Les Catalyst 10.4 disponibles !

Après la série de bêta   voici la version officielle qui nous promet des performances supplémentaires. Cette fois il s’agit de S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Clear Sky qui devrait bénéficier de 3 à 6 % de gain et trouver quelques améliorations au niveau du moteur vidéo.

Toujours dans les jeux, AMD indique que le problème du temps de chargement sous Battlefield : Bad Company 2 est corrigé pour les Radeon HD 5k sous Windows 7. Pour les autres, il faudra continuer à utiliser la version 10.4b.

Sinon, voici les principaux points d’amélioration :

• H.264 Level 5.1 support
  • ATI Catalyst™ can now playback 5.1 level streams on all support players
  • Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K)
• Mosquito noise removal
  • Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback .
  • Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products

• This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter
  • Performance improvements
  • New formats supported (H.264 file formats – MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content)
  • ATI Catalyst™ Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU   acceleration
• Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center

• Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
• Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinitygroup will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel userinterface
• Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
• "Battlefield 2 : Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATIRadeon™ HD 5000 Series
• Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks   has now been fixed
• Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire  ™ enabled
• Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screenflickering under multi-GPU configuration
• Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smoothtransition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback