Wednesday, April 28th 2010
ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL Driver Suite Released
AMD released the final iteration of Catalyst 10.4 graphics driver suite. The WHQL-signed drivers keep up with the company's one month update cycle, and introduce a wide range of changes. To begin with, game-specific performance improvements in this release are confined to STALKER - Clear Sky, with up to 6% improvement in frame-rates for the Radeon HD 5970, and up to 3% for HD 5800 and HD 5700 series GPUs. There are changes to the video-decoding features, namely addition of H.264 Level 5.1 support, and a fix that reduces the "mosquito noise" seen in highly-compressed video.
Improvements to the video-transcoding capabilities are also a highlight of this release, with enhanced support for Windows 7 drag-and-drop video converter, namely performance increment, support for new H.264 formats such as MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content, and the ability to toggle GPU-acceleration from Catalyst Control Center. Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
A list of minor fixes follows.
Improvements to the video-transcoding capabilities are also a highlight of this release, with enhanced support for Windows 7 drag-and-drop video converter, namely performance increment, support for new H.264 formats such as MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content, and the ability to toggle GPU-acceleration from Catalyst Control Center. Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
A list of minor fixes follows.
- Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
- Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface
- Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
- "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
- Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
- Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration
- Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
- In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"games
- Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company"
51 Comments on ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL Driver Suite Released
Besides, this shit is useless. Whatever DivX i tried to feed into it it was complaining about not supported codec. And what's the point of H264 encoding if you can't import anything useful or at least MKV. Lame and useless. And incredibly slow (GPU ownage my ass). I can encode videos faster in FormatFactory. And i'm not restricted to 5 formats. Sigh. Why they even waste time for this useless thing?
Every time i try it with enthusiasm i get even more disapointed. I've changed 4 series of cards (x1950 Pro, HD4850, HD4870 and now HD5850) and nothing has changed.
Plus i'm not sure i could import HD video from Nikon D300s.
Any way to add additional codecs? Otherwise this is just useless.
I would goto Nvidia but they have no cards that I am interested in.
Ive gone from 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 without a single issue whatsoever.
thats on 10.4a
So one is broke, which worked fine on 10.3
However here is the new advantage:
Still broke, thanks anyway.
but really, this isnt the thread for it. Start a new one if you want, or discuss it in the thread linked in my sig - we've derailed this news thread enough.
And I already checked out the problem with these, it was the 10.4 drivers. Because going back to 10.3 solves the issue, but obviously breaks the other vids ;)
It seems like they have a leapfrog effect... two drivers in production at any given time, so the 'newer' driver may not contain fixes from the 'older' driver
At least they are showinbg they are working on issues!
Also I noticed in preview drivers and betas they tend to include the whole packages, but for actual releases they dont include it all together. Things like hydravision and the transcoder are separate downloads.
forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1056204-spawn-lag-fix-least-me-now.html More info.