The Catalyst Software Suite 9.6 contains the following: Radeon display driver 8.62 HydraVision for both Windows XP and Vista HydraVision Basic Edition (Windows XP only) WDM Driver Install Bundle Southbridge/IXP Driver CatalystTM Control Center Version 8.62 Performance Improvements Catalyst 9.6 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are: Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include: Opening Crossfire pages no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding Catalyst Control Center: With some multi adapter systems in clone mode, disabling the primary display is now possible Changing the bitrate slider values, while transcoding WMV files, no longer causes Catalyst Control Center to stop responding Catalyst Control Center: On some systems configurations, the Overdrive options no longer fails to display Catalyst Control Center content no longer appears interlaced when automatic deinterlacing is enabled Catalyst Control Center: Display settings no longer missing when hot plugging a CRT display in clone mode Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer inadvertently enabled when using a non-HDTV resolution Fixed a regression in ATI CAL that caused certain IL kernels that compiled and executed properly with Catalyst version prior to 9.4 to no longer work properly with Catalyst 9.4 or later Known Issues for All Windows Operating System This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under all Windows operating system with the latest version of CatalystTM. These include: Garbled text may appears on resume splash screen after hibernation with some ASICs Catalyst Control Center: Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window may blank out Opening Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC Catalyst Control Center: Enable dialog reposition does not show on proper monitor when system is configured with 4 displays Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically Interlaced modes might not be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control Center Catalyst Control Center: The wrong help pages are displayed for Component video properties Catalyst Control Centre may fail to launch when CrossFire has been disabled on some multi-adapter systems Catalyst Control Center: Text in some of the panels may be cut when running on a Russian operating systems Catalyst Control Center: Some text in the Basic View may be cut after using the “Rotate Desktop” options Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include: Catalyst Control Center: Scaling option slider is no longer incorrectly enabled when using non-HDTV resolutions System instability no longer observed when task switching to desktop when playing "Tom Clancy's HAWK" Catalyst Control Center: On some configurations, the scaling options are no longer missing for HDMI or component video displays Team Fortress 2 some slowdowns no longer occur during gameplay Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst. These include: A performance drop may be observed on Enemy Territory Quake Wars, Doom3 and Quake4 With some multi-adapter configurations, the Catalyst Control Center AVIVO options may become disabled Catalyst Control Center image scaling options, "Maintain aspect ratio" and "Use centered timings" may not function on some DVI displays Catalyst Control Center may show a “System restart required..." message for some multi-adapter CrossFire configurations