{"id":5165,"date":"2009-04-15T02:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2009-04-17T02:33:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T02:33:33","slug":"ati-catalyst-74-driver-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/ati-catalyst-74-driver-released\/","title":{"rendered":"ATi Catalyst 9.4 driver released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another month, and we have another driver from ATi. In addition to including a new version of overdrive for overclocking, here&#8217;s the fix list:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Windows Vista<\/span> <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; or &#8220;World of Warcraft &#8211; Wrath of the Lich King&#8221;: Flickering no longer occurs when Shadow is set to medium\/high using CrossFire.<\/li>\n<li>Google Sketchup no longer displays blank screen.<\/li>\n<li>Resolutions above 10 x 7 will now full screen properly for specific HDMI displays.<\/li>\n<li>Artifacts no longer visible while playing Age of Conan DX10.<\/li>\n<li>VC-1 progressive disc playback no longer exhibits block corruption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Windows XP<\/span> <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver now functions properly under Windows XP.<\/li>\n<li>Overlay Theatre Mode display no longer corrupt after enabling 3D screen saver.<\/li>\n<li>OS Display Settings no longer shows extra resolutions for Component Video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Windows 7<\/span> <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City of Villains: Display now redraws correctly after changing graphics settings.<\/li>\n<li>Catalyst Control Center: 1080i@30hz and 1080i@25hz Component Video modes can now be applied via Component Video &#8211; Advanced aspect.<\/li>\n<li>Custom formats modes can now be applied properly and will be available under &#8220;List All Modes&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Display profiles will now be restored when displays are swapped while the system sleeps.<\/li>\n<li>WinDVD9 HD playback doesn&#8217;t cause the desktop to jitter or flicker anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Device Manager no longer displays error during express driver uninstall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also one of our editors (Apoppin) has tested them in the new <em>Chronicles of Riddick<\/em> game <em>Dark Athena<\/em>, and reports a substantially better gaming experience. Look out for his review of the game coming very soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/us\/gpudownload\/Pages\/index.aspx\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/support.amd.com\/us\/gpudownload\/Pages\/index.aspx', 'Get them here']);\" target=\"_blank\">Get them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another month, and we have another driver from ATi. In addition to including a new version of overdrive for overclocking, here&#8217;s the fix list: Windows Vista &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; or &#8220;World of Warcraft&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[648,73,147],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-648","tag-ati","tag-catalyst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}