Catalyst 6.11 out

[Rakido]

New features:
This release of Catalyst® introduces software CrossFire™ support for any combination of Radeon® X1900 and X1950 installed in a system running either the Windows XP or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system.

Performance Improvement:
A performance increase is noticed in Call of Duty 2. Performance improves as much as 12.5% at 19x12 settings and as much as 10.5% at 12x10 settings on X1900 Software Crossfire configurations. Largest gains seen with 4xAA enabled.

Lots of issues solved, but you can't link directly to the Release Notes any longer.


Download:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[GT98]

Cool new drivers for my crossfire X1950 Pros

[Rakido]

Cool new drivers for my crossfire X1950 Pros

ehm ....

Note: Software CrossFire™ is not supported on the Radeon® X1950 Pro product line.

[GT98]

Already have the bridges installed and the 6.11 last night went in with no problems, so far.

[The PIT]

Still crash powerdvd 7 despite the latest patch for 7 installed which is supposed to fix it.
Hardware acceraltion also causes blurry images due to the way the noise filtering works. Another words these cat 6 drivers are poor for DVD playback although some are slightly better than others.

[Dr Mordrid]

No problem here with DVD playback on my AIW's using either ATI's MultimMedia Center player or WinDVD 8. Maybe PowerDVD isn't all it's cocked up to be

[dbdg]

Still crash powerdvd 7 despite the latest patch for 7 installed which is supposed to fix it.
Hardware acceraltion also causes blurry images due to the way the noise filtering works. Another words these cat 6 drivers are poor for DVD playback although some are slightly better than others.

From the readme

Using PowerDVD to playback a DVD may result in the playback appearing choppy. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23719

[The PIT]

The bug seems to effect the X1950XT more than anything. If you enable Read It clear the computer will blue screen. If you enable hardware acceleration you get blurry images due to the noise filtering ATI implement.
The Blurry image happens in both Power DVD & and Windvd 7. The ironic thing is that the Hardware acc is labeled ATI AVivo in Power DVd. Shame it doesn't work.
DVD playback has been iffy throughout the 6 series although some releases are much better than others. I think the 6.8's were pretty good as long as you kept away from the Hardware Acceleration.
The ATIO article refers to choppy playback. I don't get choppy playback either blurred due to hardware acc or blue screen of death.