ATI Catalyst 6.6

[edgarf28]

Catalyst 6.6 is out!

see: www.ati.com

[Bhav]

Thanks for the update (Y)

I rarely update my drivers unless I know I will see an improvement in one of my games, or if I've reinstalled XP and need to download the drivers.

[zeroday]

thanks for the news (Y)

the mobile radeon versions link not updated yet: http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

[tony-inpo]

So they no longer support the

* Radeon? 7500 series

* Radeon? 7200 series

* Radeon? 7000 series

* Radeon? 9250 series

* Radeon? 9200 series

* Radeon? 9000 series

* Radeon? 8500 series

based cards....

I have a:(200 :( I'm going to have to upgrade I suppose

[Rob2687]

Pretty much all of the changes in newest drivers don't affect the older cards so there isn't a point in updating anyways.

[Sniper101]

So they no longer support the

* Radeon? 7500 series

* Radeon? 7200 series

* Radeon? 7000 series

* Radeon? 9250 series

* Radeon? 9200 series

* Radeon? 9000 series

* Radeon? 8500 series

based cards....

I have a:(200 :( I'm going to have to upgrade I suppose

Does:Dork :D im using the driver now and my card is the same as yours

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I just checked this morning and it was still 6.5! :wacko:

[Mystical112]

Does work :D im using the driver now and my card is the same as yours

im sure it will install and still function but u wont get any added functionality or fixes/updates...

[tony-inpo]

I just checked this morning and it was still 6.5! :wacko:

Me too :p

im sure it will install and still function but u wont get any added functionality or fixes/updates...

Thats what I was thinking

[Ar3s]

thanks for the update.

[Shof]

any update(change log) i have a 9550 car or something like it

[amrinders87]

Thanks

[iconoclast]

So they no longer support the

* Radeon? 7500 series

* Radeon? 7200 series

* Radeon? 7000 series

* Radeon? 9250 series

* Radeon? 9200 series

* Radeon? 9000 series

* Radeon? 8500 series

based cards....

I have a:(200 :( I'm going to have to upgrade I suppose

From the site:

Products Supported:

* Radeon? X1900 series

* Radeon? X1800 series

* Radeon? X1600 series

* Radeon? X1300 series

* Radeon? X850 series

* Radeon? X800 series

* Radeon? X700 series

* Radeon? X600 series

* Radeon? X550 series

* Radeon? X300 series

* Radeon? 9800 series

* Radeon? 9700 series

* Radeon? 9600 series

* Radeon? 9650 series

* Radeon? 9550 series

* Radeon? 9500 series

NOTE: ATI All-in-Wonder? variants based on the above are also supported.

Not Supported:

* Radeon? 9250 series

* Radeon? 9200 series

* Radeon? 9000 series

* Radeon? 8500 series

* Radeon? 7500 series

* Radeon? 7200 series

* Radeon? 7000 series

[strekship]

Radeon 9650? Never heard of that one.

[thollian]

nice...thanks....downloading...,

[tiagosilva29]

any update(change log) i have a 9550 car or something like it

I'm assuming that you're using the 32-bit XP driver.

New Features

This release of Catalyst? introduces the following new features:

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Avivo™ Video Converter Extension for Windows Media Center Edition>

Catalyst? 6.6 introduces a Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility. This utility will allow users to convert video content that is either recorded or available to Media Center Edition to a variety of different formats. The video content can be converted to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, MPEG-4/AVC and Windows Media. iPod video and Sony PSP’s are also supported with an optimized profile for these devices. Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner Supportb>

Catalyst? 6.6 includes support for NTSC/ATSC and PAL/SECAM/DVB-T products based on the Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner chip. The Theater 650 Pro is a new chip from ATI for multimedia cards and DTV-on-a-chip solutions, integrating hardware video encoding, digital audio with noise reduction, and hardware PVR functions in a single chip.Performance Improvements/b>

As with most Catalyst? releases, performance has increased in various situations.

• Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems.
  

