Catalyst 6.1 Released

Widkidone · Jan 18, 2006, 01:46 PM

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[color=#000066]Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.1 [/color]

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of Catalyst®. These include:

BattleField 2 Special Forces: A blooming or ghosting effect is no longer noticed when playing the game in night vision mode. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21263
Beyond Good and Evil: Flickering artifacts are no longer noticed on the game characters after approximately 15 minutes of game play. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-20795
Dark Age of Camelot: The game no longer exits to the desktop immediately after launching, or after playing for up to 15 minutes. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-20794
Everquest II, The Fall, and World of Warcraft: A VPU Recover event or the operating system failing to respond no longer occur when playing the game. Further details on these resolved issues can be found in topic number 737-21437
Half-Life2: Enabling Catalyst AI no longer results in the outer edges of the water appear dark or black in color. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21448
World of Warcraft: Rotating or zooming within the Blackwing Lair or Seering George level of the game no longer results in a VPR Recover occurring after approximately a few minutes of game play. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21265
Catalyst Control Center: The Display Properties aspect is now translated correctly for Traditional Chinese. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21440
Attempting to hot-plug a DFP display device using the HDMI-DVI connector no longer results in the DFP display device failing to display an image. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21442
Viewing TV for several hours under Windows XP Media Center Edition on a system containing either an ATI Radeon® X1300 or an ATI Radeon® X1800 no longer results in an extraordinary long delay in the shut down and no longer results in Windows XP MCE TV failing to restart. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number
The radio seek function found in the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system is now functioning properly when using an ATI Radeon® X800. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21449

pr0digal jenius · Jan 18, 2006, 02:01 PM

The Catalyst 6.1 Driver Suite has been released.

Issues Fixed:
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BattleField 2 Special Forces: A blooming or ghosting effect is no longer noticed when playing the game in night vision mode.

Beyond Good and Evil: Flickering artifacts are no longer noticed on the game characters after approximately 15 minutes of game play.

Dark Age of Camelot: The game no longer exits to the desktop immediately after launching, or after playing for up to 15 minutes.

Everquest II, The Fall, and World of Warcraft: A VPU Recover event or the operating system failing to respond no longer occur when playing the game.

Half-Life2: Enabling Catalyst AI no longer results in the outer edges of the water appear dark or black in color.

World of Warcraft: Rotating or zooming within the Blackwing Lair or Seering George level of the game no longer results in a VPR Recover occurring after approximately a few minutes of game play.

Etc, Etc

Known Bugs
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Alias MotionBuilder 6: Loading a model in MB6, followed by rotating the object, may result in shadows appearing corrupt and flickering being noticed.

AutoCAD 2005: Using the 3DORBIT command to rotate or zoom may result in the display hanging for a few seconds when having hardware acceleration enabled in AutoCAD and a 3D object in the drawing.

AutoCad 2006: Corruption may be noticed when moving the mouse pointer around the desktop area.

Creative Muvo 2: Recording an FM Radio broadcast may result the captured file failing to open when attempting to playback the FM broadcast.

City of Heroes: Running Shadertest 7 may result in slow performance being noticed.

Dragonshard: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition with CrossFire™ enabled, may result in the screen becoming out of sync, and a scrolling display image occurring shortly there after.

Fable: The Lost Chapters: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE may result in the shadows found within the game appearing jittery, when the desktop resolution is set to 1024x768 32bpp, and all the game options are set to default.

Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product may result in intermittent display corruption being noticed.

Neverwinter Nights: Playing the game under Windows XP on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X800 series, may result in the game exiting to the Windows desktop and an error message being displayed.

Path of Neo: Texture corruption may be noticed when playing the Kung Fu level.

Serious Sam 2 Demo: Enabling CrossFire™ may result in a performance drop being noticed when playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition.

WARHAMMER: DAWN OF WAR: Starting a skirmish game on a 4 player map under Windows XP, may result in the game performance appearing choppy when using an ATI Radeon® X800 series, and having all of the game options set to high.

This set weighs in at 34 MBs
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***Veridian3*** · Jan 18, 2006, 02:04 PM

Merged...

petri1 · Jan 18, 2006, 02:16 PM

ok won´t affect my poor 1325 in 3Dmark 06

but they are a given test sort of speaking of course

maybe COD2 runs better.......maybe

jeffro29 · Jan 18, 2006, 02:21 PM

Just in time for 3dmark06 woohooo thanks ATI

deekey777 · Jan 18, 2006, 02:23 PM

"Half-Life2: Enabling Catalyst AI no longer results in the outer edges of the water appear dark or black in color"

Yeah!!!

petri1 · Jan 18, 2006, 02:38 PM

hmm no fix for NFS most wanted?....is it so that it is a issue EA need to adress this shadow thing......nothing for FEAR neither.... ok

kn0w1 · Jan 18, 2006, 04:49 PM

"Creative Muvo 2: Recording an FM Radio broadcast may result the captured file failing to open when attempting to playback the FM broadcast."

What the hell ???

Lelisevis · Jan 18, 2006, 05:10 PM

Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product may result in intermittent display corruption being noticed.

Neverwinter Nights: Playing the game under Windows XP on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X800 series, may result in the game exiting to the Windows desktop and an error message being displayed.

Two games I play all of the time suddenly develop faults or have these always existed? I'm worried about going home and testing them now

EnPassant · Jan 18, 2006, 05:52 PM

Been playing around with the 6.1's this morning and Imho this is a very solid driver. Smooth in BF2/WoW and got an all time high score in CS:S.

