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 Radeonâ„¢ HD 5970 graphics products

  • Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5800 graphics products

  • Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5700 Series products


New Features


ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements

  • H.264 Level 5.1 support

  • ATI Catalystâ„¢ 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 Catalystâ„¢ 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 Catalystâ„¢ 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 Radeonâ„¢ HD 5000 Series

  • Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed

  • Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFireâ„¢ 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 Catalystâ„¢ 10.4 release include:


New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

  • This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: 

  • Ubuntu 10.04  early look support