Download Driver For ATi Catalyst 5.7

The developers of ATi have new drivers released for the video cards equipped with a Radeon GPU. The drivers have been given the name Catalyst 5.7 and can be downloaded in different flavors. The two main downloads each consist of the WDM Drivers and Display Drivers with either the Control Panel or Control Center† These new Catalysts come with an incredibly long changelog. Not only have performance improvements been made, but also a bunch of bugs have been fixed that affect games and the driver itself. Below are the most important lists posted which can also be found in the release notes†

Performance Improvements

• 5-15% gains in 3DMark05 on some products
• 20-60% gain in Far Cry Regulator across multiple settings
• 25-60% gains in Half-Life 2 at 1600×1200 4xAA 8xAF
• 40-60% gains in UT2004 at 1600×1200 6xAA 16xAF
• 50-100% improvement in Comanche4 at 1600×1200 6xAA 16xAF
• 50-200% gains in certain ShaderMark tests at high resolution

General Improvements

• The regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver no longer results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option
• Selecting German as the language for the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the heading for the Digital Panel Attributes page being cut-off
• Creating a hotkey to adjust any video overlay option no longer results in the overlay option not changing when executing the hotkey
• Black text boxes are no longer displayed in the Overdrive™ option of the Catalyst™ Control Center when selecting the Windows XP Silver Color Scheme
• The language translation of Hide Toolbar Text in the Preferences tab of the Catalyst™ Control Center is now correct for the Korean language
• Paragraph truncation is no longer noticed in the confirmation dialog box when using the Korean language option and making a change to the Graphic Settings in the Display Options of the Catalyst™ Control Center
• Changes to the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst™ Control Center are now retained
• The Scale to full screen option found in the Theater Mode Settings of the Catalyst™ Control Center is now working properly
• The title for the ATI Setup Wizard failed dialog box is no longer missing when running the installation under Windows XP Korean version
• Display corruption is no longer noticed when resuming from a full screen DOS session and attempting to run a 3D application under Windows XP in a system containing an ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 series product
• Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 series no longer results in the selection of D3 and D4 in the HDTV properties
• Connecting both a DVI display device and an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 series no longer results in the DVI monitor failing to enter power save mode
• The back lighting is no longer disabled after the installing of the display driver in a system containing an ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 series
• Setting the Anti-Aliasing option to 4x and running an application that supports non-standard modes such as 1360×1024 no longer results in the application being displayed incorrectly
• LCD Response Time Composition is now enabled and automatically turns off if video playback is below a predefined threshold
• Adding a secondary ATI display adapter to a system contain an ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 series on board no longer results in hesitation being noticed when using the hot-key function to switch between display devices
• Having a TV connected as the only display device and clicking the OK button in the ATI displays tab found in the Advanced section of the Display Properties no longer results in a flash of the TV image being noticed
• Having a TV and CRT connected and clicking on Preview Automatic adjustment in the Optimize Media Center no longer results in both display devices displaying a black screen

Issues Resolved

• Flight Sim 2004: Launching the application under Windows XP and enabling Anisotropic Filtering (AF) within the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in the AF functionality not being enabled within the game
• 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 no longer results in display corruption being noticed when rotating the display 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
• Creating a custom hot-key for rotation currently no longer results in the custom hot-key to become unavailable for the secondary display device when extended desktop is enabled and the display devices are set to 1280×1024.
• Changing the format from NTSC to any PAL format no longer results in the PAL format not working.
• Changing the regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver no longer results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option
• Changes to the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst™ Control Center are now retained
• The Scale to full screen option found in the Theater Mode Settings of the Catalyst™ Control Center is now working properly
• Rotating the display by 180 degrees no longer results in all the text on the desktop failing to appear
• Truncated text in the localized French version of the Catalyst™ Control Center is now resolved
• The profile manager hotkey notification dialog box is now translated for all supported languages
• ATI Color Controls can now be reactivated using a hotkey combination if the ATI Color Controls have changed by the color management tool of a third party application
• The TV is now detected when both the SVIDEO and the Composite connectors are used
• Windows Movie Maker 2.0: The Movie maker preview playback no longer displays a blank image when attempting to playback an mpeg file
• Windows Movie Maker 2.0: Attempting to record a TV source for 6 hours or more, no longer results in audio corruption being heard after approximately 4 hours of recording
• Subtitles are now displayed when playing a DVD under Windows XP Media Center Edition
• The Catalyst™ Control Center Hotkey Manager is now completely localized for Japanese

Known Issues

• Archlord: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 may result in intermittent display corruption being noticed on the lower portion of the display device when moving the character within the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19788
• Battlefield 2: Geometry corruption or missing textures maybe noticed when playing the game for an extended period of time under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® X800 XT installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19709
• City of Heroes: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition may results in display corruption being notice when attempting to task-switch between the game and the desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19792
• Doom3: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition may result in a noticeable performance decrease or corruption of the MCE on-screen display dialog box when lowering or muting the audio during game play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19791
• Farcry: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 with the display set to 1024x76832bpp along with AA disabled results in flashing textures being noticed when setting the game’s video options to high detail. This issue is know to occur when using an ATI Radeon® 9100 or 8500 series product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-10089
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon™ 8500 installed and having Anti-Aliasing set to 2x may result in corruption being noticed in menu corruption being noticed within the game when the display resolution is set to 1024×768 . Further details can be found in topic number 737-19794
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Geometry corruption may be noticed when running the mission under Windows XP and using the default setting for the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19795
• Gunz Online: Attempting to change the screen brightness within the game may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19793
• MU Online: Opening a chat window and playing the on-line game results in Hesitation being noticed when pressing the Enter key. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19541
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: Attempting to launch the game under Windows with an ATI Radeon™ X800 series installed results in an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19787
• Rainbow six3: Athena Sword: Playing the game under Windows 2000 with an ATI Radeon® X700 installed results in the game failing to retain its resolution option of 1600×1200 if you Alt-tab out of the game and then Alt-tab back to the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-535
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter: Playing the game for approximately 5 to 10 minutes under Windows XP with the game quality set at normal/default, results in display corruption being seen in the menu. Further details can be found in topic number 737-10090
• Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Saving a game and attempting to load the saved game under Windows XP results in the preview window display a blank preview screen. Further details can be found in topic number
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Running the Dantoonie level of the game may result in hesitation being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19378
• World of Warcraft: Enabling Full-Screen Glow in the game may result in a blue screen image being displayed when walking under water. This issue is know to occur when using an ATI Radeon® 9100 or 8500 series product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19075
• World of Warcraft: Display corruption is noticed when switching between the game and the Windows desktop, when the desktop is set to 1280×1024 and the graphic preferences is set to Optimal Quality. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19785
• The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode found under 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
• Changing the DPI setting found in the General tab of the display properties to Large size (120 DPI) results in the change not taking effect when launching the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-18885
• Installing Realtek Audio/Marvel Lan driver under Windows 2000 results in the operating system failing to respond when performing the ATI driver installation. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19543
• Creating a custom hot-key for rotation currently results in the custom hot-key to become unavailable for the secondary display device when extended desktop is enabled and the display devices are set to 1280×1024. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19542
• Connecting two display devices using the DVI and CRT connectors on a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 results in the system failing to resume when entering standby state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-19538

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