ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

[Widkidone]

New Features

This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:

- Avivo™ Video Converter Extension for Windows Media Center Edition
- Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner Support

Avivo™ Video Converter Extension for Windows Media Center Edition

Catalyst® 6.6 introduces a Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility. This utility will allow users to convert video content that is either recorded or available to Media Center Edition to a variety of different formats. The video content can be converted to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, MPEG-4/AVC and Windows Media. iPod video and Sony PSP’s are also supported with an optimized profile for these devices.
Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner Support

Catalyst® 6.6 includes support for NTSC/ATSC and PAL/SECAM/DVB-T products based on the Theater 650 Pro TV Tuner chip. The Theater 650 Pro is a new chip from ATI for multimedia cards and DTV-on-a-chip solutions, integrating hardware video encoding, digital audio with noise reduction, and hardware PVR functions in a single chip.
Performance Improvements

As with most Catalyst® releases, performance has increased in various situations.
- Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.

- Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.

- Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems

Download Ati Catalyst 6.6

[ramsy66]

Re: ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

Any point me getting it for my X800, or does it only improve performance on games for X1000 series?

[Lith1um]

Re: ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

check out the known issues for 6.6,

* Battlefield 2: The game may exit to the Windows desktop after the game logo is displayed 737-22635

[Papi4baby]

Re: ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

Any point me getting it for my X800, or does it only improve performance on games for X1000 series?

Just try them out, even if it does not mention a performance increase, it might do it just a bit, also other stuff got update. So try them out, if you see no problem, keep them, if not roll back.

[Eddy01741]

Re: ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

Ok, i used em in BF2, no problems on my end, but then gagin, havn't had any probs with cat drivers since like august 05.

[TheHairyYeti]

Re: ATI User: ATI Catalyst 6.6 Released

I've upgraded my drivers before on my X850 Pro and the game works perfectly right now, so there is really no sense in seeing if there will be a boost or a difference if I like it how it is now.