Ati 10.5 Drivers Out

Post by **Hammer** » Thu May 27, 2010 6:23 am

<a href="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx" target="_blank">New ATI Reference Drivers</a>

The AMD Graphics Drivers & Software page now offers new version 10.5 Catalyst reference drivers for ATI graphics accelerators. The new drivers address long map load times in Battlefield 2: Bad Company and adds support for 120 Hz refresh rates using ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and 3000 Series cards. Further release notes follow.

Highlights of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.5 Windows release include:

New Features

Support for 120 Hz displays on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 Series and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3000 Series

* ATI Catalystâ„¢ now supports 120 Hz Displays for the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3000 Series

ATI Overdrive enhancement â€“ full support for multiple display configurations

* ATI Overdrive has been enhanced â€“ delivering full support for over-clocking functionality on supported ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD graphics accelerators connected to multiple display configurations

Resolved issue highlights

* "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
* Enabling hardware shaders (perfect mode) no longer causes text and on-screen menu corruption while loading missions in "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" game
* Re-logging into a system after a Remote Desktop connection no longer results in "Catalyst Control Center is not supported..." warning message or the Graphics menu for Catalyst Control Center Advanced view to go missing
* HDTV resolutions are now properly reported by the tooltip when the mouse cursor hovers over the CV display icon under "Desktops & Displays" in the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center
* Alt-Tabbing to desktop and back into "Mass Effect 2" game no longer causes the display to go black
* In-game Anti-Alias can now be applied when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games
* Enabling Anti-Alias in "Empire: Total War" no longer causes a performance drop
* Running "Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.0" in wireframe mode with tessellation enabled no longer causes the application to fail on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5000 Series cards
* Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes the screen to flicker under Multi-GPU configurations
* ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center now remembers the position of fourth monitor in an ATI Eyefinity group
* "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction" no longer fails during game play for ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2000 and 3000 series cards

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.5 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

* This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o SLED/SLES 11 SP1 early look support

For more information on ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.5 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.5 release notes.

Post by **Claw** » Thu May 27, 2010 3:59 pm

Thank you, Mr. H.

Edit: Doesn't appear to have made map load times any better, quite the opposite for me. Load times seem to be taking longer.

Post by **Hammer** » Fri May 28, 2010 6:22 am

Claw wrote: Thank you, Mr. H.

Edit: Doesn't appear to have made map load times any better, quite the opposite for me. Load times seem to be taking longer.

Installed these myself and the BFBC2 load times are horrendous. There is a post on Twitter by one of the GFX driver programmers that the load times should have been fixed but haven't A hot fix should be out in a couple of days.