그동안 베타버전의 드라이버를 공개하지 않았던 ATI에서
Catalyst v5.8 정식버전을 곧 등장시킬것으로 예상되고 있었는데 지금까지와 다르게 ATI의 홈페이지가 아닌 Driverheaven을 통해
먼저 공개되었다.
Driverheaven은 ATI의 동의를 얻어 ATI가 자사의
홈페이지에 드라이버를 공개하기전에 먼저 공개한 것이라고 설명하고 있으며 ATI는 자신들이 Catalyst v5.8 버전을 공개하고나서 23시가
이후에 해당 드라이버를 공개할 것이라고 한다.
Catalyst v5.8 드라이버에 대한 자세한 설명은
아래 글을 참고하기 바란다.
- Battlefield 2: Geometry corruption or missing textures are no longer
noticed when playing the game for an extended period of time under Windows XP
with an ATI Radeon® X800 XT installed
- 3D Mark03: Enabling Powerplay mode and running the 3DMark03 or 05 in a
loop no longer results in an error message being displayed
- Area51_2.3dc: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in the
NPC and guns appearing distorted, flashing or missing. Further the polygons no
longer pop in and out of the display
- GTA: Vice City: Setting the desktop and the game display option to
1024x768 32bpp and attempting to play the game under Windows XP MCE, no longer
results in an Invalid Pixel Format message being displayed after approximately
5 minutes of game play
- Lineage 2: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in display
corruption being noticed
- Movie Maker 2: Connecting an external video source using the S-video
composite connectors, no longer results in the Movie Maker 2 application
intermittently failing to capture video, when selecting the Capture from Video
Source
- MU Online: Opening a chat window and playing the on-line game no longer
results in hesitation being noticed when pressing the Enter key
- Quake 3: Enabling SmartShader™ followed by attempting to do a mode change
while playing the game, no longer results in the game failing to respond
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Running the Dantoonie level of the
game no longer result in hesitation being noticed
- Terathon: Starting the Terathon 3D engine and selecting a single player
demo, no longer results in the 3D engine failing to respond under Windows XP
- Trackmania Sunrise: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in
the operating system failing to respond, when attempting to exit the game
after leaving the PC idle for an extended period of time
- Warcraft III: Playing the game under Windows XP with the display rotated
by 90 degrees CCW, no longer results in display corruption being noticed
- Performing an overwrite of the video driver install, no longer results in
the Hydravision Multidesk feature being unable to load
- Video mode and Overscan can now be enabled when connecting a TV as the
secondary display device and setting the display resolution to 640x480 32bpp
60Hz and extending the desktop
- The Select by Signal Format is now the default setting when connecting a
TV to an ATI display adapter
- Catalyst™ Control Center: Updates to saved profiles is now available
- Catalyst™ Control Center: Connecting a TV using the S-Video connector no
longer results in the Apply button found in the TV properties of the Catalyst
Control Center being active when no changes are made to the TV properties
- Catalyst™ Control Center: An intermittent service error message is no
longer displayed when starting up the Windows XP MCE operating system
- Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and a CRT as the primary
display device, no longer results in the Video mode and Overscan option not
functioning properly when extended desktop is enabled
- Catalyst™ Control Center: Double clicking anywhere on the Catalyst™
Control Center background after changing the color correction to the Full
Screen 3D option no longer results in a full screen preview
- Hesitation is no longer noticed when attempting to resume from an S3 or S4
state with Analog tv
- Random display corruption is no longer noticed when playing a raw
audio/video capture for the first time
- Configuring Windows Media Encoder 9 as ATI AVStream Analog capture and ATI
AVStream Analog Audio capture, followed by selecting a TV channel as input, no
longer results in the both the Input and Output windows going black when Start
Encoding is clicked
- The DVB-T channel scan time no longer appears to be slow
- Catalyst™ Control Center: Graphic truncation is no longer noticed under
the Desktop and Display Setup of the Display Manager, in the German edition of
the Catalyst Control Center
- Catalyst™ Control Center: The text found in the Overlay/VIDEOVISION
section of the Catalyst™ Control Center is no longer cut-off for the Turkish
edition of the Catalyst™ Control Center
- Setting the desktop resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and using the DVI
connector to hot-plug an HDMI display device, no longer results in an error
message being displayed
- Using the ATI recommended speed option found in the Overdrive™ tab of the
Catalyst™ Control Center, no longer results in the engine and memory clock
values being the same as the default values
- Using the DVI connector for a DFP display device, and the S-Video
connector for a TV, no longer results in the driver returning the wrong
display mappings when unplugging the DFP display device and extended desktop
is enabled
- Catalyst™ Control Center: The Set Desktop Area To, is no longer enabled
and the resolution list is no longer available, when hot-unplugging a
secondary display device under Windows XP
- Playing an MPEG file on a secondary display device that is connected to
the DVI port, no longer results in the lower portion of the playback window
being missing
- Hesitation in the Aquarium screen saver is no longer noticed when the ATI
Multimedia Center™ is running
- Using a limited account under Windows XP and changing the SmartShader™
aspect from none to black and white, no longer results in a general protection
fault
- Creating a custom hot-key for rotation no longer results in the custom
hot-key to become unavailable for the secondary display device, when extended
desktop is enabled and both display devices are set to 1280x1024
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