Driver update in Graphics Cards. Operating system support: Windows 7 64-bit.

New Features:
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium
Graphics solutions
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of
Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility
Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI
Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of
products
- Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers
ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
- Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
- Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
Note: Bezel compensation is available only for sets of monitors that have pixel resolution and density within a 5% tolerance of each other.
- Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
- Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party
middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per
eye)
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.3:
- 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics products
- Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Battleforge
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Company of Heroes
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Crysis and Crysis Warhead
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Devil May Cry 4
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- DiRT 2
- Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Far Cry 2
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Resident Evil 5
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
- Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Unigine Tropics
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- World in Conflict
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Wolfenstein
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
- Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3 Eyefinity group
- Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of changing to ‘0’ upon being disabled
- Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear Learn more.