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Thanks Terry.

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New Features

This release of Catalyst™ introduces the following new features:

* DirectX 10 driver support for the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT (single card and CrossFire™ configurations) for Windows Vista
* Second Generation ATI Theater™ 650

DirectX 10 driver support for the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT (single card and CrossFire™ configurations) for Windows Vista

This release of Catalyst™ introduces the ATI DirectX 10 driver for the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT, for both single cards and CrossFire™ configurations. The ATI DirectX 10 driver used in combination with the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT (and an application designed to take advantage of the power of the DirectX 10 API) delivers incredible graphics effects never seen before on the PC.

Second Generation ATI Theater™ 650

This release of Catalyst™ introduces the second generation ATI Theater™ 650. This product will provide support for the new MCE 2006 requirements such as DRM support. Further, it will include features to support ATI All-In-Wonder products. It will also provide improved TV quality and Broadcast Flag support which enables full US terrestrial DTV support.

Performance Improvements

OpenGL performance is improved on the ATI Radeon™ X1950 XTX at high resolutions (1920x1200 or greater) with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled. Doom 3 and Quake 4 improves as much as 13-18%, and Prey improves at least 15.6%. The ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro and X1650 XT also sees improvements in Doom 3 and Quake 4 of up to 14.1% at higher resolutions with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

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:

• Doom3/Quake 4: Setting the in game options for Video Quality to Medium and Screen Size to 1024x768 no longer results in display corruption being noticed when setting AA to 4x. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25802
• IL2 Sturmovik->Forgotten Battles: Setting the in-game hardware options to custom and landscape detail to perfect no longer results in the water textures appearing corrupt when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26687
• Lego Star Wars II: Starting a new game and walking outside through any of the doors available no longer results in flickering/flashing being noticed during the fade transition. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27454
• Quake 4/Serious Sam: Attempting to launch the games with AA set to 2x or higher and the Catalyst™ Control Center->Advanced View->3D preview running in the background no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26690
• A Fatal Uninstall Error of ATI Catalyst™ Install Manager is no longer experienced on some hardware configurations running Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27083
• Catalyst™ Control Center: The Content Viewing selection for Component Video is no longer blank in the Basic view when using only an HDMI display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27084
• CrossFire™: The text and buttons found in the CrossFire™ disable warning message are no longer cropped in all supported languages excluding English. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27085
• Switching between users with Catalyst™ Control Center->Color aspect open, no longer incorrectly enables the Reactivate ATI Color controls button on some hardware configurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27086
• In the Catalyst™ Control Center, a blank page is no longer seen in the basic view when changing extended desktop to clone mode with CRT and SDTV connected on some ASIC families. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27088
• In the Catalyst™ Control Center the localization "Select a Skin" window page is now localized with the appropriate languages on some hardware configurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27087
• Enabling CrossFire™ no longer automatically enables 'Triple Buffering' and disables 'Support DXT texture format' in 3D->More Settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27090
• The position of the TV as reported by the Catalyst™ Control Centre when switching from underscan to overscan no longer differs between the operating systems Windows XP and Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27079
• Mode changes including extending the desktop is no longer observed to be extremely slow with two monitors attached and enabled on the ATI Radeon™ X1800 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27080
• Overlay Theater Mode no longer fails under the conditions that the desktop is extended to a secondary display on ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27082
• On some hardware configurations the Catalyst™ Control Center "Content Viewing selection for Component Video" page is no longer blank in the Basic view when using only an HDMI display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27452
• Switching between users with Catalyst™ Control Center->Color aspect open, no longer incorrectly enables the "Reactivate ATI Color controls" button on some hardware configurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27086
• An error message is no longer displayed when disabling CrossFire™ under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27453
• Catalyst™ Control Center: Attempting to change the Core clock settings within the Overdrive™ aspect no longer results in the new setting failing to be applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27455
• WinDVD8: Enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in corruption being noticed during video playback. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27616
• Using Windows Media Player 11 to play an MPEG file using HDMI audio on a system running Windows Vista no longer results in file not playing properly if swapping the primary and secondary display devices. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27617
• Mode changes including extending the desktop is no longer observed to be extremely slow with two monitors attached and enabled on the ATI Radeon™ X1800 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27456
• Playing HD DVD content followed by attempting to hot unplug a display device and then hot-plugging the same display device to a different port no longer results in the HD DVD playback failing to resume. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27618

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

• This section provides information on known issues associated with the ATI Catalyst™ Vista RTM driver for both the 32bit and 64bit versions of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. These include:
  
