ATI CATALYST drivers provide fully qualified display support for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 systems with Radeon display cards, but requires a special version of ATI's Video Capture (WDM) drivers for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 systems with All-in-Wonder boards, which will be provided by your computer manufacturer.
Performance improvements:
Doom3 performance improves 10-15% on ATI RADEON X800 XT products when anti-aliasing is enabled.
UT2004 performance improves considerably on the ATI RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 PRO RADEON 9800 PRO and RADEON 9800 XT products. The benefit can be 25% or more in some circumstances, particularly at extreme graphics settings such as 6xAA + 16xAF.
New CATALYST Control Center Features:
The latest release of the CATALYST Control Center provides for faster start-up time and Quicker response time to controls and switching between different settings.
If the user has created a custom view, clicking on the View toolbar now toggles between the Standard and Custom views
Displays Manager functionality has been added to the Hotkey Manager. This feature is found in the Displays Manager under the List Hotkeys for combo box.
Issues Resolved in the CATALYST Display Driver Version 4.9:
· Indian Jones and the Emperors Tomb: Display corruption and missing polygons are no longer noticed in the game
· PainKiller: missing textures are no longer noticed on the ground and light artifacts are noticed when moving around within the game or when moving in and out of the light.
· Tony Hawk 4: playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 installed no longer results in white pixels being seen around the edges of objects
· Light map artifacts are no longer noticed in the game XIII when loading a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9200 installed
· Far Cry v1.2 no longer shows texture corruption on the ground
· Video rendering issues are no longer noticed playing the game Tabula Rasa under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO installed
· An access violation error no longer occurs when using the function Alt-Tab to get out of the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and then using the function Alt-Tab to get back into the game
· Running Serious Sam SE under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 PRO installed no longer results in lens flares showing through solid objects within the game
· Playing the game IL2 Forgotten Battles under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON X800 series installed no longer results in the display corruption and the game failing to respond when FSAA is enabled and display is set to either 1200x960 or 1600x1200
· Connecting an HDTV 7pin dongle to the video card no longer results in TV detection issues when both the TV and YPbPr (HDTV) are active
· Playing a DVD with PowerDVD on the primary display and playing an MPEG clip with Windows Media Player on the secondary display device no longer results in flickering and corruption being seen
Issues Resolved in the CATALYST Control Center Version 4.9:
· Enabling a second display device followed by changing the positions of the two devices in the mapping area, no longer results in the images changing to a different unexpected position when click apply to the changes
· Setting the Overlay option back to the default setting now results in the default setting becoming active when relaunching the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
· Repeatedly switching from one custom profile and another in rapid succession no longer results in the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER failing to respond
· Canceling SMARTGART changes and exiting the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer results in the reboot message reappearing when restarting the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
· A .net error message is no longer displayed under Windows 2000 when the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER is installed from an administrator account an then attempting to launch the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER from the system tray on a secondary account
· Having the display properties page active and attempting to close the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer results in a .net exception error message appearing
· Assigning the same hotkey for Increase 3D Gamma and Decrease 3D Gamma under Windows 2000 no longer results in a .Net exception error when attempting to move the hotkey manager window around the desktop
· Disabling the primary device and selecting the secondary device to be the primary no longer results in the Information Center displaying a blank page
· The CATALYST CONTROL CENTER no longer reports the CPU type as Intel when installed under an AMD64 system
· Launching the Task Manager and clicking on End Process for the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER system tray option no longer results in the system tray option for the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER still be selected within the CATALYST CONTROL CENTER
· Switching from the CATALYST Control Center System Skin option to the CATALYST_Quicksilver Skin option no longer results in the Toolbar area skin becoming corrupted
Text file description:
ATI CATALYST 4.9, 09/09/04
Immediately following restart, the new display driver will be loaded for the first time. It will automatically run a series of tests to ensure maximum stability on this system. These tests normally take under one minute to complete.
The test may cause your computer to stop responding. If this happens simply restart the computer at which point the tests will continue normally.
A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS
B) LANGUAGES
C) PRIOR to USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
D) USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
E) UN-INSTALL wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER
G) CONTACT INFORMATION
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wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
Windows Display Driver for ATI RADEON
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A) SUPPORTED ATI PRODUCTS
The display driver included in this package is for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. This driver may be used with ,
RADEON X800 SERIES
RADEON X600 SERIES
RADEON X300 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 9600 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 9200 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 9000 SERIES
ALL-IN-WONDER 8500
ALL-IN-WONDER 8500DV
ALL-IN-WONDER 7500
ALL-IN-WONDER VE PCI
ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON
RADEON 9800 SERIES
RADEON 9700 SERIES
RADEON 9600 SERIES
RADEON 9550 SERIES
RADEON 9500 SERIES
RADEON 9200 SERIES
RADEON 9100 SERIES
RADEON 9000 SERIES
RADEON 8500 SERIES
RADEON 7500 SERIES
RADEON 7200 SERIES
RADEON 7000 SERIES
This package includes,
Display Driver WXP = 6.14.10.6476
Control Panel = 6.14.10.5120
TV Capture WDM = 6.14.10.6246
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B) LANGUAGES
wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe contains a display driver with language support for;
Arabic
English
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Czechoslovakian
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
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C) PRIOR to USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
Be sure to UNINSTALL any previous version of the RADEON display driver prior to installing this version. See the "Un-Install" section for instructions.
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D) USING wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
Overview
There are two phases to the installation of a driver that has been downloaded from the ATI WEB site.
The first phase occurs when you run the wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe program.
This phase creates a temporary directory on the system disk and unpacks all the individual files that make up the ATI software bundle.
In the second phase the ATI SETUP program is launched from the temporary directory created in the first phase. ATI SETUP installs the software (from the temporary directory) into the operating system.
Steps
a) You must download wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe and save it to a directory on your systems hard disk.
For example C:\temp is a common directory used to initially save a file into.
b) Once you have downloaded wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe,
- Close all programs
- Click the START button and select the RUN menu item.
- Click the BROWSE button.
- Browse to the directory where wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe was saved.
- Select wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe and click OK to run the program.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
! The individual files will be unpacked and placed into a directory on your hard disk. The default path for this directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C\
! After copying the files to the hard disk the INSTALLATION program will launch. You may choose to abort the INSTALL process at this point. (If you abort, no software will be installed into Windows.)
Manual Installation instructions after running wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe
- Start Windows.
- Click the START button.
- Click the RUN menu item.
- Click the BROWSE button. Browse to the directory where the files were unpacked after running wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C.exe.
(The default directory is C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C)
- Select SETUP.EXE and press OK.
- Follow the instructions displayed in the help.
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E) UN-INSTALL
To un-install this software;
- Click START, go to SETTINGS and select CONTROL PANEL.
- Launch ADD/REMOVE programs.
- Select "ATI Display Driver" and then click the ADD/REMOVE button.
- RESTART Windows.
To un-install temporary files from the DOWNLOAD bundle;
- Delete the directory C:\ATI\support\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-051-040825a-017633C\
NOTE: If you unbundled the files into a different directory, simply delete that directory.
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F) ISSUES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER:
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VERSION CONFLICTS
When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Version Conflict" message may appear multiple times during the installation.
If you encounter a "VERSION CONFLICT" message while installing this display driver select the "NO" option to proceed.
* Selecting "NO" will ensure that the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components.
* Selecting "YES" will result in a MIX of new and old driver components, which is undesirable.
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CONFIRM FILE REPLACE
When installing Display Drivers or Software a "Confirm File Replace" message may appear multiple times during the installation.
If you encounter a "Confirm File Replace" message while installing this display driver select the "YES" option to proceed.
Selecting "YES" will ensure that all the components of this driver bundle will replace your existing driver components.
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Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP.
For complete details see; http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html
This symptom does not occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to this symptom may include:
- System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common)
- Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays)
- AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default)
- Large file transfers
To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option.
- right-click on the My Computer Icon then Properties to open the System Properties dialog box
- select the Advanced Tab then the Settings button under Performance
- select the Advanced tab on the Performance options tab
- in the Memory Usage area, ensure the Programs radio button is selected
- Apply the changes and select OK
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G) ATI CONTACT INFORMATION:
ATI WEB site: www.ati.comFile information
File name: wxpw2kcatalyst8051040825a017633c.exe
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