ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP

**MIG-31** · Dec 10, 2008, 11:15 AM

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:

• Using an HDMI cable to connect an ATI All-in-Wonder to a Yamaha receiver may result in the display resolution being limited to 1280x1024 and audio failing to function

• Catalyst Control Center, some of the 3D settings are not displayed on ATI Radeon HD 4870 adapters

• The operating system may fail to start after installing the display driver with some configurations of "Crosfire" with Radeon X1900 Series devices

• The operating system may intermittently fail when exiting Test Drive Unlimited after extensive game play

• Dual display, playing multiple video files on each monitor may cause the system to stop responding

• City of Villains: Attempting to launch the game on a system running Windows XP and containing either two ATI Radeon HD 38x0 or 46x0 product may result in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond

• Some OpenGL applications may cause the OS to stop responding on some ATI Radeon HD 45xx adapters

• On some configurations, the display driver may stop responding when resolution is set to 2048x1536 with 8X Anti-Alias and Edge Detect filter enabled

• Exiting some games may intermittently cause the following error message when 8X anti-alias edge detection is enabled: "Display Driver stopped working"

• Hot unplugging a HDMI connection during video playback may cause systeminstability

• Catalyst Control Center: Enabling pulldown setting may not work on all video formats

• Systems configured with Overlay Theater Mode enabled may intermittently become unresponsive after playing video

• Catalyst Control Center, setting the de-noise slider does not affect the quality of progressive video content

• Intermittent flickering may be noticed on the TV out display when playing a DVD using Cyberlink PowerDVD

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:
• Catalyst Control Center, the deinterlacing option under AVIVO video is not
available after returning from VPU recovery
• Video corruption may be noticed during certain MPEG-2 file playback
• Playing some Blu-ray HD titles on multi head displays may cause the system
to stop responding
• Previous transcoders may cause the ATI AVIVO Video Converter to not use
the GPU for trancodiing
• Transcoding multiple times may cause the ATI AVIVO Converter to not use

the GPU

Download: 8.12 32 Bit / 8.12 64 Bit

Chaos · Dec 10, 2008, 12:37 PM

I am getting an error trying to install this set. After files extract I get only runs in administrative mode setup will end. I have tried using run as and using the admin account but get the same error

XP SP3 32bit

I was able to manually update them through Device Manager

Peter Board · Dec 10, 2008, 06:37 PM

I am also experiencing the same issue with 8.12. I have Windows XP SP3 and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. The package installer complains I am not in administrator mode and doesn't install. I am running as a local administrator account.

petri1 · Dec 14, 2008, 06:06 AM

i had no problems installing these and i have seen around the net many have problems installing.

if so many have these problems why don some have that?

wonder what the difference is between those with no problems and those tha have?

great set none the less

Peter Board · Dec 14, 2008, 05:54 PM

I have only had this problem with the Ati Mobility version of 8.12. I was able to work around it like the other guy, going into device manager - manually installing the driver and then running the Catalyst control center installer.

On my desktop machine, with an Ati HD 2600 pro, I had no issue installing under Windows XP SP3 (Media Center Edition 2005). So its only on my laptop, using XP Professional SP3, using the Ati mobility version of 8.12 (you initially download a little download tool, that then downloads a driver from ATI with this tool and launches the install after completion).

trapezoid · Dec 15, 2008, 01:45 AM

Upgraded - went through flawlessly.

Liqourice · Dec 15, 2008, 08:46 PM

I've noticed one thing since installing this driver. If I scroll to quickly in EI7 I get a VPU recovery. Really don't know what's causing this. It's happened a few times. Only seems to happen with IE7 as well, I've tried to duplicate with FF but it just doesn't happen.

Though, whenever I have a VPU recovery it all goes back to normal again, not like when it happened with an older driver and I got only an 8-bit display back with lots of banding and had to reboot to fix.

sterben · Dec 16, 2008, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liqourice

I've noticed one thing since installing this driver. If I scroll to quickly in EI7 I get a VPU recovery. Really don't know what's causing this. It's happened a few times. Only seems to happen with IE7 as well, I've tried to duplicate with FF but it just doesn't happen.

Though, whenever I have a VPU recovery it all goes back to normal again, not like when it happened with an older driver and I got only an 8-bit display back with lots of banding and had to reboot to fix.

Might be a bug, your Vista is updated correct?

