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Titolo: Catalyst 6.5 Disponibili

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    Catalyst® Release Note Version 6.5
    This release note provides information on the latest posting of 
ATI's industry leading software suite, Catalyst®. This particular 
software suite updates both the ATI Display Driver (version 8.252), and 
the Catalyst® Control Center (version 6.5). This unified driver has been 
further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and 
reliability. The ATI Catalyst® software suite is the ultimate in 
performance and stability.
    The Catalyst® 6.5 Release Note provides information on the 
following:
        * Web Content
        * ATI Desktop product family support
        * ATI Chipset Product Support
        * ATI FireMVT 2D Drivers Support
        * Operating systems supported
        * New Features
        * Performance Improvements
        * Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.5
        * Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 6.5
        * ATI Customer Care
        * Installing the latest Catalyst® Software Suite
        * Catalyst® Crew Driver Feedback
    Web Content
    The Catalyst® software suite 6.5 contains the following:
        * Radeon® display driver 8.252
        * Multimedia CenterT 9.14
        * HydraVisionT
        * HydraVisionT Basic Edition
        * Remote Wonder 3.03
        * WDM Driver Install Bundle
        * Southbridge/IXP Driver
        * Catalyst® Control Center Version 6.5
     Caution:  The Catalyst® Control Center requires that the Microsoft 
.NET Framework version 1.1 or 2.0 be installed. Without .NET version 1.1 
or 2.0 installed, the Catalyst® Control Center will not launch properly 
and the user will see an error message.
     Note:  These release notes provide information on the Radeon® 
display driver only. For information on the ATI Multimedia CenterT, 
HydraVisionT, HydraVision Basic Edition, WDM, Remote WonderT, or the 
Southbridge/IXP driver, please refer to their respective release notes 
found at: 
https://support.ati.com/
    ATI Desktop product family support
    The Catalyst® software suite is designed to support the following 
ATI desktop products:
        * Radeon® X1900 series
        * Radeon® X1800 series
        * Radeon® X1600 series
        * Radeon® X1300 series
        * Radeon® X850 series
        * Radeon® X800 series
        * Radeon® X700 series
        * Radeon® X600 series
        * Radeon® X550 series
        * Radeon® X300 series
        * Radeon® 9X00 series
        * Radeon® 8500 series
        * Radeon® 7X00 series
     Note:  ATI All-in-Wonder® variants based on the above are also 
supported.
     Note:  All ATI Radeon® PC Graphic cards are optimized for 
Microsoft's Media Center Edition 2005 when coupled with a supported 
video capture card.
    ATI Chipset Product Support
    The Catalyst® software suite is designed to support the following 
ATI chipset products:
        * CrossFireT Xpress 3200
        * CrossFireT Xpress 1600
        * Radeon® Xpress 200 series (for both Intel and AMD Processors)
        * Radeon® 9000 IGP
        * Radeon® 9100 IGP
        * Radeon® 9100 IGP Pro
        * IXP 300
    ATI FireMVT 2D Drivers Support
    The Catalyst® software suite 6.2 also provides 2D graphics driver 
support for the following FireMVT products:
        * FireMVT 2400
        * FireMVT 2200 PCIe
        * FireMVT 2200
    Operating systems supported
    The latest version of the Catalyst® software suite is designed to 
support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:
        * Windows XP
        * Windows XP Media Center Edition (graphics driver support only)
        * Windows 2000
     Note:  As of January 1, 2004, Microsoft no longer accepted 
certification submissions for the Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition 
operating system. The ATI Catalyst® CREW however is committed to all its 
customers and is now providing non certified WHQL software drivers for 
users of the Windows Millennium Edition operating system. Windows 
Millennium Edition users can obtain the software driver at: 
http://www.support.ati.com/
. Windows 98/98SE is supported through the ME 
driver.
    New Features
    This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:
        * Overlay Theater Mode Update
        * Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above
    Overlay Theater Mode Update
    Catalyst® 6.5 introduces a new option for Overlay Theater Mode. The 
new option, Standard Dual Mode is available for Radeon® X1x00 series of 
graphics cards. This new feature now allows users to playback video 
using hardware acceleration when it is played on both displays (clone 
mode). Hardware acceleration decreases CPU utilization, allowing the PC 
to run smoother and faster. When using two displays in clone mode, video 
playback will be identically displayed on both display devices. For 
Radeon® X1000 series products (Avivo Video) overlay is per-display and 
true overlay will be used for both displays. For pre-Radeon® X1x00 
boards, there is only one hardware overlay, so video on the second clone 
display device is either software-rendered (i.e. "Same on all" 
selection) or the Windows desktop is displayed but the video will not 
show through the color key (i.e., "Standard mode" selection).
    Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above
    Adaptive Anti-Aliasing smoothes out the surfaces in an entire scene 
unlike Multi-Sample which works only on edge surfaces. Adaptive AA has 
the ability to work on transparent or opaque texels, like those that 
comprise a surface texture. Previously this feature was available on the 
ATI Radeon® X1000 family products. Starting with Catalyst® 6.5, Adaptive 
AA support is now available to ATI Radeon® 9500 products and above.
    Performance Improvements
    As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in 
various situations. The PCI Express bandwidth optimization code in 
Catalyst® 6.5 brings performance improvements for both the ATI Radeon® 
X1600 and Radeon® X1300 Crossfire configurations, including:
        * Up to 23% gain in UT2004
        * Up to 20% gain in Splinter Cell
    Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.5
    The following section provides a summary of the issues that are 
resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include:
        * 3DMark05: Running the application with CrossFire enabled and 
then attempting to hot un-plug and then hot-plug the CRT no longer 
results in 3DMark05 failing to respond. Further details on this resolved 
issue can be found in topic number 737-22347
        * Aquamark 3: Exiting the Start Measurement benchmark test once 
it is complete no longer results in the display device displaying a 
black desktop image with only the mouse cursor being available. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22344
        * Doom 3: Beginning a new game and selecting the shotgun in the 
give all console no longer results in corruption being noticed when 
Ultra Quality is disabled in the in game video quality settings. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22350
        * Far Cry: Installing the v1.33 patch and selecting D3D along 
with setting the display to 1024x768 English no longer results in the 
operating system failing to respond when running the benchmark. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22314
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling clone mode no longer 
results in the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI 
Radeon® X700 series product. Further details on this resolved issue can 
be found in topic number 737-21454
        * The MCE encoder no longer fails to install after the 
installation of the ATI display driver, WDM driver, and MMC software. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number. 
737-22009
        * The display device no longer fades to black when attempting to 
do an inf install of the display driver. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22313
        * Connecting a CRT and disconnecting a TV followed by entering 
suspend mode and disconnecting the CRT no longer results in the LCD 
display failing to resume from suspend mode. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22379
        * Disconnecting a TV and connecting a CRT while in hibernation 
mode no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image when 
resuming from hibernation mode. Further details on this resolved issue 
can be found in topic number 737-22379
        * Connecting a Sharp 32 inch LCD TV using the DVI connector no 
longer results in the a display mode of 659x496 being displayed when 
setting the display to 640x480. Further details on this resolved issue 
can be found in topic number737-22316
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Advanced Mode: Incorrect text and 
cropped text is no longer noticed when selecting Japanese as the 
language for the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22319
        * Clicking Start->All Programs->Catalyst® Control 
Center->Advanced->Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the 
Catalyst® Control Center Basic View launching. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22318
        * The HDTV formats list no longer becomes empty after changing 
the display mode from extended desktop mode to clone mode. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22319
        * The Windows MCE operating system no longer fails to respond 
when doing a TV channel scan when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 
(PAL). Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22320
        * A .net 2.0 error message is no longer displayed during the 
installation under the Windows 2000 SP4 Chinese version. Further details 
on this resolved issue can be found in topic number737-22321
        * Using the Catalyst® Control Center to change the skin to the 
ATI Catalyst® Crimson no longer results in the ATI Quicksilver skin 
being applied. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22322
        * Running the automated clock configuration utility found in the 
Overdrive aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results 
in the operating system failing to respond. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22323
        * Enabling Picture-in-picture no longer results in the windowed 
TV image failing to respond when changing the TV channel. Further 
details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22324
