Operating Systems Supported
The latest version of
the Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following
Microsoft Windows
platforms:
Windows Vista (32
and 64 bit versions)
Windows XP
Professional
Windows XP Home
Edition
Windows XP Media
Center Edition
Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition
Windows 7
Note: When
installing the Catalyst Vista driver for Windows
Vista, the user must be
logged on as Administrator or have
Administrator rights in
order to successfully complete the installation
of the Catalyst Vista
driver.
New Features
This section provides
information on new features found in this release of the Radeon
Display Driver. These
include the following:
ATI
Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
ATI
Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
ATI
Catalyst 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all
ATI Catalyst 9.3
packages
New AMD
Display Library (ADL) SDK
ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7
and Windows
Vista
AMD has delivered
a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and
Windows Vista –
demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and
focus on delivering a
stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
Delivers full
WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000
Series, ATI Radeon HD
3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
Delivers improved
gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
All future ATI
Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7
and Windows Vista
ATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance
enhancements
Using ATI Stream
technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon HD 3000
Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a
performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest
Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with
ATI Catalyst 9.3
ATI Catalyst Release Note
Version 9.3 5
ATI Catalyst 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio
driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
As of ATI
Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically
included in the ATI
Catalyst 9.3 package
The HDMI audio
driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an
HDMI display connector
and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
AMD Display
Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality
for all ATI Radeon
graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
The SDK supports
Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
The SDK can be
used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
- samples are provided
within the SDK
The ADL SDK is
available to the public via the Developer relations site
Performance Improvements
Catalyst 9.3 brings
performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples
are:
Lost
Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on
4800 series products, and up to 50% on
4600, 4500 and 4300
series products
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:
Video combing
effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast
forwarding or rewinding
Avivo Video Color
Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
Overlay Theater
Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in
extended modes
Catalyst Control
Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out
and preview is now
functional
OGL games now
play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
Rotation now
works if Aero mode is turned off
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP
Operating System
This section provides
information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for
Windows XP. These include:
Avivo Video Color
Settings will now be applied in the video when played using
PowerDVD
ATI Catalyst Release Note
Version 9.3 6
FJ online game no
longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some
ASICs
Quake 4: Screen
corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables
with some ASICs
Composite video
no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using
Catalyst Control Center
Resolved issues
for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
Toggling between
3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow
when using the Alt-Tab
key
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7
Operating System
This section provides
information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst
Software Suite for
Windows 7. These include:
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:
AVIVO converter
may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format
"Unsupported
file formats" error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264,
mp4 and VC1 file formats
"CCC Host
application..." error message dialog may occur when cancelling a
transcoding process
Output media file
size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format
The ATI AVIVO
video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under
Windows Vista 64-bit
edition
"World of
Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King":
Flickering
may occur when Shadow is
set to medium/high using CrossFire
Google Sketchup
may show blank screen
Certain
resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Both LCD and CRT
may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will
not recover until it is
switched to discrete GPU
Known Issues Under the Windows XP
Operating System
The following section
provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows XP operating
system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
In this Catalyst
9.3 release, the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver will not
function properly under
Windows XP
OS Display
Settings shows extra resolutions for Component Video
Transcoding a VOB
DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output file
Transcoding falls
back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/MPEG2 multiple times in
XP
Media files
transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS
Known Issues Under the Windows 7
Operating System
The following section
provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating
system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include:
Desktop may
jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs
Certain
resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
Express driver
uninstall may result in a device manager error
Avivo Video
Converter option is not available for Windows 7
Moving a video
clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or
the media player to stop
functioning
Changes to
display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video
Restricting the
maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may
fail to apply
Catalyst Control
Center page is missing under OS Display Properties
Confirmation
dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i
formats; the resolution
will be applied automatically
Display
configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to
apply
Catalyst Control
Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied
ATI Catalyst 9.3 - Windows XP64 - 64bit 
