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><channel><title>Bay Area Tech Pros&#187; Catalyst</title> <atom:link href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/tag/catalyst/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.bayareatechpros.com</link> <description>Website Design, Computer Repair, IT Consultation, Technology News</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:50:43 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <atom:link rel='hub' href='http://www.bayareatechpros.com/?pushpress=hub'/> <item><title>GPU video acceleration with Flash</title><link>http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/11/gpu-acceleration-flash/</link> <comments>http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/11/gpu-acceleration-flash/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:07:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Aleksandr Oreshkin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Links]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catalyst]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Driver]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flash]]></category> <category><![CDATA[high defenition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[youtube]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/11/ati-catalyst-add-flash-10-1-support/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration. This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others&#8230; As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
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style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="Flash GPU Acceleration" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MobilityRadeon.png" border="0" alt="Flash GPU acceleration" width="240" height="160" align="right" /></a> Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration.</p><p>This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others&#8230; As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent in the past the long overdue inclusion of GPU acceleration will be a huge blow against video playback stuttering and choppiness through consistent and high framerate.</p><p><span
id="more-686"></span></p><p>Download links:</p><p><a
href="http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx" target="_blank">Grab the ATi Driver here</a></p><p><a
href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us" target="_blank">Grab nVidea divers here</a></p><p><a
href="http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html" target="_blank">Get Flash 10.1 beta here</a></p><table
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isPermaLink="false">http://orestech.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/overclocking-your-laptop-mobility-radeon/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Studio 15 laptopNot only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.Overclock your laptop's video card (gpu) by using an unlocked catalyst driver version with the addition of the AMD GPU ClockTool. This method does not require any bios mods or hardware alterations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/overclocking-your-laptop-mobility-radeon/"><img
style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;" title="Studio-15-laptop" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Studio15laptop.png" border="0" alt="Studio 15 laptop" width="240" height="199" align="left" /></a>Not only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely <span
style="text-decoration: line-through;">warranty </span>overheating issues.</p></blockquote><p>There are a number of ways to work around these restrictions, the best  likely being a <a
href="http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/154">BIOS mod</a>, as it would allow fluent clock changing through ATT, or other  programs. However, some GPUs have their BIOS read and write protected, making the process rather futile.</p><p>Another, simpler, method is using a specific driver version. 8.9 and 8.10 Catalysts allow you to overclock when used in conjunction with <a
href="http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1128/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_v0.9.8.html">AMD GPU Clock Tool</a>.</p><p><span
id="more-39"></span>So before we begin, these are the ingredients you want:</p><table
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width="300" valign="top"><h3><strong>Vista / XP Install</strong></h3><p><a
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width="300" valign="top"><h3><strong>Windows 7</strong></h3><p><a
href="http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php">Mobility Modder</a></td></tr><tr><td
width="300" valign="top">XP<a
href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_xp/4779/">32</a>/<a
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href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_vista/4778/">32</a>/<a
href="http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1214/ATI_Catalyst_8.10_Software_Suite_Vista_64-bit.html">64</a> <em>or</em> DNA <a
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width="300" valign="top"><a
href="http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1128/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_v0.9.8.html">AMD GPU Clock Tool</a></td><td
width="300" valign="top"><a
href="http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1128/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_v0.9.8.html">AMD GPU Clock Tool</a></td></tr><tr><td
width="300" valign="top">.NET Framework <a
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width="300" valign="top"><a
href="http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo">Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider</a></td></tr><tr><td
width="300" valign="top">*<a
href="http://downloads.guru3d.com/Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0-download-2186.html">Driver Sweeper</a></td><td
width="300" valign="top">*<a
href="http://downloads.guru3d.com/Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0-download-2186.html">Driver Sweeper</a></td></tr><tr><td
width="300" valign="top">*<a
href="http://majorgeeks.com/ATI_Tray_Tools_d4569.html">Ati Tray Tools</a></td><td
width="300" valign="top">*<a
href="http://majorgeeks.com/ATI_Tray_Tools_d4569.html">Ati Tray Tools</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>*optional components</em></p><p>To begin, uninstall your current drivers. If you have the Catalyst bundle installed, go to <em>control panel</em>, <em>remove programs</em>, <em>ATI uninstall – </em>remove CCC, Install manager, and Display Driver, reboot.<em><a
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style="margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="overclocking radeon" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pg2testmode2_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="overclocking radeon" width="175" height="84" align="left" /></a></em></p><p><em>If you are running Windows 7, load up <a
