Presso il sito di AMD è disponibile l'ultima release, la 10.4 del Catalyst Software Suite per schede grafiche ATI/AMD Radeon HD. Ecco l'elenco delle novità:
Performance improvements
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
New Features
ATI Catalyst Video enhancements
H.264 Level 5.1 support
ATI Catalyst can now playback 5.1 level streams on all support players
Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K)
Mosquito noise removal
Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback .
Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products
AMD video transcoding updates
This release of ATI Catalyst provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter
Performance improvements
New formats supported (H.264 file formats MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content)
ATI Catalyst Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU acceleration
Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center
Resolved Issues: Highlights
Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface
Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
"Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration
Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center> - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"games
Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company"
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst 10.4 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
Ubuntu 10.04 early look support