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 laterHighlights 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
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sargentchimera I hope these are better than the horrible 10.5 and 10.6, I've been useing 10.4 for awhile now and I really hope these do the trick!Reply -
coconut Ubuntu 10.04 production support! Hooray! Not that 10.6 doesn't seem to work fine with Lucid Lynx already...Reply -
Eyefinity for Linux ... whooop !!!!!!! Now just to get someone to actually implement / test it before 'n buy ...Reply
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ionut19 When nvidia usually releases a new driver you also get increased performance. Here you get VLC player compatibility..why did i bought ATI?Reply
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.
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ohim ionut19When nvidia usually releases a new driver you also get increased performance. Here you get VLC player compatibility..why did i bought ATI?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.Reply -
ionut19 You are right in a way about the improvement of other applications but as for gaming i do not know what to say because from my experience with ATI and Nvidia drivers there is always an improvement over time. Only now that nvidia released drivers that increased the speed by a considerable margin, especially with the last 2 driver updates(sli and non sli).Reply
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). -
ravewulf 7amoodwhat is Pull-down detection algorithm??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.29Reply