ATI today releases its 9.7 set of Catalyst drivers, covering HD2000 series and newer cards. The Windows Vista and 7 drivers are available now; XP will be coming tomorrow.

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Mar 06, 2008 Download ATI Catalyst 8.3 Control Center Vista (Graphics Board). Details can be found in topic number 737-30579. The Windows Vista operating system may fail to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive option. Can't Find Catalyst Control Center? I've recently moved to the Technical Preview, and while everything seems to work fine, I've noticed that the AMD Catalyst Control Center appears to no longer exist on my system.

Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test Custom Clocks test With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some Crossfire systems Enemy Territory: Quake.
Jan 28, 2014 The AMD Catalyst Control Center is a component in the AMD Catalyst software engine. This application provides video customization options to adjust display settings, display profiles and video performance. While the more casual computer user might never find reason to use this utility.

Changes to Catalyst Control Center are included in this release, as is ATI video encoder support for Windows 7, performance improvements for games where framerates are limited by CPU, and the usual bug fixes.

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Below are your new features, performance improvements and resolved issues; check the release notes for known remaining issues if you wish. As always, uninstall the old driver set and, ideally, reboot and use a program like Driver Sweeper before installing the new set.

New Features
ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft
WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM

Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations
Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista graphics driver
Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and AMD ATI Catalyst features on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

Catalyst Control Center

ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Updates
The ATI Catalyst™ Control Center now features:

A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7

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The new ATI Catalyst™ Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows Vista

ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7

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ATI Catalyst 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series products

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System

Added support for OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
Catalyst Control Center in some multi-display configurations Extend Desktop no longer causes the secondary display to become the primary display
Catalyst Control Center, 'Make Primary' option no longer fails to function in some 'Extended Desktop' modes
Opening Catalyst Control Center no longer results in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
Catalyst Control Center, HDMI configuration aspects no longer fail to launch on some systems
Catalyst Control Center hotkeys now toggle through all desktop modes
Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
Catalyst Control Center duplicated display options no longeer become available in some multi-adapter configurations
Interlaced modes can now be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control Center
Confirmation dialog box now appears when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
Catalyst Control Center, add custom modes is now available in the Digital Panel HDTV support page
Catalyst Control Center Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window no longer blanks out
Catalyst Control Center Overdrive Auto-Tune no longer stops responding on some CrossFire configurations
Catalyst Control Center does not show a 'System restart required ... ' message for some multi adapter CrossFire configurations
Catalyst Control Center an additional window no longer appears when running in Wizard mode
Catalyst Control Center tab is now available in advance Display Settings with Windows 7

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

Displays on some HDMI devices no longer fails to scale to the full display when running at resolutions greater than 1152 x 864
A delay no longer occurs when resuming from sleep on some system configurations
Systems no longer become unresponsive when entering sleep mode when running Google Earth in Open GL mode
Cyberlink Media Show Espresso no longer stops responding when transcoding some videos to WMV with hardware decode enabled
Resolved frames drops when playing Blu-ray video with PowerDVD8
Avivo video converter/transcoder generic image quality fixes
Catalyst Control Center CrossFire configuration options now are displayed on subsequent system restart
Disabling and re-enabling CrossFire no longer causes flickering on certain direct 3D applications running in full screen
Cybelink Media Show Espresso no longer show corruption when transcoded to ipod touch or PSP devices formats

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

Catalyst Control Center image scaling options, 'Maintain aspect ratio' and 'Use centered timings' now function on DVI displays
Catalyst Control Center, the Scaling Option is available on HDMI and Component Video configurations
Catalyst Control Center, system configurations CrossFire does not become disabled on system restart

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System

On some systems with both component video display and a secondary display, it is now possible to duplicate the displays using the display settings
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