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AMD Catalyst Drivers (Vista 64-bit) 軟體圖示 AMD Catalyst Drivers (Vista 64-bit) 64 資料更新 2010-03-25 閱讀約 8 分鐘

你剛把舊電腦重灌成 Windows 7 或 Vista,開機後畫面糊成一團,解析度只能選 1024×768,視窗邊緣鋸齒狀,連 YouTube 影片都卡卡的。你打開裝置管理員,顯示卡那邊一個黃色驚嘆號,系統只認得「標準 VGA 介面卡」。你想上網找驅動,但 AMD 官網早就把舊版 Catalyst 下載頁收掉了,Google 搜出來一堆來路不明的下載站,每個都夾帶安裝器,你根本不敢點。

這種時候,多數人的直覺是去抓「驅動精靈」或「驅動人生」這類自動安裝工具,但那些軟體常常順手幫你裝了一堆不相干的東西,甚至改掉瀏覽器首頁。另一個做法是去硬體廠商官網找,但筆電或套裝電腦的支援頁面往往只放最後一版,而且連結早就失效。這類驅動程式的切入點其實很單純:它就是把 AMD 顯卡和 Windows 之間的溝通橋樑補起來,讓系統認得這張卡、能調整解析度、能跑 DirectX 遊戲。問題只在於,你找不找得到對的版本、裝了之後會不會跟系統衝突。

01AMD Catalyst Drivers 裝了到底能幹嘛?我電腦現在連解析度都不能調。

它主要工作是讓 Windows 認得 AMD Radeon 顯卡,裝完之後解析度選項會恢復正常,也能啟用 DirectX 和 OpenGL 加速,遊戲和影片播放才不會卡。另外它包含 Catalyst Control Center,可以調整 3D 設定、接雙螢幕、看 GPU 溫度和風扇轉速,也有內建超頻工具。以你現在連基本顯示都異常的狀況,裝這套是第一步。

02這套軟體支援 Windows 10 嗎?我另一台電腦也想裝。

根據收錄的資料,它支援的系統是 Windows Vista 64、Windows 7 64 和 Windows 8 64,沒有提到 Windows 10。如果你的電腦是 Windows 10,建議直接去 AMD 官網下載新版驅動,或找 Windows 10 專用的 Catalyst 版本。硬裝這套舊版在 Windows 10 上可能無法安裝或造成系統不穩,這部分需要自行確認。

03我的是 32 位元系統,可以裝這個 64 位元版本嗎?

不行。這個版本是給 64 位元系統用的,32 位元系統要去找 AMD Catalyst Drivers (Windows 7/8 32-bit) 或對應的 XP 32-bit 版本。裝錯位元數通常會直接跳出「此安裝套件不支援此作業系統」的錯誤訊息,不會造成損壞,但就是裝不起來。先確認你的系統是 x64 還是 x86,再挑對應版本。

04這套驅動有包含音效驅動嗎?我 HDMI 接電視沒聲音。

官方功能說明中有提到「integrated support for carrying sound over HDMI」,也就是支援透過 HDMI 傳輸音訊。安裝這套驅動後,HDMI 輸出聲音的功能會被啟用,但前提是你的顯卡本身支援 HDMI 音訊輸出,而且 Windows 的預設播放裝置要手動切換到 HDMI。如果裝完還是沒聲音,檢查一下音效設定裡的播放裝置清單。

05安裝過程會不會很複雜?我電腦不太熟。

官方說明指出它提供 wizard-assisted setup,也就是安裝精靈引導,基本上就是一直按「下一步」就能完成。安裝前建議先把舊的顯卡驅動移除乾淨,避免新舊版本衝突。另外安裝過程中可能會要求重開機,這是正常程序。如果你原本系統就裝過其他顯卡驅動,最好先用 Display Driver Uninstaller 之類的工具清乾淨再裝。

06這套軟體適合什麼樣的人用?

適合手上還有 Radeon 顯卡、但系統停在 Windows 7 或 Vista 64 位元的人,尤其是老電腦重灌後找不到驅動、或原本的驅動光碟已經不見的狀況。另外,如果你需要調整 3D 遊戲畫質、接雙螢幕、監看顯卡溫度,這套驅動內建的工具都還算夠用。但前提是你接受它已經很久沒更新,而且只支援舊系統。

07我這張卡是 Radeon HD 系列,裝這套驅動可以嗎?

官方說明提到它支援「several generations of Radeon GPU cards」,也就是多個世代的 Radeon 顯卡,HD 系列理論上涵蓋在內。但實際能不能裝、裝了效能如何,取決於你的具體型號和系統狀態。建議先查一下你的顯卡型號有沒有被列入這版驅動的支援清單,AMD 官網有歷史文件可以對照。如果型號太舊,可能要找更早期的 Catalyst 版本。

08這套軟體跟 NVIDIA 的驅動比起來,哪個比較好?

