New Features

Catalyst™ 8.8 introduces the following new features:

* Catalyst™ Control Center: New Avivo video features
* Hybrid Graphics Support for Windows XP

Catalyst™ Control Center: New Avivo video features

This release of Catalyst™ introduces new Avivo video features:

* Dynamic Gamma/Contrast correction, available on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, improves video image quality by delivering more vivid color in content with sharp contrasts and scenes with low and bright images.
* Improved video presets, available for the ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 and ATI Radeon™ 4800 Series, delivers a newly optimized video presets that users can select depending on what kind of video content they are viewing.
* Windows XP support: Edge enhancement, which adjusts the level of sharpness of video content and Noise Reduction, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The new slider controls can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst™ Control Center

Hybrid Graphics Support for Windows XP

This release of Catalyst™ introduces Hybrid Graphics support. Hybrid Graphics delivers a significant 3D performance boost for systems featuring an AMD 780G/780D integrated graphics motherboard and an ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series or ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series graphics accelerator. It also provides support for up to four independent displays

Die Download-Links führen zu den Game.AMD.com Support-Seiten, wo man die Treiberpakete einzeln (Windows XP) oder aber komplett (Windows XP & Vista) inkl. CATALYST Control Center (CCC*) beziehen kann.

Download:

• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mobility [Windows XP 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung

• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.8 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 64-Bit]

Links zum Thema:

• 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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