
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system that has a CRT connected to it, followed by swapping the display devices no longer results in invalid refresh rates being listed in the Display manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29536
Windows Dream Scene Content: Corruption is no longer noticed when attempting to run the preview for the chosen clips. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28856
Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or less no longer results in corruption being noticed when attempting to play an HD-DVD using the Cyberlink player. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29550
Playing a HD-DVD or Blu-ray title using PowerDVD followed by rotating the display device by 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29552
Enabling video mode within the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties->Adjustments no longer results in the Enable Video Mode check box becoming grayed out if the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then restarted. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29920
Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Current setting text is no longer misplaced in the Content Viewing Selection for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29922
Catalyst Control Center->HDTV Support->Predefined and Custom HDTV Formats: Selecting a different format and clicking the Apply Format button no longer results in the Add button becoming grayed out. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29924
The text is no longer truncated in drop down menu of the ATI OverDrive warning pop-up message. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29925
Clone mode can no longer be enabled for software CrossFire™ configurations under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29985
The Refresh rate for 576i/p is no longer listed erroneously as 20Hz/34Hz in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29909
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 12x0 series of product no longer results in the HDMI display device failing to be detected under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29910
Chronicles of Riddick: A very dark display image is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X800 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29911
All high resolutions are now displayed in the Displays Manager and Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29912
Corruption is no longer noticed in the ATI Catalyst End User License Agreement when using the Swedish version of the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29914
Tearing artifact is no longer visible on OTM display when playing back any video using Overlay with OTM enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 727-29915
Horizontal line corruption is no longer noticed when AFR mode is enabled and vsync is disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29916
Attempting to play HD-DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product no longer results in hardware mode not being available for all display resolutions. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29982
Attempting to playing certain DVD's using WinDVD 7 and enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in the DVD failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29918

[COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System [/COLOR]

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

DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the game failing to launch and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29554
On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515
Playing an HD Blu-ray title using Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra for Blu-ray and HD-DVD followed by open multiple windows and moving them around the desktop no longer results in the windows background not being re-drawn properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28831
On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515
Running Google Earth in OpenGL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop and the mouse pointer is moved around. Further details can be found in topic number737-29932
Stranglehold: Frequent stutters are no longer noticed when using dynamic resources. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29949
Attempting to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in a VPU Recover occurring when looping the introduction of the title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29962

More Release Notes Information is found on the Drivers Download site. Be sure to check it out.

RejZoR · Oct 11, 2007, 08:47 PM

Already have them :P

X1800XTTOP · Oct 11, 2007, 09:07 PM

Link for Vista X64 isnt working!! *runs around in circles screaming out catalystmakers nick and waving arms*

X1800XTTOP · Oct 12, 2007, 11:45 AM

My mini-review:

Well i for one think Bioshock is fully playable now in DX10 mode. The "jerky" feeling that was there before is compleatly gone so theres one improvement.

Lost planet also saw huge gains. Before, max playable settings were DX9, 1280X1024 with 16xAF (rest max, and NO AA). DX10 wasnt playable.

Now in DX9 i can enable 4xAA and still have perfectly playable performance (30+fps).

In DX10 i can play properly (and these are the settings i play with) with everything max, DX10 enabled on everything, 16xAF but without AA as that is still a bit too demanding in DX10 mode (only tried 4xAA so far, 2xAA might work..).

So theres another improvement.

CoH in DX10 is still impossible to play. Its performing low and stutters like crazy. DX9 mode, max and 8xAA is the way to go.

For a single driver im pleased with the improved performance on my single HD2900. Hoping for more (of course), as performance in DX10 is far from perfect still but this is a step in the right direction non the less.

starfury6 · Oct 15, 2007, 10:25 AM

Definitely the best set in a few months for me. Installation was flawless as was detection of my screens. Performance also 'feels' better in most of the games I have tried. ETQW, BF2142, etc.

