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Titolo: Catalyst 6.8 disponibili

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  Performance Improvement
    As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in 
various situations.
    Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led 
to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the 
entire Radeon® X1000 series of products. These include:
        * Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5%
        * Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18%
        * Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. 
Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen
        * Prey performance improves as much as 16%
    Optimizations made to ATI's graphics memory manager have led to 
significant gains in DirectX applications that make heavy use of 
graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:
        * 3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI 
Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 
and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on 
the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
        * Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single 
ATI Radeon® X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 
and higher when anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on 
the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
    Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.8
    The following section provides a summary of the issues that are 
resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include:
        * Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the 
game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product no 
longer results in intermittent display corruption being noticed. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-21458
        * Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: Setting the 3D slider to 
Optimal Quality in Catalyst® Control Center->Advanced View->3D->Standard 
Settings aspect no longer results in corruption being noticed in the 
water when playing the game under the Windows MCE operating system with 
an ATI Radeon® X19x0 series product installed. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22975
        * QQ Fantasy: Playing the online game under Windows XP with an 
ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 no longer results in the an error message 
being displayed and the mouse pointer control becoming erratic. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22985
        * Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: Corruption is no longer noticed 
during the playing the opening cinematic when AA is enabled at 8x. This 
issue was known to occur under the Windows XP operating system when 
using an ATI Radeon® X8x0 series product. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22983
        * Playing a DVD for an extended period of time when using the 
Windows Media Player on a system containing an ATI XpressT 11x0 series 
of product no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-22801
        * Playing a DVD using WinDVD on a system containing either an 
ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 product no longer results in corruption being 
noticed when changing the display resolution to either 1900x1200 or 
1280x720. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22805
        * Hot Plugging an HDMI TV to the DVI port of an ATI Radeon® 
X19x0 series no longer results in the HDMI detection message box failing 
to appear under the Windows Media Center Edition operating system. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-22809
        * Playing back a media file using Windows Media Player 11 on a 
system containing an ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 series of products no 
longer results in missing colors and or macroblock corruption being 
noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22810
        * Selecting same as source video option in the Japanese version 
of the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the selection 
failing to be applied when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series product. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-22813
        * Playing an MPEG2 video clip on a system running Windows XP and 
containing an ATI Radeon® X1x00 product no longer results in corruption 
being noticed during the playback of the MPEG2 file. Further details can 
be found in topic number 737-22814
        * Selecting Restore Factory Defaults settings within the 
Catalyst® Control Center now restores the Notebook Panel Properties to 
scale image full panel size when using an ATI Xpress 200 series product. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22995
        * Catalyst® Control Center->Advanced Mode: Changing the UMA 
Frame Buffer under the Windows XP operating system when using an ATI 
Xpress 200 series no longer results in a dialog box informing the user 
to restart the system in order for the changes to take effect, and once 
the user clicks OK, the system does not restart. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22997
        * Catalyst® Control Center: The translation for Use Centered 
Timings is now correct within the Catalyst® Control Center when setting 
the language to Simplified Chinese under all supported operating systems 
when using an ATI Radeon® X1600 series product. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22998
        * Catalyst® Control Center: The tool tip translation for 
Corruption is now correct when setting the language to Simplified 
Chinese under all supported operating systems when using and ATI Radeon® 
X1600 series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22999
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Right clicking on the Catalyst® 
Control Center within the system tray and navigating the 3D 
Setting->Anti-Aliasing no longer results in the sub menu translation for 
Application managed being incorrect when setting the language to 
Simplified Chinese under all supported operating systems when using an 
ATI Radeon® X1600 series product. Further details on this resolved issue 
can be found in topic number 737-23002
        * Catalyst® Control Center: De-selecting Custom View no longer 
results in the Custom View remaining active when closing and re-opening 
