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Old May 21, 2008, 12:31 PM
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Default Catalyst 8.5
Just came out, loads of bug fixes found here.
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Catalyst™ 8.5 introduces the following new features:
• Catalyst™ Control Center Component Video
• ATI Graphics Driver Un-install Enhancement
• SECAM TV Out Support
• 1080p HDTV custom mode
• HDMI Audio for non-standard TV modes
• Adaptive AA on OpenGL for Catalyst™ Control Center
• 1080p24 Mode Support
• Windows XP Service Pack 3 support

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.
• Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases up to 12% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
• Halo: Performance increases by 10-30% across all of the supported ATI Radeon™ series of products
• Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases from 5 to 35% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3xx0 series of product
• Stalker DX9: Performance increases by 20-50% when HDR is enabled in the game; across all ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of products
• World in Conflict DX10: Performance increases up to 25% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD36x0 and/or an ATI Radeon™ 38x0 series of
product. Higher performance gains are noticed on systems contianing an ATI Radeon™ 3870x2 series of product
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Old May 21, 2008, 05:39 PM
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Wow! Looks like a very significant update.

Installing right now, we'll see how it goes with triple crossfire.
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Old May 24, 2008, 03:12 PM
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Installed and confirmed to be working fine on Vista 64. :)
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Haven't tried them yet.... waiting to see if they break GPU folding.... :)
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These drivers work great, vista 64 as well.
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i tried the 8.5 and it messed my shit up lol i had to go back to 8.3 and now im havin probs lol.i have hd 2400 pro and after i tried 8.5 it wouldn't pick up my secondary display which is my tv. i use to watch movies. when i hit detect display the ccc would error and close so i went back to 8.3 where it always worked and it keeps erroring out when ever i detect displays
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Looks like my CF setup is more stable in COD4. Thanks ATI!
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i tried the 8.5 and it messed my shit up lol i had to go back to 8.3 and now im havin probs lol.i have hd 2400 pro and after i tried 8.5 it wouldn't pick up my secondary display which is my tv. i use to watch movies. when i hit detect display the ccc would error and close so i went back to 8.3 where it always worked and it keeps erroring out when ever i detect displays

I had the same problem before

you might have to reset your monitor...

turn off the monitor, unplug the power cable from the monitor, then unplug the monitor from the video card...

then plug the power cable back in, plug it into the video card again, and turn on the monitor.

that might work.
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I have it installed on XP SP2 running great with my HD3870.
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anyone tried it on the X1950XT 256mb??

those baord are picky for driver and i dont wanna mess my working setup
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