AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 10.7 Drivers
Fresh new drivers to make your GPU happy.
Looking to give your Radeon GPU newer drivers? AMD has released the ATI Catalyst 10.7 bundle for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux.
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 Windows release include:
ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements
* Maximizing a window across displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
* Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
* Proper dialog box placement - dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display
Enhanced Pull-down detection
* The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
* Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
ATI CrossFireX technology – support for rotated displays
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX technology
ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player
* Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources
* Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of products
* Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release include:
Support for new Linux operating systems
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o Ubuntu 10.04 production support
ATI Eyefinity support
* ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 delivers support for ATI Eyefinity technology under all supported Linux distributions

Maybe because they got it right with performance from the first time and there`s nothing else to improve ? and for nvidia you get improvements for sli etc not for 1 card. And i find it pretty interesting that they take time to tweak the drivers for other aplications too other than video games.
Because you wanted a video board that's not going to die in six months?
ATI also doesn't relabel old products with new labels and sell them for $100 more.
I have driver 10.5 and still work fine. At this rate i will not upgrade only when they release driver 11.0.
Just bug fixes and small improvements in certain areas with this driver.
Maybe because they got it right with performance from the first time and there`s nothing else to improve ? and for nvidia you get improvements for sli etc not for 1 card. And i find it pretty interesting that they take time to tweak the drivers for other aplications too other than video games.
That's the thing that impacted me when ati drivers did not improve by a lot with the last driver(10.7) release(crossfire and/or no crossfire).
Telecine is a method of changing the frame rate of a film (24 progressive fps) to that of TV (29.97 interlaced fps) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:3_pulldown Usually graphics cards are set to detect and reverse this process restoring the original progressive frames and fps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#Reverse_telecine_.28a.k.a._inverse_telecine_.28IVTC.29.2C_reverse_pulldown.29
I almost wish they would just make some sort of generic video acceleration... like DirectX only for video playback.... (There might be something like this and I am just ignorant of it.)
ATI also doesn't relabel old products with new labels and sell them for $100 more.
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration
Hopefully these work better with my 3 24" monitors in eyefinity.
Because you wanted a video board that's not going to die in six months?
Its because nvidia's old drivers sucks. So they release new and get improvements. ATI driver performance is perfect except some bugs. So they can't bring anymore performance.
ATI also doesn't relabel old products with new labels and sell them for $100 more.
I have to agree with you there.
I can't verify that its true but I've had many problems with ATI specialties like Catalyst AI and Adaptive AA cause graphics bugs. Never owned a Nvidia but it would make sense from what I've seen of the drivers.