ATI Radeon Graphics Card Driver Catalyst 7.8 Windows XP/XP MCE

Driver Brief

Version: 7.8
Release: 08/13/07
Update: 08/14/07
License:Free Driver
File Name: 7-8_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_50960.exe
File Size: 35.50 Mb
Environment: Windows XP/XP MCE
Category:Display And Video Driver Download
Vendor:ATI Technology
Subcategory:ATI Technology Display And Video Driver Download

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ATI Radeon 9550/9600/9700/9800/X300/X600/X700/X800/X1300/X1600/X1800/X1900/X1950/HD 2400/HD 2600/HD 2900 XT Graphics Card Driver Catalyst 7.8 Windows XP/XP MCE. Display Driver, Catalyst Control Center, WDM Drivers.

The Catalyst software suite 7.8 contains the following:

  • Radeon display driver 8.401
  • Multimedia Center 9.16
  • HydraVision
  • HydraVision Basic Edition
  • Remote Wonder 3.04
  • WDM Driver Install Bundle
  • Southbridge/IXP Driver
  • Catalyst Control Center Version 7.8

    New Features: This release of Catalyst introduces an enhanced version of ATI Overdrive for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series. Users can now Over-clock both GPU engine and graphics memory clock speeds in Crossfire mode (and over-clock single ATI Radeon graphics accelerators as well). This version of ATI Overdrive also includes a new stress test application to verify any over-clocking speeds users may have configured (either manually or through the auto-tuning tool) on their ATI Radeon graphics accelerators.

    The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.8:

  • Lost Planet DX10 with anti-aliasing improves 11% or greater on Radeon HD2900XT products
  • Radeon HD2600 and Radeon HD2400 (single and CrossFire) show improvements of as much as 6% in 3DMark 2006 and 3DMark 2005
  • Serious Sam 2 with HDR enabled improves as much as 14.5% on Radeon HD2900, Radeon HD2600 and Radeon HD2400 products

    This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

  • Star Wars knights of the Old Republic 2: Corruption is no longer seen when running the game on some members of the ATI Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series of products.
  • CounterStrike Source, Day of Defeat Source, and Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Excessive fog is no longer noticed when playing these games.
  • The Overscan/Underscan slider bar is no longer enabled when setting display resolutions of 1280x1024 or higher on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT series of product.
  • Adobe After Effects 8: The application no longer fails to load on systems containing an ATI Radeon X700 series of product.
  • PowerDVD6: Momentary desktop corruption is no longer noticed when minimizing the DVD playback window after stretching the playback window approximately 80%.
  • The system no longer becomes unresponsive and no longer requires a reboot while randomly moving Video Player window from primary to extended desktop under certain hardware configurations where the second adapter is an ATI Radeon X1200/1250/1270 series of product.
  • A warning message indicating CrossFire cannot be enabled because some 3D applications are running or the interconnect cable is not connected, or the motherboard has no communication channels between PCI-Express slots is no longer displayed when using a motherboard with an Intel I965 chipset.
  • The CrossFire page is no longer greyed out and cannot be enabled when attempting to use a software CrossFire configuration on a system using a motherboard with an Intel I975 chipset.
  • The Avivo components are now listed in the ADD/Remove Programs after installation of the display driver.
  • Switching HD-DVD titles during playback with hardware acceleration enabled no longer results in the playback to be blocked.
  • WinDVD8: Playing a DVD and changing the video setting to Hardware Acceleration mode no longer results in corruption being noticed.

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