• Homeworld2: Setting the game options to default and starting a single player game may result in display corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26692
• Never Winter Nights->Undrentide: Enter the Advanced Video Options within the game may result in the inability to enable the Shiny Water option. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27462
• NHL 07: The in-game display settings may fail to be applied when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system when using a supported ATI Radeon™ product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23549
• X-Plane: Playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system may result in display corruption being noticed when using an ATI Radeon™ X1900/1950 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25522
• In the Catalyst™ Control Center, the Help buttons drop down box appear towards left side of the window instead of right side for some languages on certain hardware configurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27089
• Playing a DVD under the Windows Vista operating system using the Windows Media Player may result in the DVD failing to play when switching between display devices using the hot-key function. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24472. Fixed in 8.39
• Resuming from an S3 state may result in a longer than expected time for the Windows Vista operating system to resume. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25798
• Hot-plugging a CRT to a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ X1100/1150 series of product may result in extended desktop mode failing to be applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25801
• The desktop shortcut to the Catalyst™ Control Center may disappear after performing a Windows Anytime Upgrade on some hardware configurations running Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27078
• On some hardware configurations the CIM video driver installer lists The Catalyst™ Install Manager and Microsoft Visual C++ among components of the Component Selection Menu whereas these should not appear since they are mandatory and not optional. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27081
• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by disconnecting and then reconnecting the CRT display device may result in duplicate video options being seen within the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27457
• Catalyst™ Control Center->OverDrive™: The OverDrive™ setting are not retained for individual accounts. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25805
• The OverDrive™ clocks may fail to revert back to the default settings and the Apply and Discard buttons may not become enabled when changing the clock settings for both the primary and secondary display devices. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27619
• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting AA to 14x and AF to 16x may result in the AA showing a setting of 0x level when disabling CrossFire™ and unchecking the AA option in the 3D aspect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27458
• Making changes to the Color aspect found in the Catalyst™ Control Center without applying the changes may result in the Reactivate ATI color controls button remaining active after the Catalyst™ Control Center is closed and then re-launched. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27459
• The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled. Further information can be found in topic number 737-22014
• A blank screen may be displayed after unchecking all the Component Video formats except when the 480i30 custom mode is applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27620
• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting the Overdrive™ clocks to their maximum settings may result in the Catalyst™ Control Center failing to accurately report the requested Overdrive™ values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27621
• Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode may result in changes being made to the secondary display device being reflected on the primary display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27460
• After installing the ATI display driver and Catalyst™ Control Center the display driver may not be listed in the installed components. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27461
• The desktop shortcut to the Catalyst™ Control Center may disappear after performing a Windows Anytime Upgrade on some hardware configurations running Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27078
• A green or black screen may be displayed when configuring MCE to ATSC mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27622
• Playing a DVD using either WinDVD or PowerDVD may result in corruption being noticed if the players is rotated to any position other than landscape. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27463
• Setting the Avivo Video De-interlacing setting to auto, motion adaptive or vector adaptive may result in certain DVDs, menu videos and some special features failing to benefit from the options. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27196
• Installing the display driver under the Windows Vista operating system may result in the display resolutions of 1680x1050, 1800x1440, 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 not being available when using an analog CRT display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27464
• Running through the un-install of the ATI display driver may result in the display driver failing to be completely removed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27466

temeteus82

I think not. I got drives and AVIVO pack in 10 mins in total with my 2048/512 line I just was fast to avoid the rush

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Buddahpest

This is a little weird.

I did an upgrade install of the 7.5's from the 7.4's under Vista Ultimate X64. During the process, I received a message from the installer saying that no driver was detected and that installation could not continue.

However, the install kept going and then I was prompted to reboot. Upon reboot, everything installed properly and the CCC shows version 7.5. The date on the drivers also changed to the 17th of May.

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purush

In one word 'Superb' contrary to all the negative reviews I heard about ATI 2900XT I intend to go ahead and buy it. I just returned Nvidia 8800GXT after taking a 20% reduction. I had nothing but troubles configuring their control panel. It would not recognize my 1080p resolution in my Sharp 37 " LCD TV, somehow could not get the image to fill the screen, it would cut off the right hand portion of the screen, I even changed my PSU to 750 Watts. I spent three days trying to figure out. No matter what everyone is grumbling I much prefer ATI products and all the three computers in the house have ATI cards.