the Custom View window. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-23003
        * Catalyst® Control Center: The Arrow keys for rotation are no 
longer displayed incorrectly in Hotkey Manager when using an ATI Radeon® 
X700 series. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-23004
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Attempting to set the display 
resolution to either 720p, 1080p or 1080i no longer results in the 
Catalyst® Control Center failing to respond when using an ATI Radeon® 
X19x0 series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-23005
        * Video lag is no longer noticed when playing a DVD using WinDVD 
5.0 under the Windows XP operating system and an ATI Radeon® X11x0 
series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22971
        * Catalyst® Control Center: The TV Image 
Quality-Composite/S-Video Sharpness menu is no longer missing after 
switching the connection between Composite and S-Video. Further details 
on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22973
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting an CRT along with an HDTV 
display and enabling clone mode no longer results in the desktop image 
reverting back to landscape mode when attempting to rotate the display 
by 90 or 270 degrees. This issue was known to occur under the Windows 
MCE operating system when using an ATI Xpress 200 series product. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22974
        * Corruption is no longer noticed within the Catalyst® Control 
Center after a VPU Recover event under the Windows XP operating system 
when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series product. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number737-22976
        * Catalyst® Control Center->OverDrive: Changing the value of VPU 
or Vmem clock to less than 7M no longer results in the value changing 
back to the default setting. Further details on this resolved issue can 
be found in topic number 737-22977
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Installing a secondary display 
adapter in a system running Windows MCE (Japanese version) no longer 
results in display properties providing inaccurate translation for the 
secondary display device. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22978
        * The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond 
when attempting to resume from standby mode when using an ATI Radeon® 
X19x0 series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22979
        * Installing an ATI Radeon® X1900 CrossFire master edition 
graphics card and ATI Radeon® X1900 series secondary product on a system 
using a Dell 2405FPW and enabling CrossFire no longer results in the 
display device losing a signal or the 3D application or game exiting 
back to the desktop. Further details on this resolved issue can be found 
in topic number 737-22664
        * Various translation issues in the Catalyst® Control Center for 
Windows XP MCE (Japanese version) are now resolved. Further details on 
this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22980
        * The secondary display device longer becomes disabled when 
resuming from standby mode under the Windows XP operating system when 
using and ATI Radeon® X8x0 series product. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22981
        * Catalyst® Control Center: The Add button found in the CV 
Properties aspect page is no longer greyed out when attempting to add 
customized modes. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22982
        * The GPU no longer hangs and the display device no longer 
displays a corrupt image when a VPU is triggered on systems containing 
either an ATI Radeon® X1300 or X800 series or products. Further details 
on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22987
        * The Windows XP operating system no longer shuts down at 
negative temperatures when using an ATI Radeon® X19x0 series product. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22988
        * Connecting a CRT and a TV to an ATI Radeon® X19x0 product no 
longer results in the TV displaying corruption or lose of signal when 
resuming from hibernation mode. Further details on this resolved issue 
can be found in topic number 737-22992
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Making adjustments to the Monitor 
Properties aspect page and applying the change no longer results in the 
default position failing to be applied when attempting to restore 
factory defaults. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22993
    Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 6.8
        * Anarchy-Online: Screen corruption may be noticed when walking 
or running through the terrain. Further details can be found in topic 
number 737-22016
        * Battlefield 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP 
with the in-game display setting at 1920x1440 or 2048x1536 and AA set to 
6x may result in the game failing to launch. Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-22817
        * Cold War: Playing the game with the display resolution set to 
1600x1200 along with AA set to 8x and CrossFireT enabled may result in a 
ghosting effect being noticed. Further details can be found in topic 
number 737-21661
        * Elder Scolls IV: Oblivion: Setting the in game video option to 
High Resolution and setting the 3D option in the Catalyst® Control 
Center to Optimal Quality may result in corruption being noticed when 
playing the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23057
        * 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. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-21466
        * Path of Neo: Texture corruption may be noticed when playing 
the Kung Fu level. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-21464
        * Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI 
Radeon® X1600 series installed may result in texture corruption being 
noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22820
        * Tomb Raider: Enabling CrossFireT and setting AA to 12x and AF 
to 16x may result in corruption being noticed when playing the game on a 
system containing an ATI Radeon® X1800 series. Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-22811
        * World of Warcraft: Playing the game for an extended period of 
time may result in the game failing to respond when using a Radeon® 
