ATi Control Panel?

champ2005 · August 16th, 2004

My friend borrowed me his 9700 Pro for a while (he blew up his computer or something) so i put it in place of my fx5600. I installed the latest stable drivers (Catalyst 4.7) w/ Control Panel centre thingy. What is the control panel thing anyway? is it all the extra tabs in the display > advanced box (where the nvidia options are). Because if it is I must say it is pretty disappointing compared to the layout and usability of the Nvidia drivers. There are not as many options and the help for options like "Use alternate DVI mode" doesnt tell you anything about what its doing.

Please point me in the right direction if i missed something - obviously im a bit of an ATi n00b

**Petros** · August 16th, 2004

Yes, it's the extra tabs. Without it, you would have just the basic ones like adapter, troubleshooting, monitor, etc.

**Electronic Punk** · August 16th, 2004

Yeah, thats why the real Cataysts 4.9 (out in Sept) will be copying the NVIDIA layout, adding a cool feature of their own tho - Real time AA/AF/IQ prevewing in the CP... hopefully NVIDIA will copy that themselves!!

Full story and a screenshot is on the frontpage.

**Hipster Doofus** · August 17th, 2004

Are ATI still going with the idea of adding 'memory' overclocking to the overdrive tab? I read some time ago they were going to put both core & memory in there.

'ATI tool' does a similar thing but having it covered by warranty would be better.

**Electronic Punk** · August 17th, 2004

I would say with the XT, if they ain't done it yet with em, they ain't gonna.
4.9 might prove otherwise tho.

**Xie** · August 17th, 2004

Seems 4.8's were released today but as stated they lack the new control panel that 4.9 will have.

**Sazar** · August 17th, 2004

the overclocking thing I doubt will come with an ati card anytime soon..

overdrive only comes with the cards that have thermal monitoring built-in... and that was with the 9600/9800xt's and the new cards... and any custom thinger that AIB's may wanna come out with...

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champ2005 \| xs \| Joined: January 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 238 Reputation: 40 Power: 104	ATi Control Panel? My friend borrowed me his 9700 Pro for a while (he blew up his computer or something) so i put it in place of my fx5600. I installed the latest stable drivers (Catalyst 4.7) w/ Control Panel centre thingy. What is the control panel thing anyway? is it all the extra tabs in the display > advanced box (where the nvidia options are). Because if it is I must say it is pretty disappointing compared to the layout and usability of the Nvidia drivers. There are not as many options and the help for options like "Use alternate DVI mode" doesnt tell you anything about what its doing. Please point me in the right direction if i missed something - obviously im a bit of an ATi n00b AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0ghz) \| 1.5GB DDR266 (2.0/3/3/6) \| 19" AOC LCD \| 80GB Primary Disk \| SATA RAID 0 2x160GB \| Leadtek Geforce4 Ti4800SE \| Gigabyte VIA KT600 board with 1394 \| Microsoft Wireless Elite Keyboard \| Logitech MX900 w/ Bluetooth

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Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,224 Reputation: 1730 Power: 175	Seems 4.8's were released today but as stated they lack the new control panel that 4.9 will have. tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,888 Reputation: 4110 Power: 313	the overclocking thing I doubt will come with an ati card anytime soon.. overdrive only comes with the cards that have thermal monitoring built-in... and that was with the 9600/9800xt's and the new cards... and any custom thinger that AIB's may wanna come out with... Help to find cures for Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Folding@Home, is it in you?

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Petros Thief IV Joined: May 2003 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 3,038 Reputation: 1647 Power: 156	Yes, it's the extra tabs. Without it, you would have just the basic ones like adapter, troubleshooting, monitor, etc.

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,510 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 349	Yeah, thats why the real Cataysts 4.9 (out in Sept) will be copying the NVIDIA layout, adding a cool feature of their own tho - Real time AA/AF/IQ prevewing in the CP... hopefully NVIDIA will copy that themselves!! Full story and a screenshot is on the frontpage.

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Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 187	Are ATI still going with the idea of adding 'memory' overclocking to the overdrive tab? I read some time ago they were going to put both core & memory in there. 'ATI tool' does a similar thing but having it covered by warranty would be better.

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,510 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 349	I would say with the XT, if they ain't done it yet with em, they ain't gonna. 4.9 might prove otherwise tho.