New Features

Catalyst 7.9 introduces the following new features:

• Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista (64-bit)
• Catalyst Control Center: Color Temperature Control

Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista (64-bit)

This release of Catalyst™ introduces the Avivo Video Converter for the Windows Vista (64 bit) operating system. The Avivo Video Converter is a transcoder tool that provides a quick and easy way of converting videos from one format to another. The Avivo Video Converter found within the Catalyst™ Control Center, allows the user to select the input file, and output format, along with the quality level and file location. The Avivo. Video Converter accepts a wide variety of file formats as a source, and outputs to file formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX, WMA, H.264/AVC and more.

Catalyst Control Center: Color Temperature Control

This release of Catalyst™ introduces Color Temperature Control within the Catalyst Control Center, allowing users to adjust the chromatic level shown on their display. Supported on the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series and Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of products.

Performance Improvements

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.9:

• Far Cry performance improves up to 14 % on the ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT CrossFire™, ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT single card, and ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ configurations
• Call of Duty 2 performance improves as much as 12% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on the ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT CrossFire™ and single card configurations
• Half-Life 2: Episode 1 performance improves at most 9% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT CrossFire™ and as much as 6% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ configurations.
• Serious Sam 2 performance improves up to 46% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2400XT CrossFire™ and up to 27% on the ATI Radeon™ HD2600XT single card and CrossFire™ configurations with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
• Quake 4 performance with Anti-Aliasing improves 9% or more on the ATI Radeon™ X1600/X1650Pro and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 products in both single and CrossFire™ configurations.

• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 7.9 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• CCC* Alternative : Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x86
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x64