Catalyst 5.7 and 5.8
On the table for 5.7 are quite a few enhancements as well. HyperMemory will be getting an upgrade in performance, CCC will come to 64-bit versions of Windows, and Multi-GPU features will be enabled. We can also expect new Media Center Extensions that will be geared towards helping users set up their displays.
Catalyst 5.8 will see a new wizard come along, which should handle everything that anyone could want to do with their driver. This should even further extend ATI's ability to empower customers who aren't familiar with how graphics cards work.
Also coming down the pipeline for 5.8 is a new interface for adjusting HDTV settings, including HDTV over DVI. This should really help, as it is a difficult task to get a computer set up to work well with an HDTV these days. ATI has said that the adjustments would include the function to adjust the borders of the video in order to minimize overscan while maximizing useable desktop space.
And that about does it for the information that we have on upcoming Catalyst launches. Hopefully, releases 5.7 and 5.8 will also be able to deliver some performance improvement as well.
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ImJacksAmygdala - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
The pictures are worthless... I had to put my beer goggles on just to read the menus.I am most interested in buying a card that can run Unreal3 and is the best card for home theater HDTV applications. Whoever makes that card first gets my money.
It is nice to see the video card drivers supporting home theater HDTV, but both ATI and Nvidia could do much better. Tier 1 companies could also do much better by offering software bundles and they need to market a home theater specific card package that has bundled codecs (like Nividias codecs) and player software right out of the box. I'm talking about players like Theatertek and Zoomplayer. PowerDVD and WinDVD are fine but for the money you spend on these cards it would be nice to have some real software that a user can get the best PQ for the money they spent. It should also be said that at this point every card sold should have VGA, DVI, Svideo, and Component connections. HDTV theater packages should also include things like DVI to HDMI adapters. If I'm spending $400-$550 on a card it would be nice if all I had to do is install it, hook it up, grab FFDshow and start tweaking. I could care less about all the bundled fluffware and games I will never play.
BubbaJudge - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
I guess all talk, or rumor, of a Nvidia Digital Vibrance equivalent has been dropped. guess I should be thankful we still have hotkeys for gamma adjustment for CS:Sfishbits - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
"ATI has also been touting some performance enhancements this time around as well."Then the performace increases should have been uncovered in the testing that was done. If the increases are very specific "Only in this game, on this map, at this resolution with these settings," then IMHO ATI shouldn't be bragging about them, or should at least qualify the statement. Why disappoint customers by implying they should expect an across-the-board boost in performance, when that won't match the actual experience in most cases?
"would rather have all their clients running exactly the same software configuration and *down* want to allow end users"
Not complaining, just pointing out.
DerekWilson - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
My appologies for the grammar.Yes, there is someone who normally edits our articles before they go live (hi Karen). Unfortunately, it's been a busy week and I was unable to get this artile to her in time for proper editing.
Thus I was forced to employ MS Word as my editor for the article.
And no more coming up with titles at 4AM for me :-)
Thank you for pointing out the errors.
Questar - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
Holy Crap Batman, the commas got out of their cage and are running amok on the Internet!Can you guys hire someone who knows how to write?
gsellis - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
Hey Derek. Did you only test 16x12? What about at other resolutions. And yes, they are now available.probedb - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
This is fantastic news on doing more for HDTV. It's one area that gets left behind a lot.bbomb - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
And for LoneWolf just change where to were.Woodchuck2000 - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
Anyone fancy petitioning ATI for the option of a command-line interface? I wonder how small they could make it and still retain the same technological feature set. Just imagine;CCC/>set aa="4"
CCC/>set refresh="85"
now wouldn't that be better... We could just have a few litle batch files (.ccb I'm thinking) and execute them to configure our exact settings. It'd be handy for benchmarking too!
#10 - Well spotted! I'm glad I only skimmed through the article!
bbomb - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - link
HardOCP said that 5.5 used almost 80MB of memory and that 5.6 used only 15MB for them. Im surrised that Anandtech didnt mention what theirs was. They said in 5.5 there where 2 instances of CLI.exe, one used 35 and the other used 45. In 5.6 there were 3 instances and each used around 5Mb each.