Catalyst Control Panel Memory Use?

[C16]

Just installed the latest drivers (5.6) first I installed the drivers with
the Catalyst control panel, everything works fine, but checking the task
Manager on boot up it says Commit Charge of 370M of ram being used. Someone
suggested I tried the normal control panel version, so I did, on boot up
task manager shows 270M is this normal, can Catalyst Control Panel really be
using that much ram.

 

[Geoff]

Just installed the latest drivers (5.6) first I installed
the drivers with the Catalyst control panel, everything
works fine, but checking the task Manager on boot up it
says Commit Charge of 370M of ram being used. Someone
suggested I tried the normal control panel version, so I
did, on boot up task manager shows 270M is this normal,
can Catalyst Control Panel really be using that much ram.

wouldn't know, never used em, it wouldn't surprise me though
stupid .net rubbish

always get the control panel drivers not the CCC ones

 

[Ian Oxley]

wouldn't know, never used em, it wouldn't surprise me though
stupid .net rubbish

always get the control panel drivers not the CCC ones

The .NET framework supporting CCC does indeed combine to use a lot of
RAM. Trouble is you can't access the A.I. driver options with control
panel. It's a bugger.


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[First of One]

Apparently you can, with ATiTool.

 

[Sleepy]

The .NET framework supporting CCC does indeed combine to use a lot of
you can with the omega drivers - which is useful cause the AI definitely
causes problems
with some games. I had flashing textures galore in Brother In Arms until I
switched off AI.

 

[de Moni]

you can with the omega drivers - which is useful cause the AI definitely
causes problems
with some games. I had flashing textures galore in Brother In Arms until I
switched off AI.

I suppose AI doesn't have such a dramatic effect in performance,
especially if video card isn't a monster (like 9600pro) and not using
much AA/AF or high resolutions?

 

[Don Burnette]

I suppose AI doesn't have such a dramatic effect in performance,
especially if video card isn't a monster (like 9600pro) and not using
much AA/AF or high resolutions?

What exactly is AI in the catalyst drivers?

I just checked mine in ATI tool, and it is set to " low " for my 9800 Pro.

 

[First of One]

It performs application detection and activates "optimizations" such as
aggressive texture compression when certain known games are launched.

Expect synthetic benchmarks to perform better with it enabled.

 

[Don Burnette]

Ok, thanks...

In the real world , for gaming and not necessarily benchmarking, would
having it enabled be better or worse for performance?

Don

 

[First of One]

Performance should be better in some games, and unchanged in others. Of
course, things like texture compression come with very slight image quality
degradation, though most likely you won't see a difference.

 

[Don Burnette]

Good deal, I will leave it as is.

Thanks for the info...

Don