Catalyst 7.10 released


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AMD/ATI released the long awaited performance drivers 7.10

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The interesting part of the release notes

New Features

Catalyst™ 7.10 introduces the following new features:

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products

Software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products

This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.

Software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

This release of Catalyst™ introduces software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series. Software CrossFire™ is only available when two graphics accelerators from the same family (i.e. 2 ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 products) are plugged into a CrossFire™ compatible motherboard with no hardware interconnect between the two graphics accelerators.

Performance Improvements

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10:

Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550

BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products

Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations

Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products

Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products

FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550

Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products

Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more

World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products

World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products

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No DirectX again with Cat 7.10 on my X800XL. Had to go back to Cat 7.8.

dxdiag tests fail with crash, itunes flip3d doesnt work. Windows Media Center fails to load citing no incompatible video card. Any DirectX game fails to load.

A quick search of Google shows many people are having this problem. Theres no way these should have ever been released like this. And shows fault with WHQL.

I have a problem since the last 3-4 drivers.

I have Vista Ultimate 32Bit, I'm french.

I just make a fresh install (reinstall) of Vista. I downloaded Display driver and CCC in french. I install it.

and it's very strange, the CCC is only in english, only install is in french.

Why I don't have french language for CCC ?

VERY Happy with this release.

I use Mobility Modder on my FireGL V5200....my external 1440x900 monitor would not run in the right resolution (despite being set and reporting the right resolution in display properties) until you clicked any one of the adjustment properties (up, down, stretch) in the CCC since like 7.6

Doesn't happen anymore! Yey!

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