ATI Radeon Graphics Card Driver Catalyst 6.5 Windows 2000/XP download

ATI Radeon Graphics Card Driver Catalyst 6.5 Windows 2000/XP.The Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:Radeon X1900 seriesRadeon X1800 seriesRadeon X1600 seriesRadeon X1300 seriesRadeon X850 seriesRadeon X800 seriesRadeon X700 seriesRadeon X600 seriesRadeon X550 seriesRadeon X300 seriesRadeon 9X00 seriesRadeon 8500 seriesRadeon 7X00 seriesThe Catalyst software suite 6.5 contains the following:Radeon display driver 8.252Multimedia Center 9.14HydraVisionHydraVision Basic EditionRemote Wonder 3.03WDM Driver Install BundleSouthbridge/IXP DriverCatalyst Control Center Version 6.5As with most Catalyst releases, performance has increased in various situations. The PCI Express bandwidth optimization code in Catalyst 6.5 brings performance improvements for both the ATI Radeon X1600 and Radeon X1300 Crossfire configurations, including:Up to 23% gain in UT2004Up to 20% gain in Splinter CellThe following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst. These include:3DMark05: Running the application with CrossFire enabled and then attempting to hot un-plug and then hot-plug the CRT no longer results in 3DMark05 failing to respond.Aquamark 3: Exiting the Start Measurement benchmark test once it is complete no longer results in the display device displaying a black desktop image with only the mouse cursor being available.Doom 3: Beginning a new game and selecting the shotgun in the give all console no longer results in corruption being noticed when Ultra Quality is disabled in the in game video quality settings.Far Cry: Installing the v1.33 patch and selecting D3D along with setting the display to 1024x768 English no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when running the benchmark.Catalyst Control Center: Enabling clone mode no longer results in the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI Radeon X700 series product.The MCE encoder no longer fails to install after the installation of the ATI display driver, WDM driver, and MMC software.The display device no longer fades to black when attempting to do an inf install of the display driver.Connecting a CRT and disconnecting a TV followed by entering suspend mode and disconnecting the CRT no longer results in the LCD display failing to resume from suspend mode.Disconnecting a TV and connecting a CRT while in hibernation mode no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image when resuming from hibernation mode.Connecting a Sharp 32 inch LCD TV using the DVI connector no longer results in the a display mode of 659x496 being displayed when setting the display to 640x480.Catalyst Control Center: Advanced Mode: Incorrect text and cropped text is no longer noticed when selecting Japanese as the language for the Catalyst Control Center.Clicking Start->All Programs->Catalyst Control Center->Advanced->Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center Basic View launching.The HDTV formats list no longer becomes empty after changing the display mode from extended desktop mode to clone mode.The Windows MCE operating system no longer fails to respond when doing a TV channel scan when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 (PAL).A .net 2.0 error message is no longer displayed during the installation under the Windows 2000 SP4 Chinese version.Using the Catalyst Control Center to change the skin to the ATI Catalyst Crimson no longer results in the ATI Quicksilver skin being applied.Running the automated clock configuration utility found in the Overdrive aspect page of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.Enabling Picture-in-picture no longer results in the windowed TV image failing to respond when changing the TV channel.Catalyst Control Center: A VPU Recover warning window no longer fails to be displayed when an ASIC reset occurs.Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary CRT display device no longer results in the LCD display device failing to display an image after completing the Catalyst Control Center->Easy Setup Wizard.Applying the Custom settings found in the CV aspect page of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in the custom setting being lost when the system is rebooted.Running SFR in 720p on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1800 series no longer results in line corruption being noticed when CrossFire is enabled.The operating system no longer fails to respond when connecting a DVO dongle to an ATI Radeon 7000 series.Adding a new custom HDTV mode no longer results in the custom mode not being available in the Catalyst Control Center Display Manager.The predefined HDTV modes are no longer missing from the CV aspect page in the Catalyst Control Center.Catalyst Control Center: Enabling clone mode may result in the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz when using an ATI Radeon X700 series product.The display mode of 1024x768@60Hz is now included in Catalyst Control Center for component video output.The HDTV Support aspect is now available under the Monitor Properties when using Advanced View in the Catalyst Control Center.Connecting an HDTV using the CV dongle and setting the power option to turn the monitor off after one minute no longer results in the HDTV failing to resume.An HDMI detection message is now displayed when hot plugging an HDMI display device.Catalyst Control Center: Truncated and cut-off text is no longer noticed in various supported languages.Black cubes and fog function no longer fail when testing GLView.Two error messages are no longer displayed in the event viewer after the installation of the driver.Using the hot-key function to change an LCD display panel setting no longer results in the LCD Panel Properties found in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be updated with the current setting.Catalyst Control Center: Basic View: Enabling Use Advanced view 3D settings in the 3D Quality and Performance Setting no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center reverting back to Use Basic 3D setting below.The operating system no longer restarts multiple verdana after unplugging the power cable to the slave card and using only the master card.Using the composite connectors to connect a CRT and TVout to an ATI Radeon X1600 or 1300 no longer results in the TVout failing to display the desktop image when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.NaviSet V1.1.10: Connecting an NEC display device to an ATI Radeon X1600 series may result in the Monitor Adjustment dialog box stating No DDC/CI monitors detected.The Catalyst Control Center TV Properties no longer lists H/PAL as an appropriate, third format for countries that do not support this format.An un-necessary hyphen next to the Go to ATI.com option found in the German version of the Catalyst Control Center is now removed.Connecting two display devices using a DVI-CRT and DVI-CV dongles no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied.The submenu Formats fields found in the TV Properties are no longer blank when setting the TV standard to PAL within the Catalyst Control Center.