Fixed my hdtv issues too.

Good one, very happy here, 10 from me.

Dyre Straits · Oct 16, 2007, 04:58 AM

Can someone verify and confirm for me that VPU Recover is no longer included in the drivers? I'm just now beginning to use Vista 32-bit and noticed that this item is missing.

starfury6 · Oct 16, 2007, 08:41 AM

Now I think of it, i dont recall having seen it since I started using vista.

*CATALYST maker* · Oct 16, 2007, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Can someone verify and confirm for me that VPU Recover is no longer included in the drivers? I'm just now beginning to use Vista 32-bit and noticed that this item is missing.

Confirmed. In Vista the mechanism for VPU Recover (resetable hardware) is in the operating system itself. So in other words Microsoft does in Vista what we did in Catalyst for XP.

Judas · Oct 16, 2007, 07:01 PM

And it works usually quite well

Dyre Straits · Oct 17, 2007, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CATALYST maker

Confirmed. In Vista the mechanism for VPU Recover (resetable hardware) is in the operating system itself. So in other words Microsoft does in Vista what we did in Catalyst for XP.

Thank you for the fast confirmation. It saves me beating myself up trying to figure it out.

ChaosMinionX · Oct 27, 2007, 10:22 PM

Hellgate London : Any issues reported of not being able to use the DX10 engine with 7.10s? I cant use it at all.

EDIT: 7.9s work...kind of, lots of graphical errors (not that the game is a gem itself on the side of bugs) but DX10 is not playable at all in Hellgate London with 7.10s only works with 7.9 and below so far.

Oct 11, 2007, 08:26 PM	#1
CATALYST maker ATI driver guru Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: ATI, Canada Posts: 678 Rep Power: 63	Catalyst 7.10 for Vista: Review and Rate Them Here go get em.. Advanced Micro Devices, AMD – Global Provider of Innovative Microprocessor, Graphics and Media Solutions [COLOR=#003c28]Performance Improvements [/COLOR]The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10: Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550 Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products [COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System [/COLOR] This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include: Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the in-game graphics options to higher settings no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29541 Call of Juarez: Setting up a multi-player LAN game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product no longer results in corruption being noticed 737-29917 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28491 GTA San Andreas: Enabling AFR mode and CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed in the opening cinematic of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29543 Might and Magic Heroes V: Display flicker and corruption is no longer noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29913 The composite video slider values are no longer automatically applied without clicking on the Apply button. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28812 Setting the language option to any of the supported languages other than English no longer results in the help page for Advanced Color failing to be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28822 Using live TV on a system containing an ATI HD 2900 XT product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the application failing if the Catalyst™ 7.6 driver is installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28823 A Windows error message no longer occurs when game settings are set to their highest levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28830 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29534 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system that has a CRT connected to it, followed by swapping the display devices no longer results in invalid refresh rates being listed in the Display manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29536 Windows Dream Scene Content: Corruption is no longer noticed when attempting to run the preview for the chosen clips. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28856 Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or less no longer results in corruption being noticed when attempting to play an HD-DVD using the Cyberlink player. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29550 Playing a HD-DVD or Blu-ray title using PowerDVD followed by rotating the display device by 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29552 Enabling video mode within the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties->Adjustments no longer results in the Enable Video Mode check box becoming grayed out if the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then restarted. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29920 Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Current setting text is no longer misplaced in the Content Viewing Selection for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29922 Catalyst Control Center->HDTV Support->Predefined and Custom HDTV Formats: Selecting a different format and clicking the Apply Format button no longer results in the Add button becoming grayed out. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29924 The text is no longer truncated in drop down menu of the ATI OverDrive warning pop-up message. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29925 Clone mode can no longer be enabled for software CrossFire™ configurations under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29985 The Refresh rate for 576i/p is no longer listed erroneously as 20Hz/34Hz in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29909 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 12x0 series of product no longer results in the HDMI display device failing to be detected under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29910 Chronicles of Riddick: A very dark display image is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X800 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29911 All high resolutions are now displayed in the Displays Manager and Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29912 Corruption is no longer noticed in the ATI Catalyst End User License Agreement when using the Swedish version of the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29914 Tearing artifact is no longer visible on OTM display when playing back any video using Overlay with OTM enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 727-29915 Horizontal line corruption is no longer noticed when AFR mode is enabled and vsync is disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29916 Attempting to play HD-DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product no longer results in hardware mode not being available for all display resolutions. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29982 Attempting to playing certain DVD's using WinDVD 7 and enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in the DVD failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29918 [COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System [/COLOR] This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include: DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the game failing to launch and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29554 On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515 Playing an HD Blu-ray title using Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra for Blu-ray and HD-DVD followed by open multiple windows and moving them around the desktop no longer results in the windows background not being re-drawn properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28831 On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515 Running Google Earth in OpenGL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop and the mouse pointer is moved around. Further details can be found in topic number737-29932 Stranglehold: Frequent stutters are no longer noticed when using dynamic resources. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29949 Attempting to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in a VPU Recover occurring when looping the introduction of the title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29962 More Release Notes Information is found on the Drivers Download site. Be sure to check it out. __________________ Follow me on Twitter for exclusive Catalyst news and updates http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker What evil person came up with this scheme? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qXZTOtszI Have either a CPU, an ATI GPU (X1600 and higher), or a Playstation 3? Join team 51394 the DH and ATI team for Folding@Home http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html Last edited by Dyre Straits; Oct 11, 2007 at 08:54 PM.

