The Catalyst Control Center Review

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 09/02/2004 10:33 PM [ Print | 15 comment(s) ] · 2748 views

The following sites have thrown up their reviews of ATi's all new Catalyst Control Center!

AnandTech - Beyond 3D - HardOCP - Tweak Town

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gshapiro Unregistered

#56411 Posted on: 09/02/2004 11:09 PM I guess if you are a complete Noob at setting up your vid card then this might be for you. Personally I prefer ATI TrayTools.

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dzjepp Member Posts: 43 Joined: 2003-04-30

#56413 Posted on: 09/02/2004 11:24 PM This is going to be a part of Cat. 4.9 drivers so eventually you will have it on your system. ;]

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Domingo Unregistered

#56418 Posted on: 09/03/2004 12:10 AM According to everything I've read it's going to remain optional and they plan to keep the drivers-only package available. I think it's a great idea to have it though. When I have a friend that's new to PC gaming it's a LOT eaiser to have them use this than to hope they don't break everything in the ATI control panel. I'm sure eventually (once Longhorn rolls around) they'll likely just replace the control panel applet with this...which is just a graphically pleasing version of the same thing.

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3r4s3r Unregistered

#56427 Posted on: 09/03/2004 01:54 AM B L O A T W A R E ! ! ! why cant they make things simple like nvidias control panel......

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owa Unregistered

#56430 Posted on: 09/03/2004 03:26 AM Same here. I tried it out for a little while but it's way too bloated and way too slow. They should have just went with ATI Tray Tools or Radlinker. Those are simple, efficient, fast, *small* and work great. Anyway, hopefully they'll take a look at those utilities and maybe provide something a little more streamlined and fast for the next version of it.

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Boogieman Unregistered

#56431 Posted on: 09/03/2004 03:55 AM Bloatware is right. What R they thinking? PLus I refuse to install .NET ! Screw it. I may be going back to Nvidia if they keep this sh1t up.

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mooninite Unregistered

#56432 Posted on: 09/03/2004 05:45 AM I am so glad that this takes 100 megs of RAM to run. I am *NOT* kidding. You first run the system tray icon... 75 megs. Actually bring up the control panel... 100+ megs. AWEXOME!!!!!! ATI RULZ~!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL They obviously graduated with a CS degree from Brown University.

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TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#56435 Posted on: 09/03/2004 01:10 PM Don't you guys read anything? You can still use the "old" Control Panel. They're not replacing that.

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Boogieman Unregistered

#56439 Posted on: 09/03/2004 03:04 PM We realize this but that's not the point.

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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#56441 Posted on: 09/03/2004 04:12 PM what is the point then? to complain as much as possible? now theres 2 alternatives to use. use whatever you like best.

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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#56442 Posted on: 09/03/2004 04:14 PM you'll go back to nvidia over optional software? seems a bit rash if you ask me.

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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#56443 Posted on: 09/03/2004 04:17 PM by your noobish statements it sounds like you're exaggerating. tray process uses 10mb here

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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#56444 Posted on: 09/03/2004 04:27 PM yup 2x CLI.EXE = 10mb when the panel is running and about 20mb for the 30 preview. not as bad as you'd have it seem, as several windows services use more memory.

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Domingo Unregistered

#56446 Posted on: 09/03/2004 04:55 PM Exactly! Why ***** about something nobody's making you get? If you don't want it - don't download it! For someone who's new to PC gaming this is a great idea. If you're going to supposedly 'switch to Nvidia' over this...you likely were before you saw this and are just looking some reason to justify it. Nvidias new cards kick ass, and so do ATI's. Whatever.

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TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#56453 Posted on: 09/03/2004 06:23 PM So what is the point? If you don't want to use this then you don't have to use it. The regular control panel is still there. It's not like they're updating the old control panel any more & you MUST install the new Control Center from now on. Arguing over ATi forcing you to install this & .Net from now on is asinine. They're doing no such thing & it ought to benefit newbies who will now get to see what changing certain options actually does.