X800. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22632
        * The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode, 
found within the Catalyst® Control Center Video standard settings, is 
grayed out when playing a media file. Further details can be found in 
topic number 737-497
        * Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X700 series may result in 
the HDTV being detected as a CRT or TV under the Windows XP operating 
system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20783
        * The PAL FM fine tuning algorithm is currently using 200 MHz 
bandwidth which may overlap FM channels resulting in the same FM channel 
being found several verdana during the scan function. Further details 
can be found in topic number 737-20979
        * Connecting two display devices to an ATI Radeon® X1600 series 
product may result in the device manager failing to detect the secondary 
display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21266
        * Display corruption may be noticed when configuring the DTV 
channel to 1080i broadcast when using an ATI HDTV Wonder. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-21455
        * OpenGL Extension Viewer: 2.0: Running the Rendering tests may 
result in a black box appearing when the fog option is enabled. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-21457
        * Connecting an HDTV as the secondary display device and 
enabling Theater mode may result in HDTV failing to display an image 
when attempting to playback a movie with extended desktop mode enabled. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-21460
        * The IBM T84H display device may fail to display an image when 
connected to the DVI connector on the ATI Radeon® X800 or X850 series. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-21462
        * Attempting to re-enable any display device other than the 
primary or secondary display device that has been disabled by 
CrossFireT, may result in the operating system failing to respond. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-21663
        * Using the ATI Multimedia Center to watch TV may result in the 
operating system restarting when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series 
product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22013
        * The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI 
All-In-Wonder X1300 with time-shifting enabled. Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-22014
        * Using the ATI Multimedia Center to watch TV may result in the 
operating system restarting when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series 
product. Further information on this issue can be found in topic number 
737-22013
        * Changing the regional option found in the control panel to 
Japan followed by installing the display driver results in the TV format 
failing to change in accordance with the regional option 737-22631
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Entering the OverdriveT aspect and 
changing the GPU setting to 509 and the memory setting to 505 results in 
color corruption and the Windows XP operating system rebooting 737-21229
        * Selecting the Plus Da Vinci screen saver and attempting to 
preview it may result in the screen saver not displaying properly after 
an extended preview 737-22634
        * Enabling CrossFireT may result in display corruption being 
noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows 
Media Player or PowerDVD 6. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-22806
        * Enabling CrossFire may result in display corruption being 
noticed when playing certain 3D games such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 
and Madden Football. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-23006
        * Tiger Woods 2005 or 2006: Playing the game under Windows XP 
with an ATI Radeon® X19x0 series product installed may result in the 
playback of the opening cinematics failing to playback properly. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-23006
        * When a TV is connected via the component dongle and HDTV is 
enabled in Clone mode, the display may remain blank when rebooting the 
system when all settings are reset to default. Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-23007
        * Plugging a TV into s-video out connector, followed by entering 
to display manager and clicking detect displays may result in the TV 
failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-23008
        * CrossFireT: The Windows XP operating system may fail to 
respond when attempting to resume from hibernation mode when CrossFire 
is enabled under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-23009
        * CrossFireT support may appear in the Catalyst® Control Center 
when using an ATI Hyper-Memory Radeon® X1600 or X1300 product under the 
Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic 
number 737-23010
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Deinterlacing modes maybe missing 
under the de interlacing settings found in the Catalyst® Control Center. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-23011
        * Using Movie Maker 2.1 to capture video under Windows XP 
Professional x64 Edition results in the captured video being corrupt. 
737-19820
        * Playing back a media file using Windows Media Player 11 on a 
system containing an ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 series of products may 
result in missing colors and or macroblock corruption being noticed. 
Further details can be found in topic number 737-22810
        * The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI 
All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled 737-22014
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E la patch per Oblivion in attesa dell'inserimento nei driver
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installati
ma............... anche a voi nell' Information Center dice che la versione 
è la 06.7 ???? 

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Non li ho installati ma pare proprio di si, c'è questo piccolo bug 
cosmetico :-)
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Si, un rappresentante ATI lo ha confermato sui forums di Rage3d. Se ne
sono accorti ma solo dopo la certificazione WHQL, quindi non lo hanno
corretto altrimenti avrebbero dovuto far ricertificare il driver un
altra volta.