The latest version of the Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following

Microsoft Windows platforms:

Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit versions)

Windows XP Professional

Windows XP Home Edition

Windows XP Media Center Edition

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows 7

Note: When installing the Catalyst Vista driver for Windows

Vista, the user must be logged on as Administrator or have

Administrator rights in order to successfully complete the installation

of the Catalyst Vista driver.

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon

Display Driver. These include the following:

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

ATI Catalyst 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all

ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and

Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and

focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware

Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000

Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7

and Windows Vista

Using ATI Stream technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI

Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics

accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when

running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with

ATI Catalyst 9.3

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As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically

included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package

The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an

HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed

AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality

for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators

The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants

The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications

- samples are provided within the SDK

The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

Catalyst 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.

Some measured examples are:

Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on

4600, 4500 and 4300 series products

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst

Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast

forwarding or rewinding

Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate

Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in

extended modes

Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out

and preview is now functional

OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled

Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst

Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using

PowerDVD

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FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some

ASICs

Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables

with some ASICs

Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using

Catalyst Control Center

Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function

Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow

when using the Alt-Tab key

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst

Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:

This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the

Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst. These include:

AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format

"Unsupported file formats" error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264,

mp4 and VC1 file formats

"CCC Host application..." error message dialog may occur when cancelling a

transcoding process

Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format

The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under

Windows Vista 64-bit edition

"World of Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering

may occur when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire

Google Sketchup may show blank screen

Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays

Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will

not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU

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:

In this Catalyst 9.3 release, the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver will not

function properly under Windows XP

OS Display Settings shows extra resolutions for Component Video

Transcoding a VOB DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output file

Transcoding falls back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/MPEG2 multiple times in

XP

Media files transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS

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:

Desktop may jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs

Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays

Express driver uninstall may result in a device manager error

Avivo Video Converter option is not available for Windows 7

Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or

the media player to stop functioning

Changes to display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video

Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may

fail to apply

Catalyst Control Center page is missing under OS Display Properties

Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i

formats; the resolution will be applied automatically

Display configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to

apply

Catalyst Control Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied