AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.7 Vista

AMD Inc - (Freeware)

AMD Catalyst Drivers is a smart choice for those that want to improve their PC performance while increasing overall stability.

AMD Catalyst Drivers includes the latest 32-bit AMD (ATI) for the graphics card and panel Catalyst Control Center.

The AMD driver provides a gain of performance in several 3D applications thus ensuring an optimal experience. The panel Catalyst Control Center provides quick access to all parameters relating to AMD hardware offering multimedia features, management and display game.

There are different versions of AMD drivers for each operating system.

Title:: AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.7 Vista
File Size:: 53.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 27 Jul 2010
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: 13258DF214C0D1412C56B38E626F25D5

# New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon Display Driver. These include the following:
* ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements
- Maximizing a window across 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
* 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 delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources
- Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products
- Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later

# Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 10.7:
* 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

# All Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows. These include:
* "Current Setting" indicator will now appear when "Windows desktop" option is selected in "Catalyst Control Center - Basic" for specific CV resolutions

# Windows Vista
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
* ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire configurations

# Windows 7
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
* "Desktop Window Manager has stopped working" error no longer appears after driver installation on specific cards
* ATI Stream (CAL) test no longer exits with exception error under CrossFire configurations
* Screen no longer turns blank when flashlight is turned on in "The Chronicles of Riddick 2" with Screen Space Ambient Occlusion enabled
* Running Unigine Heaven 2.1 (OpenGL) with "Tessellation" enabled no longer causes system to fail
* Player no longer exits abruptly while changing basic quality settings in Catalyst Control Center
* Browser no longer fails after repeated system suspend/resume and video playback pauses while viewing YouTube content