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Changelog :

Performance Improvements

Catalystâ„¢ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are

CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

• Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%

• Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%

• World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI

Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10

applications.

AMD Chipset Product Support

AMD Chipset Product Support

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3300 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 3200 CrossFire

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3200 Series AMD 690 Series Chipset

ATI Radeonâ„¢ 3100 Series AMD 580X Series Chipset

ATI Radeonâ„¢ 3000 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1150 Series

ATI Radeonâ„¢ 2100 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1100 Series

ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1250 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 200 Series

ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1200 Series ATI Radeonâ„¢ Xpress 1250 Series

Note: When installing the Catalystâ„¢ Vista driver for Windows Vista,

the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator

rights in order to successfully complete the installation of the Catalystâ„¢

Vista driver.

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note 5

• Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message

“The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version.”

• Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor

maximum refresh rates

• Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained

on system restart

• Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung

panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics

• In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when

soften smoke edges is enabled

• Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI

Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating

system to fail

• Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be

noticed when moving to the extended desktop

• Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and

Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test

Custom Clocks test

• With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some

Crossfire systems

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main

menu no longer occurs

• The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8

GB of system RAM

• Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly

reported back as DVI

• Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate

AVCHD files

• Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on

Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering

• Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was

enabled

• Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite

video in extended modes

• Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower

portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special

Features

• Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain

Blue-ray titles

• Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI

Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations

• Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on

WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note 6

• Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible)

and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop

responding

• The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is

enabled

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI

Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

• System instabilities no longer happens after mode switching in extended

mode while playing some copy protected DVDs

• Catalyst Control Center, CrossFire option can no longer be toggled on/off during

playback of video on a CrossFire enabled system

• Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible)

and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop

responding

• With Overlay Theater Mode and stretched desktop enabled, dragging media

player to extended desktop no longer shows corruption or causes system

instability

• High CPU usage and choppy playback issues have been resolved during

Blu-ray playback on WinDVD 9

• Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are now

retained on system restart

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 Catalystâ„¢.

These include:

• AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format

• “Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting

H.264,.mp4 and VC1 file formats

• “CCC Host application...” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a

transcoding process

• Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format

• Catalyst Control Center, advanced color page is grayed out and preview is

blank on some Radeon ASICS

• Drop frames may be noticed when playing interlaced DVD content

• The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration

under Windows Vista 64-bit edition

• Catalyst Control Center: error message dialog 'CCC Host Application' may be

displayed when cancelling a transcoding process

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note 7

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 Catalystâ„¢.

These include:

• Transcoding a VOB DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output

file

• Transcoding falls back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/ MPEG2 multiple

times in XP

• Media files transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS

• AVIVO Video color settings may fail to be applied in the video when played

using PowerDVD

• Mode switching while playing videos with WinDVD7 may cause the video

color to become darker
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Yea downloading 9.2 for Linux ;)
Resolved Issues

The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest

version of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux software suite. These include:

• Resolved visible corruption when starting MythTV frontend in full screen

• Catalyst Control Center, disabling primary display and re-launching CCC

caused a Floating Point Exception

• Google Earth failed to start

• With some ATI adapters the display port monitor was not detected after being

hotplugged

• Able to reboot or shutdown when ATI Catalyst Control Center is opened

• Catalyst Control Center, displayed the wrong version using the Informa-

tion/Driver Version

• No audio output was available through HDMI

• Connecting both a CRT and DFP display device no longer results in the CRT

failing to display an image if the DFP is disconnected and then reconnected to

the system

• Corruption is no longer seen on secondary display after enabling secondary

display Big Desktop

• Sections of the task bar no longer turn black when using the application

'Blender'

• Enemy Territory Quake Wars v1.4, system no longer becomes intermittently

unresponsive when game is run.

• Some Open GL application no longer cause segmentation fault with Crossfire

and dual head enabled

• Maya crash fixed when using the following settings subinvisions Axis and

subinvisions Height are set to 2000

• Tearing no longer occurs during picture-in-picture playback of

H.264,VC-1,MPEG2 files on SUSE

• Playing AVI files with Mplayer in full screen no longer causes Mplayer to

stop responding

• Resolved, Video does not resize or may appear filled with pink/black when

changing from a low to high resolution
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can sb do a comparison between 9.1 and 9.2 please, i wanna know if what amd boasts off (upto 20% performance increase in crysis) is actually true. i think not, because amd sucks with drivers
 
Quad Master said:
any one tried 9.2 , want to upgrade my catalyst drivers from stock ones provided on the CD.

