Cat 6.12 CCC Much faster??

[Tony DiMarzio]

Yesterday I installed the latest ATI 8.32.5 driver in Suse 10.1 and the
latest Vista RTM driver. They both went very well. No problems.

Today, I installed the Cat 6.12 WinXP driver, not expecting much at all from
reading the release notes. However, for me, the CCC is performing somewhere
on the order of 5 to 7 times faster in terms of load time. There is still a
chance that this is a fluke and the CCC is performing so much faster at the
sacrifice of something else. Not sure yet. Will take time to confirm on my
end.

Has anyone else experienced a huge speed up in CCC performance in Cat 6.12?
Particularly in CCC load times?

note that I've been using CCC for about the last year, year and a half, and
I've only skipped a few Cat releases since then. So, let's round and say in
12 different Cat releases I haven't really noticed much performance
increases in the CCC. A little here and a little there but nothing like
this.

 

[First of One]

Hmm, I'll install 6.12 when I have some time this weekend and see what
happens.

The cynicist in me suggests now would be a good time to check CLI.exe's
memory footprint...

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Hmm, I'll install 6.12 when I have some time this weekend and see what
happens.

The cynicist in me suggests now would be a good time to check CLI.exe's
memory footprint...

These values fluctuate continually, so it's hard to get an accurate memory
usage measurement. However, here is what I get with CCC closed and CCC
systray applet loaded:

CLI.exe 4,180k
CLI.exe 3,976K
CLI.exe 4,308K

Opening CCC causes the total memory usage to approximately double for the 3
CLI.exe's combined, but then the values fluctuate and begin to fall.

After a few reboots, the CCC is still loading very quickly for me.

Tony

 

[First of One]

Some measurements I took with a stopwatch. First time CCC is launched after
a fresh reboot (subsequently the CCC is cached in memory and loads
instantly). I have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. CCC in advanced mode, no
skins, no tooltips, no tray icon, "color" tab the default shown.

Cat 6.10: 9.55 sec
Cat 6.12: 9.15 sec

The difference is well within the margin of error on my setup.

Hardware config is 2x X1900XT CF. 2x 512 MB DDR400. Asus A8R-MVP. WD 500GB
16 MB NTFS with NCQ enabled through ULI SATA driver.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Some measurements I took with a stopwatch. First time CCC is launched
after
a fresh reboot (subsequently the CCC is cached in memory and loads
instantly). I have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. CCC in advanced mode, no
skins, no tooltips, no tray icon, "color" tab the default shown.

Cat 6.10: 9.55 sec
Cat 6.12: 9.15 sec

The difference is well within the margin of error on my setup.

Hardware config is 2x X1900XT CF. 2x 512 MB DDR400. Asus A8R-MVP. WD 500GB
16 MB NTFS with NCQ enabled through ULI SATA driver.

I also have .NET 2.0, CCC in advanced, system skin (aka off), no splash,
tray icon enabled. However, my "first launch" is ~1.5 seconds. Subsequent
launches are .5 to 1 second. I say "first launch" because of:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"ATICCC"="\"C:\\Program Files\\ATI Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\CLIStart.exe\""

which precaches CCC at bootup. I've always run this configuration. Previous
to Cat 6.12, every CCC GUI launch took around 4-8 seconds for me...
sometimes even longer. During this period there was no disk activity. It
appeared to be scanning for something. I just assumed this was one of the
normal CCC performance issues people experience. Perhaps I should not have
assumed that. From my perspective, it is much faster now. Here's my system
config:

/*
AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53, 1MB L2 Cache (2.4ghz@200mhz-FSB)
ASUS "A8N-SLI Premium" nForce4 SLI (BIOS: 1009)
nForce4 6.70 Drivers
2048mb (2 x (1024mb OCZ Platinum EL (2.5-3-2-5-2T) DDR400/PC3200) Dual
Channel) [OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K]
ATI Radeon X1900XTX (Catalyst 6.12) (C-648mhz / M-774mhz)
SbAudigy 5.1

500GB Western Digital WD5000KS SATA-1
Plextor (PX-716SA) SATA-2
16x HI-VAL DVDRom (BDV316C) PATA-secondary/master

LianLi PC-6070 *Silent* Aluminum Mid-Tower Case | 2x80mm intake fans, 1x80mm
exhaust fan, 1x slot cooler
OCZ Modstream 520watt PSU | +3.3V(28A), +5V(52A), +12V(28A)
*/

Tony