ATI Catalyst Graphics Driver 7.10 for Vista Download

Posted at December 30, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

ATI Catalyst Graphics Driver 7.10 for Vista Description

The Catalyst software suite 7.10 contains the following:

- Radeon display driver 8.421
- WDM Driver Install Bundle
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- Catalyst Control Center Version 7.10

Catalyst 7.10 introduces the following new features:

- Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products
- Software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products

This release of Catalyst introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.
Software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series

This release of Catalyst introduces software CrossFire support for the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series. Software CrossFire is only available when two graphics accelerators from the same family (i.e. 2 ATI Radeon HD 2600 products) are plugged into a CrossFire compatible motherboard with no hardware interconnect between the two graphics accelerators.
Performance Improvements

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst 7.10:

- Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire and setting the in-game graphics options to higher settings no longer results in the game failing.
- Call of Juarez: Setting up a multi-player LAN game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon HD 2900 series of product no longer results in corruption being noticed
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond.
- GTA San Andreas: Enabling AFR mode and CrossFire no longer results in corruption being noticed in the opening cinematic of the game.
- Might and Magic Heroes V: Display flicker and corruption is no longer noticed when CrossFire is enabled.
- The composite video slider values are no longer automatically applied without clicking on the Apply button.
- Setting the language option to any of the supported languages other than English no longer results in the help page for Advanced Color failing to be displayed.
- Using live TV on a system containing an ATI HD 2900 XT product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the application failing if the Catalyst 7.6 driver is installed.
- A Windows error message no longer occurs when game settings are set to their highest levels.
- Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected.
- Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system that has a CRT connected to it, followed by swapping the display devices no longer results in invalid refresh rates being listed in the Display manager.
- Windows Dream Scene Content: Corruption is no longer noticed when attempting to run the preview for the chosen clips. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28856
- Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or less no longer results in corruption being noticed when attempting to play an HD-DVD using the Cyberlink player.
- Playing a HD-DVD or Blu-ray title using PowerDVD followed by rotating the display device by 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
- Enabling video mode within the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties->Adjustments no longer results in the Enable Video Mode check box becoming grayed out if the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then restarted.
- Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Current setting text is no longer misplaced in the Content Viewing Selection for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29922
- Catalyst Control Center->HDTV Support->Predefined and Custom HDTV Formats: Selecting a different format and clicking the Apply Format button no longer results in the Add button becoming grayed out.
- The text is no longer truncated in drop down menu of the ATI OverDrive warning pop-up message.
- Clone mode can no longer be enabled for software CrossFire configurations under Windows XP.
- The Refresh rate for 576i/p is no longer listed erroneously as 20Hz/34Hz in the Catalyst Control Center.
- Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon Xpress 12x0 series of product no longer results in the HDMI display device failing to be detected under the Windows Vista operating system.
- Chronicles of Riddick: A very dark display image is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X800 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system.
- All high resolutions are now displayed in the Displays Manager and Catalyst Control Center.
- Corruption is no longer noticed in the ATI Catalyst End User License Agreement when using the Swedish version of the Windows Vista operating system.
- Tearing artifact is no longer visible on OTM display when playing back any video using Overlay with OTM enabled.
- Horizontal line corruption is no longer noticed when AFR mode is enabled and vsync is disabled.
- Attempting to play HD-DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon HD 2600 series of product no longer results in hardware mode not being available for all display resolutions.
- Attempting to playing certain DVD's using WinDVD 7 and enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in the DVD failing to play.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

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