New ATI drivers (5.11) released!

[TenderBranson]

Heres the change log:

ATI drivers are already optimized for your product from the initial installation. Installing a new driver is only recommended if you are experiencing issues with your ATI product, including those mentioned below:

- 3DMark05: Running the application under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled no longer results in a warning message being displayed when closing the application
- Battlefield 2: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® 9200/9250 series no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
- Call of Duty: Starting a single player game at any skill level no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Xpressâ„¢ 200 series product
- City of Heroes: Playing the game under Windows XP Media Center Edition no longer results in display corruption being notice when attempting to task-switch between the game and the desktop
- Doom3 Resurrection of Evil: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled and Catalyst® A.I. disabled no longer results in scissor mode corruption being noticed
- Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil: Playing the game under Windows XP MCE with CrossFire enabled no longer results in ghosting effect being noticed
- FarCry: Installing the 1.32 patch for the game followed by changing the lighting quality no longer result in corruption being noticed when reaching a certain point in the game
- F.E.A.R.: Playing the game under Windows XP using an ATI Radeon X1800 no longer results in poor performance being noticed
- Max Payne 2: Playing the game under Windows XP with CrossFireâ„¢ enabled no longer results in a loss of sync being noticed
- Neverwinter Nights: Installing the 1.66 patch along with Shadows of Undertide and Hordes add-ons no longer results in features of the game being missing when using an ATI Radeon® 9600 SE
- Quake 4: The fire effect no longer becomes corrupt after using GLSL
- Serious Sam: Two directdraw samples are no longer displayed as a blank screen
- Windows Movie Maker: Inputting the video source from the S-Video connector, and using the application to capture from source, no longer results in the Windows 2000 operating system failing to respond once the capture is complete
- Wurm Online: The water reflection displayed within the game is now rendered properly
- Connecting a CRT and a TV no longer results in the TV not being automatically detected under Windows XP MCE when using an ATI Radeon® 9550/9600/9650 series
- Catalyst® Control Center: All the menu items in the Deinterlacing aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center are now displayed when selecting Simplified Chinese as the supported language
- Catalyst® Control Center: Enabling East Asian language support no longer results in the Apply, Discard and Defaults buttons being invisible
- Vertical striping corruption is no longer noticed when running the Windows XP MCE TV when using an ATI All-in-Wonderâ„¢ X600 series
- Connecting a DVD player to the ATI All-in-Wonderâ„¢ X600 no longer results in the left and right audio channels being reversed when using the Windows XP MCE operating system
- Enabling CrossFire support on a system using three display device no longer results in corruption remaining on the secondary or third display devices when disabling the displays
- Water reflection textures are now displayed correctly when running ViewMarseille.bat found in the Use Debug Version of Direct3D
- Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X800 CrossFire™ Edition no longer results in the HDTV being detected as a CRT monitor when the smart dongle switches are set to off
- The extended desktop display profile is now retained after switching between different user account in systems using an ATI Xpressâ„¢ 200 series and running the Windows XP operating system
- Using WinDVD to playback a DVD title while having the Catalyst® Control Center running, no longer results in the playback of the DVD pausing momentarily
- Vertical striping corruption is no longer noticed when running the Windows XP MCE TV when using an ATI All-in-Wonder X300/X600 series
- Connecting a DVD player to the VIVO connector no longer results in the video preview window failing to provide a preview when attempting to capture
- Connecting an HDTV as the only display device using the component video connector on an ATI Radeon X1300 no longer results in the display image shrinking when making changes to either AA or AF found in the 3D aspect page of the Catalyst® Control Center
- Creating a *.avi file under Windows XP MCE when using an ATI Radeon X800 series no longer results in the color of the captured file appearing corrupt during playback
- Connecting a display device to the DVI connector on systems containing an ATI Xpressâ„¢ 200 series no longer results in the display device failing to respond when attempting to resume from an S3 state
- Attempting to play a DVD using the ATI DVD player under Windows XP MCE with an Apple Cinema display device connected no longer results in a blank playback window

No mention of any fixes for Civ4, but thats to be expected since ATI only fixes minor issues in the drivers. Nonetheless, I'll be giving them a shot. Post your experiences here!

Heres where to get em!

[seebs]

No effects on my system, but then, my crashes don't seem to be graphics-card related now; they mostly have to do with UI crashes on giving certain orders. (Which orders? Changes from one turn to another. Right now I can't have any workers make pastures or cottages, or go into "build trade network" mode, but existing workers in trade network mode work just fine.

[abman]

Yep no change for me either, and my problem is definately video card related. Never makes it into the game for me. goes right through that loading splash window and then quits out. No change at all with 5.11 drivers. Time to try those omega drivers I think.

[seebs]

What makes you say "definitely video card related"? It doesn't sound like a graphical glitch.

[Auldian]

Seems my reboot issues are gone.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143083

I can't say for certain it's the 5.11 Catalysts that's due credit. I had no .NET Framework on my machine prior to using this driver kit, which required it, so it was also newly installed (2.0).
I used DriverCleanerPro to remove my old 5.10CP Cats.

[nbarclay]

Still having my problem with not being able to see the terrain on my AIW Radeon 7500.

[seebs]

The 7500 may need special options, because it's right on the edge of the hardware support feature set.

FWIW, the 5.11 drivers seem to have eliminated all of my video-related crashes; scrolling around, etc, no longer produce any crashes. They had no effect on crash on worker order, but my workaround for that (flat earth map) seems flawless.

[TenderBranson]

Well I would have replied back to my own post sooner, but I've been too damned busy playing Civ4! I was able to play an entire game with out any crashes and it didn't even lag badly in the 20th century!!! (Medium gfx settings) I'm now playing another game (now with gfx set to high, though AA is still off) and am up to the mid 17th century without a crash yet though I did have one graphical messup where it just got all freaky and I knew it would crash so I exited.

Overall, excellent results for my 9600! Before I had been crashing to BIOS several times per game, so I'm pretty pleased with this. Obviously your milage may vary, but give it a try!