Issues Resolved in Catalyst? Software Suite 6.6

The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst?. These include:

• Catalyst? Control Center: Connecting a display device capable of displaying a resolution of 1680x1050 to an ATI Radeon? X1900 no longer results in the display mode of 1680x1050 not being available in the Display Manager aspect. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22011
  
• Using Catalyst? 6.3 or higher along with the MMC version 9.13 and performing a TV channel scan no longer results in some higher TV channels failing to be detected. Further information on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21890
  
• Catalyst Control Center: Playing a media file using the Windows Media Player version 10 no longer results in Theater Mode exhibiting the same behavior as the Same on All option when clone mode is enabled 737-22504
  
• The pulldown detection check box is no longer greyed out under the All Settings for bob and adaptive settings found in the Catalyst Control Center 737-22508
  
• Clicking the Default button for AA and AF now restores the default setting for AA and AF 737-22512
  
• Placing the mouse pointer over the Temporal anti-aliasing check box found in the Anti-Aliasing aspect of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the tool tip for Let the application decide being displayed 737-22517
  
• Theater Mode is now functioning properly under the Windows 2000 operating system when clone mode is enabled 737-22614
  
• Audio is no longer lost when quickly and repeatedly toggling between two TV channels 737-22615
  The Desktop Area list found in the Display Settings is now translated for the Russian language when using the Basic View of the Catalyst Control Center 737-22519
  
• Setting the Catalyst Control Center skin to Quick Silver along with the display resolution to 800x600 when the language is set to Greek no longer results in cropped text being noticed in the Video->All Settings aspect 737-22529
  
• The Apply button in the CV Properties aspect of the Catalyst Control Center now become active when adding a custom format 737-22538
  
• x29: AV no longer occurs when fast window tracking is set to on 737-22643
  
• Minimizing the TV window using the TV Adjustments found in the Catalyst Control Center followed by attempting to drag the TV window around the desktop using the mouse no longer results in the TV window failing to move properly 737-22539
  
• DVD playback no longer blinks and the system entering a busy state no longer occurs when using the Windows Media Player v10 and having Theater Mode enabled in the Catalyst Control Center 737-22616
  
• Connecting a CRT as a secondary display device and enabling clone mode no longer results in unsupported display modes being available in the Catalyst Control Center for the CRT 737-22617
  
• HDTV custom format is now maintained when clone mode is enabled 737-22618
  
• Enabling Clone mode followed by opening a full-screen DOS prompt no longer results in the DOS command screen failing to exit properly on the secondary display device 737-22619
  
• Swapping between the primary (LCD) and secondary (CRT) display devices on a system containing an ATI Xpress 200 series no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display and image when attempting to resume from hibernation mode 737-22622
  
• The mouse pointer no longer intermittently fails to be displayed on the lower portion of the secondary display device when the option to Stretch main horizontally found in the Catalyst Control Center is enabled 737-22623
  
• Connecting both a CRT and a TV and keeping the TVout disabled, along with setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024x32bpp no longer result in the default color setting found in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be restored when changing the gamma setting 737-22644
  
• GLView v 223: Setting the display resolution to 2048x1536 32bpp at 70Hz no longer results in an error message being displayed when attempting to run the Rendering tests 737-22625
  
• Setting AA to 8x or higher no longer results in corruption being noticed in the Anti-Aliasing preview of the Catalyst Control Center 737-22626City of Heroeseroes: Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon X1x00 series product 737-22627
  
• Enabling extended desktop mode and playing back HD content no longer results in corruption being noticed in the playback window 737-22628
  
• An error message is no longer displayed when trying to edit a Hotkey function in the Hotkey Manger under various supported European languages 737-22629Quake4uake4: Texture corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game 737-22385Age of Empires IIIs III: All the buildings and silver mines no longer shimmer at the same time when right-clicking on an object 737-22630
  

I don't know if anything is actually useful for you and me, but I'll upgrade it for the sake of the game.

(And this way some game devs can't use with me the argument of "outdated drivers" when I get bizarre errors while playing their games.

[The Laughing Man]

I can understand them working on Fear updating that games preformance and fixes, but why Farcry and SplinterCell especially the first one.

[andresjk]

thankx, and I have to wait for the Omegas to be realise

[Rob2687]

These drivers are supposed to add support for dongleless crossfire on RD580 chipsets.

[Scirwode]

Thank you for the heads up!

PSG22?

[viciv]

to be honest, I hate the Catalyst control center..

[Scirwode]

to be honest, I hate the Catalyst control center..

Why? Do you prefer it to be something like the Nvidia control centre?

PSG22?

[zeroday]

^I dont like it either.

btw, the mobile radeon release is updated.

[Billthy]

I don?t even bother updating anymore; there is no performance boost for my X800XL. Also I just get the display driver and then ATI Tray Tools

[viciv]

Why? Do you prefer it to be something like the Nvidia control centre?

PSG22?

CCC is bloate:p:p ATI Tray tool is the best way to go^^