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    ATI Owners...Do you use Catalyst, Traytools, neither, or both?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by neilnat, Jun 3, 2009.

  1. neilnat

    neilnat Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm not opening up a poll, but I just wanted input into whether people normally have the Catalyst Control Center running in the system tray while gaming/benching. Is it doing anything useful?
     
    neilnat, Jun 3, 2009
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    on my X1950GT I ran Catalyst Control Center & the overclocking tools, the CCC ( Catalyst Control Center) just sucks resources, and I disabled the overclocking tools (ATI Tray tools) after a while as well because I was tired of setting it and disabling it before, and after running a game.

    Just update the drivers and run with less of that stuff until you need to configure something, then get rid of it again.
     
    ARom, Jun 4, 2009
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  3. -L1GHTGAM3R-

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    so is catalyst control center just worth less cuz i noticed it using more resources after i updated to 9.4 theirs like 4 process running each taking an avg of 2mb-10mb kinda wondering if its necessary to have at all and just let the game decide what best whats your guys input on this?
     
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  4. funky monk

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    A max of 40mb of RAM is barely gonna affect your system at all
     
    funky monk, Jun 5, 2009
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