Vista - Latest ATI Catalyst Video Drivers

Catalyst™ 9.10 introduces the following new updates:
NOTE: See the Release Notes PDF link on the driver download page for more details on this update.

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
• High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE

GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta
This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.

High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE
This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.


Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:

• Catalyst Control Center; Confirm/revert dialog now available when setting the Extend options for the display
• Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in extended mode
• Catalyst Control Center no longer stops responding when setting Eyefinity SLS (Single Large Surface) mode for extended HDMI display

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• ANNO 1404 (also known as "Dawn of Discovery") no longer displays black texture corruption instead of surface terrain for some ASICs
• A green line at the bottom when playing some interlaced content no longer occurs
• Age of Conan does not show flashing corruption when played under CrossFire with medium or high settings
• Video corruption no longer occurs when playing some H.264 video files under Cyberlink Power DVD
• PowerDVD no longer intermittently terminates when playing HD MPEG2 content in extended/clone mode
• Supreme Commander no longer shows flickering on the primary display with extended desktop
• Vista: Extended display are no longer disabled when CrossFire is enabled for the primary adapter
• The de-noise value in the Avivo Video - Advanced Quality page is now set to the proper default value after driver installation
• Crysis Warhead no longer stops responding when playing at very high settings with CrossFire enabled

Known Issues For All Windows Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

• Catalyst Control Center, changing the deinterlace mode may default to adaptive deinterlace mode when playing videos
• Confirmation dialog box might not appear while extending the display through Catalyst Control Center in Windows 7

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

• Crysis (DX10); with some system configurations flickering may occur during game play when Crossfire has been enabled
• Corruption is observed while playing "The Witcher" video game on the Radeon HD 58xx products
• WinDVD may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multimonitor setup
• No audio when hot plugging HDMI display while media file is being played
• Horizontal line may appears at the bottom of video playback window when playing H.264 content in PowerDVD
• Some Flash videos may fail to render when system is restored from sleep
• Refreshing IE web page may cause the Adobe flash player hardware acceleration to be enabled after having been disabled
• Adobe Flash player may show some block corruptions when playing certain videos files
• Hardware acceleration may become disabled and browser may stop responding when running multiple instances of Adobe flash player
• Running multiple instances of Adobe flash player may cause video playback to drop frames or flickering
• Adobe Flash Player; some block corruption might be noticed when Youtube HD video is buffering
• Some video artifacts may occur when playing two or more SD video files with hardware accelerated Adobe Flash player
• On some systems playing multiple H.264 files may cause the Adobe Flash player to stop responding

hmm...Thnx for the Link !
I hope this one solves the BSOD's in Vista X64 issue.

Could anyone know how to run CCC?

I tried to run it but it gave me CLI.blablabla cannot be initialized or some such.. I'm now at work, I could post full message when I'm home..

Hi plato,

When I install the Catalyst drivers I do not install the Catalyst Control Center. I unchecked the free game offers, clicked the Install button from "Select Installation Operations", and then dot Custom from "Installer Welcome", and unchecked CCC from the install options leaving the rest checked. There is no need for it really for me. You can adjust all of your video settings through Vista.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Well, but there is no option like setting default anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering etc. in vista as I know... I don't use CCC for resolution or gamma changes. It is for this options I want to use CCC, or ATI tray tools but both of them gave errors.

CCC gives MOM.Implementation and CLI.Implementation errors (it is about .NET I think).

ATI Tray Tools wants to install a driver when installing application, but you know about Vista x64's driver policy.. Of course it fails miserably, and it doesn't work either.

Vista x64 comes with .NET v3 but this doesn't help it seems.

BTW, there is no problem with ATI's 7.6 driver.. It works well. Only CCC creates problems.

I have had MOM errors in the past when installing the CCC but I was able to use CCC when installing 7.4 and 7.5 (have not tried 7.6 yet). I'm not exactly sure what I did that fixed the CCC errors, but here's the process I went through: Vista with latest updates. I uninstalled the previous ATI driver using the control panel. Deleted any left over ATI folders (only did this the first time, have not bothered looking for ATI folders on subsequent driver installs). Reboot. On the boot, cancel any automatic windows driver installations and just run with the low res default screen. Start the ATI driver/CCC install and accept the defaults (except I deselected the extra games sw). Works for me in Vista 64.

I got the exact same problem as you.. I have tried 7.8 and 7.4(worked for me on x86) but always the same problem. Im going to try 7.6 but i sux not beeing able to use the newest release. As far as I have seen on ATI support page there is nothing about this problem. I got Radeon 1950XT if that's of any intrest.

Edit:
7.6 didn't work for me, but now i got another error, seems like the drivers didn't install. "No ATI graphic driver is installed, or the ATI driver is not functioning properly. Pleas install the ATI driver appropriate for your ATI hardware"..

Well, I just dont know anymore.. Befor didn't the CCC find any files and now the driver dont work insted. Anyone got an idea? cuz im all out of them!

Edit again:
Made it work with brinks way to install the drivers. I installed 7.8 just too bad I cant run CCC but the drivers work anyway. I hope someone else can learn from my trubble at least

well i can get the ccc to run but i cant watch hd tv when i upgrade it shuts the program down when i select hd channel sd is fine
it does it in mce digital tv and dntv live as soon as i roll back the driver everything is fine again very weird

cheers chinga69

Thnx for the update Shawn.

You're welcome Asky.