Monday, March 19th 2007
Future versions of ATI Catalyst hope to have more features...and possibly more complexity
A recent interview with ATI/AMD at ExtremeTech shows some insight to future versions of Catalyst Control Center (CCC) software. AMD/ATI knows that previous versions have been lagging, complicated, and somewhat bloated. AMD made a good effort to fix this by a complete rewrite of CCC, but it still feels a bit lacking to some people. Instead of working on making the current CCC faster and more streamlined (like the old control panel), AMD/ATI is focusing on making one centralized application to manage all AMD/ATI products.
Says AMD representative Phil Rogers: "Longer term our goal is continue to improve the user experience and to move towards a single or central user interface where AMD customers can configure the majority of AMD product settings... It is our goal and vision to eventually have a single UI for all AMD products (graphics, CPU, chipset), but this is of course a major project, and it will be quite some time before we're able to release such a product"
This means that AMD hopes to make their control center much more featured, but this may prove to backfire upon release. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spiderman's Uncle Ben once said. And if AMD can't quite handle the responsibility, we may be looking at one complex, bloated driver interface.
Source:
The Inquirer
Says AMD representative Phil Rogers: "Longer term our goal is continue to improve the user experience and to move towards a single or central user interface where AMD customers can configure the majority of AMD product settings... It is our goal and vision to eventually have a single UI for all AMD products (graphics, CPU, chipset), but this is of course a major project, and it will be quite some time before we're able to release such a product"
This means that AMD hopes to make their control center much more featured, but this may prove to backfire upon release. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spiderman's Uncle Ben once said. And if AMD can't quite handle the responsibility, we may be looking at one complex, bloated driver interface.
20 Comments on Future versions of ATI Catalyst hope to have more features...and possibly more complexity
Hopefully this can be fixed.. that is if anyone will still have an ATI graphics card.
Options I would like to see refined:
-Section for Folding (whatever happened to this)
-Monitor Calibration settings that can be used with a colorimeter or photometer. Colorvision comes to mind as there are a few 3rd party programs that use this colorimeter.
-Section for using video recording/decoding/compression, etc
-Option to add gpu, board, etc temps onto the toolbar
-Most importantly ADD ATI TOOL TO CCC (pay W1z for his work)!!!!
-KEEP THE REFINEMENT TO ATI VIDEO CARDS ONLY
better yet, pay w1zz 500k usd to design it from the ground up !
Get rid of CCC! We dont need it. Just make a lean and efficient Driver. Simple control panel needed only. WTF are they doing with all the unnecessary bloat? Users dont want it. And it doesnt make them "prefer" an ATI.
Besides, if you know what you're doing you can get rid of the whopping 13Mb that CLI.exe consumes. It's MOM.exe after 7.2
The fact that you NEED CCC for your TV and the driver is insufficient does not mean that CCC is a good thing! Obviously the driver needs fixing!
While I agree we need a wheelchair for the handicapped... we WOULDNT NEED A WHEELCHAIR if the handicapped weren't handicapped!
Why can't they just buy ray adams tool or even better tell ray adams the big secret with crossfire!!
They are slowely but surely losing their followers, thats for sure.
There's a "Force TV Detection" in tweaks tab in display/settings, try that and ditch the useless CCC :) Anyhow haven't had to use that either, just press extended desktop and TV flashes and it's good to go.
Nvidia has always had shady driver support. IT wasnt until recently (around the latest version of 6800 and definately in the 7XXX series) that they caught up with ATI in the video quality department.
The merger caused a slow down process for DaAMit, but thats going to happen with most mergers. The good news is, given a little more time, some great things are gonna be coming from them and I for one cannot wait!