catalyst 5.7

[boooggy]

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.7 for your download pleasure.

New Features in CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 5.7

This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the Catalyst™ Software Suite. New features include:

# Catalyst™ 5.7 introduces support enhancement to the display support options found in the Digital Panel Properties of the Catalyst™ Control Center. This enhancement will offer a 1080p standard format option for a displays that are reporting incomplete or incorrect capabilities in their EDID information. This feature will be supported on ATI Radeon® X300 products and above, and will be supported under the Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and the next release of the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating systems.

# Catalyst™ 5.7 introduces a clean un-install option for the Catalyst™ Control Center. When a user chooses to remove the Catalyst™ Control Center, all desktop shortcuts, user defined profiles, and hotkeys will be completely removed from the system. All custom setting will need to be recreated when the Catalyst™ Control Center is installed once again.

Issues Resolved in CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 5.7

The following section provides a summary of the issues that have been resolved in the latest version of CATALYST™. These include

# 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 1280x1024.

# 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

release note: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_57_release_notes.html

download: https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

[XPero]

Thanks for the news

[HybridShadow]

Thanks for the update

I have a question but - with the omega drivers do they update around the same time or are they completely diferent drivers altogether?

[SiMoNsAyS]

cool! thanks for the heads up

[boooggy]

omega driver are the same drivers but modded being considered to improve performance in games and other applications. as long as i know they appear after this, some times after long time.....

[2forza]

Installer:

ATi mobilty catalyst driver 5.7:

http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

Edited July 16, 2005 by 2forza

[enuffsaid]

Thanks for this info. Didn't know they were out!