ATI Catalyst Control Center

Post » Thu May 12, 2011 3:05 am

I searched for some instructions on this to no avail. I'm trying to force Anti Aliasing into Oblivion. So I open the Catalyst Control Center and theres a big thing in the middle with an advertisemant, and an options button on the top right, and a graphics button on the top left. The drop down bar for these has some dead end links. What is this thing even for? No where can I find graphical options thing to tweak stuff, this thing is just useless so far. Help would be appreciated.

I have a Radeon HD 5700 by the way, if that info is required.

I guess It wasn't installed right the first time or something. Mods can close this thread.
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Rachel Hall
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 6:47 pm

I just uninstalled it from my system.

That piece of garbage gave more problems than solutions. Ended up just installing the base ATi driver and no software.
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Timara White
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 8:46 pm

I got tired of CCC and installed Ati Tray Tools that works as it's supposed to. At least it works better and let's you configure the same settings that CCC does. However, it wouldn't let me overclock. For that I used MSI Afterburner which should work for reference cards just fine.

I seem to remember that the control center had simple and advanced modes. The simple did nothing, but advanced let me at least change some settings even if it was a little awkward to use. My first control center installation few years ago, crashed on selecting menu options and had problems just displaying the settings. It really was and is a piece of garbage even now. Well, the last time I used it was last fall when I stopped installing it completely with upgrades.
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Rachael Williams
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 10:02 pm

The latest version works perfectly fine for me. I don't think there's a single thing that doesn't work like it's supposed to.
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Jon O
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 8:04 pm

I'm using 10.11 and it works fine, I have even set-up hotkeys so I can quickly switch profiles. Click, I have AA and AF, click, I have them turned off. Took me a while to get them to work but now everything up and running.
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Natasha Callaghan
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 8:30 pm

The latest version works perfectly fine for me. I don't think there's a single thing that doesn't work like it's supposed to.


Yeah I have the latest version (11 something...) and it works just fine. Same for Nvidia drivers (laptop)...though I use the Afterburner overclocking for both cases.
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Emily Graham
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 8:47 pm

CCC is really easy to use, dunno whats the problem.
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Klaire
 
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Post » Thu May 12, 2011 2:36 am

CCC is really easy to use, dunno whats the problem.


When CCC was new, it did nothing but bugger up my PC. No matter what I tried.

ATi was useless in resolving the problem. Ultimately the only way to make the bugs go away was to uninstall CCC.

Put me off EVER buying another ATi product.

They should have thoroughly debugged CCC before releasing it. Someone with less expertise would have had a buggered PC and no way to get around the problems.

Since I last bought an ATi product about 5-6 years ago, if they are just now putting out a functional version of CCC, that's rather pathetic.
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Christie Mitchell
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 6:44 pm

When CCC was new, it did nothing but bugger up my PC. No matter what I tried.

ATi was useless in resolving the problem. Ultimately the only way to make the bugs go away was to uninstall CCC.

Put me off EVER buying another ATi product.

They should have thoroughly debugged CCC before releasing it. Someone with less expertise would have had a buggered PC and no way to get around the problems.

Since I last bought an ATi product about 5-6 years ago, if they are just now putting out a functional version of CCC, that's rather pathetic.

CCC has always functioned well and without any bugs or troubles for me and I first used it in 2005 or 2006.
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Nany Smith
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 7:36 pm

Yeah no problems for me either. Had it installed for a year now, and it does everything I ask it. And there are tons of options to do things, you just gotta figure out how to navigate the app, which you clearly don't.
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Isabella X
 
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Post » Thu May 12, 2011 2:30 am

CCC has always functioned well and without any bugs or troubles for me and I first used it in 2005 or 2006.


If so, then ATi had major FAIL for not doing pretty much anything to help me figure out WHY CCC was buggering my system. I remember when I had a problem with a driver update causing a game (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory) to seize up in the last mission.

ATi blamed the Ubisoft.

Ubisoft blamed ATi.

What really put me off is that in spite of the fact the program worked fine before the driver upgrade, ATi sat there like a spoiled 4-year-old insisting it was not their driver that was to blame for the problem.

Neither had solutions, but the fact was clear, the game ran PERFECTLY with the stock ATi drivers that came with my card. Upgrade to the latest drivers (as Ubisoft recommended as a "fix") and everything went south.

Hence why I advocate "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

The latest drivers ARE NOT necessary if everything you have runs fine.
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Margarita Diaz
 
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Post » Thu May 12, 2011 4:33 am

I'm also using ATI Tray Tools, I don't think CCC has anything useful you can't access with ATT, and ATT is much simpler to navigate and takes less resources.
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Casey
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 11:11 pm

When CCC was new, it did nothing but bugger up my PC. No matter what I tried.
ATi was useless in resolving the problem. Ultimately the only way to make the bugs go away was to uninstall CCC.
Put me off EVER buying another ATi product.
(...)

For me it was the same. I also said I will never again buy an ATI product.
Well...my next card was a nvidia and now I have an ATI card again ;).
They are just so worth their money, a perfect price/benefit ratio.
And the CCC works perfectly fine now.
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 4:06 pm

Open CCC, go to graphics->3D, click on AA. If that doesn't work, http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&q=CCC+enable+AA.
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