Performance Improvements
Catalyst 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases
where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:
Company
of Heroes – performance
improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series
products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD
4800 series
Crysis –
performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
Crysis
Warhead – performance
improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
World in
Conflict – performance
improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings
that were previously CPU limited
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this
release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:
Opening Crossfire
pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
Catalyst Control
Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling
the primary display is now possible
Changing the
bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes
Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
Catalyst Control
Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no
longer fails to display
Catalyst Control
Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic
deinterlacing is enabled
Catalyst Control
Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a
CRT display in clone mode
Catalyst Control
Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled
when using a non-HDTV resolution
Fixed a
regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and
executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no
longer work properly with
Catalyst 9.4 or later
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:
On some
configurations, video artifacts are no longer visible during playback of
transcoded video files
Second adapter
will now run at default minimum clock values, instead of custom
GPU clock values, without requiring the user to launch and exit
the 3D game in full
screen mode
Corruption and
flickering no longer visible when switching between window and full
screen mode when playing Crysis
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:
Catalyst Control
Center: Scaling option slider is no longer incorrectly enabled when
using non-HDTV resolutions
System
instability no longer observed when task switching to desktop when playing
"Tom Clancy's HAWK"
Catalyst Control
Center: On some configurations, the scaling options are no longer
missing for HDMI or component video displays
Team Fortress 2
some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this
release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
Some systems with
both a component video display and a secondary display, it is
now possible to duplicate the displays using the display
settings
Catalyst Control
Center: Graphics corruption no longer visible when updating the
ATI Graphics Power settings
Catalyst Control
Center: System no longer fails to set the Component Video modes
Catalyst Control
Center no longer shows Crossfire as disabled
Catalyst Control
Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
Enabling
CrossFire under specific system configurations no longer causes Catalyst
Control Center to stop responding
Intermittent
corruption no longer visible throughout Enemy Territory Quake Wars
levels
Known Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on known issues that may be
experienced under all
Windows operating system with the latest version of Catalyst.
These include:
Garbled text may
appears on resume splash screen after hibernation with some
ASICs
Catalyst Control
Center: Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color
settings the preview window may blank out
Opening Catalyst
Control Center may result in an error message when using Dual
Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
Catalyst Control
Center: Enable dialog reposition does not show on proper monitor
when system is configured with 4 displays
Confirmation
dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i
formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
Interlaced modes
might not be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when
forced via Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control
Center: The wrong help pages are displayed for Component video
properties
Catalyst Control
Centre may fail to launch when CrossFire has been disabled on
some multi-adapter systems
Catalyst Control
Center: Text in some of the panels may be cut when running on a
Russian operating systems
Catalyst Control
Center: Some text in the Basic View may be cut after using the
"Rotate Desktop" options
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:
On some system
configurations, a delay may be noticed when task switching between
the desktop and a game in progress
Some system
configurations may prevent the playback of Blu-ray content on DVI
ports at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 display modes
[Vista 64]
Re-installing the graphics driver may cause a "No ATI Graphics driver
installed…" error dialog on reboot
HDMI audio may
not be enabled in some DX10 games when Crossfire is enabled
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:
A performance
drop may be observed on Enemy Territory Quake Wars, Doom3 and
Quake4
With some
multi-adapter configurations, the Catalyst Control Center AVIVO options
may become disabled
Catalyst Control
Center image scaling options, "Maintain aspect ratio" and "Use
centered timings" may not function on some DVI displays
Catalyst Control
Center may show a "System restart required..." message for some
multi-adapter CrossFire configurations
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may
be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst.
These include:
Playing back
Blu-ray content in extended desktop might not switch to primary
display after unplugging the secondary display
Power Cinema may
have to be launched twice to start Blu-ray playback
Catalyst Control
Center may report Crossfire as disabled for some quad crossfire
configurations
Catalyst Control
Center: Some of the default HDTV modes may not be enabled with
particular monitors
