Catalyst Control Centre

[fastwunz]

At the weekend i completely re-installed windows XP. It went very smoothly and i then proceeded to install the drivers for my HISX1900Xt 512 Silent.

I went straight to ATi's website and downloaded the most up to date drivers. Now this is the strange thing:

The reason i reinstalled XP is because i ended up suddleny with an error message on my comp on sunday afternoon - basically there was corruption with the config.sys file or something. Prior to this message, i completely lost half the overclocking options in Catalyst Control Centre and all this happened whilst is was playing a game - the momment i quit out of it - this had happened.

So to sum up, i lost CCC, had a prob with my config file and had random crashing too. Very strange.

Anyway, now that i have the GPU reinstalled etc, and ive downloaded CCC, i cant open the damn thing - comes up with an error message. As such, i cant change any GPU settings, i cant overclock and i cant chage AAA or AF settings. Its driving me nuts as ive only downloaded drivers and CCC from ATi's website!!

Has anyone else had similar problems? I dont want to have to start again only for the same thing to happen!

 

[The $6m Dan]

You could try ATI tray tools instead of the catalyst control centre.
A lot of people on this forum use it, and I used to use my self until recently. I can't say I noticed any improvement over the CCC but it worked fine.

It can be downloaded here

 

[fastwunz]

Thanks Dan - thats really helpful

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah as above, may as well bung ATi Tray Tools on to do all your settings etc... its a lot better than the CCC and doesn't need the .NET framework, could that be why the CCC doesn't open, as you need the .NET on first, still won't matter now as ATT will do the job nicely.

 

[iMacMart]

Slightly off topic I put 7.3 driver only and ATI tray tools on my Vista OS at the weekend and my FPS in COD2 went to 20-40 on DX7??

Should I try the ATi Tray tools beta do you think?

With XP the drive only and ATi tray tools was always my choice.....gutted

 

[Tute]

What controls when your card switches between 2D/3D clocks and what your fan speed is according to temperature?

I ask, as if one was to uninstall CCC and put ATT on instead, would they then have to configure their settings for all this manually or does the driver control it?

 

[Delvis]

I think the new Cat's require the newest version of .NET ?...not sure...

Might be like version 3 or something, its definetly above v.2 anyway.

 

[sWiZzLe]

I've just reinstalled xp64 due to some problems i've been having. Tried to install CCC 7.5 which has been working perfectly.... no longer works

I was getting an error regarding MOM not working. Ive since installed .Net 2 & 3 (64) and that error no longer appears, nothing appears and if i try to play FarCry and if i go outside the trees go mental and take up the entire screen Didnt do that last night

So i've installed AtI Tool Tray - no help, my FX card (1950Pro) is at about 55 degrees - lower than it usually is.

Edit: No worries 7.4 works fine

 

[IceShock]

i had some 7.5 problems

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17740512

i got errors for every slightest thing with ati CCC.

it was to do with .net 2.0, it had deleted but was still in add or remove progs etc so i thaught it was there,

read that link above might help

 

[Jakus]

What controls when your card switches between 2D/3D clocks and what your fan speed is according to temperature?

I ask, as if one was to uninstall CCC and put ATT on instead, would they then have to configure their settings for all this manually or does the driver control it?

The GFX card bios, but overdrive is sort of driver based being able to tell the bios to run faster than the preset clocks, but normal 2d/3d requirements will be the drivers.
I have not seen anything other than the cards using a preset temp-fan speed table hard coded into the bios to change fan speed (excluding specific fan override utilities)
So You are totally safe with just the drivers installed