ATi Catalyst v5.13 Beta Drivers
Posted by Steven Parker on 19 December 2005 - 10:46 · 19 comments & 6734 views
Thanks larrylumbo for this submission in BPN.
 
Taken from Guru3D: The German site chip.de apparantly got permission to redistribute a beta of the upcoming ATI Catalyst 5.13. We therefor mirrored it onto our file-servers.

The 5.13 drivers are optimized for quality video playback, AVIVO, in othe words HDTV lovin Santa has brought the thirteenth Catalyst driver release of 2005. With this new version, ATI claims that they've raised the bar in video performance and set the stage for worldwide "video dominATIon." ATI considers Catalyst 5.13 as the first driver that unlocks the AVIVO technology present in the Radeon X1800, but it's more than that. Catalyst 5.13 represents the countless hours needed to understand the problems associated with deinterlacing and image enhancement as well as the time spent generating novel solutions.
 


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Coffeee on 19 Dec 2005 - 15:39
Wow that review does a great job of showing how well the ATI drivers have come along =D
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by travl0r on 19 Dec 2005 - 17:06
Great that gives us more reasons to keep on supporting ATI
Good work, anyone tested these drivers? is the difference noticable on other cards than the Radeon X1800?
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by kebabi on 19 Dec 2005 - 19:58
Dammit, ATI is really fast with these updates.
I'm still using Omegas based on 5.10a.
After waiting for 5.12 Omegas, there is already 5.13 Cats released.
Then waiting for 5.13 Omegas, there is 5.14 Cats released.
And so on...
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by MasterSpy on 19 Dec 2005 - 23:19
Just to point out that the number revision represents a month, ie. 5.12 = December, 5.11 = November, so there will be no 5.13 or 5.14!
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by DrIndianaJones on 19 Dec 2005 - 23:58
Last I looked 13 didn't have a month associated with it.
Quote this comment #3.3 Posted by xTrinity on 20 Dec 2005 - 04:27
There will be a 5.13. The 13 represents a special issue of Radeon, a christmas gift. There won't be .13 drivers every year, so love this one (especially with the H.264 acceleration).
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Tungsten T on 19 Dec 2005 - 20:19
I am on a 9550 (flashed to 9600) and it helps the video alot.

No joke, its really noticible how much it reduces compression artifacts
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Angry_Badger on 19 Dec 2005 - 21:02
Well since these enable AVIVO in the X1800 series cards,Im pretty sure the performance increase your seeing is pure placebo. 9600 have no kind of AVIVO support at all
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by Tungsten T on 19 Dec 2005 - 21:53
No way. Its it unbelivibly noticible and that site that did a review said they noticed a huge increse in quility on a X800

It does enable avivo but it does other video tweaks for non-avivo
Quote this comment #4.3 Posted by Angry_Badger on 19 Dec 2005 - 22:30
Perhaps Im blind but i cannot find any mention of the X800 series cards in that article
Quote this comment #4.4 Posted by Tungsten T on 20 Dec 2005 - 01:33
How's bout you read the first paragraph of the second link in the artical. Doy!
Quote this comment #4.5 Posted by Angry_Badger on 20 Dec 2005 - 19:02
"Exactly 10 days ago, we brought you a video quality comparison between the ATI Radeon X800 XL using Catalyst 5.12, the NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, and the XGI Volari 8300. Using the HQV Benchmark DVD and true analog capture hardware, we showed you how ATI's legendary video quality was just that: a legend."

Heres the article that paragragh is refering to:
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia...ity_comparison/

If you actually read that article youll find no mention of AVIVO because its NOT a feature on this card. Perhaps they might be improving the deinterlacer or something, which you might notice on you older card but AVIVO will have no affect at all
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Croquant on 19 Dec 2005 - 21:27
Um, the next driver from ATI is going to be called 6.1, not 5.13
That is, unless someone added a 13'th month to 2006 and didn't bother to tell me.
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by GuidZilla on 20 Dec 2005 - 01:39
Guess ATI forgot to send you a memo.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by miniM3 on 19 Dec 2005 - 21:49
I have a 9600 pro (wish I knew better and got the 9800 pro instead)

Unless you have X1xxxx series then theres NO point whatsoever for updating your Cat drivers....
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by macrosslover on 20 Dec 2005 - 01:33
it's number of releases in a year. they've just always released them once a month but there was never anything stopping them from releasing a 13th or 14th driver.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by DKAngel on 20 Dec 2005 - 03:18
woot
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Ice Brewed Beer on 20 Dec 2005 - 06:52
Anyone notice ANY difference in ATi's X8xx series of cards?
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by shirike on 09 Jan 2006 - 10:23
I'm using an X800 XL and the differences are noticeable b ut only in the sharpness of images rather than performance (at least, in the games I play).
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