ATI Tray Tools is a freeware

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 program developed by Ray Adams for ATI

ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro...

 Radeon

Radeon

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 video card

Video card

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s.

ATI Tray Tools is an advanced tweaker-application

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 that resides in the notification area of the Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 taskbar

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 and allows instant access to video options and settings via a right-click menu. It is normally used as an alternative to the more bulky official Catalyst Control Center

ATI Catalyst

AMD Catalyst is a device driver and utility software package for ATI line of video cards. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Linux, on 32- and 64-bit x86 processors.- History :...

 (CCC), but it can also run in tandem with it.

Main features of ATI Tray Tools

• The ability to change the resolution, colors, rotation, and extended desktop settings directly from ATT's right-click menu.
• Changing of OpenGL/Direct3D settings (antialiasing or anisotropic filtering, for example) separate from one another.
• Game profiles, a feature allowing specific OpenGL/Direct3D settings for each game or 3d application.
• Over/UnderClocking of GPU and Memory
  Memory
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   of video boards
• Hotkey mapping
• The taking of screenshots
• Hardware monitoring
• OnScreen Display: When an OpenGL/Direct3D application running, the FPS
  Frame rate
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  , 3D API type, GPU Activity, and related information are overlayed on top of the rendering stream on a corner of the screen.
• CrossFire support
• Support of nearly 20 languages
• Support for plugins created for ATI Tray Tools

Supported operating systems

ATI Tray Tools supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of:

• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003
• Most builds of Windows Codename: Longhorn
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• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7 (May require a driver signature override)

Versions history

• 1.0 (February 3, 2004) - initial release
• 1.0.0.190 (February 5, 2004) - first update
• 1.0.0.195 (February 6, 2004)
• 1.0.0.200 (February 8, 2004)
• 1.0.0.205 (February 9, 2004)
• 1.0.1.516 (February 2, 2005)
• 1.0.1.527 (February 25, 2005)
• 1.0.1.528 (February 27, 2005)
• 1.0.1.538 (March 16, 2005)
• 1.0.2.600 (April 17, 2005)
• 1.0.2.625 (April 24, 2005)
• 1.0.2.640 (May 1, 2005)
• 1.0.2.663 (May 12, 2005)
• 1.0.2.673 (May 17, 2005)
• 1.0.2.685
• 1.0.2.690 (June 10, 2005)
• 1.0.2.705
• 1.0.3.720 (June 18, 2005)
• 1.0.3.730 (August 18, 2005)
• 1.0.3.750 (September 28, 2005)
• 1.0.3.755 (September 30, 2005)
• 1.0.4.780 (October 19, 2005)
• 1.0.5.815 (January 9, 2006)
• 1.0.5.820 (January 17, 2006)
• 1.0.5.824 (January 27, 2006)
• 1.0.5.877 (April 14, 2006)
• 1.0.5.880 (April 17, 2006)
• 1.2.6.930 (September 19, 2006)
• 1.2.6.940 (September 28, 2006)
• 1.2.6.955 (November 6, 2006)
• 1.2.6.964 (December 6, 2006)
• 1.3.6.1042 (May 22, 2007)

Beta Versions

• 1.3.6.1056 Beta (September 17, 2007)
• 1.3.6.1066 Beta (October 29, 2007)
• 1.3.6.1067 Beta (November 5, 2007) - {bundled with Omega driver 4.8.442}
• 1.4.7.1185 Beta (May 23, 2008)
• 1.4.7.1206 Beta (June 26, 2008)
• 1.5.9.1294 Beta (September 16, 2008)
• 1.6.9.1340 Beta (October 3, 2008)
• 1.6.9.1374 Beta (December 9, 2008)
• 1.6.9.1382 Beta (February 21, 2009)
• 1.6.9.1386 Beta (April 9, 2009)
• 1.6.9.1391 Beta (July 28, 2009)
• 1.6.9.1435 Beta (November 18, 2009)
• 1.6.9.1472 Beta (February 6, 2010)
• 1.6.9.1486 Beta (April 22, 2010)
• 1.7.9.1528 Beta (November 15, 2010)
• 1.7.9.1531 Beta (December 10, 2010)
• 1.7.9.1537 Beta (December 24, 2010)

Main Features of 1.4.7.xxxx versions

• HD2xxx/HD3xxx cards are supported
• Nearly full DirectX 10 support
• CPU monitoring

Main Features of 1.5.x.xxxx versions

• HD4xxx support
• Overclocking and monitoring of both video boards in CrossFire
• Redesigned Monitoring of Graphs and FlashOSD
• Full DirectX 10 support

Main Features of 1.6.x.xxxx versions

• Full Unicode
  Unicode
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  Support

Main Features of 1.7.9.xxxx versions

• Force RefreshRate option has been removed
• Updated support for HD5xxx series. New AA modes have been included. Please recreate your 3D profiles if you have HD5xxx video board
• Implemented support for HD6870/HD6850
• Improved support for some HD5xxx boards
• Support for for new AI modes has been implemented for HD5xxx/HD6xxx
• Implemented high granularity for LOD adjustment
• Fixed bug when LOD value doesn't applied when you load profile from main menu
• Fixed bug when value of FlipQueueSize doesn't properly restored
• Included delay option before applying colors for game profile

External links

• ATI Tray Tools Latest Version
• ATI Tray Tools Russian Homepage
• ATI Tray Tools English Homepage
• ATI Tray Tools Beta Discussion
• Troubleshooting Ati Tray Tools Driver Issues