CAT 8.4 is out!

temeteus82

April 16, 2008

ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite Version 8.4

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.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

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

* 3DMark05/06: A performance drop is no longer noticed when running the benchmark under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33497
* Lost Planet: Setting AA to either 4x or 8x no longer results in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28492
* Setting the language option to any supported language other than English no longer results in the Help file for Configure and Diagnostics failing to appear. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32605
* Setting the language option to Russian for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in some text being cropped for the secondary display device in the display properties. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32663
* Setting the language option to German for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32664
* Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in some translation errors being noticed through-out the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32665
* Connecting a CRT and TV and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop no longer results in Overlay Theater Mode failing on the secondary display device when attempting to change the TV format to D/PAL. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32606
* Catalyst™ Control Center->3D: AA options are no longer missing on certain system configurations. This issue may also have been experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33400
* The Apply button no longer fails to become disabled when changing the display resolution on a system with extended desktop mode enabled and the secondary display device having a different color scheme. This issue may also have been experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33401
* Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in cropped text being noticed within the Catalyst™ Control Center. This issue may also have been experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33402
* The display device no longer displays a green image when launching the Catalyst™ Control Center when PowerDVD is running. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33405
* The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond when switching between user profiles. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33414

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947
* Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587
* Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31166
* The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option may fail to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
* Setting the display resolution to 1440x900 or lower may result in corruption being noticed when playing a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31168
* Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587
* The floppy drive may fail to read or write under Vista on a Dell XPS410 system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31148
* Intermittent flashing may be noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
* The ATI OpenGL driver may fail to be applied on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ 3600/3650 AGP series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33467
* A warning message may fail to be displayed when reaching the maximum number of modes in the Predefined and Custom HDTV modes section of the Catalyst™ Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33468
* Underscan may fail when setting the display device to either 1080i 25Hz or 1080i 50Hz. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33469

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

* Unreal Tournament 3: Changing the in-game display resolution may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33470
* Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29556

For further information and general help on software driver installation, game issues, and more, visit ATI Customer Care.
Installing the Catalyst™ Vista Software Driver

Installation information can be found at: ati.amd.com
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To view a known issue or find troubleshooting information, do the following:

1. Go to ati.amd.com. The AMD home page is displayed.
2. Click on Support & Drivers. The AMD Support and Drivers web page is displayed.
3. In the left hand pane, select Graphics Support.
4. In the top right corner of the Graphics Support page, enter the topic number or a general description of the issue you are experiencing within the search field.
5. In the Select Site field, select ATI.
6. Click the SEARCH symbol.
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Catalyst™ Crew Driver Feedback

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the Catalyst™ CREW Driver Feedback program. To provide us with your feedback, visit: Catalyst™ Crew Driver Feedback.

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XP 32-bit Driver : AMD GAME Drivers And Utilities
XP 64-bit Driver : AMD GAME Drivers And Utilities

Robert McClelland

Can't download now my dialup so hickie upp right now lol Can't wait get my 3meg wireless later on this week Hopely part show up soon lol.

Max59

Installed it fine but trouble with CCC start after reboot ('please tell MS' errors)
Took me 3 attempts of uninstall/install until it snapped to work even after using driver cleaner.

On the good side a 200 points improvement in 3Dmark06

Overall this driver feels faster even on the desktop

EDIT: perhaps this has something to do with my problem - system event viewer reports:

The protected system file f:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys could not be verified as valid because Windows File Protection is terminating. Use the SFC utility to verify the integrity of the file at a later time.

Ecology

Still Direct3d Problems With My X800gto Agp!
It's Incredible.
No Words About It

OldBuzzard

These got here in a dead heat with my brand new 3870 x2

So, I don't really have anything to compare them to, but they seem to be working jusst fine for me.

brotheresau

Good Morning Gents I am curious is allot of people having Issues opening Catalyst Control Center after Installing 8.4 and reaching desktop after Install / Re-boot?

I am running Vista 32bit ATM but no one has posted over there currently and most are still on XP for good reason.

