CAT Control Centre desirable?

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It seems the Control Centre is not essential, but is it something gr8 that
is going to rock my world or just a 'so what' piece of software?
 
It seems the Control Centre is not essential, but is it something gr8
that is going to rock my world or just a 'so what' piece of software?
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It's completely unnecessary. And it won't rock your wold, unless you
absolutely love fancy interfaces (because that's the only thing that the
Control Center is, a fancy interface). It just slurps up a lot more memory
than your normal control panel so why use it?

Personally, I find the Control Center unusable -- to me it seems "messy". I
prefer the standard interface from the standard control panel.

=- Brian Dickens
 
It's completely unnecessary. And it won't rock your wold, unless you
absolutely love fancy interfaces (because that's the only thing that the
Control Center is, a fancy interface). It just slurps up a lot more memory
than your normal control panel so why use it?
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Is it take more memory when control panel is active or take memory
whatsoewer
 
Romano said:
Is it take more memory when control panel is active or take memory
whatsoewer
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Yes, it takes up more memory... and for what? Just a fancy interface.

=- Brian Dickens
 
It seems the Control Centre is not essential, but is it something gr8 that
is going to rock my world or just a 'so what' piece of software?
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Catalyst Control Center is a little bit hard on the eye, very slow, takes up
much memory, I haven't found a way to adjust OpenGL and Direct3D
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering Settings seperately and there don't
seem to be any new features besides the memory clock being shown and the
advanced smartgart option that are accessible seperately when using the
standard control panel. Also, it sometimes stops responding when quickly
switching through the advanced tabs and the 3D animation in the various
settings tabs doesn't have a smooth transition when it loops, which I find
quite annoying.
Needless to say, I like the standard Control Panel better.
 
remove-this-part said:
Yes, it takes up more memory... and for what? Just a fancy interface.
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ATI's user interface seems to be getting more and more baroque and less and
less useful. I set up a Matrox board for a new monitor the other
day--there was a setting to display nice grid with circles at each
resolution and arrows for adjusting the overscan and centering--took about
5 minutes to set for four different resolutions. If ATI had something like
that then all the complaints about overscan on HD would be a thing of the
past. The thing that makes me mad is that ATI DID have that and they took
it out.

But that's the trend in the industry--using an artificial stupidity to
configure things that can be configured much better manually, and then NOT
PROVIDING A MANUAL OVERRIDE.

And what in the name of God (geez--did I say that--I thought I was an
atheist--maybe the computer industry is giving me a need to believe that
there is a Hell to which such people as the designers of the
ATI control panel are condemned, forced to try to configure video boards
using their own software for all eternity) possessed them to use the dot
net framework in a frigging control panel for a video board? What's next,
web-enabling it so the kid down the street can mess with your video
settings for you?
 
Even ATI said future release will only make this software better so less
buggy and more features...But I agree what all of you said LOL..
 
It seems the Control Centre is not essential, but is it something gr8 that
is going to rock my world or just a 'so what' piece of software?
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I hate it. It's the interface is slow at times. On a 3.06Ghz proc with 1 gig
of ram and a 9700 pro I find that completely unacceptable to lag in 2D. I
also can't think of a reason why they would use the .NET framework to
develop this... thing.

On top of that, the new control center won't let me set my refresh rate the
way I want it without using some tweaking software or playing with settings.
Ok I seriously want to know who doesn't mind a 60Hz refresh on a CRT
monitor.

The only good thing I can think of is the promised "radiance" setting (the
equivalent to nvidia's "digital vibrance"). It's not here yet, however.
 
Chingy said:
Even ATI said future release will only make this software better
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For certain values of "better". Why do I have this sinking feeling that
ATI's version of "better" bears little relation to real-world utility?
so less
buggy and more features...
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Geez, they haven't added any _useful_ features to the control panel since
Windows 3.1. In fact they've gone a few steps backward.
 
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