ATI Catalyst Control Centre not opening?

DarkShadow · 10 Jan 2007 at 23:52

I've never had an ATI card before and the experience is pretty rubbish so far

I've installed my X1950XT and dont a fresh windows isntalled. I installed drivers from CD and I've just seen the catalyst 7.something in the other order thread. I've also installed that.

I've tried opening control centre and it's not doing anything. I can't view any ATI software :confused:

Any Ideas?

Rob43 · 10 Jan 2007 at 23:53

Did you remove the old drivers with driver cleaner before you installed the 7.1s ?

DarkShadow · 10 Jan 2007 at 23:58

Rob43 said:
Did you remove the old drivers with driver cleaner before you installed the 7.1s ?

I didn't.

Never did so with my Nvidia, so I assumed the same. Link to driver cleaner please?

mysticsniper · 10 Jan 2007 at 23:58

There is a thread about the cat 7's that are only to be used if you have Crossfire setup. I would remove them and install the 6.12 cat's

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17676386

furnace · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:01

ATI drivers are a b***h (I wonder if that's a swear word :confused:

) ... I've always had bad experiences with them!

You have to take upto 15mins out to install them properly, otherwise it does a Windows 98 impression and co[o]ks up royally.

Download "Driver Cleaner Pro" *
Add/Remove programs -> uninstall ATI everything
Restart into safe mode **
Run Driver Cleaner Pro and add all the ATI options and click GO or CLEAN or whatever the button is
Restart into normal windows and install latest drivers

* You have to pay for the latest version, google for it and you'll find it for free - older version but works fine

** I always have to go into run->msconfig->ok, then boot.ini->tick safeboot, then when in safe mode do the same but untick it. then when you restart you'll be in safe mode depending on whether you ticked the box or not. I can never remember the button to press on startup for safe mode..! lol

Rob43 · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:02

mysticsniper said:
There is a thread about the cat 7's that are only to be used if you have Crossfire setup. I would remove them and install the 6.12 cat's

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17676386

7.1s seem to be working ok for me,no crossfire :confused:

SkeeterUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:04

f5 for me to boot into safe mode, just keep hammering f5 when you start ** computer then after post is done it should ask u what u wana do, safe mode or normal. If not f5 then maybe f8.

Domo · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:08

Don't you need .Net framework installed for it to work?

SkeeterUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:10

Yeah you do from when i was lookin at drivers for ati cards today well the driver package things. You need .net framework 1.1 or higher. Which i dont think windows after a fresh install has.

Tute · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:17

furnace said:
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I think you'll find that the nVidia drivers do the same if you don't uninstall them properly.

SkeeterUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:22

With nvidia drivers there unified so one works for all so very rarely do you really need to uninstall and reinstall the same driver. If the model of gfx card wasnt supported with the driver you have, then uninstall as normal and install a new driver that supports the new card. Then swap the cards if u want.

Did this many a time with most of my nvidia cards. And never had a problem.

Mekrel · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:28

Have had both nVidia and ATi cards and never had any problems with drivers.

Well I did with catalyst once but it was fault of windows SCF keeping the same bloomin files.

You need .NET installed as already stated.

Install 1.1 and 2.0 and hotfixes for net.

Or even better uninstall them all and only installed the WDM and display driver. ATi Tray Tools is the best application ever for display driver control. However the last time I checked (long ago, due to not having a PC for a month) the 1950 cards overclocking support wasn't quite refined.

Tute · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:31

SkeeterPSA said:
With nvidia drivers there unified so one works for all so very rarely do you really need to uninstall and reinstall the same driver. If the model of gfx card wasnt supported with the driver you have, then uninstall as normal and install a new driver that supports the new card. Then swap the cards if u want.

Did this many a time with most of my nvidia cards. And never had a problem.

Yeah but if you're upgrading drivers, you still have to uninstall/reboot into safe more/drivercleaner/reboot/install, just like the ATi ones.

It may work without all that, but it's not guaranteed to just install new drivers straight over old ones.

SkeeterUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:03

Oh yeah if changing driver versions yeah uninstall and then install new. Tho never used a driver cleaner.

DarkShadow · 11 Jan 2007 at 23:27

Grrrrr, I've uninstalled and installed the omega drivers along with the latest ones and still the same problem :mad:

SkeeterUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 23:39

I thought 1950xt didnt have any new drivers apart from whats on the driver cd?

From what i remember reading on the xt versions of the 1950 from topics on this forum.

DarkShadow · 12 Jan 2007 at 00:40

Right I've just done a diver clean and Installed the 6.1's form the CD and I have exactly the same problem.

Is it too much to ask to see a bloody control panel :confused:

Pretty miffed :mad:

cyclops12 · 12 Jan 2007 at 01:32

it wont come up if you aint given it permision to connect to the internet
check your firewall ( cli application)
mine used to do the same (x1900xtx)

speeduk · 12 Jan 2007 at 09:32

cyclops12 said:
it wont come up if you aint given it permision to connect to the internet
check your firewall ( cli application)
mine used to do the same (x1900xtx)

I had exact same problem when my firewall didnt ask for permission. Took me ages to figure it out hehe.

DarkShadow · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:21

cyclops12 said:
it wont come up if you aint given it permision to connect to the internet
check your firewall ( cli application)
mine used to do the same (x1900xtx)

I think the ram is invovled, a lot of applications are failing to intialise