Nick0323

Still no HD3850 AGP support.

temeteus82

You need to wait the hot fix or driver from the manufacturer... If I'm not mistaken the HD3800 series is meant PCI-E only.

OldBuzzard

Not here. I have a multi-boot system with XP x64 and Vista Ultimate 64 partitions, and if anything CCC is a bit quicker in Vista. That could be because I'm using a 4Gig USB Flash drive in ReadyBoost in Vista tho, giving Vista effectly more memory than what my XP systems will see.

xixou

This one has AGP support ;-)

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/23547...9_by_xixou.zip

stridro

Ati just release a 8.4 hotfix also you can get it here AMD Customer Care

Matth

How's the OpenGL in this one?

If Opengl is still a bust compared to 7.11, then I shall probably throw 7.11 on and call it a day - not much to gain with new drivers on older cards unless there's a significant bugfix.

Nachbrenner

No change, keep a copy of atioglxx.dll 7.11 and put it into folder of borked applications.
I'm afraid they will not resurrect the old functionality.

List of borked apps:

ATI SDK March 2006 - Ray-tracing, Mandelbrot, HDR
ATI Developer: Radeon SDK March 2006
Globe 3D
Globe_3D - Ada and GL 3D engine
Water simulation, ambient_occlusion
Alex Nankervis's Stuff
The Valley 1.1
SpeedTree® | Demo Downloads
Bunny Deformation
tum.3D - Computer Graphics and Visualization
Skinning Mesh Animations demo (untick/tick vertex shader with current driver)
Skinning Mesh Animations demo

Real-Time Global Illumination on GPUs
"OpenGL version, uses vendor-specific extensions and hence will only run on ATI cards." ... Vineet Goel, ATI Research
Journal of Graphics Tools - Papers - Real-Time Global Illumination on GPUs
RadiosGLView
RadiosGL: OpenGL Radiosity Renderer and Viewer
rtrad_v1_0
Real-Time Radiosity
Dual Shadowmap
Nathan Reed's graphics projects
Black Penumbra - Im Halbschatten Episode 1 v1.0
Penumbra - Im Halbschatten
Snow and Ice Landscape Rendering, The Garden
Bonzai Software

RatusNatus

CCC work on the 2 instalation.

No WDM option to install.
No free games option, thanks!

Ecology

sapphire 3850 agp:
there is no 75hz for 1440x900, only 60 hz is the choice

Max59

perhaps uncheck hide modes monitor can not support and set to 75hz manually helps?

Had same problem..with my 1680 monitor

T.N.G.O.G.

I get video problems with this driver , lots of skipping. I'm going back to the 8.3 drivers.

Ecology

I've already unchecked but there isn't 75 hz.

Max59

Then Windows is not seeing this monitor as 75hz capable - is there a driver for this monitor available?

Ecology

there is no driver.
with ati x800gto 75 hz is possible.
with 3850 agp NO

sora3

Hmmm, I'm experiencing crashing with this set of drivers. I might have to rollback to the older drivers...

Occultist

They suck in certain games. COD4 considerably crippled.
Back to 8.2.

tamalero

HD 3870 here from Sapphire, I Get horrible graphic artifacts and then a REBOOT when trying to play H264 encoded videos.. this only started after I installed CAT 8.4
8.3 was fine for me, but changed to 8.4 due of random studdering in TF2 ( which was introduced in 8.2 and it doesn't seem to be fixed in 8.4 for me.. )

my specs:
AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5 Ghz
2 GB DDR 4 x 512MBKingston DDR400
Asus A8N-E
Western Digital Caviar 250 GB, Seagate 160 + 250 GB
HD 3870 from Sapphire (reference design)
Windows XP SP2 ESP

*quick edit*
I forgot to write that Im using dual display, a viewsonic 19 G90F and a acer al2216W

*edit*
confirmed . I rolled back to 8.3 hotfix and problem went away, moved back to 8.4 and the problem of video playback is there.

junka

I have finally got enough for my Nvidia 8800 GTS and will be getting it on Tuesday.

junka