A number of fixes and a new algorithm!ATI has today released a new Catalyst driver that adds a number of fixes to different games and introduces a new "Directional Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing Algorithm" that should lead to reduced artificating.
Some of the issues that have been fixed in this release include the following:
? Battlefield 2: The game no longer exits to the Windowsdesktop after the game logo is displayed
? Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Running theDantoonie level of the game no longer results in hesitation beingnoticed
? Endorphin: Running the application under Windows XP nolonger results in hesitation being noticed during simulation orplayback
? Terminator 3: The game no longer fails to respond and a VPURecover message no longer occur after loading the game character
? Silent Hunter 3: Enabling all video options within the gameand setting the particle density to 100, along with settingAnti-Aliasing to 6X and Anisotropic Filtering to 16x, no longerresults in display corruption on the left portion of the display
? Max Payne 2: Erratic mouse pointer behavior is no longernoticed within the game's menu after a short time period of game play
? Intermittent launch failures of the Catalyst Control Centeris now resolved
The drivers can be downloaded here.
Article Link: ATI Catalyst 5.9 drivers
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