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    Good software discontinued - why? (RMClock and ATITool)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Ungjaevel, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. Ungjaevel

    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    Well, the question is in the topic... why are these two, great, programs discontinued and what are people using instead?
     
    Ungjaevel, Jan 12, 2009
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The questions would probably be best posed to the authors of those respective apps; anything you might get from anyone else would be either hearsay or conjecture.
     
    Shyster1, Jan 12, 2009
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    Possibly not enough time or not enough revenue to justify the time. I for one am still using RMClock anyways as it seems to be the best program at what it does. Since I have an nVIDIA card I've never used ATITool; I use RivaTuner for GPU tweaks. It handles both nVIDIA and ATI cards.
     
    Apollo13, Jan 12, 2009
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  4. Ungjaevel

    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    Shyster: I was in the RMClock forum and found out that the developer (Dimitri) had stopped for no apparent reason. (Read more, if interested: http://forum.rightmark.org/topic.cgi?id=6:1699)

    Regarding ATITool last update was 2006. I tried both RivaTuner and ATITools and found I liked ATITools the most suitable for me.

    CrystalCPUId doesn't work for me. When changing the CPU freezes every time. RMClock miles better..

    I would like and EASY Software GPU undervolt/clock modifier. RT seems too tricky in that area.. (And ATITools doesn't support volt mod at all).
     
    Ungjaevel, Jan 12, 2009
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  5. atbnet

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    ATITool was probably discontinued since it was acquired by AMD. They might have gotten rid of the team that developed and maintained it, or just felt it wasn't necessary to continue developing.

    RMClock, maybe the author moved on. If it is open source then someone else can continue.
     
    atbnet, Jan 12, 2009
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    Ahhh, the joys of becoming dependent on closed-source software ;)
     
    Pitabred, Jan 12, 2009
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    Hey, it can mean being able to do stuff that you can't with open-source software. Certainly a trade I'm willing to make.
     
    Apollo13, Jan 12, 2009
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