ati control centre 5.4

[Earl]

Hello I recently purchased a new hard drive and installed Windows XP on it. I fully upgraded Windows to SP2 and installed DNA drivers. All was going fine until I tried to fun fraps (program for recording videos of games). Fraps really didn't like the DNA drivers so I uninstalled them and installed the offical catalyst ones..

Now, the catalyst ones work fine, but the control panel crashes every time windows loads up. I get an error message telling me that cli.exe has crashed. Google admits there is a problem and other people have had it, however I can't seem to find a solution.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ch3tan]

Install the driver version without the shitty bloaty control center.

 

[Cask]

Wot he said. I found that control center to be utter turd.

 

[Earl]

Ok I thought about that (thats how im running it at the moment).. but how do I change the gamma? As I really need to do this for some of the games I play and i've only been able to do it by going to the advanced tab on display settings, however most of the tabs are missing when I don't have control centre installed

 

[Jonty]

Hi Earl

As far as I am aware the Control Centre is designed only to be a more friendlier interface to the same options, so I'd be surprised if any functionality is actually lost be not using the Control Centre.

Your best bet may be to uninstall all your display drivers (the drivers, the Control Centre, everything) and perhaps even use a program such as Driver Cleaner (one of many such programs) to get rid of any unwanted driver files left behind. Then, once uninstalled, grab the latest drivers from ATI which don't feature the Control Centre (Catalyst 5.4), download, restart and then install the new drivers and see how things go.

If you're still having problems please don't hesitate to post again.

Kind Regards

 

[Jonty]

Hi Earl

You may want to use something like ATI Tray Tools (third-party, one of many) which allows you to changes settings (such as gamma) using a little icon in your taskbar tray. Whilst I'm not really a fan of these apps, it may prove useful in this instance until ATI develop something akin to nVidia which allows settings to be automatically applied when the application (game, say) is launched (that is if ATI haven't already).

Kind Regards

 

[Ch3tan]

What Jonty said, if you cant access all options from the Control panal or tray utility that comes with the standard drivers, you probably have a conflict with older versions.