New Features

Catalyst™ 8.6 introduces the following new features:

• OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support
• OpenGL CrossFireX™ (QUAD) support – 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire™ mode
• Catalyst Install enhancement – No reboot required after Catalyst upgrade install

OpenGL Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support

This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing Custom Filters support for OpenGL applications for the ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of products. Using the Edge Detect Custom Filter, users can enable 12X and 24X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 4X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 12X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 8X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter delivers the equivalent of 24X Anti-Aliasing.

OpenGL CrossFireX™ (QUAD) support – 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFire™ mode

This release of Catalyst™ introduces CrossFireX™ QUAD support for OpenGL applications. Users with any combination of a ATI Radeon™ HD 3870, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850, and ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 graphics accelerators running with 3 or 4 GPUs will be able to run in CrossFireX™ QUAD mode (when used in a CrossFireX™ compatible PC). Users are also able to run in CrossFireX™ QUAD mode while running in extended desktop mode on the Windows Vista desktop.

Catalyst Install enhancement – No reboot required after Catalyst upgrade install

This release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst installer. Users are no longer required to reboot their system after Catalyst has finished installing (as long as the installation is an upgrade from a previous Catalyst install).

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

• 3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
• Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
• Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
• Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
• Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
• ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.

• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mobility [Windows XP 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung

• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.6 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• Release Notes


• CCC* Alternative : Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 x86
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 x64^{*) CCC = CATALYST Control Center; Erläuterung siehe hier.}
  
  
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