# New Features
# Performance Improvements
# All Systems
# Windows Vista
# Windows 7
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| This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following: * GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 - AMD GPU acceleration of Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 delivers smooth high definition video playback and reduces system resource utilization - Adobe Flash Player 10.1 can be accelerated on notebook and desktop platforms featuring AMD graphics including: > ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series > ATI Mobility ATI Radeon™ HD 400 series (and higher) > ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series integrated graphics (and higher) * Video De-blocking support - Reduces blocking artifacts seen in low-bit rate video during playback - Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products * Mosquito noise reduction - Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback - Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products * Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3 - ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series - ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon™ HD Series |
# Performance Improvements
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| The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.6: * 3DMark Vantage - Overall scores improve up to 5% on a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 * Batman: Arkham Asylum - Performance improves up to 5% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations * Aliens vs. Predator DirectX® 11 Benchmark - Performance improves up to 4% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 10% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations - Performance improves up to 3% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products * Company of Heroes – DX10 - Performance improves up to 7% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 5% with single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations * Crysis Warhead - CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 7% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products * DiRT 2 – DX9 - Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 10% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations - Performance improves up to 4% on single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products * The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena - Performance improves up to 15% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 13% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations - Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products * Unigine Tropics - CrossFire™ performance improves by up to 8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series products * World in Conflict - Performance improves up to 6% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 8% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations * Wolfenstein - Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products - Performance improves up to 18% on CrossFire™ and single card ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 configurations - Performance improves up to 11% on CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products |
# All Systems
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| This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include: * "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load * Assigned hotkeys are now retained for "Desktops & Displays" after Catalyst Control Center restart |
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| This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include: * Toggling from window mode to fullscreen mode now functions properly in "Assassin's Creed" game with DirectX 10 * Toggling between desktop and "Battlefield: Bad Company 2" game no longer causes flickering under Multi-GPU configuration * Desktop corruption no longer visible while playing SD/Blu-ray content with display set to 120Hz refresh rate * [Catalyst Control Center] Video basic color controls in the "All Settings" page can now be applied and will not shift to default values * Disabling CrossFire™ for the first time no longer causes the "Contrast" value to change to zero in Catalyst Control Center - Display Properties Color page * Flashing texture corruption no longer visible during game play for "Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts" |
# Windows 7
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| This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows 7. These include: * "The Chronicles of Riddick 2: Assault on Dark Athena" no longer displays white pixel corruption on walls while playing the "Pitch Black" stage with Super Anti-Alias and in-game Anti-Alias enabled * Corruption no longer visible during "Bioshock 2" gameplay in DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 mode with CrossFire™ enabled * Booting the operating system without displays connected no longer causes CrossFire™ to become disabled * Grass and crops are no longer rendered randomly at unusual locations in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" game scenes * Blank/static display no longer observed after loading a game in "TimeShift" with Super Anti-Alias and CrossFire™ enabled * Enabling Tessellation no longer causes "Unigine Heaven 2.1" to stop functioning * Graphical settings can now be adjusted to higher values in "Grand Theft Auto 4: Episodes from Liberty City" with Crossfire™ enabled * Under Multi-GPU configuration with Crossfire™ enabled, setting both "Shaders Quality" and "Post-Processing Quality" to "Enthusiast" no longer causes frame rate drops in "Crysis Warhead" DirectX 9 game |
