ATI Catalyst 3.8 drivers are here. The Release Notes are on-line, if you like to read them click here.

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the CATALYST Display Drivers. CATALYST 3.8 adds new features to the ATI Control Panel. Game play, multimedia, and 3D applications are extended with new technologies and customizable environments. CATALYST 3.8 features upgrades, expansions and innovative solutions to 3D applications, multimedia, game play and home entertainment that deliver the ultimate in visual experiences. New features include:

• Game Profile Feature
• CATALYST Uninstaller
• MULTIMEDIA CENTER Update
• New ATI 3D Tab Layout
• SMARTSHADER Effects
• VPU Recover
• ATI OVERDRIVE
• HYDRAVISION Basic Edition
• TV Overscan

ATI OVERDRIVE

The new ATI OVERDRIVE (patent pending) tab, currently available for the RADEON 9800XT only, provides a safe and intelligent graphics processor clocking utility. ATI OVERDRIVE is constantly monitoring the graphics processor and pushing the graphics frequency to its maximum, while always ensuring that the processor temperature stays at a safe level. If the temperature of the graphics processor were to become too hot, ATI OVERDRIVE automatically decreases the clock speed until a safe temperature is reached. ATI OVERDRIVE never reduces the graphics processor speed below the pre-set factory default clock speed.

Resolved Game Issues

This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST.

• Setting the Landscape details to Perfect in the game IL2 Stumovik Forgotten Battles no longer results in the system not responding during the track playback
• Playing the game Tiger Woods with the game options set to 1280x1024 32bpp and graphic parameters set to high, no longer results in the game failing to respond after the scorecard is displayed
• Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 followed by starting a new flight results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin
• Setting the display to 800x600 32bpp 100Hz followed by enabling triple buffering no longer results in display corruption when playing CounterStrike
• The correct ATI board name is now display in the configuration window of the game Serious Sam 2
• A dark screen image and texture corruption is no longer seen when playing the game Project A3
• Running the game eRacer with clone mode enabled no longer results in corruption on the secondary display during the opening introduction
• Playing the game Midnight Club 2 with the default setting no longer results in the texture coordinated being corrupted. This issue occurred under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 7500 installed
• Fog issues have now been resolved in the game Neverwinter Nights
• Image corruption is no longer noticed in the game Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. This issue was known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9000 series installed
• Playing the demo game Midnight Club 2 under Windows XP with the default modes enabled for the game no longer results in the fog being missing from the game
• Playing the demo game XIII under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9500 or 9800 series card installed no longer results in texture corruption when moving the mouse around the game area