href="http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo">DSEO</a> and enable Testing Mode, reboot computer.</em></p><p>If you do not have an ATI entry to uninstall in remove programs then head over to device manager (Run “devmgmt.msc”), select your display adapter, right click on it and select <em>uninstall.</em> Your screen will probably flash.</p><p>At this point you have the option of booting into safe mode, by pressing f8 repeatedly in between bios loading screen and the windows logo, and running <a
href="http://downloads.guru3d.com/Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0-download-2186.html">Driver Sweeper</a> to wipe all <a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mobmod1.jpg"><img
style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="mobility radeon" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mobmod_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="mobility radeon" width="244" height="113" align="right" /></a>traces of ATI from your computer.</p><p>When this is done boot back to windows and extract the 8.10 drivers you just downloaded. Now run <a
href="http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php">Mobility Modder</a>, point it to the ATI directory that was created, and click <em>Modify</em>.</p><p><em><a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sy_.jpg"><img
style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="mobility radeon overclock" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sy__thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="mobility radeon overclock" width="147" height="106" align="left" /></a></em></p><p><a
href="http://bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/sy_1.jpg"></a></p><p><em>For Windows 7, there is an extra step. Skip this if you are not running Win7.</em></p><p>Locate atikmdag.sy_ in the ATI folder, use</p><p><a
href="http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo"><em>DSEO</em></a><em> to sign the file.</em></p><p><em><br
/> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/canhasdisk.jpg"><img
style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="device manager" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/canhasdisk_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="device manager" width="244" height="148" align="left" /></a>Now go back to device manager by running devmgmt.msc , select your display adapter, and press Update Driver. Navigate to <em>Browse fo r File, Pick from list of drivers, </em>select <em>Have Disk, </em>navigate to the ATI directory which was created *\ATI\Packages\Drivers\Display\LH6A_INF and press OK.</p><p>You may be prompted whether you wish to install an <a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hasdisk.jpg"><img
style="margin: 5px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="driver windows 7" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hasdisk_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="driver windows 7" width="244" height="201" align="right" /></a>unsigned driver, press yes. <em>If you have Windows 7, you have one more step. Use DSEO to s ign the “atikmdag.sys” in your /windows/system32/drivers folder. </em>Now you can reboot.</p><p>When windows boots back up, you can use the AMD GPU Clock Tool to change your clocks.</p><p>When installing ATT, make sure to check <em>Disable Overclocking</em>, as it will not function properly. <a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/ati-tray-tools-with-win7-rc-64bit/">Read these notes if installing ATT on Windows 7.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/overclocking-laptop-mobility-radeon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>17</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ati Tray Tools Download for Windows 7, XP, Vista</title><link>http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/ati-tray-tools-with-win7-xp-vista/</link> <comments>http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/ati-tray-tools-with-win7-xp-vista/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Aleksandr Oreshkin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How To]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catalyst]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guide]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://orestech.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/ati-tray-tools-with-win7-rc-64bit/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ati Tray Tools is no longer facing the issues described in the below article, but it is a great reference for troubleshooting att/driver issues. To download Ray Adam&#8217;s Ati Tray Tools click the link below.: DOWNLOAD: Ati Tray Tools v1.6.9.1486 As stated earlier, Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers. This is a bummer if you [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/ati-tray-tools-with-win7-rc-64bit/"><img
class="alignleft" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0pt none;" title="Mobility Radeon" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MobilityRadeon.png" border="0" alt="Mobility Radeon" width="201" height="143" align="right" /></a>Ati Tray Tools is no longer facing the issues described in the below article, but it is a great reference for troubleshooting att/driver issues.</p><p>To download Ray Adam&#8217;s Ati Tray Tools click the link below.:</p><p>DOWNLOAD:</p><ul><li><a
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/><span
id="more-22"></span></p><p>As stated earlier, Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers. This is a bummer if you want to run an awesome application like ATT rather than crappy CCC. The fix, as you may have guessed, relies on <a
href="http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo">DSEO</a>. Download it, run it, agree to prompts, enable TEST MODE, and reboot.<br
/> Following the reboot, install ATT but do not launch it. Instead, head over to its installation directory and locate atitray64.sys and atitray.sys – these are the unsigned drivers.</p><p><a
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style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="att windows 7" src="http://www.bayareatechpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/attsign1_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="att windows 7" width="180" height="217" align="left" /></a> Launch DSEO, select sign a system file, and manually enter atitray.sys and press ok. Do this one more time for atitray64.sys Now you can run ATT without problems.</p><p>Files:</p><p><a
href="http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo">Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider</a></p><p><a
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