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CATALYST 4.5 Released !
Its that time again for all you driver fanatics, the latest offical release from ATI and available at www.ati.com
Here are some of the release notes for the latest set: Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues This section provides information on CATALYST™ driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following: Display corruption is no longer seen when applying rotation mode to a secondary monitor Resolved Game Issues This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following: **Playing the game Desert Rats vs. Afirka Korps with the game resolution set to 1600x1200 and the desktop display set to 1024x768 32bpp along with Anti-Aliasing set to 4x no longer results in flashing and or corrupt shadows **The game Prince of Persia: Sands of Time no longer fails to play under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 or 8500 series product installed **Setting the graphics quality to anything higher than Fastest in the game Virtual Skipper 3 no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when the game menu loads **Playing the game Nascar 2003 with the display resolution set to 1280x1024 32bpp no longer results in display corruption being seen **Texture corruption is no longer seen when playing the game Second Life under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9800 or 9700 series card installed **Textures are no longer missing when moving the mouse around to change the camera angle in the game Joan of Arc **Intermittent display corruption noticed on the players image with in the game Madden NFL 2004 is now resolved Playing the game Homeworld 2 under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9500 series, 9600 XT, or 9700 series no longer results in the game failing to respond when the shadow option within the game is selected Missing polygons on the satellite within the main menu is now resolved in the game Hegemonia A performance decrease is no longer noticed when setting the game option to Perfect in the game IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles Caution: Forcing on Anti-Aliasing is now permitted. This will permit users to use Anti-Aliasing on games such as Madden 2004 (which users are requesting). Forcing on Anti-Aliasing (through the CATALYST™ control panel) in the the following games will cause corruption. Anti-Aliasing is not compatible with the following games: · Prince Of Persia: Sands of Time · Splinter Cell / Pandoras Box · Race Driver (TOCA) · Crazy Taxi 3 As always any issues should be reported to the CATALYST™ CREW feedback program. Please refer to http://apps.ati.com/driverfeedback/ and provide ATI further feedback. As always Discuss in our forum here and rate the drivers so ATI can get feedback on how well the new drivers are performing in this thread |
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Cool. First I installed the betas this morning. Now I am gonna install these original ones then in a week or 2 I guess I am gonna install the omegas. Fun fun fun
Anyway, thank's for great support. Always fun to see what you guys come up with.
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Sweet Zardon I guess it's time to try out something new again
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How come I always install the drivers a month late? I just rebuild my OS today and installed the 4.4s - I was using the 4.3s since about a month ago. I'm amazed I'm so behind the times
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You don't have to be "left behind" if you just make an image of your clean OS setup and restore it everytime before installing a new driver set. That's what I do anyways. My "clean" image has all programs installed already with settings the way I like. Only thing the image is missing is the GPU driver. That way, I KNOW I won't have any inter-driver issues with new driver updates. The only programs I install after each restoration are the games. But, it's a small inconvenience compared to what may possible go wrong during driver updates. |
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Where's the rating thread- I give them a ten w/o even downloading them!
--->because of this: "Caution: Forcing on Anti-Aliasing is now permitted." Way to go ATI!
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The 4.5 cats default Z Buffer Depth to 16 in Direct3D. All previous Cats default to 16,24;8 bit stencil. I also noticed default Z Buffer Depth default to 16 in the leaked x800 set. I am using radlinker 1008 to check it. Could radlinker be reporting it incorrectly? Isnt Z Buffer Depth 16 much worse IQ than 16,24:8 bit stencil?
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How do your force on AA? Everyting in cp looks the same to me as other versions. Turning on AA, AF in BFV still causes corruption, same old BS.
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That corruption in AA in those other games seems like a "way it's meant to be played" - Nvidia shenanigans. It only happens in Nvidia sponsored games that I can see.I really can't blame ATI for that. I think it's the games lack of compatibility.
