CCC's blatant and frequent refusal to open

[Dresden]

A lot of my games require me to adjust my desktop settings. Certain things need checked for certain games. Alot of the time I've noticed CCC just plain DOESN'T open. Not until I've loaded a game, played it for a while or restarted my system. Anyone else encounter this problem?


Thanks-

Ink

 

[zsouthboy]

Yep, I have.

Annoying as hell.

I hate CCC.

 

[Sobek]

Perhaps it's refusing to open because it leaves a handle running? I've noticed on occasion (not with CCC, though. Don't use it) That some apps will still leave a process running that's using next to no memory. If I try running the same app again it fails, but then if I try it once more after that it works, as the process from before vanishes when I try and run the app again for the first time.

Beats me...I see that a lot. IE7 does it from time to time

 

[_xxx_]

At some point, CCC refused to start. After trying several different drivers, using driver cleaners, different .NET versions etc. it still won't run 6 months later. Just no way to make it work.

I reverted to the hacked version with the "old" control center, works fine for me.

 

[hoom]

Mine refused to play ball earlier in the year but that was because I disabled one of the windows services that it needs enabled in order to run.
Since I figured out which one (sorry, have since forgotten which) I've not had a problem.

 

[John Reynolds]

I've defended CCC in the past, but after having borrowed a GTS for a few weeks and re-installing a 1950 with the 7.5s, I think CCC is, frankly, garbage compared to NVIDIA's control panel, both in simple usage and design. And I was getting the same problem last night on a clean install, where I'd toggle a setting such as centered timings and CCC would crash and refuse to reload unless I rebooted.

 

[digitalwanderer]

I have to use CCC for Xfire, and even though it has came leaps and bounds in terms of speed/stability I still bloody hate it.

 

[nico1982]

A lot of my games require me to adjust my desktop settings. Certain things need checked for certain games. Alot of the time I've noticed CCC just plain DOESN'T open. Not until I've loaded a game, played it for a while or restarted my system. Anyone else encounter this problem?


Thanks-

Ink

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you use Ati Tray Tools?

 

[poopypoo]

CCC's always been fine for me. a little slow, but plenty effective, until last night, when i tried to select a profile (which has been unchanged and used many times successfuly in the past), and when CCC reset my adapter, it actually just stopped outputting signal and i had to reboot. after the reboot, CCC refused to load properly several times, finally letting me in after four tries but not activating the tray icon. I toggled the tray icon box and it came back. I'm on 7.3 though, so I guess I'll upgrade now...

 

[Sobek]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you use Ati Tray Tools?

Does Ink use Crossfire?

Digi, in case you want an alternative to CCC, ATT now supports CF. Crossfire hasn't been supported in ATT except in the last 2 beta versions (at first it was locked and auto-enabled, which was a failure). On the latest final version released about a week ago, CF is finally a simple tickbox option in the Hardware tab I believe...

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

 

[digitalwanderer]

Bless you Sobek, I'll be giving that a try today.

EDITED BITS: Almost forgot, THANK YOU RAY ADAMS!!!!

 

[Richard]

Yeah, I've been using ATT since ATI dropped the classic CP and I've been very happy with it so I suggest it to anyone that has problems (crashes or performance) with CCC.

Every other month I install CCC just to check up on the progress and it has come a very long way yes sir. Still not enough for me.

 

[Anarchist4000]

Try selecting "Use Manual Detection Only" on the display options tab. I've found that to speed things up considerably for me. CCC only takes about 2s to open for me, maybe 4s if I just booted my system. I'd agree that it is still rather annoying though. I think all those processes use 20-60MB just to sit there and do nothing half the time. Can't be that hard to slim them down a bit.

 

[Davros]

since there are a few ati guys here has anyone ever got an official explaination as to why ati insist on using ccc when it sucks and most people hate it ?

or is it a case of we know its crap but we cant be seen to back down ?

 

[digitalwanderer]

The line I most heard when I asked that was, "because our driver control panel is moving to .NET, and when XP/Vista comes along we're gonna be ready!". (I can't recall if it was for XP or Vista, how sad. )

 

[willardjuice]

Digi, in case you want an alternative to CCC, ATT now supports CF. Crossfire hasn't been supported in ATT except in the last 2 beta versions (at first it was locked and auto-enabled, which was a failure). On the latest final version released about a week ago, CF is finally a simple tickbox option in the Hardware tab I believe...

Uhh have you tried CF support on ATT? It's spotty at best. On each restart it has to enable CF again (don't know why it can't remember the settings) and the extra AA modes are still not available in ATT. You can say ATT supports a very primitive version of CF.

 

[Anarchist4000]

I think the reason for CCC was something to do with Vista requiring at least some part of it. I still think a nice little C app could do a heck of a lot better without wasting nearly as much resources. No more of this bloat the drivers up to 60MB and don't really use it for anything style they've got now.

 

[Skrying]

CCC is very fast under Vista, very very fast. It opens up in just one or two seconds. Clicking through the menus and options, etc is also extremely fast also.

 

[Frank]

Wait for them to rewrite it, and NOT using .NET. Or use something else.

I have the same problems as well with it.

The only things I don't like with the nVidia control panel are the very bad support for "uncommon" resolutions, like 1360 * 768, and that you need to go to the control panel to rotate the display. Those two things ATi does much better.

 

[Davros]

no you dont