ATI Releases CATALYST 7.1 Drivers For Download
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:36 am
ATI yesterday released Catalyst 7.1 on ati.amd.com for both Windows XP and Linux platforms
Highlights of the Catalyst 7.1 release include:
Performance improvements
As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations. In this release of Catalyst® Dark Messiah: Might and Magic performance improves as much as 12% on all ATI Radeon X1000 Series products.
New features
Crossfire enhancements
Catalyst 7.1 includes Crossfire enhancements that enable the Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Crossfire rendering mode by default, enabling performance benefits for all AFR compatible applications immediately (including newly released applications that have not been officially profiled for Crossfire). Future Catalyst releases will add further Crossfire performance gains once new applications have been profiled specifically for Crossfire. Please note that applications already profiled for AFR will not see any performance benefits from this feature.
Highlights of the Linux Catalyst 7.1 (8.33.6) release include:
New features
Linux Kernel 2.6.19 Support
This release of the Catalyst® Linux software suite supports version 2.6.19 of the Linux Kernel.
X.Org 7.2 Support
This release of the Catalyst® Linux software suite provides support for the official X.Org 7.2 release. The previous Linux Catalyst release (8.32.5) supported the X.Org 7.2 RC2 release only.
Resolved Issues
Enabling Stereo on a FireGL V5000 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the X-Windows desktop
Running through the package generation installation of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver no longer results in the continue button remaining greyed out when selecting a package to be generated
The ATI Control Panel no longer gets installed when running through the Custom Installation and de-selecting the Control Panel component
Connecting two display devices and switching the overlay to the secondary display device no longer causes aticonfig to fail
For more information on Catalyst 7.1 (for Windows and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 7.1 release notes found in driver download section.