MechaMorph

I have an issue with my CCC. After installing 7.5 CCC keeps crashing. I get the following information:

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: ccc.exe
Problem Signature 02: 2.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 451d264f
Problem Signature 04: CLI.Component.Runtime
Problem Signature 05: 2.0.2693.36852
Problem Signature 06: 464d0138
Problem Signature 07: cb
Problem Signature 08: 6
Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Restarting does not correct the problem. It just crashes again almost immediately.

This is a Crossfired X1950 Pro system on a Xpress 3200 chipset with an AMD X2 4200+ running Vista Ultimate.

-MM

EDIT: After a reboot ATT was allowing to enable Crossfire again. CCC still crashing though. Drivers seem stable so far.

EDIT 2: Weirdest damn thing just happened. Did a Windows update and downloaded 2 patches (Malicious tool and the iPod fix). rebooted. ATT tried to initialize Crossfire right off the bat which made the system hang. Rebooted into safemode and removed ATT. Booted back into Vista and CCC is now functioning correctly. o.O

vbawol

Comany of heros patch 1.7 enabled DX10. With the Supplemental drivers for 2900xt I was able to use the DX10 option but with 7.5 the options are greyed out.

Anyone else getting this problem? or is it just me.



Edit: With 7.5 drivers my 2900xt is showing up as "Radeon X1900 Series Secondary" in the log file from company of heroes

00:35:14.71 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = atiumdag.dll Desc = Radeon X1900 Series Secondary


Also 3dmark06 shows GFX as "Radeon X1900 Series Secondary" yet Device manager shows "ATI Radeon HD 2900XT" ver 8.380.0.0

GeneralClaymore

There working great so far, a new setting poped up. LCD overdrive. I have no idea whats it for

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darkrender

Do they support the X2300? Having been waiting a new driver for a long time.

MidnightWatcher

Installation went fine, but now when I select 1440x900 @ 60Hz my monitor goes blank, and says unsupported mode, recommended mode is 1440x900 @ 60Hz. ??? The only refresh rate that will work is 75Hz. Is this a bug?

I'm using Vista Home Premium x64.

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theonlybabyface

No issues so far...solid drivers!!!

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stelea16

I`m experiencing the same thing, I get an out of range error when trying to set 1440x900 mode on my LCD, even though that`s it`s native resolution. The 8.37.4.2&3 didn`t do this...anybody have any idea why it`s happening?

jumpyjim

The 7.5's seem fine so far, no problems whatsoever

thecaretaker

Hello Terry M, yes you know me. Your No.1 fan,

What is going on at your place these days. Spare a thought for a poor school caretaker. Nothing in 7.5 fixes any of my reported issues, in fact they make them worse. Fewer and fewer demos wants to run smoothly with every update.

The demo Adrenalin by Smash Designs splutters like hell then crashes before it ends
Download Link


What have you done Terry to openGL to make demos like Legomania run at 1 frame every 5 seconds and all the characters made up of wireframe?
Legomania download links

Why do I get demos that fail to run with diagnostics that say this:

Download link

Why do I have 164 demos that crash with this:


Why do I keep getting these errors in event log every time I boot:

IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 2, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 7, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

I am seriously wondering why I spent so much money buying ATI and what in heaven made me moved to Vista. This isn't progress Terry.

Is anyone listening anymore? I have submitted reports!

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Judas

The exact issues i've experienced thecaretaker...

The problem i ran into was a horrible download that appears to run without an issue, but was corrupt in some manner or another.

I'd highly suggest doing a complete uninstall of those drivers and a wipe of the ATI references.

Then redownload the latest 7.5's and install again.

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thecaretaker

Thanks for the quick reply. I will give it another try. But I have tried so many times before, nothing seems to change it. Got the latest BIOS, XI-Fi drivers. ATI Motherboard drivers. Got all the lastest Windows Updates. Nobody can ever accuse me of not keeping up to date m8.

I'm also unable to use crossfire. When I install the drivers, click to enable in CCC. Instant crash. I have to uninstall in safe mode to stop it looping.

Apart from 3D stuff, the system is rock solid and Vista works well. But all my issues are related to my Radeon 1800XT. Thought I understood most things by now, but this beats me. It's got to be driver related, maybe more on the motherboard side though..:-(

Sapphire PC-A9RD480Adv

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Judas

Erg, that's not good at all, i'd wonder if maybe the card was bad or something else strange going on,

have you ran through a solid 24 hour mem test..... sounds like somethings just not right.

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Edit: Silly me, I didn't have MSXML4 installed. How the heck did I manage to mod the 7.4s last time?

