明修栈道暗渡陈仓 催化剂5.4抢先测试

    显示芯片制造业为了让人们理解起来容易，借用了很多汽车上的名字，比如驱动汽车的“Engine”（引擎），驱动硬件的“Driver”（驱动/司机）。Driver在汽车上叫做司机，但是在电脑上叫做驱动程序，人们习惯简称为“驱动”。驱动程序是软件，负责应用软件和硬件的连接，驱动程序的好坏能够很大程度上影响硬件的发挥。

    上周末，ATI发布了他们最新的催化剂5.4版的驱动，我们今天就来看看这版驱动的表现。

    在ATI的官方主页，对这款驱动的改进的部分描述的是：

• 3DMark2001: A black screen is no longer displayed when launching 3DMark2001 after launching Aquamark3 when the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER is installed （解决了先运行AquaMark3后运行3DMark2001时出现黑屏的问题。）
• Pacific Fighters: Playing the game after playing any track for a short period of time and having the landscape detail set to perfect no longer results in the clouds becoming blocking when flying （解决了在太平洋空战中云的效果的问题）
• Sail Simulator 4: Attempting to play the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9800 XT installed no longer results in the operating system failing to respond and rebooting （解决了使用98XT在WinXP下玩模拟航海4无响应的问题）
• SolidWorks 2004: Display corruption is no longer noticed when setting the AA to 6X and AF to 16X （解决了SolidWorks 2004中的问题）
• Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Depth buffer corruption noticed on the ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO is now resolved （解决了X800Pro运行分裂细胞3出现的深度缓冲失效的问题）
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Loading the Dantooine level of the game under Windows XP no longer results in slow game performance （解决了星球大战之共和国的骑士的速度问题）

下面还有一些跟游戏无关的改进：

• Using the ATI Problem Report Wizard under Windows XP SP2 with an ATI RADEON™ X850 XT installed no longer results in an error message appearing when clicking the Finish button for the problem report
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: An option to select Yes or No to changes made in SMARTGART™ is now displayed when clicking the Apply button in SMARTGART™
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: Playing a video clip in the background and entering the Overlay page found in the Video section no longer results in the default value for the Hue not being reapplied unless the CATALYST™ CONTROL™ CENTER is closed and re-launched
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: Selecting Germany as the language no longer results in some of the text overlapping each other on the Unlock button
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: Selecting Netherlands (Dutch) as the language no longer results in some of the text in the Hotkey manager being cut off
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: The Bus setting information is now displayed in the Graphic Hardware section of the Information Center found
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: The Display Manager Wizard no longer contains a Component Video single display setting message, when multi-display desktop mode is selected
• CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER: Custom modes can only be applied if the display device can support the mode selected
• Attempting to apply a higher refresh rate to a non-DDC monitor no longer results in the refresh rate reverting to 60hz.
• SXGA+ LCD panel flicker is no longer noticed when the frame buffer (UMA size) is set to 32MB or 64MB

    由于是正式版的驱动，所以我们看出ATI还是用了很多心思的，这也正是消费者需要的，因为对于显示芯片厂商，驱动程序几乎是唯一的售后服务形式。