ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancementsUsing ATI Stream technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst 9.3
ATI Catalyst 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
Performance ImprovementsCatalyst 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are: Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast
forwarding or rewinding Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in extended modes
Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out and preview is now functional
OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD
FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some ASICs
Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables with some ASICs
Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using Catalyst Control Center
Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow when using the Alt-Tab key
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating SystemThis section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating SystemThis section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format
“Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264, mp4 and VC1 file formats
“CCC Host application...” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a transcoding process Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under Windows Vista 64-bit edition
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