ATI Catalyst
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 ATI Catalyst Control Centre running on Windows XP |
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| Developed by | ATI Technologies/Advanced Micro Devices |
| Initial release | January 19, 2004 |
| Latest release | 8.5 (pkg. ver. 8.493) (May 21, 2008) |
| Written in | .NET |
| OS | Windows (98/ME, 2000, XP/MCE 2005,Server 2003/Server 2008,Vista), Linux, XP@Boot Camp |
| Size | variable |
| Available in | English |
| Genre | Overclocking, Monitoring |
| License | freeware |
| Website | ATI Catalyst Control Center |
ATI Catalyst is a utility software driver package for several ATI products for several operating systems. The Catalyst software was instituted after the release of the Radeon 8500. This driver development paradigm at ATI promised monthly driver updates which included performance enhancements, bug fixes, and new features. As of 2007, the Catalyst driver package typically included ATI Catalyst Control Center; an interface for manipulating many of the hardware's functions, such as 3D settings, monitor controls, video options, among other things. It also offered a small 3D preview, allowing the user to see how changes to the graphics settings affected the quality of the rendered image.
Catalyst allows for adjustments to the Radeon card as well as for showing information about the card itself and the software data. There are three modes for the control center: simple, advanced and wizard modes.
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[edit] Graphic settings in Catalyst
- Monitor properties
- 3D settings - such as Anti-aliasing and Anisophic filtering
- ATI Avivo - hardware acceleration of video decoding includes a set of video settings like gamma correction, only applies to the Radeon X1000 series and HD 2000/3000 series
- SmartGart (available to AGP products only)
- VPU Recovery - Resets graphics processor in case it no longer responds to display driver
- ATI Overdrive - Overclocking of video cards to enhance performance
- ATI PowerPlay - Adjust power saving plans to the GPU, only applies to Mobility Radeon and Radeon HD 3800 series
[edit] Notable versions
The old control panel interface (within Windows' Display Properties) was previously a fall-back option, but that has been discontinued as of Catalyst 5.13. The last version to support Windows 2000 was Catalyst 6.2, which only supports Radeon cards up to the X850. The Catalyst package can be downloaded in pieces as well, for non-broadband users. For example, the display driver can be downloaded alone, separated from the Catalyst Control Center and WDM VIVO drivers. The day that Windows Vista launched, ATI provided a Microsoft certified Catalyst driver referenced as Catalyst 7.1, in addition to launching a certified Catalyst Vista version day 1 a new install/update utility was launched for Vista called the Catalyst Install Manager.
[edit] Supported products
- Desktop Radeon graphics cards family
- DirectX 9.0c cards
- DirectX 10 cards
- Mobility Radeon mobile GPU family
- Mobility Radeon 9500 series and higher
- All-in-Wonder multimedia card family
- TV Wonder TV tuner family
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