File Description: The Catalyst Software Suite 8.12 contains the following: • Radeon display driver 8.561 • HydraVision for both Windows XP and Vista • HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only) • WDM Driver Install Bundle • Southbridge/IXP Driver • Catalyst Control Center Version 8.561
File Description: ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP Pro/Home Version 7.10
This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.
This release of Catalyst™ introduces software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series. Software CrossFire™ is only available when two graphics accelerators from the same family (i.e. 2 ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 products) are plugged into a CrossFire™ compatible motherboard with no hardware interconnect between the two graphics accelerators.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 6.8 Video Driver. Improved shader compiler and transform engine optimizations have led to many significant performance gains in OpenGL applications across the entire Radeon® X1000 series of products. These include:
Doom 3 performance improves as much as 6.5%
Quake 4 (v1.2 or higher) performance improves as much as 18%
Chronicles of Riddick performance improves as much as 20%. Average improvements of 5-10% are commonly seen
Prey performance improves as much as 16%
Optimizations made to ATI's graphics memory manager have led to significant gains in DirectX applications that make heavy use of graphics memory on 256MB ATI graphics cards:
3DMark06 performance improves as much as 22% on single ATI Radeon® X1000 series cards with 256MB of graphics memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing is enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 30% on single ATI Radeon® X550 cards or higher with 256MB of video memory at 1280x1024 and higher when anti-aliasing enabled. The largest gains are found on the ATI Radeon® X1800 series and ATI Radeon® X1900 series of products
Includes MMC and CP versions as well as the AVIVO Encoder/Parental control. Basically same driver as 6.4 with a few bug fixes, and smoother performance...very small performance increase in all apps.
File Description: ATi Catalyst version 6.2. This driver seams to have several fixes for a variety of games and works on the new ATI X1900 video cards, unlike the previous 6.1 set. The performance on new ATI R520/R580 looks to have improved further with this set. Highly recommended for ATI X1000 series video cards.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 6.10 driver set with CCC. This new driver features new support for X1650Pro, x1950XTX, and X1300XT cards, and now features support for HDR + AA in Oblivion. Along with these new features, there are some considerable performance improvements, particularly applying to crossfire setups, in certain configurations. There are also many bugfixes.
File Description: ATI Catalyst Driver set Version 5.9 with NO CCC for ATI Radeon video cards. This driver was released on the 21st of september 2005. Bug fixes are included for BattleField 2, Max Payne 2, and several other games. Performance has been very slightly enhanced on higher end cards.
File Description: ATI Catalyst Driver set Version 5.9 with CCC (Catalyst Control Center) for ATI Radeon video cards. This driver was released on the 21st of september 2005. Bug fixes are included for BattleField 2, Max Payne 2, and several other games. Performance has been very slightly enhanced on higher end cards, and the CCC has been slightly improved.
File Description: This is the NON-CCC version of the ATI Catalyst 5.8 Driver, for all those who have problems with, or just dont like the CCC Catalyst driver.
This driver contains all of the same bugfixes and changes that are in the CCC version and is essentially the same, only with a different interface.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 5.5 drivers with Catalyst Control Centre (CCC) offer improved image quality and stability over the previous 5.4 driver along with performance improvements in some areas that have been lacking for quite some time, including OpenGL. Several games including Max Payne 2 have revieved a massive performance increase, and some World of Warcraft bugs have been fixed.
File Description: Catalyst Vesion 3.5 (6.14.10.6360) Display driver for ATI Radeon 9800 class cards & Windows XP/2000 - One of the fastest drivers for 3DMark 2001SE performance. Highly recommended. Use DirectX 8.1 for best result.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 6.6 CCC for ATI Radeon cards under Windows 2000/XP. Includes AVIVO support, and some serious performance improvements for newer ATI cards. Well worth using.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 7.2 non-official drivers for Windows Vista 32/64-bit.
Supports:
Radeon® X1900 series Radeon® X1800 series Radeon® X1600 series Radeon® X1300 series Radeon® X850 series Radeon® X800 series Radeon® X700 series Radeon® X600 series Radeon® X550 series Radeon® X300 series Radeon® 9800 series Radeon® 9700 series Radeon® 9600 series Radeon® 9650 series Radeon® 9550 series Radeon® 9500 series Radeon® X1950 series Radeon® X1050 series Radeon® X1550 series
File Description: ATI Catalyst Driver Version 5.8 with CCC (Catalyst Control Center) Released on the 16th of August, 2005.
This driver contains a massive number of bug fixes for the Catalust Control Center and games including Warcraft III, Battlefield 2, and GTA: Vice City.
File Description: ATI Catalyst 5.7(2005/July)
Catalyst Control Center Version
Auto-installable package. Doubleclick to install. Adds functional auto-overclocking utility to x850 series, performance increases to 128mb and 64mb Radeon videocards.
File Description: Catalyst 5.4 (2005.APRIL)
Catalyst Control Center version(requires .net framework 1.1 to be installed)
Winrar archive. Unpack and double-click the installer. Multiple game bug fixes have been made to these drivers including Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Splinter Cell, Sail Simulator 4 and Pacific Fighters.
Several fixes and additions have been made to the new ATI CCC feature.
File Description: Catalyst 5.4 (2005APRIL)
Regular "Lite" version. Unpack and doubleclick the package to install.
Multiple game bug fixes have been made to these drivers including Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Splinter Cell, Sail Simulator 4 and Pacific Fighters.
File Description: Catalyst 5.12 drivers from ATI.
# 3DMark05 gains as much as 5.7%
# 3DMark03 gains as much as 3.3%
# 3DMark2001 SE gains up to 10%
# Aquamark 3 gains up to 16%
# Comanche 4 improves as much as 20%
# Far Cry gains as much as 25% on some product configurations
# Half-Life 2 performance improves as much as 8%
# Splinter Cell improves as much as 8% in certain parts of the game
# Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness runs as much as 10% faster
# Unreal Tournament 2004 framerates improve as much as 10%
Many other bug fixes.
File Description: Released 11/11/05
Performance improvements for the X1800 series:
Doom 3 performance improvement of up to 38%
Quake 4 performance improvement of up to 60%
Older OpenGL titles such as Quake 3, Arena, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, have performance improvements of up to 50%
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