Wednesday, April 28th 2010
ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL Driver Suite Released
AMD released the final iteration of Catalyst 10.4 graphics driver suite. The WHQL-signed drivers keep up with the company's one month update cycle, and introduce a wide range of changes. To begin with, game-specific performance improvements in this release are confined to STALKER - Clear Sky, with up to 6% improvement in frame-rates for the Radeon HD 5970, and up to 3% for HD 5800 and HD 5700 series GPUs. There are changes to the video-decoding features, namely addition of H.264 Level 5.1 support, and a fix that reduces the "mosquito noise" seen in highly-compressed video.
Improvements to the video-transcoding capabilities are also a highlight of this release, with enhanced support for Windows 7 drag-and-drop video converter, namely performance increment, support for new H.264 formats such as MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content, and the ability to toggle GPU-acceleration from Catalyst Control Center. Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
A list of minor fixes follows.
Improvements to the video-transcoding capabilities are also a highlight of this release, with enhanced support for Windows 7 drag-and-drop video converter, namely performance increment, support for new H.264 formats such as MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content, and the ability to toggle GPU-acceleration from Catalyst Control Center. Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
A list of minor fixes follows.
- 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 HD 5000 Series
- Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
- Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire 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"
51 Comments on ATI Catalyst 10.4 WHQL Driver Suite Released
I get a black screen in 4 games now AVOID EM
TOTAL GARBAGE
EDIT: I get a black screen with a mouse curser on everything that Involves 3D
HULU and all my Games I'll try to do a total driver reinstall and see if it helps
I was hoping these drivers would help loading times on few games..
Now I can't them to load at all....
I just uninstalled the drivers and removed all ATI downloads and I'm gonna try Driver sweeper and cCleaner and all that...If not I go back to 9-12 where at least my stuff loads
btw, the changelog for those interested www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_104_release_notes.pdf
edit: nvm, tested it myself, seems 10.4a contain the 10.4 whql fix at least in video playback. It can play practically any h264 video in dxva mode, I can even play 720p with 16 reference frame. Just need to untick compatibility check, bravo ATi! this put them on par with Nvidia. :)
NICE DRIVERS AMD..
I'm sure they fixed all the issues listed but it would seem they created a crap load more..
on a positive note all is fine with my 4830..it would seem they have fixed all my issues with that..now if they could just work on fixing this long load black screen with my 5750 I'd be happy
EDIT: Correction the lag is most likely caused from an update from Windows update for REALTEK GBE PCIe Family Controller
The 2D fix seems to work well. My desktop feels much snappier.
Anyways I went back to 10-1 and all is better now except for COD WaW..
I guess I'll have to wait for the next release to see if that gets fixed..
I thought the release notes said it fixed the Black screen on most stuff..Which I only had 1 program b4 10-4 with that problem after I tried it, it was just about every program..Glad to hear it works for somebody..
Just wish they would fix this crap..
DriverVer=04/06/2010, 8.723.0.0000
10.4a are:
DriverVer=04/19/2010, 8.723.5.0000
So these are obviously older, except 10.4a broke dvxa for me so going to give them a shot and if its still not working going back to opengl drivers 10.3
please do share your finding though. :toast:
Strange, one file that is LS3.1 works on 10.3, but on 10.4 it doesn't :(
However an older file that is encoded with LS5.1 isn't working on 10.4
BUT, I'm pretty sure when I watched that file, I was using 10.3ogl and it was fine then too. :S
So confused, switching through the driver sets is annoying lol.
Dumping info:
10.4
Edit: Well some of my filters aren't passing it through to decode on the gpu for certain codecs eg avc->mpeg2.
Going to sweep and try 10.3 again just to double check.
but that can be fixed :)
- All video above certain resolution (720p it seems) will work with DXVA, regardless of profiles though kinda unsure with 1080p @ L5.1 (I only have L4.1)
- 1024x576 High@L4.2 15ref frames works, need more samples
- All video below certain resolution (848x480 and below) will have blocking artifact, regardless of profiles but I also have an odd case where it works
The odd video format :
In case you don't understand me, when you die you respawn, after like 10 seconds, I will hit "Join Game" and it freezes (brings my FPS down to 1 FPS) and then it loads back up and I have to press "Join Game like 10 times until I am finally available to respawn ...?:banghead:
Posting another thread as I need helping getting dxva accel on a file that isn't playing nice.
edit: links in first post are screwy, 7x64 takes you to XP64 driver