ATI driver issue to be aware of......

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

If you have an ATI card, or are looking at buying one, there is a glitch with the Catalyst Control Panel and MS's .NET Framework 2.0. The drivers work fine, but the Control Panel hangs at startup, and will not load.

It works fine with .NET Framework 1.1, though, and ATI is aware of the problem and working on it. If you're having the problem, just uninstall .NET Framework 2.0 for now, and reinstall 1.1.
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2old2care · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

Yip, ran into that a few days ago....here's what I did. Loaded the last version (5.11) that didn't require .net services.

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/DLRedirect.asp?fileIDExt=64dc9a6c0360fbe40c49a20e4c0aaa6f&accountID=737&deptID=894
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

I'm not sure why ATI stopped giving the "old" control panel as an option. I've never really cared for the Catalyst thingy. Oh well..........not like I ever look at it, anyway.
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

I never noticed anythingand I have the new drivers and 2.0 on my computer... where is the issue?
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Read the post.

Catalyst Control Panel won't start. The driver is fine, the controls just won't load for advanced adjustment.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

who installs the control panel anyway....=P
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

yea sorry guys... I guess I didn't install it. I haven't seen anything lagging on startup. Unless its that ATI Control Center, then I dont see anything wrong...

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

I should be clearer....... for a bunch of nerds, you guys sure can be dense..... *grin*

The ATI Catalyst Control Center locks up WHEN YOU START THE CONTROL CENTER, not the computer.
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(DJ PhiLO) · TweakNOOB Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 34

LOL fussnfeathers i think u were a bit to clear there

So theres another person out there besides me who doesnt like the Catalyst Control Centre thing, i thought i was the only one.

Id rather use the control panel i hope the make it available again.

sickofsoyo · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:30 am Post subject:

just go to omega drivers. I did and what a difference. I left the ATI ones on there when I installed omega so I still have the drivers for the tv tuner and stuff.
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

yeah... It worked fine. I was stable after doing it.
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

I might have just been lucky though... I know your supposed to use driver cleaner pro or something

^^^^don't do what I did people, uninstall your old drivers first. (I probably just got lucky is all)
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Do the Omega drivers include the AIW tv tuner bits? If not, then you're fine.........it's not a great idea to just overwrite the old drivers, but it's not instant death, either. I believe, if you wanted, you could use the regular TV Wonder drivers if you wanted to do a clean install..........have to research that.
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

yup... ATI's WDM drivers for the AIW have to be installed separately. They can be found at the ATI site under the individual downloads for slow internet users... doesn't matter what speed you have just get the WDM drivers and they will cooperate fine.
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