ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 for Windows XP (32-bit)

The Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 contains the following:
Radeon display driver 8.62
HydraVision for both Windows XP and Vista
HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only)
WDM Driver Install Bundle
Southbridge/IXP Driver
CatalystTM Control Center Version 8.62
Performance Improvements

Catalyst 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System

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

Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
Catalyst Control Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling the primary display is now possible
Changing the bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding
Catalyst Control Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no longer fails to display
Catalyst Control Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic deinterlacing is enabled
Catalyst Control Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a CRT display in clone mode
Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled when using a non-HDTV resolution
Fixed a regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no longer work properly with Catalyst 9.4 or later

Known Issues for All Windows Operating System

This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system with the latest version of CatalystTM. These include:

Garbled text may appears on resume splash screen after hibernation with some ASICs
Catalyst Control Center: Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window may blank out
Opening Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
Catalyst Control Center: Enable dialog reposition does not show on proper monitor when system is configured with 4 displays
Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically Interlaced modes might not be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control Center: The wrong help pages are displayed for Component video properties
Catalyst Control Centre may fail to launch when CrossFire has been disabled on some multi-adapter systems
Catalyst Control Center: Text in some of the panels may be cut when running on a Russian operating systems
Catalyst Control Center: Some text in the Basic View may be cut after using the “Rotate Desktop” options

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:

Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer incorrectly enabled when using non-HDTV resolutions
System instability no longer observed when task switching to desktop when playing "Tom Clancy's HAWK"
Catalyst Control Center: On some configurations, the scaling options are no longer missing for HDMI or component video displays
Team Fortress 2 some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay

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:

A performance drop may be observed on Enemy Territory Quake Wars, Doom3 and Quake4
With some multi-adapter configurations, the Catalyst Control Center AVIVO options may become disabled
Catalyst Control Center image scaling options, "Maintain aspect ratio" and "Use centered timings" may not function on some DVI displays
Catalyst Control Center may show a “System restart required..." message for some multi-adapter CrossFire configurations