ATI Catalyst Suite 9.8 for Vista/Win 7 x64

Fixes:

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 9.8:
Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - performance improves up to 15-50% in CPU limited settings with the largest gains in CrossfireX configurations
Company of Heroes DirectX 10 - performance improves by up to 10-77% in CPU
limited settings
Crysis DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 10% and
Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 34% in CPU limited settings

Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as
7% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 69% in CPU limited
settings
Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 - Dual CrossfireX performance improves as much as 50% and Quad CrossfireX performance improves as much as 88% in CPU limited settings
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 - Dual CrossfireX performance
improves up to 40% in CPU limited settings with Quad CrossfireX performance
improving up to 60% in CPU limited settings
UnigineTropics OpenGL - performance improves 5-20%
UnigineTropics DirectX 10 - Quad CrossfireX performance improves 5-20% in
CPU limited settings
World in Conflict DirectX 10 - performance improves by 5-10%

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows. These include:
Catalyst Control Center: Diagnostic warning message now appears in CrossFire
aspect when the only display is removed from the CrossFire chain
Catalyst Control Centre will now launch properly with CrossFire disabled on multiadapter enabled/configured systems
Catalyst Control Center: Some of the missing "Monitor Attributes" options in the
Displays tab are now available
Refresh rates are now applied properly for standard and optimized HDTV modes in Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control Center: Missing update for Windows 7 localized help content is now available
TV Properties tab now properly displays "Image Quality" instead of "TV Properties" for Catalyst Control Center user interface

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:
Display and mouse rotation now functions properly after reboot with 3 or more
displays in clone mode
“Unreal Tournament 3” no longer fails to respond after performing a taskswitch to desktop
Hotplugging a secondary display during HD playback with WinDVD no longer
causes desktop to go blank
Intermittent block noise no longer visible during MPEG2-TS content playback with Windows Media Player
Windows 7 logo no longer displays flickering distortion during Windows 7 loading screen (system reboot up)

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:
“Call of Duty: World at War” no longer exhibits flickering water corruption when
Software CrossFire is enabled
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: Predefined and custom HDTV formats can now be applied via HDTV support
Intermittent video artifacts no longer visible when playing a DVD in stretched
desktop mode

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center may result in unhandled
exception error to appear
The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center may display additional
information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
HDMI may be detected as DTV (DVI) instead of DTV (HDMI) when HDMI display
is hotplugged for the first time
Catalyst Control Center might not revert back to default settings for "Dynamic
Range" after settings are modified
In extended/cloned mode, the secondary display status may appear incorrect in the "Available Display Devices" page under Catalyst Control Center Basic view
Catalyst Control Center: AVIVO Advanced Color page may display "Color
vibrance", "Flesh tone correction" and "Video Gamma" in English instead of proper translation string Catalyst Control Center stopped working error may pop up when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back

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:
With OverlayMixer filter, Blu-ray disc playback with PowerDVD may display black video with audio and counter still running
Display may go blank after resuming from hibernation during SD DVD playback in Windows Media Center Edition (MCE)

In some HDTV extended mode configurations, some audio breaks may intermittently be heard when connected through HDMI audio
SD DVD playback may halt and display error message when DVI + S-VIDEO
displays are set to clone mode in Windows 7
Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" may cause the game to fail under MGPU configurations

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
With CrossFire enabled, some DX10 games (Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., Lost Planet: Colonies, etc.) might not have HDMI audio
With some system configurations a delay may be noticed when task switching
between the desktop and a game in progress
Media playback with WinDVD, Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center may output static sound over HDMI when connected to Sony TVs
Playback of certain Picture-in-Picture titles may exhibit transparent overlay effects or turn black in the secondary stream
Corruption may be visible in the "Change Outfit…" menu text in "The Sims 3"
Catalyst Control Center may show HDMI displays as DVI for both connecting via HDMI port and to DVI port via HDMI-DVI dongle for specific ASICs
Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in "Riddick 2 Dark Athena" may cause the game to fail under MGPU configurations

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:
Resuming video playback after S1 sleep may result in no HDMI audio, although
Display Manager in Catalyst Control Center reports display as DTV (HDMI)
Catalyst Control Center: Hotplugging back a HDMI display might not restore its
original DTV (HDMI) Pixel Format setting, if a DVI display was hotplugged and
unplugged during the interval to the same port
Changes to AVIVO Basic color settings might not be retained after Catalyst Control Center is re-opened with specific ASICs
AVIVO Basic color setting changes might not be applied during HD DVD playback on specific ASICs on XP Media Center Edition