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    Catalyst Control Centre

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Scottyboy99, Jun 21, 2011.

  1. Scottyboy99

    Scottyboy99 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi

    I prefer to use the Dell Stock drivers for my Alienware M17xR3 (Radeon single HD 6970m). Everything is good but I don't like the Catalyst Control Centre bug I have. Basically it won't always launch. 75% of the time it's ok but on occasions after a fresh boot it won't launch - not unless I kill the ccc.exe, mom.exe processes and try again. It's not an uncommon problem having google'd this. All sorts of fixes suggested, the main one being uninstall the control centre and then delete the key in the windows/assembly folder.

    Anyway, I while back I tried the latest AMD reference drivers (11.6 I believe) installing over the top. And this seemed to fix the issue. However I have reverted back to stock because I didn't like the fact it killed the FN key brightness control, I lost 100 marks on 3dmark 06 (I know it's insignificant), don't like the fact that it displays a generic 6900 series under the adapter settings etc.

    So I prefer to be on dell stock, for now. My question being, can I just install the latest control centre and not the latest reference drivers? I can see on the AMD site a link for just control centre 11.6. However I worry that this will cause grief as it should partner their newest drivers. With the dell stock drivers on their download site the drivers and control centre are all wrapped up in one package. I just worry about undesirable results if I try this.

    Thanks,
    Wayne
     
    Scottyboy99, Jun 21, 2011
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    Scottyboy99 Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry to follow up. Does anyone have any idea on this? The Catalyst Control Center is definetely buggy on the stock drivers. Seems to work 6 out 10 boots.
     
    Scottyboy99, Jun 23, 2011
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    steve1ddd Notebook Evangelist

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    i am on stock and never have this issue....i would remove all ati componets and reinstall.
     
    steve1ddd, Jun 23, 2011
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    Uninstall your AMD drivers and programs. Restart into safe mode, use DriverSweeper to remove any trailing AMD display items. Restart into safe mode again, use the Registry portion of CCleaner twice. Restart into normal Windows and reinstall Dell drivers.
     
    TraptPatriot, Jun 23, 2011
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