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OneTinSoldier · 09-23-05, 12:44 AM

I'm sorry but I don't know how to help you out Reece with 100% certainty. I do not know why you are having troubles with post 5.6 versions. I can only make the following 'personal' observations.

1) All CCC releases have required .Net. (unless I missed something?)

2) I have not tried 5.9's and so I can only say that... I have been using official ATI driver releases for a considerable time, ever since the Radeon 9700 Pro came out(now using an X800 XT PE). The 5.8's are the best version I have ever had installed. The best performance, the best Image Quality(IQ), the best fixes(fixed a bug for X800 XT users who own/play Battlefield 2

), ect. I have had my current installation of Windows XP going for 11 months, through installing most of the Catalyst driver versions that have come out to upgrading from my old Radeon 9700 Pro to my current Radeon X800 XT PE. I have no issues with my video card or driver.

3) .Net is only takes up resources when it's used, ie. when you run CCC, with one exception, it installs a new MS Windows Service(Windows User Mode Driver Framework) which all by itself has not affected my gaming performance. I believe thise Service could even be set to 'Manual' or perhaps even 'Disabled' but I still have it on 'Automatic'.

4) I'll explain the method I use to uninstall my ATI Video Driver. Ever since Catalyst 3.9's there has been a utility included that you can run that will remove all vestiges of the drivers, including registry entries(except for 2 that I found). What I do is first go to 'Control Panel' --> 'Add/Remove Programs' remove the 'ATI Control Panel -or- Catalyst Control Center' and then the 'ATI Driver'. Then I reboot into Safe Mode by tapping 'F8' on my keyboard while it's rebooting(perhaps not necessary but it's what I do). Then I run the program that removes all vestiges of the ATI drivers found here...

C:\ATI\SUPPORT\5-8_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_25203\AtiCimUn.exe

Then I reboot, and then I install the newest Catalyst drivers and CCC.

You might want to try that method to uninstall and reinstall your drivers. I don't know if that will help you with your problem but you can try it out if you want to.

Regards,

OneTinSoldier

System Specs:

Intel 3.4C(C = Northwood Core) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe(Intel 875P + ICH5R Chipset), Zalman 7000a-Cu HS/Fan, Enermax RG651P-VE 550W PSU, 2 GB Mushkin eXtreme Performance(2-2-2) Dual Channel PC3200 RAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 21" CRT Monitor, Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PE Videocard with v5.8 Catalyst Drivers, DirectX 9.0c, Creative Audigy2 Platinum Soundcard with Creative OpenAL Beta Driver, 250 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital 7200 RPM Parallel ATA HDD, WinXP Pro SP2, Comcast Cable Internet Connection, Nortons Anti-Virus and Personal Firewall 2005

09-23-05, 12:44 AM	#9
OneTinSoldier Sonar Guy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Denver, CO USA Posts: 382 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	I'm sorry but I don't know how to help you out Reece with 100% certainty. I do not know why you are having troubles with post 5.6 versions. I can only make the following 'personal' observations. 1) All CCC releases have required .Net. (unless I missed something?) 2) I have not tried 5.9's and so I can only say that... I have been using official ATI driver releases for a considerable time, ever since the Radeon 9700 Pro came out(now using an X800 XT PE). The 5.8's are the best version I have ever had installed. The best performance, the best Image Quality(IQ), the best fixes(fixed a bug for X800 XT users who own/play Battlefield 2 ), ect. I have had my current installation of Windows XP going for 11 months, through installing most of the Catalyst driver versions that have come out to upgrading from my old Radeon 9700 Pro to my current Radeon X800 XT PE. I have no issues with my video card or driver. 3) .Net is only takes up resources when it's used, ie. when you run CCC, with one exception, it installs a new MS Windows Service(Windows User Mode Driver Framework) which all by itself has not affected my gaming performance. I believe thise Service could even be set to 'Manual' or perhaps even 'Disabled' but I still have it on 'Automatic'. 4) I'll explain the method I use to uninstall my ATI Video Driver. Ever since Catalyst 3.9's there has been a utility included that you can run that will remove all vestiges of the drivers, including registry entries(except for 2 that I found). What I do is first go to 'Control Panel' --> 'Add/Remove Programs' remove the 'ATI Control Panel -or- Catalyst Control Center' and then the 'ATI Driver'. Then I reboot into Safe Mode by tapping 'F8' on my keyboard while it's rebooting(perhaps not necessary but it's what I do). Then I run the program that removes all vestiges of the ATI drivers found here... C:\ATI\SUPPORT\5-8_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_25203\AtiCimUn.exe Then I reboot, and then I install the newest Catalyst drivers and CCC. You might want to try that method to uninstall and reinstall your drivers. I don't know if that will help you with your problem but you can try it out if you want to. Regards, OneTinSoldier System Specs: Intel 3.4C(C = Northwood Core) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe(Intel 875P + ICH5R Chipset), Zalman 7000a-Cu HS/Fan, Enermax RG651P-VE 550W PSU, 2 GB Mushkin eXtreme Performance(2-2-2) Dual Channel PC3200 RAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 21" CRT Monitor, Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PE Videocard with v5.8 Catalyst Drivers, DirectX 9.0c, Creative Audigy2 Platinum Soundcard with Creative OpenAL Beta Driver, 250 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital 7200 RPM Parallel ATA HDD, WinXP Pro SP2, Comcast Cable Internet Connection, Nortons Anti-Virus and Personal Firewall 2005 __________________ "Variable this is EasyRhino, do you copy? Over." Loud and clear EasyRhino. "Do we have a gig? Over." That's a Roger, we have a gig. Target is painted, start the music. "Roger that Variable. Into attack. Pickling target. Target is acquired and lit. LGB comin' down!" EasyRhino, circular error probability zero. Impact with High Order Detonation. Thank You, have a nice day.