Catalyst 6.5 is now available

[Fluffdaddy]

The release notes;

New Features

This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:

Overlay Theater Mode Update
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above
Overlay Theater Mode Update
Catalyst® 6.5 introduces a new option for Overlay Theater Mode. The new option, Standard Dual Mode is available for Radeon® X1x00 series of graphics cards. This new feature now allows users to playback video using hardware acceleration when it is played on both displays (clone mode). Hardware acceleration decreases CPU utilization, allowing the PC to run smoother and faster. When using two displays in clone mode, video playback will be identically displayed on both display devices. For Radeon® X1000 series products (Avivo Video) overlay is per-display and true overlay will be used for both displays. For pre-Radeon® X1x00 boards, there is only one hardware overlay, so video on the second clone display device is either software-rendered (i.e. "Same on all" selection) or the Windows desktop is displayed but the video will not show through the color key (i.e., "Standard mode" selection).

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing for ATI Radeon® 9500 and above
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing smoothes out the surfaces in an entire scene unlike Multi-Sample which works only on edge surfaces. Adaptive AA has the ability to work on transparent or opaque texels, like those that comprise a surface texture. Previously this feature was available on the ATI Radeon® X1000 family products. Starting with Catalyst® 6.5, Adaptive AA support is now available to ATI Radeon® 9500 products and above.

[aperry]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

Starting with Catalyst® 6.5, Adaptive AA support is now available to ATI Radeon® 9500 products and above.

Very, very nice!!!

[Fluffdaddy]

Lots of new setting in this update. Still trying to see what setting looks best

Tip:
Do yourself a favor, uninstall the old Catalyst first. If you try to install the new over the old baaaad things will happen HTPC
Learn from my mistake

[ToonGal]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

This release of Catalyst® introduces the following new features:

Went there to ATI to get this for my w2k box. Drivers for w2k only show 6.2, but for XP shows 6.5. The 6.5 file name has 2k in it, like 6.2 and all other previous versions. Anything in this XP specific only?

Thanks!

[Ken C]

Currently using 6.4. I have no idea what the new features will do. And it's a PIA to install, at least on my system, uninstall the current, install the new, try and read the tiny, non-scaling stuff in the Catalyst program. (I"m getting so old !! )

So, the question, is it worthwhile to update from 6.4 to 6.5 ?

Ken C