Catalyst 11.5 is out

HAHA!

 

Is it out yet?

 

hmmmm.

Will they ever again match the list of Street Fighter 2 editions?

 

I finally hooked up my monitor using HDMI rather than DVI to make use of the digital audio. Firstly Windows and everything else was using borders. My monitor was set for 1:1 pixel mapping but a quick google check indicated ATI was feeding underscan. So I install CCC just to set underscan to 0 (why is the default at -7% again?).

Everything works correctly now, except Crysis. I binged some more and found workarounds about creating a custom 1920 x 1076 resolution in CCC and select that in game, but that doesn't sound very manly. Does anyone experience this (just with Crysis)? Have you found a solution?

This seems to be a known issue for some time so I'm not expecting it to go away with Cat 11.6 but seems like ATI should take another look at the first-time user experience. I know people that would never have guessed to look for the underscan option in CCC to fix "them black borders on my shiny new monitor".

 

what is underscan (i thought it was for crt televisions)
whatever it is should you need it for a lcd tv since you dont need it for a lcd monitor (they are basically the same)

edit: realised richard may not have a lcd tv

 

The trouble is some TVs have overscan enabled and you can't really tell from the EDID info (and worse, some TVs don't let you disable overscan). So you're equally screwed if you have a TV with overscan enabled and the driver wouldn't underscan.
There was a large discussion about this for the open-source radeon linux driver recently, IIRC the conclusion was to change to disable underscan by default again (I'd definitely support that camp, overscan is just wrong, if your TV doesn't allow disabling it toss it out the window).

 

I have a LED monitor and yes it also affects them (because the signal is being fed underscan by the graphics card).

yep and I understand you're playing devil's advocate here but there's no industry-wide overscan standard in place that I know of so setting it arbtrarily at -7% only works for those monitors/tvs that are by default overscaning at +7% or whatever. For all others that have a different overscan default or like mine which default to 1:1 mapping you still have problems. It's the proverbial two wrongs not making a right.

Agreed, especially nowadays. Anyway, setting underscan to 0% on CCC fixed it for me everywhere I tried, except Crysis. I'm back on DVI but I'm going to try HDMI and renaming the executable.

 

Update to the hotfix is up - improves performance in Dirt 3, Witcher 2 and BRINK and adds Crossfire profiles for Witcher 2 and BRINK.

 

New driver 11.5b released for Brink, and Witcher 2.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst115ahotfix.aspx

 

Great news for us playing Witcher 2 and Dirt3 !

Thanks!

 

the question is richard lcd's dont need overscan/underscan, the driver knows you have a lcd (it is recognised as a lcd you do have the inf ?)
so why does ccc underscan, if i tell it my lcd is 1920x1080 thats how many pixels it should send, and why isnt underscan/overscan disabled except for crt's/or when using a tv-out (and maybe plasmas if they need it, i dont know)

ps: new drivers say "Enables AMD CrossFire scaling for The Witcher 2" is that the only whitcher 2 improvement has the no fullscreen on ati cards been fixed ?

 

I have been able to use fullscreen since the game came out, its not a driver issue, but a game issue. This problem happens to both AMD, and Nvidia cards. Seems that if your desktop resolution is a size the game does not like, you will only be able to run in window mode.

 

my desktop res is 5264x1050 do i need a 16:9 res ?

 

ps: installed the new hotfix drivers I still get no steadyvideo options ????

 

That option was fixed out of CCC with the RC3 released on May 16th, so it's no surprise it's also been disappeared out of the 11b RC5 released on May 25th.

Obviously it's something that should never have appeared in CCC as it wasn't ready in the drivers themselves.

I wouldn't worry about it anyway, as you couldn't do anything with it except read the tool-tips. It wasn't even something you could enable.

 

ok thanks....

Edit: I think these drivers break aliens vs predator gold

 

I have an LCD tv with a few underscan/overscan modes, one of which they call "Zoom". In the docs they give an example to use for elderly people because the end effect is that by removing lines it makes the picture bigger on screen and easier to read. That particular tv is only HD-ready though, not full HD.

Also, this only manifested itself when I plugged my monitor through HDMI and I don't know if there are even CRTs that come with HDMI connectors. DVI was fine.

What's strange is that by setting a default 7% underscan ATI are acknowledging that the majority of HDMI displays their customers will use will be (incorrectly) set to 7% overscan. When I was looking for solutions to this I found no mention of this being a standard industry practice. I'd be interested in knowing how they came to the decision to use this particular value, or use any underscan value at all.

 

the leaked slides i posted have information about the steady video feature.

Its for streaming video and home videos played on the system. Sounds pretty cool

 

There's a small issue with the latest drivers.
The GPU acceleration in VLC Player makes some videos unplayable.