ATI Catalyst Control Panel 9.3 for Vista

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and WindowsVista

AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware

Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

Using ATI Stream technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst 9.3

ATI Catalyst 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package

The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver  functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators

The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants

The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications

- samples are provided within the SDK

The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

Performance Improvements

Catalyst 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.

Some measured examples are: Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast

forwarding or rewinding Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate

Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in extended modes

Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out and preview is now functional

OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled

Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD

FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some ASICs

Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables with some ASICs

Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using Catalyst Control Center

Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function

Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow when using the Alt-Tab key

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:

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 Catalyst. 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
The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under Windows Vista 64-bit edition

"World of Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering may occur when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire Google Sketchup may show blank screen
Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU

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 Catalyst. These include:

In this Catalyst 9.3 release, the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver will not function properly under Windows XP OS Display Settings shows extra resolutions for Component Video 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

Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:

Desktop may jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs
Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Express driver uninstall may result in a device manager error
Avivo Video Converter option is not available for Windows 7
Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or the media player to stop functioning
Changes to display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video
Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may fail to apply
Catalyst Control Center page is missing under OS Display Properties
Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i
formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
Display configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to apply
Catalyst Control Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied