ATI Catalyst 5.1 Drivers Released

ATI has just posted the official 5.1 Catalyst drivers to their site.

This official release addresses several issues including:


Men of Valor: Buffering issues are no longer noticed when playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500 or 9100 series installed

Myst URU Ages Beyond Myst: Attempting to turn 180 degrees and head towards the barb wire fence displayed within the game no longer results in the system failing to respond. This issue is known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum Edition installed.

Richard Burns Rally: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500/9100/9200 series installed no longer results in the trees flickering

Sid Meier's Pirates: Enabling Anti-aliasing no longer results in video flicker being noticed when starting the game

Release Notes

ATI Catalyst 5.1 Drivers - Windows XP

ATI Catalyst 5.1 Drivers - Other OS

Known Issues for CATALYST™ Display Driver Version 5.1
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of CATALYST™. These include the following:

Call of Duty: Corruption is noticed when playing a saved game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9100 PRO IGP series installed and having a variety of graphic options provided by the game set high. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4656.html
Pacific Fighters: Playing the game after playing any track for a short period of time and having the landscape detail set to perfect results in the clouds becoming blocking when flying Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4732.html
Serious Sam: Playing the game under Windows XP results in the display flashing when TRUFORM is enabled. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4763.html
Rainbow six3: Athena Sword: Playing the game under Windows 2000 with an ATI RADEON™ X700 installed results in the game failing to retain its resolution option of 1600x1200 if you Alt-tab out of the game and then Alt-tab back to the game. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4633.html
World Fables: The battlefield fog-of-war currently does not render properly. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4728.html
Accessing the Problem Report Wizard option from the ATI icon in the system tray results in Problem Report Wizard not being translated in supported localized languages. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4762.html
Hesitation and display corruption is noticed when moving a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 window from the primary display device to a secondary TV or DVI display device. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4764.html
Moving the media player from the primary desktop to the secondary desktop results in the Overlay Aspect sliders becoming disabled when moving the media player back to the primary display adapter. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4601.html
Playing a DVD with Theater mode enabled and a secondary display device connected and clone mode enabled results in Aspect Ratio option for full screen not working. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4602.html
Setting the Theater mode option to Same as All and playing a media file results in all the buttons for the overlay or standard setting option being greyed out. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4603.html
Assigning a hotkey to increase the overlay gamma results in the hotkey not functioning properly when playing an MPEG using the Windows Media Player. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4604.html
Playing a media file under Windows 2000 using the MS Media Player with Theater mode option set to Theater mode results in clone mode failing to be applied. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4605.html
The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode found under the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER Video standard settings is grayed out when playing a media file. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4606.html
Attempting to set the default colour settings may occasionally result in the default colour setting not being applied. This issue is known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9500 or 9800 installed. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4607.html
Entering the Video option found in the Graphic Setting tab of the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER results in the side scroll bar being missing for the secondary display device connected to an ATI RADEON™ 9800 series under Windows XP. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4765.html
Enabling the option Enable Video Mode results in the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER not being able to return to it original default setting for the Enable Video Mode option. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4766.html
The Welcome tab found in the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER is not completely localized for the Japanese version of Windows XP, or 2000. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4767.html
Using the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER to access the Display Manager results in corruption being seen on top of menu text in the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese versions of Windows XP. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4768.html
The video preview is missing or a black screen is displayed when enabling clone mode using the ATI CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER. Further information on this issue can be found at: www.ati.com/support/infobase/4769.html

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Ok all. Forget this thread. Was posted earlier in Hardware of all fucking places. I did run a search at the time, but only in Software where it should have been posted but there ya go. Next time, I see a release from, say Mozilla, I'll be sure to post it in Movie World, cause you know it makes sense :dry: