Performance improvements * S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky o Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products o Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics products o Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products ATI Catalyst - Video enhancements * H.264 Level 5.1 support o ATI Catalyst can now playback 5.1 level streams on all support players o Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K) o Mosquito noise removal o Reduces mosquito noise seen in highly compressed progressive video, during playback . o Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products AMD video transcoding updates * This release of ATI Catalyst provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag and Drop video converter o Performance improvements o New formats supported (H.264 file formats - MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content) o ATI Catalyst Control Center option for enabling/disabling GPU acceleration * Support for the ATI Video converter is now available in the advanced view of the ATI Catalyst Control Center Resolved Issues: Highlights * Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged * Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user interface * Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly * "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series * Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed * Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled * Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen flickering under multi-GPU configuration * Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback * In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"games * Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst 10.4 release include: Support for new Linux operating systems * This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems: Ubuntu 10.04 early look support