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This release note provides information on the latest posting of AMD’s industry leading software suite, Catalyst. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

The Catalyst Software Suite 8.12 contains the following:
• Radeon display driver 8.561
• HydraVision for both Windows XP and Vista
• HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only)
• WDM Driver Install Bundle
• Southbridge/IXP Driver
• Catalyst Control Center Version 8.561

Caution: The Catalyst software driver and the Catalyst Control Center can be downloaded independently of each other. However, for maximum stability and performance AMD recommends that both components be updated from the same Catalyst release

Caution: The Catalyst Control Center requires that the Microsoft
.NET Framework version 2.0 be installed. Without .NET version 2.0 installed, the Catalyst Control Center will not launch properly and the user will see an error message.

Note: These release notes provide information on the Radeon display driver only.

AMD Product Support
The Catalyst Vista driver for both the 32bit and 64bit versions of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is supported on the following ATI Radeon products.

AMD Desktop Product Family Support for both Windows Vista and XP

ATI Radeon HD 4350 Series ATI Radeon HD 4650 Series
ATI Radeon HD 4670 Series ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Series
ATI Radeon HD 4550 Series ATI Radeon HD4600 Series
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series ATI Radeon X1050 Series

AMD Desktop Product Family Support for both Windows Vista and XP

AMD Desktop Product Family Support

ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series ATI Radeon X850 Series
ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series ATI Radeon X800 Series
ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series ATI Radeon X700 Series
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series ATI Radeon X600 Series
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series ATI Radeon X550 Series
ATI Radeon X1950 Series ATI Radeon X300 Series
ATI Radeon X1900 Series ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon X1800 Series ATI Radeon 9700 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series ATI Radeon 9550 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series ATI Radeon 9500 Series

AMD Multimedia Family Product Support for both Windows Vista and XP
AMD Multimedia Family Product Support
ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 Series
ATI Theater 600
ATI All-in-Wonder X1800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder X600 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder 2006 Edition
ATI Theater 550 PRO
ATI All-in-Wonder X800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 Series
ATI Theater 650
ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 Series

AMD Chipset Product Support
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Series ATI Radeon HD 3300 Series
ATI Radeon HD 3100 Series AMD 580X Series Chipset
ATI Radeon HD 2100 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series AMD 690 Series Chipset

New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon Display Driver. These include the following:
• ATI Stream Computing Support
• ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter
• ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content
• Performance Improvements

ATI Stream Computing Support
With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon
graphics processors worldwide
• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations
over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These
capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.

ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can help accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices
ATI Catalyst Control C