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ATI Catalyst^TM 10.4 per Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP e Linux sul sito http://www.amd.com

  ATI Catalyst^TM 10.4 release per Windows  include:

Performance improvements

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

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  • Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon^TM HD 5970 graphics products
  • Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon^TM HD 5800 graphics products
  • Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon^TM HD 5700 Series products

New Features

ATI Catalyst - Video enhancements

• H.264 Level 5.1 support
  • ATI Catalyst^TM 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^TM 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^TM 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^TM HD 5000 Series
• Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
• Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire^TM 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"

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst^TM 10.4 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

• This release of ATI Catalyst^TM Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: 
  • Ubuntu 10.04  early look support