Half-Life Fallout: Official ATI Catalyst Update Thread - Half-Life Fallout

Thanks for the heads up.

Any word on what type of performance boost it gives? Worth updating?

New Features

This release of the ATI Catalyst™ software suite introduces DirectX video acceleration for CrossFire™ enabled configurations.
Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.12

The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include:

* Black&White 2: Slow frame rate is no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP when setting the graphics to the lowest possible settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23714
* Neverwinter Nights: Enabling super AA and CrossFire within the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in display corruption being noticed within the game's main menu. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23718
* Catalyst® Control Center->CrossFire™: Attempting to resume from a standby state no longer results in the Windows XP operating system failing to respond when using a Radeon® X19x0 CrossFire™ Edition series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23713
* Catalyst Control Center: Setting the language option to French for the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the text found in Catalyst Control Center being cropped. This issue was known to occur under all supported operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23716
* Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing choppy. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23719
* Catalyst Control Center: The translation for Centered Timings is now translated properly for Simplified Chinese. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24337
* The index in the Catalyst Control Center help no longer contains double entries for various aspects. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24338
* Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the CrossFire help no longer results in a page not found error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24339
* Using the Avivo Video Converter to convert a video file no longer exceeds the 300MB for a VCD encoded file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24340
* Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on certain help file links no longer results in the incorrect help file being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24341
* Catalyst Control Center: The Profile Manager is now translated properly for Italian. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24342
* Catalyst Control Center: Various options such as Select a Language and Deinterlacing for the Thai language are now translated properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24343
* Changing the language to Korean in the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the degree symbol appearing corrupted within the rotation page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24344
* Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Selecting Japanese as the language no longer results in various aspects of the Easy Setting Wizard and Setup Display Settings not being translated properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24345
* Using hotkeys to switch between LCD mode and CRT+LCD mode no longer results in the hotkey function failing when attempting to switch back to LCD mode only. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24288
* Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD no longer results in the playback appearing jittery. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23719
* CrossFire: Playing Windows XP games such as Labyrinth or HyperBowl no longer results in display corruption being noticed in the game's menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24335
* Hardware acceleration no longer becomes disabled when running the HQV benchmark DVD with CrossFire enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24336

Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 6.12

The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst®. These include:

* Battlefield 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP with the in-game display setting at 1920x1440 or 2048x1536 and AA set to 6x may result in the game failing to launch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22817
* Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with a Radeon® X1600 series installed may result in texture corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22820
* Enabling CrossFire™ may result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22806
* Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23446
* Intermittent display issues may be noticed when using an Apple Cinema HD 30" display device. Contact AMD Customer Care for a solution. AMD Engineering is aware of the issue and a resolve will be available in an up-coming software driver release. Further details can be found in topic number
* During video playback, DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) may not be available when CrossFire mode is enabled. This will result in software mode video playback. To enable DXVA, CrossFire™ mode must be disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23447
* Uninstalling the graphics drivers may result in some of the files and folder failing to be removed in the Program File folder. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23715
* Attempting to maximize an OpenGL application window may result in either the OpenGL window maximizing slowly or the system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23717
* Clicking on the Restore Factory Defaults button found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties may result in the TV position failing to be restored to the factory defaults. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24346
* Catalyst® Control Center->Basic View: Connecting a secondary display device and attempting to enable it, may result in the inability to enable the device when using Basic view. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24347
* Setting the display panel attributes to Scale Image to Full Panel Size, followed by entering an S3 state may result in the desktop failing to resume to a full screen mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24348
* Catalyst Control Center: Connecting an HDTV or DFP display device may result in some of the HDTV formats being listed twice in the Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24349
* Catalyst Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support: Adding custom formats to the 1080i and attempting to remove those custom formats may result in the formats failing to removed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24350
* Catalyst Control Center->Help: Clicking on the Monitor and Digital Panel Properties found in the Contents section of the Help may result in a message indicating that the page cannot be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24351

XG WarCat 6.12 driver for ATI video cards .

This version of the driver does not include any of the following : Control Panel.
This version includes the driver, the Control Center, WDM .


PLEASE UNINSTALL YOUR OLD DRIVER BEFORE INSTALLING THIS ONE .
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO IT OR YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE ALL THE CHANGES .

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Based on the release of Catalyst 6.12, The Wild Side of TRU made XG WarCat 6.12.

Changes in XG WarCat 6.12:

-Color changes for a more vivid look;
-Enabled by default Alpha to Coverage with Alpha to Sharpening;
-The same old performance improvements over the Catalyst Driver;
-Improvements when having Anisotropic Filtering Enabled;
-Added support for some mobility cards;
-Improved caching speed and size;
-Updated the OpenGL tweak root;
-Higher stability;

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XG WarCat Rendering Technique
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-WarCat Anti-Aliasing is now available. It consists in higher performance and IQ over the Catalyst Driver;
!NOTE: This technique is still under work, it is functional but not 100% ! -Smooth render when having mass particles on the screen;
-Improved performance in games that make good use of shaders;

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XG WarCat powered Games
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Issues resolved :
-Fixed issues regarding transparency in certain games;
-Fixed some lag encounters;
-Texture disappearing in certain games;

NOTE: The games that have an " * " besides them, were updated !
NOTE: The games that are marked with " (under work) " ,are supported but they will be updated in a future release;

XG WarCat powered games:

-Everquest 2 (still under work);
-Painkiller;
-Call of Duty;
-Hitman Blood Money (still under work);
-RF Online;
-Farcry;
-The Suffering;
-Warhammer Mark of Chaos;
-Lineage II (still under work);
-X3 Reunion (still under work);
-City of Heroes/Villains (still under work);
-Guild Wars and expansions (still under work);
-Oblivion and expansion (still under work);
-Fable The lost Chapters;
-Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay;
-Half-Life 2 and games that run on source engine (Dark Messiah, CS) " *"; -Battlefield 2/2142 " * ";
-Quake 4;
-World of Warcraft;
-Need for Speed Carbon;
-Neverwinter Nights 2 " * ";
-Marvel Ultimate Alliance;
-Need for Speed Most Wanted;
-Doom 3 and expansion;
-Prey;
-Warcraft III;
-F.E.A.R/Extraction Point;
-Prince of Persia (the trilogy);

!NOTE: There are no features regarding the profiles or options to change, since it's done by the driver itself. The driver
was designed and optimised to give a boost when running those games. If you have suggestions for more games, let us now.

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We are also in need of beta testers so if you are interested please do not hesitate to PM WarAnakin.
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Tweaksrus does not take any responsabilities for the drivers or any damage caused to your video card .
Use them at your own risk ! If something goes wrong don't blame me or Tweaksrus.

by WarAnakin , WarCats modder .

I saw this last night and thought "It's too late to post this, oh well, I can rest assured that Trooper will post it."

Maybe we should make an "Official ATI Catalyst Update" topic (and one for nVidia users aswell), and when something new comes around, we post in there. People could mention peeves of the new update or praise. Support each other if we run into glitches or have trouble installing.... That would be a wonderful world.

Does this one finally include the version without the Catalyst Control Center?

So, how about that "Official" thread?