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OK, Thanks for the clarification. EA games is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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3dmark03 results:
Omega 2536b (Fast Write OFF (Default) ) = 3474 ATI 4.5 = 3456 ATI 4.5 (Fast Write turned to OFF) = 3436 Settings : Application Preferance and everthing set to high/optimal performance. C'mon OMEGA!!!!!!! |
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I have downloaded them and will install tomorrow [COLOR=red]I LOVE ATI[/COLOR]
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"Display corruption is no longer seen when applying rotation mode to a secondary monitor"
Am I happy to read this! I uninstalled the latest Omega's because of this issue. I use the secondary monitor ALOT! Still I have to see for myself if it's really solved tho, but I have faith in ATi
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ToCA Race Driver 2:
The shadows are missing under the cars when shadow quality is set to high though the game's setup config. You have to back off the shadow quality to medium to get any shadows under them at all....and then they are just lame squares under the cars. Other shadows are working fine (shadows from trees and poles over the cars), but under the cars, they are just GONE. Yes, I DO understand not to force AA in this game. ![]() Since this game is one that I am playing quite intensely right now, these drivers are a bust for me. On a good note, KOTOR doesn't experience that nasty framerate drop that was introduced in the 4.4's, so that's fixed. I'd have to say I'm a bit disappointed to not see the new Control Panel styling. I was kinda looking forward to that. I guess that's next months update, eh? |
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Rayder did the shadows work in the last set?
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Can confirm Driver2 (mine=DTM version) has lost it's shadows in highQ
previous drivers (4.4) did have the full shadows, not that I realy care, it is a farce of a simulation anyway, Codemasters they call themselfs Klootmasters is more like it.. ![]() Edit: Another race game: GTR Demo, still has full shadows Last edited by HawK; May 13, 2004 at 09:31 AM. |
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Interesting shadows are vanishing in certain games, anyone/anything else?
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Race Driver 2 again, setting High-res bonnets reflection to on, will make Cars dissapear in certain view mode (outside Cockpit)
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)My simple solution for now is to just run the 4.4's with the 4.5's OGL file. Seems to be working out well. |
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Now we only need new and improved Linux drivers (it has been 4 months since the last update) and offcourse some 64-bit drivers optimized for AMD64 (Linux and Windows)
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Re: Linux and AMD64 drivers
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Ya me downloading well my freind sending them threw my msn since he has cable lol while I'm on dail up hehe his sending speed much faster hehe
I let you know if I find anything.
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When I try to uninstall any version of Catalyst/Omega or just try to install it over the one currently installed, I get an "Internal Failure"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040707" "Description:".
And after clicking "OK" I get a "Severe"-error with the text: "ISLAYER.DLL not loaded into memory". And after clicking "OK" again I get an "Unhandled Exeption"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040702" "Description: Failed to load dll: ISLAYER" "Setup will now terminate." And after clicking "OK" for the last time it exits! This has happened to me since I ever had a Radeon in Microsoft Windows XP (ATi Radeon 7200 VIVO 64MB DDR / Gigabyte Radeon 8500XT 128MB DDR / ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB / and now waiting for the ATi X800 XT PCI Express). The only solution I ever came up with is a clean install. Nobody in the world could ever help me, they tried to help but came up with non-working solutions. Can anyone (who maybe even had experience with this problem) REALLY help me?
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I've never had nor seen that error so all I could do i search on google the error number and the islayer.dll throufht i read a few people haveing the problem... I can find sumular problems all over http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=171206 http://www.pimprig.com/forums/showth...&threadid=2574 but not answers... I have two diffrent rig's an neather one has this islayer.dll my only guess its some sore of InstallShield installer error make sure you have your latest chipset drivers installed first but a format mabe the way to go EDIT: it is an InstallShield issue... remember: you can still allways install by useing the device manager and chose update and pointing into the drivers folder were the ati files we unpacked to such as C:\ati\ati driver ver* \drivers\2KXP_INF\ for officals for omega's c:\program files\omega release* \drivers\2KXP_INF\ then go into the control panel folder and try to run the installer there for the updated control panel (asumeing it will run) oprwise your fine with the new drivers
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Could it be you removed the Temp Omega install folder?? I have the ISLAYER.DLL neither..
Off. Cats installed, and no omega |
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I receive more frequent video crashes in RON with this latest release. I'm going to search the archives to try and get back to the version that played best for me, 3.something...
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Thanx for the info!
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