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AMD’s award-winning ATI Catalyst graphics and HD video configuration software delivers unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. Certified by Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), ATI Catalyst drivers for Windows Vista® and Windows® XP operating systems deliver stable performance and push the limits of innovation with advanced user-oriented features.
Precision controls for power users. Tweaks for gamers and video enthusiasts. Simple wizard-assisted setup, easy multi-monitor configuration, and ultra reliable operation for working professionals. New user or seasoned expert, ATI Catalyst puts you in charge of The Ultimate Visual Experience™. Industry-leading performance o ATI Catalyst boosts graphics performance with every new monthly release, including enhancements for popular Direct3D and OpenGL game titles.
Innovative and exciting features o ATI Catalyst includes the ATI Catalyst Control Center™, delivering innovative features and unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with ATI Radeon graphics.
Robust stability o ATI Catalyst drivers for Windows Vista and Windows XP are Microsoft WHQL-certified, and include rigorously tested Linux drivers to deliver the industry’s most stable and reliable graphics performance.
This release note provides information on the latest posting of AMD's industry leading software suite, Catalyst™. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst™ Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.
The Catalyst™ software suite 8.8 contains the following: * Radeon™ display driver 8.522 * Multimedia Center™ 9.16 (Windows XP only) * HydraVision™ for both Windows XP and Vista * HydraVision™ Basic Edition (Windows XP only) * Remote Wonder 3.04 (Windows XP only) * WDM Driver Install Bundle * Southbridge/IXP Driver * Catalyst™ Control Center Version 8.8
The latest version of the Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms: - Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit versions) - Windows XP Professional - Windows XP Home Edition - Windows XP Media Center Edition (graphics driver support only)
The Catalyst™ Vista driver for both the 32bit and 64bit versions of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is supported on the following ATI Radeon™ products.
AMD Desktop Product Family Support for both Windows Vista and XP: - ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series - ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series - ATI Radeon™ X1950 series - ATI Radeon™ X1900 series - ATI Radeon™ X1800 series - ATI Radeon™ X1650 series - ATI Radeon™ X1600 series - ATI Radeon™ X1550 series - ATI Radeon™ X1300 series - ATI Radeon™ X1050 series - ATI Radeon™ X850 series - ATI Radeon™ X800 series - ATI Radeon™ X700 series - ATI Radeon™ X600 series - ATI Radeon™ X550 series - ATI Radeon™ X300 series - ATI Radeon™ 9800 series - ATI Radeon™ 9700 series - ATI Radeon™ 9600 series - ATI Radeon™ 9500 series
AMD Multimedia Family Product Support for both Windows Vista and XP: - ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1900 Series - ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1800 Series - ATI All-in-Wonder™ 2006 Edition - ATI All-in-Wonder™ X800 Series - ATI Theater 650™ - ATI All-in-Wonder™ X600 Serie - ATI Theater™ 550 PRO - ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9800 Series - ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9600 Series
Note: ATI All-in-Wonder™ boards operate with AMD's Windows Vista ready display and capture drivers under the Windows Vista operating system. However, the Windows Vista Media Center application does not support TV/Capture functionality provided by the ATI All-in-Wonder™. TV/Capture functionality is qualified to function with Snaptream's BeyondTV 4.6 for Windows Vista. Other third party solutions (such as Arcsoft's Total Media 3) may support TV/Capture with the ATI All-in-Wonder™, but these applications have not been fully tested by AMD.
VIA Hyperion drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset and all Microsoft Windows 32, 64 bit Operating Systems. Please read the information about all VIA chipset driver choices, however, so that you chose the drivers that can best be recommended for your system. VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset - but they are particularly recommended for KT4## series, P4X4## series and newer.
Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: • IDE Filter driver - Enables the performance enhancing bus mastering functions on ATA-capable hard drives and ensures IDE device compatibility (also known as the ATAPI Vendor Support Driver) • Inf driver - Identifies your VIA chipset. • AGP - Provides service routines to your VGA driver and interfaces directly to hardware, providing fast graphical access - and in the case of 8X AGP cards on KT400 and P4X400 systems - provides a performance boost over previous drivers. • VIA Falcon IDE device driver package is a setup package for user to install VIA IDE controllers and it is composed of MiniIDE driver and SATAIDE driver both. MiniIDE driver is in charge of PATA controller. Oppositely SATAIDE driver manages SATA controller. Moreover, VIA SATAIDE driver provided the Hot-Plug and Port Multiplier features on VIA SATA IDE controller. Any SATA device connects to VIA SATA IDE Controllers could be automatic identified and added into the computer without reboot system. • VIA RAID Software Package is used to install the drivers and utility which are needed for using the VIA VT6410, VT6421, VT8251, VT8237/A SATA RAID controller. The drivers will work with most recent VIA motherboards, but VIA advises that users of the following chipsets should download the update for improved performance: * K7 chipsets: KT400, KT400A, KT600, KT880, KM400, KN400 * K8 chipsets: K8T800, K8T800Pro, K8M800, K8M890, K8N800, K8N890, K8T890, K8T890Pro, K8T900 * P4 chipsets: P4X400, P4X400A, PT800, PT880, PM800, PN800, PM880, PN880, PT880Pro, PT894, P4M800/Pro/CE, P4M900, PT890 * C Series Chipsets: CN700, CN400, CLE266, CX700,CX700M, CX700M2, CN800, CN896 * V Series Chipsets: VN800, VN896, VX700, VX800
Version 5.17a has had the built in VIA Falcon IDE driver updated to version 2.50A. The full list of components includes: - INF V3.00A - AGP V4.60A - V-RAID V5.70A and RAID Tools v5.40 - VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.50A
NVIDIA® Gelato® rendering software allows anyone with an NVIDIA GPU to create stunning images fast. A hardware-accelerated, non-real-time renderer, Gelato was originally designed for the creation of 3D visual effects and animation in feature films. But Gelato is a powerful tool for any number of industries, including film & broadcast, CAD, architecture, and print.