Thank you ATI team

Ulric · Jan 18, 2006, 05:57 PM

Just another mediocre driver for me. Nothing special. I am quite pleased that the Omega version is out, though, so I expect some good results from it compared to the stock set. I hope you can sway an all-natural pessimist, Angel (I refuse to call you by that stupid O-word). Let's see... Go with NVIDIA/SLi and have everything I could ever want, or stick with ATi/CrossFire and be miserable... Decisions...

ViRuS2k · Jan 18, 2006, 06:34 PM

for a 6.1 release this bloody sucks.

wont be useing these at all.

***Veridian3*** · Jan 18, 2006, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViRuS2k

for a 6.1 release this bloody sucks.

wont be useing these at all.

Thanks for the constructive feedback... what exactly dont you like about them?

tech.Me · Jan 18, 2006, 06:46 PM

Indeed it's good for a new year. Remember 5.1? Haha... now that's a joke.

ViRuS2k · Jan 18, 2006, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veridian3

Thanks for the constructive feedback... what exactly dont you like about them?

for a start no X1800XT optimizations, so much for there ringbus crap.
also Fable and Nfs Mw and Battle field shadow bugs wich have been there for ever and still not a sign of getting fixed.

and finaly h.264 support isnt there updates for this aswell, ? or any news on this function becuse there clearly is bugs in that aswell.

nothing new apart from a small bugfix release without anything new or updated.....

im just dissapointed thats all.

***Veridian3*** · Jan 18, 2006, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViRuS2k

for a start no X1800XT optimizations, so much for there ringbus crap.
also Fable and Nfs Mw and Battle field shadow bugs wich have been there for ever and still not a sign of getting fixed.

and finaly h.264 support isnt there updates for this aswell, ? or any news on this function becuse there clearly is bugs in that aswell.

nothing new apart from a small bugfix release without anything new or updated.....

im just dissapointed thats all.

OK... Fable... Last time i played it on the X1800 (been a couple of months) it worked fine. What bug do you have? And are you using max shadows?

NFS:MW This issue wasnt submitted to ATI in any numbers so wasnt prioritised for a fix. I pointed them to the concern earlier and they are investigating now.

Can you give us a description of the BF issue also, i was playing it earlier and it seemed to be fine.

H.264 is working fine as of cat 5.13, you need to install the decoder though which you can find here: http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/ati/.../enu/index.jsp

I agree there isnt much new... not exactly sure why you were expecting anything else though? What sort of thing would you like to see in 6.2 / 6.3?

***Veridian3*** · Jan 18, 2006, 07:12 PM

Note to everyone, please submit all your bugs to ATI via their website... if you dont there is less chance of them getting fixed.

E.g. NFS MW!

Thanks

Ev!L-aLphA · Jan 18, 2006, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViRuS2k

for a start no X1800XT optimizations, so much for there ringbus crap.
also Fable and Nfs Mw and Battle field shadow bugs wich have been there for ever and still not a sign of getting fixed.

and finaly h.264 support isnt there updates for this aswell, ? or any news on this function becuse there clearly is bugs in that aswell.

nothing new apart from a small bugfix release without anything new or updated.....

im just dissapointed thats all.

man lately all that u have said about the drivers has been negative and its starting to bug me..

for 1 ati doesnt have to give u a damn driver every damn month, say thank you that they fix bugs and stuff.
2. NFS SHADOW BUG IS THE GAME BUG NOT ATI FOR THE 203423042340th time
3. ati clearly stated that when they find ways to optimize their hardware they do so...
4. just because its a 6.1 new number release doesnt mean they owe us extreme uberness

good things come to people who wait, unless u can join another company which releases drivers on a random basis sometimes not adding that much....
i agree there hasent been TOO much amazing stuff lately, but to be honest im glad with this release, this and 5.13 are the fastest drivers to date and they both are extremely solid.

so please stop being so negative it doesnt help any one

Ulric · Jan 18, 2006, 09:16 PM

In a way, I agree with Alpha. Let all of us ATI "haters" do the right thing instead of preaching on deaf ears - let's switch to NVIDIA. They seem to get their drivers right the first time; they don't need stupid "modders." Also, they release new betas constantly to give us a taste of what's to come so we don't wait for a boring release. Until DH can get their scaley c_ck out of ATI's butt, I'm going to switch to a different site/forum.

Robert McClelland · Jan 18, 2006, 09:24 PM

I'm going wait lol unless I'm that boerd :P

HOYS · Jan 18, 2006, 09:46 PM

Wow, I'm not spending the time to download that just so the corners of water in HL2 arent dark...

Dazog · Jan 18, 2006, 09:49 PM

I can't believe they never fixed the corruption problems with BF2 and the x1800XL

UNBELIVABLE

I have to go back to 5.11 and that doesn't have any of the so called new features in the last few releases.

I was thinking of an r580, now it looks like G71 for me.

3 months and still no fix?

mike2h · Jan 18, 2006, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ulric

In a way, I agree with Alpha. Let all of us ATI "haters" do the right thing instead of preaching on deaf ears - let's switch to NVIDIA. They seem to get their drivers right the first time; they don't need stupid "modders." Also, they release new betas constantly to give us a taste of what's to come so we don't wait for a boring release. Until DH can get their scaley c_ck out of ATI's butt, I'm going to switch to a different site/forum.

goodbye.