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Old Jun 18, 2008, 02:08 PM   #1
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ATI Catalyst 8.6 Are Out (Vista)

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
  • Bioshock: Corruption is no longer noticed in the water's reflection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35077
  • Call of Duty 4: Enabling AA no longer results in intermittent corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35072
  • Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599
  • Crysis: Playing a DX10 version of the game no longer results in flickering being noticed within the bushes and on the trees when the in-game advanced setting are set to low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35074
  • Frontlines: Fuel of War: Flickering and corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series of product when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35067
  • Guitar Hero III: Shadows are no longer seen in the middle-bottom portion of the display where the music score is located. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35071
  • Lost Planet: Running the cave test on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product no longer results in low FPS values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35073
  • Sins of a Solar Empire: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing either an ATI Radeon™ X1xx0 or 9700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35068
  • Stalker: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the clear sky failing to scale properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35070
  • Unreal Tournament 3: Scaling is now functioning when using 24 or more bots when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35069
  • Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569
  • The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
  • Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
  • Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
  • Inconsistent behavior is no longer noticed in the Catalyst™ Control Center when clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32610
  • Shared applications are no longer removed after selecting Restore desktop when virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611
  • Certain benchmark applications no longer report lower benchmark scores with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33464
  • Hot-plugging an HDTV to an HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst™ Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34323
  • The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34123
  • Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34150
  • Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34151
  • Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center reporting the connector type as component. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35026
  • Connecting an HDTV using the Component Video connector no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center (Basic View) failing to respond when switching to HDTV only mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35029
  • Catalyst Control Center: Selecting the User Windows Display Language setting no longer results in the incorrect language being selected in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35030
  • A Catalyst Control Center Host Application error message is no longer displayed when performing a fast user switch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35031
  • Changing the saturation value found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV-Avivo page no longer results in the new values failing to take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35036
  • Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to respond when disabling the primary display device and attempting to set the secondary display device as the primary. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35039
  • The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to respond when modifying or assigning any hotkey in Hotkeys Manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34416
  • Enabling and disabling GPU Scaling no longer results in some of the supported display resolutions no longer being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35047
  • Hot-plugging an HDTV using the HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35048
  • Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
  • Hot-plugging an HDTV to the HDMI port no longer results in the LCD failing to display an image when hot-unplugging the HDTV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35052
  • Playing a Blu-Ray DVD title using WinDVD 8.1 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35064
  • Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device being detected as a DVI display device resolving the audio out issue. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35065
  • The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35066
  • Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) intermittently failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
  • The Catalyst Control Center version number no longer fails to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center 737-28493
  • Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35075
  • Hot-plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to detect the correct setting of the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35076
  • The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive™ option 737-30584
  • Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the TV failing to display an image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33466
  • Hot swapping a display device to the second DVI connector no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35078
  • Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35079
  • Corruption may be noticed when resuming a second time during the playback of a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35080
  • Seeking several times when playing an MPEG4 files using WinDVD no longer results in the video become 4 small videos windows within the playback screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35081
  • Enabling Closed Captioning no longer results in a green line at left side and bottom of the text being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35082

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Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
  • Call of Duty: Corruption may be noticed when having Quad CrossFire™ enable and an HDMI 1080p display device connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35112
  • Call of Duty 4 or Crysis: Color corruption may be noticed when running the games in full screen mode with Quad CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35115
  • Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels may result in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600
  • Crysis: Playing the game at a display resolution lower than the native display resolution of a connected 30" display device may result in corruption being noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled and having the Catalyst Control Center scaling the image to full screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35111
  • Linage II: Switching between the game and the Windows desktop may result in the desktop appearing brighter than its original setting. Exiting the game and restarting the operating system may also result in the desktop brightness failing to be restored to its original setting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35108
  • Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31189
  • ZT: Attempting to play the Asian game in a windowed mode or at a display resolution of 1280x1024 may result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34152
  • The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146
  • Setting the desktop resolution to 1600x1200 or greater may result in green pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31150
  • Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh Times, School for Scoundrels using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31155
  • An error message may appear when installing the display driver package through setup.exe. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31577
  • Installing an ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product into a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product with the display driver already installed may result in the operating system entering a continuous reboot. This issue may be averted by removing the ATI graphics driver prior to the installation of the ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product. This issue may also be experienced with the ATI Radeon™ X1300 and 1550 series of products. Further information may be found in topic number 737-33471
  • Enabling clone mode followed by switching to extended desktop mode may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34125
  • A black window may be displayed when attempting to play a DVD title using WinDVD 7 when Overlay Theater Mode and clone mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34133
  • The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146
  • Connecting an HDMI display device to the DVI port using an HDMI to DVI dongle may result in the display mode of 720x480 failing to be in the display mode list after hot-unplugging the HDMI display device and hot-plugging a DVI display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35105
  • Enabling clone mode followed by switching to extended desktop mode may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34125
  • Performing an express install of the Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message being displayed when rebooting the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29532
  • A black window may be displayed when attempting to play a DVD title using WinDVD 7 when Overlay Theater Mode and clone mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34133
  • Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the color depth below 16bpp may result in the secondary display device failing to redraw properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35114
  • A green or black screen may be displayed when configuring MCE to ATSC mode. Further information may be found in topic number 737-27622
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Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
  • The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive™ option 737-30584
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