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The Catalyst software suite 8.1 contains the following:

- Radeon display driver 8.451
- Multimedia Center 9.16 (Windows XP only)
- HydraVision (Windows XP only)
- HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only)
- Remote Wonder 3.04 (Windows XP only)
- WDM Driver Install Bundle
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- Catalyst Control Center Version 8.1

AMD Desktop Product Family Support for both Windows Vista and XP:

- ATI Radeon HD 3800 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2900 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2400 series
- ATI Radeon X1950 series
- ATI Radeon X1900 series
- ATI Radeon X1800 series
- ATI Radeon X1650 series
- ATI Radeon X1600 series
- ATI Radeon X1550 series
- ATI Radeon X1300 series
- ATI Radeon X1050 series
- ATI Radeon X850 series
- ATI Radeon X800 series
- ATI Radeon X700 series
- ATI Radeon X600 series
- ATI Radeon X550 series
- ATI Radeon X300 series
- ATI Radeon 9800 series
- ATI Radeon 9700 series
- ATI Radeon 9600 series
- ATI Radeon 9550 series
- ATI Radeon 9500 series

AMD Multimedia Family Product Support for both Windows Vista and XP:

- ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 Series
- ATI All-in-Wonder X1800 Series
- ATI All-in-Wonder 2006 Edition
- ATI All-in-Wonder X800 Series
- ATI All-in-Wonder X600 Series
- ATI Theater 550 PRO
- ATI Theater 650
- ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 Series
- ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 Series

Important Note:

- ATI All-in-Wonder boards operate with AMD's Windows Vista ready display and capture drivers under the Windows Vista operating system.
- The Windows Vista Media Center application does not support TV/Capture functionality provided by the ATI All-in-Wonder.
- TV/Capture functionality is qualified to function with Snaptream's BeyondTV 4.6 for Windows Vista.
- Other third party solutions (such as Arcsoft's Total Media 3) may support TV/Capture with the ATI All-in-Wonder, but these applications have not been fully tested by AMD.

AMD Chipset Product Support:

- ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Series
- ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Series
- ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Series
- ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series
- ATI Radeon X1250 Series
- ATI Radeon X1200 Series
- AMD 580X Series Chipset
- AMD 690 Series Chipset

Catalyst 8.1 introduces MultiView support:

- This feature provides for hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters.
- MultiView will provide hardware accelerated 3D rendering in a system containing multiple graphics cards on an extended desktop arrangement.
- This feature will allow for the rendering performance and additional frame buffer resources to be evenly shared with the second and third graphics adapters.
- This allows for a 3D application to have the same performance running on a secondary or third display device as if it were running on the primary display device.
- This feature will be supported under Windows XP (32 and 64 bit versions), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit versions), and the Linux operating system.

Product support includes:

- ATI Radeon HD 3870 series
- ATI Radeon HD 3850 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2900 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2400 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2350 series
- ATI Radeon HD 2300 series
- ATI Radeon X1950 series
- ATI Radeon X1800 series
- ATI Radeon X1650 series
- ATI Radeon X1600 series
- ATI Radeon X1550 series
- ATI Radeon X1300 series

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System:

- Call of Juarez and Stalker and Timeshift: Launching the games under Windows XP no longer results in intermittent corruption or flashing being noticed.
- Enemy Territories Quake Wars v1.2: Flickering is no longer noticed when enabling Triple Buffering, setting AA to 8x and setting the display resolution to 2560x1600.
- TianJi: Logging into the game no longer results in the function buttons not working and the system setting window failing to open.
- World of Warcraft: Launching two game windows and switching between the game windows on a system with an Apple 30 inch display device no longer results in the game image failing to be drawn properly.
- Google SketchUP: the application no longer fails to launch on systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product.
- The movement of pictures now appear smooth under Excel (Office 2007) when the color depth is set to 16bpp.
- The AVIVO TV controls are now available under the Windows Media Center Edition operating system.
- The scaling function