9.1 or 9.2

Is this the correct file version "9-2_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_75974"

catch 9.2 discussion on forums here

AMD Game Forums - ATI Catalyst [Guys dont rush read here]
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There seem to be too many issues with 9.2 :(

Is 9.1 stable? Me still on 8.12 I think :ashamed:
 
i am still on 9.1. i can confirm thats it's very much stable.

no idea about 9.2 wont install till users start confirming its stable and better than 9.1.

9.2 seems to have issues according to link posted by quad master.:)

so guys i suggest you to stay on 9.1.
 
I need some help in deciding which Drivers to use - the ATI released drivers or these from Palit which are mentioned as Radeonâ„¢ HD 4850 (Palit Design). It seems that the Palit 4850 card I have is supposed to be based on a different design by Palit, so would it be better to run the Palit drivers from their site - the driver is named as ....

VGA Driver 8.573 212MB released on 2009-02-18

Link: Palit Multimedia Inc.

EDIT: I am running 9.2 right now with no issues.
 
Eazy said:
I need some help in deciding which Drivers to use - the ATI released drivers or these from Palit which are mentioned as Radeonâ„¢ HD 4850 (Palit Design). It seems that the Palit 4850 card I have is supposed to be based on a different design by Palit, so would it be better to run the Palit drivers from their site - the driver is named as ....

VGA Driver 8.573 212MB released on 2009-02-18

Link: Palit Multimedia Inc.
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GPU is same... changes are in circuitry and design like those in Palit Sonic that I have. Normal ATI drivers work fine with non-referenced cards as well. Ideally you should get latest drivers from ATI website. Though I am still on 8.12
 
^^ i think the drivers for all manufacturer's is same.even my sapphire HD 4850 dual slot is not the same as ATI's reference design ..but i am still using the driver's from ATI's site.

i dont think it makes any difference :).

by the way Eazy sir, can you please confirm that 9.2 is working totally for .specially check with Crysis Warhead (incase you have it )as it seems to have problems with 9.2.

also anyone tell me whats the use of AVIVO package and the Hydravision for Vista..what is it exactly ? worth downloading ?
 
FaH33m said:
can you please confirm that 9.2 is working totally for .specially check with Crysis Warhead (incase you have it )as it seems to have problems with 9.2.

also anyone tell me whats the use of AVIVO package and the Hydravision for Vista..what is it exactly ? worth downloading ?
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I got my 4850 yesterday evening and installed it with 9.1 drivers then today morning I downloaded and installed 9.2 drivers and now in the afternoon I have changed my MoBo so I am not in a position to do a comparison between the drivers.

By the way yesterday when I got the Palit 4850 I was also shown a Sapphire 4850 which I was tempted to buy - BUT - the price difference between the Palit and the Sapphire was 1500/-. :O
 
you might have seen the dual slot Sapphire HD 4850 which i have .. not much difference..even the clocks are at stock.:)

good that you bought the Palit one.

some people are getting real low temperatures with the dual slot cooler sapphire...like ankitmane who's getting in 30's :O.

but in my case it hovers around 48-50 @ idle and 70-72 on load.(gaming).

seems to be a bit high !

if you dont mind please post back with your idle and load temperatures .? you can check them using catalyst center. when idle.

and in the game you can see it using the on screen display of Riva Tuner.
 
I am using stock palit card and my idle is 43~44 and full load gaming never crosses 63 at all, note mine is not even a sonic palit card.
 
guess something wrong with my cooler :(..and idle temps's earlier used to stay @ 38-40 ..its only in the past 1-2 weeks they've shot upto 48-50.

what fan speed are you using ? automatic or manual ?

i am thinking of fixing a 120mm fan(have one lying idle) ..in the adjacent PCI-e or PCI slot to bring down the temperatures ...

any idea to do the same ?

is it needed..72-75 on load is normal or high ?
 
FaH33m said:
guess something wrong with my cooler :(..and idle temps's earlier used to stay @ 38-40 ..its only in the past 1-2 weeks they've shot upto 48-50.

what fan speed are you using ? automatic or manual ?

i am thinking of fixing a 120mm fan(have one lying idle) ..in the adjacent PCI-e or PCI slot to bring down the temperatures ...

any idea to do the same ?

is it needed..72-75 on load is normal or high ?
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I think you need to look at the cooler and any dust that might have built up inside. I have read earlier of issues/over heating caused after some months due to dust buildup inside the fan/cooler :) Check it out. ;)

Though if its always been the same temp, take a look at cooling etc inside the cabby may help :)
 
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