ATI Catalyst 7.7

Der Catalyst 7.7 bringt, neben anderen Neuerungen und Bugfixes, auch neue Anti-Aliasing-Modi mit sich:

"This release of Catalyst introduces support for 12X and 24X Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, and ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series. These new Anti-Aliasing settings are available through the new Anti-Aliasing Edge Detect Filter. Selecting 4X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter deliver the equivalent of 12X Anti-Aliasing. Selecting 8X Anti-Aliasing plus selecting the Edge Detect filter deliver the equivalent of 24X Anti-Aliasing."

Außerdem listen die Release-Notes folgende wichtigen Änderungen unter Windows Vista:

• Call of Juarez: Enabling AA no longer result in occasional corruption being noticed.
• Doom3: Flashing is no longer observed when loading the game, or during some of the cinematic, or during game play when Catalyst AI is disabled, AA is set to 8x, and CrossFire is enabled.
• Lost Planet: Corruption is no longer noticed after a short time period of game play.
• Monsters.Inc: Enabling DXVA no longer results in certain scenes being choppy.
• Pacific Fighters: Corruption is no longer noticed when enabling superAA.
• Prey: A blank screen is no longer displayed when trying to load game if AA is set to either 4x or 8x and filter wide tent is used.
• Quake 3 and 4: Resuming from a standby state no longer results in the display image appearing too bright.
• Quake 4: Playing the game with CrossFire enabled no longer results in corruption being noticed after a short time of game play.

Und Windows XP:

• Call of Duty 2: Setting the in-game resolution to 640x480 no longer results in visual static and interrupted audio during cinematic and within the menus.
• Google Earth: The fog is displayed in the image no longer has a checkered effect.
• Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide no longer exhibits missing textures on characters under some circumstances on some hardware configurations.

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