It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting some great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*.
*IF you are having technical issues with the ATI Catalyst™ driver, or your graphics card please report your issues here.
Here is what is new this month!
New Windows Features
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release for Microsoft Windows include:
ATI Eyefinity Technology – Enhancements for HydraVision™
- Maximizing a window across multiple displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
- Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
- Proper dialog box placement – dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display
Enhanced Pull-down detection
- The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of GPUs
ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX™ technology
ATI Radeon™ GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player
- Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – enabling a better user experience by consuming less system resources
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of GPU products
- Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.7 release include:
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- Ubuntu 10.04 production support
ATI Eyefinity support
- ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.7 provides support for ATI Eyefinity technology under all supported Linux distributions
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release notes.
To download the driver, click here.
July 26, 2010 01:18 PM
Hopefully this is better than the last two releases. I would love to try this however my HD5970 is being a POS and refuses to not lock Windows up.
July 26, 2010 01:21 PM
I quite enjoyed it saying it increases frames/performance for Borderlands but at the same time increases the risk of it crashing. Uh....wtf?
July 26, 2010 03:38 PM
I quite enjoyed it saying it increases frames/performance for Borderlands but at the same time increases the risk of it crashing. Uh....wtf?
Where does it say that?
July 26, 2010 03:54 PM
�� Borderlands
�� Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and ATI Radeon™ HD
5700 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and
anisotropic filtering is enabled
�� Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 single card and
CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
�� Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI Radeon™ HD
5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering
is enabled
�� Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series single card and
CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
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:
�� Drag and Drop transcoded H264i content may showing deinterlacing lines
�� "Borderlands" may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay
July 26, 2010 09:21 PM
+1 for honesty......
July 26, 2010 11:15 PM
wow. good to see something like that,official.
July 27, 2010 12:24 PM
Updated...appears to decrease map load times in COD WAW
July 27, 2010 06:42 PM
Go HERE : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...em,2677-3.html
Try using their MASSIVELY HELPFUL fix if you have the guts. It allows the hidden option in the CAT ATI installer to appear and that option is UPDATE !
Also it SLAMS the stupid catalyst driver in, in ONE REBOOT, not allowing windows to cram in an auto driver reinstall in the interim.
GOOD LUCK !~ That may do it for you - alternately try cat 10.4a, etc. maybe the new release... whatever, but read through that article's 4 pages first.
Others have already had GREAT SUCCESS with this easy little .cfg file edit.
Time to SPANK that card into line! :)
July 28, 2010 12:48 AM
I seem to be getting random BSOD in games with 10.7 I thought it was my gpu overclock, but I set it back to stock clocks and it still happens. Only happens maybe 1 time for about 2 hours of gaming, but still. rolling back to 10.6