Gelato is a software program that leverages the NVIDIA GPU as a floating point math processor. This allows Gelato to render images faster than comparable renderers, but without the quality limitations traditionally associated with real-time graphics processing on the GPU.
If you require extra power in your 3D rendering pipeline, you can upgrade to Gelato Pro. With Gelato Pro you get the features required for production rendering: * NVIDIA® Sorbetto™ interactive relighting technology * DSO shadeops * Network parallel rendering * Multithreading * Native 64-bit support * Maintenance and support from NVIDIA's High-Quality-Rendering Team New In Gelato/Gelato Pro 2.2: * Speed and memory improvements – scenes with huge displacement amounts now have can be rendered 5 times faster than before. * Refined ray-traced reflection - the ability to handle multiple reflection rays with improved anti-aliasing. * More accurate subsurface scattering techniques – by defining “albedo” and “Meanfreepath” coefficients. * Enhanced texture converter – which lets you select, replicate and re-order individual color channels when creating textures. * Mango now supports Maya Hair. - And includes a new shader for “Shave and a Haircut”, as well as, a new velvet shader. * Windows XP Professional x64 support.
In addition to these changes, the Mango plug-in for Maya makes Gelato 2.2 easier to use and allows multiple versions of Maya to run simultaneously on your workstation. Other modifications include an updated User Interface, data exporting improvements, new pull-down menus and right-click functionality, standard placement of generated files in Mayaproject folders, better Maya batch rendering and other options via a custom Gelato XML file make workflow effortless and a more flexible SDB file system.
The ALC882 series 7.1+2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), featuring five 24-bit stereo DACs and three 20-bit stereo ADCs, are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems. The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal-to-Noise ratio playback quality; easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices.
The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the Front-Out-Left and Front-Out-Right channels. Flexible mixing, mute, and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs. Features of Realtek High Definition Audio Driver : - High-performance DACs with 103dB SNR are ideal for Dolby Master Studio - ADCs with 90dBA SNR - Meets performance requirements for audio on PC2001 systems - 10 DAC channels support 16/20/24-bit PCM format for 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the - Front-Out-Left and Front-Out-Right channels - 3 stereo ADCs support 16/20-bit PCM format, two for microphone array, one for legacy mixer recording - All DACs support 44.1k/48k/96k/192kHz sample rate - All ADCs support 44.1k/48k/96kHz sample rate - Applicable for DVD-Audio solutions - 16/20/24-bit S/PDIF-OUT supports 44.1k/48k/96k/192kHz sample rate - 16/20/24-bit S/PDIF-IN supports 44.1k/48k/96k/192kHz sample rate - Up to four channels of microphone input are supported for AEC/BF application - High-quality analog differential CD input - Supports external PCBEEP input and built-in digital BEEP generator - Software selectable 2.5V/3.75V VREFOUT - Six VREFOUTs are supported by default, with additional four VREFOUTs available by sharing unused analog I/O pins - Two jack detection pins each designed to detect up to 4 jacks - Reserve analog mixer architecture for backward compatibility with AC'97 - Wide range (–80dB ~ +42dB) volume control with 1.5dB resolution of analog to analog mixer gain - All analog jacks are stereo input and output re-tasking for analog plug & play - Built-in headphone amplifiers for each re-tasking jack - Supports both analog DC volume control and GPI digital volume control - 2 GPIOs (General Purpose Input/Output) for customized applications - Optional EAPD (External Amplifier Power Down) is supported - Power support: Digital: 3.3V; Analog: 5.0V (Minimum AVDD is 3.6V) - Power management and enhanced power saving features - 48-pin LQFP lead (Pb)-free package - Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements - EAX 1.0 & 2.0 compatible - Direct Sound 3D compatible - A3D compatible - I3DL2 compatible - HRTF 3D Positional Audio - Emulation of 26 sound environments to enhance gaming experience - 10 Software Equalizer Bands - Voice Cancellation and Key Shifting in Karaoke mode - Realtek Media Player - Enhanced Configuration Panel and device sensing wizard to improve user experience - Microphone Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), Noise Suppression (NS) and Beam Forming (BF) technology for voice application - ALC882D features Dolby Digital Live output for consumer equipment - ALC882H features Dolby Home Theater software - ALC882M features Dolby Master Studio software
Changes in Driver Package R1.94: Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista/WinXP/Win2000/Win2003 . 1. Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272 2. Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268, ALC269, ALC272 3. HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices 4. OS Supporting: Microsoft WindowsXP, Widnows2000, Vista x86/x64 5. Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013) 6. Add/Fix 1.) Driver : 1. Customizations. 2. Zero recorded data for SPDIF-IN copy-protection stream under Vista.
