ATI Catalyst 10.5 Drivers - Windows 7 & Windows Vista 64-bit

Author: ATI

Version 10.5 of the ATI Catalyst display driver suite for 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. For all Radeon videocards from the Radeon HD 2400 Series onwards.

This driver package also contains the Catalyst Control Center tool.

Changes include performance improvements for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and bug fixes for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Performance improvements
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
    • Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
    • Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics products
    • Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
New Features
  • ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements
    • 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
    AMD video transcoding updates
    • 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
Resolved Issues: Highlights
  • Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
  • Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface
  • Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
  • "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon 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 screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration
  • Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
  • In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"games
  • Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company"
Filename: 10-5_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_enu.exe
Size: 72.28 MB
Post Date: May 27, 2010 8:21am PDT
Last Updated: Sep 23, 2010 8:41pm PDT
Downloads: 381

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