Randomness

Hello:

I too am experiencing this same problem as MidnightWatcher and stelea16 where my monitor will not function at 1440x900 @ 60Hz ; However it does work at 75Hz. I get a similar monitor error stating that the Display mode is not supported.

Vista Home Premium 32bit and Catalyst 7.5
X1950 Pro 256MB
Samsung SyncMaster 941BW
connected via DVI

Take care,

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MidnightWatcher

I should probably mention that I have:

Vista Home Premium x64
Samsung SyncMaster 940BW
Asus X1950 Pro 256MB
Using DVI

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thecaretaker

I've no real reason to blame the card, it worked fine in XP. Apart from adding an extra 1gig of memory (I now have 4 x 512 - 2 matched pairs) and this was after I did a clean install of Vista Ultimate, my system is exactly the same as my XP set up. All I did was format the hard drive and do a fresh install.

I have not done a full memory test, but prepared to try anything. Can you recommend any perticlular program for this m8?

I have recently encoded a huge 4 hour movie which took around 18 hours with CPU unit working flat out and it didn't have any issues. Vista itself works well it's rock solid with everything else I throw at it.

It's just all these demos that won't work anymore, OpenGL errors/performance and crossfire not working. I'm even happy to forget the crossfire issue (never really noticed enough difference to be honest) If only the card worked half as well as it did on XP I'd be a happy bunny.

Oh, I almost forgot, another card related issue, I've got no component output using the supplied cable in the round hole on the card anymore. I only seem to get a standard TV output from it (on one of the leads). Would I be right in saying that this has been deliberately disabled by Microsoft in Vista and not the card or ATI's fault?

...and this is progress!

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Radigan

Same problem here, (well, was), its the driver, the new driver has some problems with monitors, I rolled back the driver and the problem was gone.

My set-up:
AMD Athlon 4400+ x64 Dual Core
4 GB RAM
2900 XT 512
Vista Ultimate

EDIT: Also DVI connection, I got "Digital out of range 27.3 / 30" or something along those lines.

MidnightWatcher

What monitor do you have?

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ombas

7.5 - markedly dimmer, duller and with a slower response time on desktop than 7.4

arma still does not play at all using 7.5, as it didn't under 7.4

x1900xt, vista ultimate 64, e6600, 4gbs ram

Intelman

7.5 does make the monitor dimmer and duller more washed out colors. This is extremely annoying, and unacceptable. If the colors are supposed to look like this, then my computer just got a lot sadder.

Mad_Murdock

I'm having the same pretty annoying bug with the 7.5s and Vista64. Whenever the 7.5 drivers install, as soon as the screen goes black and then returns, the monitor brightness drops. Kinda like a laptop's monitor drops when you pull the power out and it's running off batteries.

In this case, it's a desktop with a CRT. I installed the 7.5s on the same machine that also boots to XP and Vista32 and I don't get this problem. Only under Vista64. I can reload the 7.4 drivers and all is normal, I can let the WDDM driver load and everything is normal. But the 7.5 drivers will drop brightness as soon as the driver loads.

I've un-install and re-installed every which way I could think of. I've re-checked all the power save options. But I don't see anything that explains the brightness drop. Looks like I'm headed back to the 7.4 drivers, unless someone can tell me how to fix this.

Vista64, X1900XTX, AMD4800+ Abit K8N Ultra, Viewsonic P95F+ monitor

On a side note, I ran my usual benchmarks with Doom3, FEAR, Half-Life2, Supreme Commander and 3dmark06 and didn't have any performance loss (or gain). So for me, it's just a color\brightness loss.

MissileMan

I had the install bug, the brightness reduction and color fade bug, and then when I went into DirectX game I couldn't watch the screen because it was flickering like the old tvs when vertical siync went out. I tried changing refresh, mode, Vsync on/off. Still flickered like no tomorrow. Back to 7.4 and all is well.

Intel D975XBX2, 2 1950 Pro X-Fired, 4 GB RAM, Vista Ultimate 32 and 64.

Scoop

Having exactly the same issues here on my 64bit vista. The color adjustments in the ccc just dont work correctly. Screen looks all washed out, ive gone back to 7.4 and all is ok but I would be intrested in a fix...

Kind regards
Scoop

CATALYSTCATCHER

There is a control in CCC color tab to set the black and white levels being used.

These options appear below the contrast slider in the color tab. You need to scroll to access the selection.

I find the MCE selection provides normal display brightness in Vista 32. The PC standard options appears, dull, washed out.

Does CCC show "PC Standard" or "MCE" being set as the default? I find the MCE selection provides normal display brightness in Vista 32.

Try toggling the selection.