Liqourice · Dec 16, 2008, 07:47 AM

I have XP Sp3, not Vista and yes, it's updated. I'm almost positive that it's a driver issue since it didn't happen with the last 3 sets of drivers at least.

petri1 · Dec 17, 2008, 06:02 AM

yhis driver set is very buggy people with vista 64 have had huge problems

some error43

Dec 10, 2008, 11:15 AM	#1
MIG-31 DH News MOD Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 42,583 Rep Power: 186 System Specs	ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP 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: • Using an HDMI cable to connect an ATI All-in-Wonder to a Yamaha receiver may result in the display resolution being limited to 1280x1024 and audio failing to function • Catalyst Control Center, some of the 3D settings are not displayed on ATI Radeon HD 4870 adapters • The operating system may fail to start after installing the display driver with some configurations of "Crosfire" with Radeon X1900 Series devices • The operating system may intermittently fail when exiting Test Drive Unlimited after extensive game play • Dual display, playing multiple video files on each monitor may cause the system to stop responding • City of Villains: Attempting to launch the game on a system running Windows XP and containing either two ATI Radeon HD 38x0 or 46x0 product may result in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond • Some OpenGL applications may cause the OS to stop responding on some ATI Radeon HD 45xx adapters • On some configurations, the display driver may stop responding when resolution is set to 2048x1536 with 8X Anti-Alias and Edge Detect filter enabled • Exiting some games may intermittently cause the following error message when 8X anti-alias edge detection is enabled: "Display Driver stopped working" • Hot unplugging a HDMI connection during video playback may cause systeminstability • Catalyst Control Center: Enabling pulldown setting may not work on all video formats • Systems configured with Overlay Theater Mode enabled may intermittently become unresponsive after playing video • Catalyst Control Center, setting the de-noise slider does not affect the quality of progressive video content • Intermittent flickering may be noticed on the TV out display when playing a DVD using Cyberlink PowerDVD 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: • Catalyst Control Center, the deinterlacing option under AVIVO video is not available after returning from VPU recovery • Video corruption may be noticed during certain MPEG-2 file playback • Playing some Blu-ray HD titles on multi head displays may cause the system to stop responding • Previous transcoders may cause the ATI AVIVO Video Converter to not use the GPU for trancodiing • Transcoding multiple times may cause the ATI AVIVO Converter to not use the GPU Download: 8.12 32 Bit / 8.12 64 Bit __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg! Last edited by MIG-31; Dec 10, 2008 at 11:22 AM.

Dec 10, 2008, 12:37 PM	#2
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,176 Rep Power: 94 System Specs	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP I am getting an error trying to install this set. After files extract I get only runs in administrative mode setup will end. I have tried using run as and using the admin account but get the same error XP SP3 32bit I was able to manually update them through Device Manager Last edited by Chaos; Dec 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM.

Dec 10, 2008, 06:37 PM	#3
Peter Board DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP I am also experiencing the same issue with 8.12. I have Windows XP SP3 and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. The package installer complains I am not in administrator mode and doesn't install. I am running as a local administrator account.

Dec 14, 2008, 06:06 AM	#4
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 780 Rep Power: 0	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP i had no problems installing these and i have seen around the net many have problems installing. if so many have these problems why don some have that? wonder what the difference is between those with no problems and those tha have? great set none the less __________________ [COLOR=#232d35] [COLOR=Red]Intel Core 2 Quad 9450@2,66GHZ PowerColor Ati Radeon HD4870 512mb Gigabyte GaE-X38 4GB Kingston Hyper X [/COLOR] [/COLOR]

Dec 14, 2008, 05:54 PM	#5
Peter Board DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP I have only had this problem with the Ati Mobility version of 8.12. I was able to work around it like the other guy, going into device manager - manually installing the driver and then running the Catalyst control center installer. On my desktop machine, with an Ati HD 2600 pro, I had no issue installing under Windows XP SP3 (Media Center Edition 2005). So its only on my laptop, using XP Professional SP3, using the Ati mobility version of 8.12 (you initially download a little download tool, that then downloads a driver from ATI with this tool and launches the install after completion). Last edited by Peter Board; Dec 14, 2008 at 05:55 PM. Reason: Add more detail

Dec 15, 2008, 01:45 AM	#6
trapezoid DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 52 Rep Power: 8	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP Upgraded - went through flawlessly. __________________

Dec 15, 2008, 08:46 PM	#7
Liqourice DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 594 Rep Power: 27 System Specs	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP I've noticed one thing since installing this driver. If I scroll to quickly in EI7 I get a VPU recovery. Really don't know what's causing this. It's happened a few times. Only seems to happen with IE7 as well, I've tried to duplicate with FF but it just doesn't happen. Though, whenever I have a VPU recovery it all goes back to normal again, not like when it happened with an older driver and I got only an 8-bit display back with lots of banding and had to reboot to fix.

Dec 16, 2008, 07:47 AM	#9
Liqourice DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 594 Rep Power: 27 System Specs	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP I have XP Sp3, not Vista and yes, it's updated. I'm almost positive that it's a driver issue since it didn't happen with the last 3 sets of drivers at least.

Dec 17, 2008, 06:02 AM	#10
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 780 Rep Power: 0	Re: ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Display Driver for Windows XP yhis driver set is very buggy people with vista 64 have had huge problems some error43 __________________ [COLOR=#232d35] [COLOR=Red]Intel Core 2 Quad 9450@2,66GHZ PowerColor Ati Radeon HD4870 512mb Gigabyte GaE-X38 4GB Kingston Hyper X [/COLOR] [/COLOR]

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