ATI Catalyst Control Panel No More

22 Jun, 2005 at 4:51pm ET Article published in Tech

Guru3D reports that after ATI’s August Catalyst driver release the trusty Control Panel will cease to exist. After the Catalyst 5.8 release the Control Center will be the only driver user interface available to ATI products.

I guess that concludes my recent discussion in this forum thread with [b]The Baron[/b] then.

Source: Guru3D

Comments

22 Jun 2005 ~ 5:48pm TheBaron I say good riddance, I think its a bad corporate policy to continue supporting out of date software. they could always provide an old version of the drivers, but it seems like a waste of manpower to continue support of something obsolete

now if only the catalyst control center would CORRECTLY READ MY DAMN CARD TEMPERATURE INSTEAD OF REPORTING ZERO ALL THE TIME (at least atitool knows whats up)
22 Jun 2005 ~ 6:04pm Enverex I can't stand the damn control center thing. It requires loads of processes to be running in the background, doesn't open properly half the time (if it decides to open at all, it just reads the HD lightly for a while and never appears). Prefered the Tabs under display advanced a LOT to be honest. CCC sucks.
22 Jun 2005 ~ 6:14pm RWB Uses like 40MB of memory also from what I read.
22 Jun 2005 ~ 6:19pm TheBaron my CCC is using 2 megs of memory and opens every time...
(in its idle state)
22 Jun 2005 ~ 7:11pm Medlock

TheBaron wrote:

my CCC is using 2 megs of memory and opens every time...
(in its idle state)
22 Jun 2005 ~ 7:33pm topherice

TheBaron wrote:

I say good riddance

Agreed. Personally, I'll be glad to see it go...
22 Jun 2005 ~ 9:50pm Nosferatu I'm just not going to use their drivers. I'll either use Omega's or older ones. IMO CCC is lame as hell, always has been, always will be.
22 Jun 2005 ~ 10:30pm Madball I didn't like CCC either. Now I use ATI Tray Tool instead and it works great.
23 Jun 2005 ~ 1:02am entropy Yup, hate the damn Control Center. I do like how it's easy to get to everything, though. I don't see why they had to make it its own program, with the freakin' candy cane skins, though. Ugly, way more cpu/memory/harddrive intensive than a graphics card settings-changer needs to be, and I HATE how it plants itself right on top of my right click menu. URGH. That needs to be changed, as well as the nature of the program.
23 Jun 2005 ~ 1:04am Nosferatu @entropy:

exactly! shitty skins, resource hog, crappy GUI layout, etc. etc.
23 Jun 2005 ~ 3:05am Thrax **** CCC. That thing sucks.

It's a resource hog, laggy, slow, cumbersome, and inefficient.
23 Jun 2005 ~ 5:20am Enverex It does use near 20MB, process list:

CLI.exe - 5,972k
CLI.exe - 5,472k
ati2evxx.exe - 2,680k
ati2evxx.exe - 1,932k
GameUtil.exe - 2,388k (Rage3D Tweak)

== 18,444k
== 18.01MB

and as I said, half the time doesn't open properly and takes ages when it does
23 Jun 2005 ~ 2:12pm Nosferatu I think when I replace my 9800Pro it will be with a NVIDIA card. NVIDIA offers better Linux drivers... and now it looks like better Windows ones as well if you consider the whole package.
23 Jun 2005 ~ 6:26pm Komete

I think when I replace my 9800Pro it will be with a NVIDIA card. NVIDIA offers better Linux drivers... and now it looks like better Windows ones as well if you consider the whole package.

I left ATI for a 6800 good card but teh first chance I get I'm going back. Drivers are buggy...

Glad to see the controll panel is going bye bye.. half the time I wouldn't install mine.
24 Jun 2005 ~ 6:11pm Omega65 Never used the CCC. It seemed redundent and useless.
25 Jun 2005 ~ 12:47pm lemonlime I always installed the basic driver and skipped out on the CCC. Don't forget to factor in all of the resources that .NET framework requires as well!
28 Jun 2005 ~ 11:16pm csimon I think that the last time I uninstalled the control panel that I didn't have access to disabling fast writes. I think that's the only reason I've kept it around.
18 Jul 2005 ~ 3:46pm read_the_article It CLEARLY states that the CCC is NOT leaving.
In fact, the CCC will be the ONLY panel ATI will be using after 5.8's in August.

Control Panel is the one they will no longer offer.
18 Jul 2005 ~ 4:45pm shwaip read_the_posts. people are bitching (I'm among them) about the fact that the CCC is the only panel available.