ATI Catalyst 10.10 Software Suite WinXP 32-bit

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 Windows release include: 

New Features 

Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology 

Blu-ray 3D support

o    This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Blu-ray 3D playback
o    Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o    Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 

Stereo 3D gaming support

o    This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides support for Stereo 3D gaming via 3rd party Stereo 3D Conversion Software from Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and iZ3D
o    Requires 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
o    Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 

*More information on AMD HD3D Technology, including Stereo 3D Conversion Software and a list of supported displays, can be found at www.amd.com/hd3d

 Introduction of AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition

• There will now be two variants of the AMD Catalyst package available:
  1. AMD Catalyst™ – includes the Direct3D, OpenGL, Display driver and AMD Catalyst Control Center components
  2. AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology Edition Edition  (same as ATI Catalyst, but includes the OpenCL driver) – Everything found in AMD Catalyst, plus the OpenCL driver
• Users can still grab all of the individual AMD Catalyst components as well (which will also include the OpenCL driver as well) 

Video acceleration for HD WMV video content

• This release of AMD Catalyst™ provides video acceleration support for WMV HD (Microsoft video codec) under Windows 7
• Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products  

Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls

• This release of AMD Catalyst™ enhances the Dynamic Contrast setting found in the Catalyst Control Center by adding support for histogram based detection  

Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

 Metro 2033™

• Performance increases up to 7% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations
• Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations
• Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
• Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series in DirectX 11 and 10 modes
• Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series in DirectX 11and 10 modes

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.™ : Call of Pripyat Benchmark

• Performance increases up to 7% on single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Unigine™ Heaven

• Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled
• Performance increases up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing enabled

World in Conflict™

• Performance increases up to 9% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
• Performance increases up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

Aliens vs. Predator™ DirectX 11 Benchmark

• Performance increases up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire
• Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series single and CrossFire
• Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
• Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series
• Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series

Crysis Warhead®

• Performance increases up to 9% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products with anti-aliasing enabled

Far Cry™ 2

• Performance increases up to 7% on Single ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products 

Highlights of the Linux AMD Catalyst™ 10.10 release include:

 New Features

 Support for new Linux operating systems

• This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: 
  • openSUSE 11.3 support (production)
  • Ubuntu 10.10 support (early look)