Oct 15, 2007, 10:25 AM	#5
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Definitely the best set in a few months for me. Installation was flawless as was detection of my screens. Performance also 'feels' better in most of the games I have tried. ETQW, BF2142, etc. Fixed my hdtv issues too. Good one, very happy here, 10 from me. __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 16, 2007, 08:41 AM	#7
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Now I think of it, i dont recall having seen it since I started using vista. __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 27, 2007, 10:22 PM	#11
ChaosMinionX USB 3 dot oh Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,911 Rep Power: 47 System Specs	Hellgate London : Any issues reported of not being able to use the DX10 engine with 7.10s? I cant use it at all. EDIT: 7.9s work...kind of, lots of graphical errors (not that the game is a gem itself on the side of bugs) but DX10 is not playable at all in Hellgate London with 7.10s only works with 7.9 and below so far. __________________ ::Heatware:: How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg! Last edited by ChaosMinionX; Nov 7, 2007 at 08:13 AM.

Oct 11, 2007, 08:47 PM	#2
RejZoR DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Europe/Slovenia/Ljubljana Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	Already have them :P

Oct 11, 2007, 09:07 PM	#3
X1800XTTOP DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 316 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Link for Vista X64 isnt working!! runs around in circles screaming out catalystmakers nick and waving arms

Oct 12, 2007, 11:45 AM	#4
X1800XTTOP DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 316 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	My mini-review: Well i for one think Bioshock is fully playable now in DX10 mode. The "jerky" feeling that was there before is compleatly gone so theres one improvement. Lost planet also saw huge gains. Before, max playable settings were DX9, 1280X1024 with 16xAF (rest max, and NO AA). DX10 wasnt playable. Now in DX9 i can enable 4xAA and still have perfectly playable performance (30+fps). In DX10 i can play properly (and these are the settings i play with) with everything max, DX10 enabled on everything, 16xAF but without AA as that is still a bit too demanding in DX10 mode (only tried 4xAA so far, 2xAA might work..). So theres another improvement. CoH in DX10 is still impossible to play. Its performing low and stutters like crazy. DX9 mode, max and 8xAA is the way to go. For a single driver im pleased with the improved performance on my single HD2900. Hoping for more (of course), as performance in DX10 is far from perfect still but this is a step in the right direction non the less.