        * Catalyst® Control Center: A VPU Recover warning window no 
longer fails to be displayed when an ASIC reset occurs. Further details 
on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22325
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a secondary CRT display 
device no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display an 
image after completing the Catalyst® Control Center->Easy Setup Wizard. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22326
        * Applying the Custom settings found in the CV aspect page of 
the Catalyst® Control Center no longer results in the custom setting 
being lost when the system is rebooted. Further details on this resolved 
issue can be found in topic number 737-22327
        * Running SFR in 720p on a system containing an ATI Radeon® 
X1800 series no longer results in line corruption being noticed when 
CrossFire is enabled. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22328
        * Connecting a TV and a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 
200 series no longer results in the secondary LCD being display when 
shutting down and disconnecting the TV. Further details on this resolved 
issue can be found in topic number 737-22329
        * The operating system no longer fails to respond when 
connecting a DVO dongle to an ATI Radeon® 7000 series. Further details 
on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22330
        * Adding a new custom HDTV mode no longer results in the custom 
mode not being available in the Catalyst® Control Center Display 
Manager. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22331
        * The predefined HDTV modes are no longer missing from the CV 
aspect page in the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22332
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling clone mode may result in 
the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI Radeon® X700 
series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22333
        * The display mode of 1024x768@60Hz is now included in Catalyst® 
Control Center for component video output. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22335
        * The HDTV Support aspect is now available under the Monitor 
Properties when using Advanced View in the Catalyst® Control Center. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number737-22336
        * Connecting an HDTV using the CV dongle and setting the power 
option to turn the monitor off after one minute no longer results in the 
HDTV failing to resume. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22337
        * An HDMI detection message is now displayed when hot plugging 
an HDMI display device. Further details on this resolved issue can be 
found in topic number 737-22338
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Truncated and cut-off text is no 
longer noticed in various supported languages. Further details on this 
resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22339
        * Black cubes and fog function no longer fail when testing 
GLView. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22340
        * Two error messages are no longer displayed in the event viewer 
after the installation of the driver. Further details on this resolved 
issue can be found in topic number 737-22341
        * Using the hot-key function to change an LCD display panel 
setting no longer results in the LCD Panel Properties found in the 
Catalyst® Control Center failing to be updated with the current setting. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22342
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Basic View: Enabling Use Advanced 
view 3D settings in the 3D Quality and Performance Setting no longer 
results in the Catalyst® Control Center reverting back to Use Basic 3D 
setting below. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22343
        * Connecting a CRT to a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 
series and toggling between a full screen DOS session and Windows, no 
longer results in vertical lines appearing on the secondary display 
device. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22345
        * The operating system no longer restarts multiple verdana after 
unplugging the power cable to the slave card and using only the master 
card. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22346
        * Using the composite connectors to connect a CRT and TVout to 
an ATI Radeon® X1600 or 1300 no longer results in the TVout failing to 
display the desktop image when attempting to resume from hibernation 
mode. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22348
        * NaviSet V1.1.10: Connecting an NEC display device to an ATI 
Radeon® X1600 series may result in the Monitor Adjustment dialog box 
stating No DDC/CI monitors detected. Further details on this resolved 
issue can be found in topic number 737-22349
        * The Catalyst® Control Center TV Properties no longer lists 
H/PAL as an appropriate, third format for countries that do not support 
this format. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22351
        * An un-necessary hyphen next to the Go to ATI.com option found 
in the German version of the Catalyst® Control Center is now removed. 
Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 
737-22352
        * Connecting two display devices using a DVI-CRT and DVI-CV 
dongles no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be 
applied. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic 
number 737-22353
        * The submenu Formats fields found in the TV Properties are no 
longer blank when setting the TV standard to PAL within the Catalyst® 
Control Center. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in 
topic number 737-22354
    Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 6.5
    The following section provides a summary of open issues in the 
latest version of Catalyst®. These include:
        * Alias MotionBuilder 6: Loading a model in MB6, followed by 
rotating the object, may result in shadows appearing corrupt and 
flickering being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-21450
        * Anarchy-Online: Screen corruption may be noticed when walking 
or running through the terrain. Further details can be found in topic 
number 737-22016
        * AutoCAD 2005: Using the 3DORBIT command to rotate or zoom may 
result in the display hanging for a few seconds when having hardware 
acceleration enabled in AutoCAD and a 3D object in the drawing. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-21451
        * AutoCad 2006: Corruption may be noticed when moving the mouse 
pointer around the desktop area. Further details can be found in topic 
number 737-21465
        * 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
        * F1 Racing Championship: Playing the game on a system 
containing an ATI Xpress 200 series may result game not running 
smoothly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21774
        * Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the 
game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product may 
result in intermittent display corruption being noticed. Further details 
can be found in topic number 737-21458
        * 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
        * Vulpine GLMark: Running the application on a system running 
Windows MCE, and containing an ATI Xpress 200 series may result in the 
display device failing to display an image when attempting to set the 
display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp. Further details can be found in 
topic number 737-22010
        * World of Warcraft: Enabling CrossFire may intermittently 
result in the character appearing off center Further details can be 
found in topic number 737-22017
        * 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
        * Launching the Adobe Gamma calibration application and moving 
the gamma slider back and forth, may result in the Task Manager being 
filled with cli.exe until the system becomes low on memory. Further 
details can be found in topic number 737-20980
        * 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
        * The LG P42SX DVI-D display device fails to display an image 
when connected to an ATI Radeon® 9000, ATI Radeon® 9200, or an ATI 
Radeon® 9250. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21456
        * 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
        * Installing the a newer version of the Catalyst® Control Center 
over top of a previous installation of the Catalyst® Control Center may 
result in the installation of the Catalyst® Control Center taking a long 
time to complete. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22008
        * Catalyst® Control Center: Connecting a display device capable 
of displaying a resolution of 1680x1050 to an ATI Radeon® X1900 may 
result in the display mode of 1680x1050 not being available in the 
Display Manager aspect. Further details can be found in topic number 
737-22011
        * 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 
737-21890
        * The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI 
All-In-Wonder X1300 and time shifting is enabled. Further information on 
this issue can be found in topic number 737-22014
        * Creating a customized display mode of 720p50 may result in the 
customized mode failing to be deleted. Further information on this issue 
can be found in topic number 737-22380
        * Using Catalyst® 6.3 or higher along with the MMC version 9.13 
and performing a TV channel scan may result in some higher TV channels 
failing to be detected. Further information on this issue can be found 
in topic number 737-22381
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>    Catalyst® Release Note Version 6.5
Non leggo nulla circa HDR + AA in Oblivion...
mi devo tenere la solita beta? :-(
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Grazie, ma per le Release Notes bastava il link invece di 480 righe :/
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    Catalyst® Release Note Version 6.5
Scusate la domanda idiota ma ultimamente si trovano solo drivers con control 
center? Se volessi drivers e control panel come faccio? 

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sta domanda l'avranno fatta in 10.000 persone..installa solo i driver è usa 
l'ultimaversione del pannello di controllo che hai...funzionerà....oppure 
usa gli ati tray tool... il ccc installalo cmq...senza è tutto un casino...
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 mi devo tenere la solita beta? :-(
A quanto pare sě.. 

 A quanto pare sì..
è già stato detto che è colpa delle bethseda che deve far uscire una patch, 
quelli dell'ati avevano fatto solo un workaround posticcio...ma è compito 
della softwarehouse del gioco correggere il problema...
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 Grazie, ma per le Release Notes bastava il link invece di 480 righe :/
Prova Tu a metterlo il link :-)
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 Fra
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 della softwarehouse del gioco correggere il problema...
Io non ci spererei.....
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Prova Tu a metterlo il link :-)
http://www.ati.com/
Due click e si è già alle Release Notes :)
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 Due click e si è già alle Release Notes :)
Sarebbe stato pedissequo, e comunque ho messo il link in testa :-)
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provati con la mia 9700 a frequenze "rilassate" di 340/305 (nei giochi sta a 
360/310) .....dai 6.4 ai 6.5 passa nel benchmark dell'ati tray tool  (uso 
questo perchè misura la velocità pura) da 1950 a 2150....sono 200 punti su 
2000 circa....caspita...è quasi un 10%.....
per fare un confronto ulteriore in questo bench una x1600xt segna mi pare 
sui 2600
non male....non male.... peccato che non mi son segnato valori con i giochi 
con i vecchi 6.4...
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 giochi con i vecchi 6.4...
Figuriamoci..... io ancora ho i 6.2.......

 control center? Se volessi drivers e control panel come faccio?
Da quando non esce piů control panel ho una cosa in meno da installare e il
sistema piů "leggero"... LOL!

 Figuriamoci..... io ancora ho i 6.2.......
bravo :D .....
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 bravo :D .....
Il fatto č che finito Cod2 non ho preso nulla di piů recente, il problema č
che mi pare che oltre ad Oblivion ci sia poco di interessante........