這套是 AMD Radeon 顯卡專用,NVIDIA Forceware 是 NVIDIA 顯卡專用,兩者不能互換,也沒有誰比較好的問題。你手上是哪家顯卡就裝哪家驅動。比較值得注意的是,NVIDIA Forceware 在收錄資料中評分人數也是 36 人,跟這套差不多,但兩者的支援系統和更新狀況不同。如果你同時有兩張卡,就各自裝對應驅動。

09我聽說這套軟體很久沒更新了,裝了會不會有安全風險?

收錄資料顯示它最後一次更新是 2013 年,近 24 個月更新次數是 0,確實長期沒有新版本。這代表它不會修補新發現的漏洞,也不會支援新出的遊戲或 API。如果你只是要讓舊電腦能正常顯示、上網、看影片,風險相對低;但如果你會用這台電腦連網處理敏感資料,舊驅動的漏洞確實是潛在風險。建議裝完後不要拿這台電腦做高風險操作。

10這套軟體在 Windows 8 上裝得起來嗎?我有一台 Win 8 的老筆電。

收錄資料顯示它支援 Windows 8 64,所以理論上可以裝。但要注意,Windows 8 的驅動簽章機制比較嚴格,這套 2013 年的驅動可能沒有通過新版簽章,安裝時可能會出現警告或需要進階選項才能安裝。另外,如果你的筆電是 UEFI 開機,Secure Boot 也可能擋掉未簽章的驅動。建議先關閉 Secure Boot 再試,或直接找筆電廠商提供的驅動。

11這套軟體評分只有 7.42,而且只有 24 個人評,是不是很爛?

評分人數少不代表軟體爛,只代表用的人不多。24 人評分、7.42 分,這個樣本數不足以判斷品質好壞。比較值得注意的是,功能相近的 AMD Catalyst Drivers (Windows 7/8 32-bit) 有 348 人評分,代表 32 位元版本的使用者遠多於 64 位元版本。如果你不確定該裝哪個,可以參考那個版本的評價,但最終還是要依你的系統位元數決定。

12我裝了之後畫面還是怪怪的,有可能是驅動沒裝好嗎?

有可能,但不一定是驅動的問題。先確認你裝的版本是 64 位元且對應你的 Windows 版本,再檢查顯卡是不是有過熱或硬體故障。官方說明有提到這套驅動包含溫度與風扇速度監控,你可以打開 Catalyst Control Center 看 GPU 溫度是否異常。如果溫度正常但畫面仍異常,可能是顯卡本身老化或記憶體問題,這就不是驅動能解決的了。

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# New Features

* ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions
> This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products
> Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers

* ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
> Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
> Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
> Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
> Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

* ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
> AMD has updated it`s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

# Performance Improvements

* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.3:
> 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics products
- Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Battleforge
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Call of Duty: World at War
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Company of Heroes
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Crysis and Crysis Warhead
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Devil May Cry 4
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> DiRT 2
- Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Far Cry 2
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
> Resident Evil 5
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Tom Clancy`s H.A.W.X.
- Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Unigine Tropics
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> World in Conflict
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Wolfenstein
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

# All Systems

* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows. These include:
> Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3 Eyefinity group
> Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of changing to `0` upon being disabled
> Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear

# Windows Vista

* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
> Sporadic frame drops no longer visible while viewing H.264 interlaced Blu-ray content during fast moving scenes
> Video playback no longer displays checkerboard pattern on background after resume from sleep
> Blank screen no longer observed while exiting "Heaven-OGL" or "GL View" applications
> Tint adjustments in Catalyst Control Center Basic Color now transitions smoothly when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
> Displays no longer go blank when CrossFire is disabled for the first time under specific configurations
> Laser designator beam now focuses on target properly in "Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2" during Act II: Exodus mission

# Windows 7

* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
> Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire enabled
> Saturation value for a hotplugged digital display will no longer intermittently be set to `0` by default
> Enabling detail enhancement no longer causes dynamic contrast to stop functioning
> Catalyst Control Center system tray now displays the proper number of physical adapters
> Force EDID override now displays options above 85 Hz
> Resolutions no longer missing in Catalyst Control Center Graphics Desktop Properties with CV connected and displays in extended mode
> Forced anti-alias now functions properly in "The Saboteur" game
> Refresh rate changes no longer revert back to 60 Hz (default) when "Enable GPU Scaling" is enabled under Digital Panel Properties attributes
> "Aliens vs. Predators" game now loads properly when run in DirectX 11 mode on DirectX 9/10 graphics cards
> Mouse cursor no longer disappears on cloned displays after swapping the displays in primary and extended cloned mode
> Displays no longer goes blank on some of the ports after display is hot-unplugged and then hotplugged back
> Media Center no longer displays corruption when viewing DVB-T content
> Forced AF now works properly in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games