Geez... how long has ATI's software been so awful?

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Bert Hyman

Just fired up a new box this weekend with a Radeon X1950GT-based video
card in it and the "Catalyst Control Center" (v7.6) software simply
reeks.

While the drivers ->seem to be OK (what evil is lurking, I wonder), the
control stuff wouldn't even come up at first. Looking in the event log,
I find that it's emitting tons of errors (although I give them credit
for creating their own event class and logging all their errors).

I was able to get the thing running by re-naming one file, and moving
another into the root of "C:\", but I can't imagine how something like
that could have made it out the door of a commercial concern.
 
In "First of One"
Catalyst Control Center (CCC) requires Microsoft .NET Framework (v2.0
recommended) to function.
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I have it. As I said, by manually moving some files around, I finally
got the thing to work.

The installation is somewhat hosed.
 
Just fired up a new box this weekend with a Radeon X1950GT-based video
card in it and the "Catalyst Control Center" (v7.6) software simply
reeks.
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I'm using an ATI X1950XT with it. It installed fine and works fine.
The X1950XT is actually a bit faster than my 8800GTS 640 with an
Athlon 64 X 2 6000 when running FSX.
 
In "Roger (K8RI)"
I'm using an ATI X1950XT with it. It installed fine and works fine.
The X1950XT is actually a bit faster than my 8800GTS 640 with an
Athlon 64 X 2 6000 when running FSX.
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Which Catalyst version are you using? Installing 7.6 using the file from
AMD/ATI's Web site produced a broken installation and the Control Center
wouldn't run.

Turns out there were only two (visible) problems:

1) Some part of the app expected the file "Skins.xml" in <Program
Files>\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Skins to be called "ccc-skins.xml".

2) Some other part of the app expected to find the file "Branding.dll"
from <Program Files>\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static in the root of
the C drive.

Renaming and copying the files to where they were expected got things
running, but there's obviously some problem with the installation
procedure.
 
Just fired up a new box this weekend with a Radeon X1950GT-based video
card in it and the "Catalyst Control Center" (v7.6) software simply
reeks.

While the drivers ->seem to be OK (what evil is lurking, I wonder), the
control stuff wouldn't even come up at first. Looking in the event log,
I find that it's emitting tons of errors (although I give them credit
for creating their own event class and logging all their errors).

I was able to get the thing running by re-naming one file, and moving
another into the root of "C:\", but I can't imagine how something like
that could have made it out the door of a commercial concern.
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People in the kn ow don't use the ATI shitware. They download the core
drivers and then get Ray Adam's ATI TRay Tools from www.guru3d.com
A lot less cpu intenbsive and has a boat load of more options and
tweaking tools than the ATI shitware. That's what I used when I had an
X800XL installed but now use a Nvidia card so don't have to worry
about the ATI shitware for now. I have a friend with X1650pro and he
uses the ATI software and it is painfully slow waiting for the CC to
actually pop up. He's not a tweaker like me though so won't listen to
my good advice and get the Tray Tools instead.
 
Gladiator said:
People in the kn ow don't use the ATI shitware. They download the core
drivers and then get Ray Adam's ATI TRay Tools from www.guru3d.com
A lot less cpu intenbsive and has a boat load of more options and
tweaking tools than the ATI shitware. That's what I used when I had an
X800XL installed but now use a Nvidia card so don't have to worry
about the ATI shitware for now. I have a friend with X1650pro and he
uses the ATI software and it is painfully slow waiting for the CC to
actually pop up. He's not a tweaker like me though so won't listen to
my good advice and get the Tray Tools instead.
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Maybe a little OT but how is Tray tools on a laptop that get plugged
into a projector via VGA and plugged in a HDTV HDMI. Is Tray Tools
flexible in how the 2nd monitor is set up? I have kept with CCC because
the wizard easily adjust res. and timing for both the projector
(800x600) and the HDTV (1280x720 60P).
-mike
 
(e-mail address removed) (Gladiator) wrote in
I have a friend with X1650pro and he uses the ATI software and it
is painfully slow waiting for the CC to actually pop up.
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That's because it's a dotNet application.
 
Why don't you try it out? Tray Tools is a clean, standalone utility can
co-exist with CCC on the same system.

One thing I found Tray Tools couldn't do is toggle Crossfire mode. I ended
up using CCC for adjusting all my settings, plus Rivatuner for forcing fan
speeds individually on both cards.
 
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