ATI Catalyst Control Center will not open...

[TOCSYS]

Let me start by saying that I cannot stand the CCC. I've never liked it and I never will. I just want a basic control panel back to change my settings but ATI felt it best to get rid of it from their website.

/rant off

Shuttle SB75S
Windows XP Pro
ATI X800 Pro (Driver version = 5.13)
2GB RAM
3.2 GHz CPU
Raptor HDD
Audigy 2

I right click my desktop and left click ATI CATALYST(R) Control Center. The splash screen comes up but that's it. It just sits there and the control panel never opens. I have uninstalled the drivers with the ATI uninstaller and the CAT removal tool. I have also uninstalled the .NET framework and ran Driver Cleaner Pro to start from scratch but no dice. I end up with the same result. Has anyone else run into this issue? TIA for the assistance.

*Edit - My running processes shows 3 instances of "CLI.exe" Is this normal?

 

[Fardringle]

I had this same problem on my home computer that runs an ATI video card and I always had three copies of CLI.EXE listed in the Task Manager regardless of how many times I reinstalled the application. I was able to fix it by installing the newest version of .NET from Microsoft.

On the other hand, if you just don't want to use ATI's Catalyst Control Center at all (I don't blame you) try ATITool instead.

 

[NYHoustonman]

I'm having this same problem as well... now using ATI Tray Tools. ATM, I'm trying to get the 5.13's to work right... in HL2 everything is black.

 

[Jeff7]

Add me to the list. CLI.exe appears briefly in Task Manager, then vanishes. The Control Center never appears.

 

[doze]

Having the same problem with CCC 90% of the time it hangs glad it's not just me. At least you can change advanced settings from the system tray now.

 

[daniel49]

try using the Omega drivers,
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

 

[TOCSYS]

Just installed the 6.1 set and everything is back to normal now.

 

[Jeff7]

Installed v6.1 here. Two things:
1) Control Center still doesn't come up. It sounds like it's loading for almost 5 full seconds, 2 instances of CLI.exe show up, one goes away, and then it just sits there.
2) It switches to 60Hz if I try to open a game.


Edit: Ok, so I just found out that .NET 2.0 is also required.
Installed it. Rebooted. No change. Control Center still doesn't open.

 

[Spineshank]

Hmm im not the only one then.......i even did a clean install when first encountering this problem and couldnt understand it but i never really bothered to look into it. I have NET 2.0 installed as well. I dont have the 6.1 drivers installed so maybe ill give them a whirl.

 

[Spineshank]

6.1 drivers seemed to fix this issue for me.

 

[Jeff7]

Bump for an old thread. Anyone heard anything new?

I encountered an issue involving PTC's Pro/Engineer CAD package, so I tried ATI's Uninstaller utility. Used that, then manually went through my C: and registry to wipe out any traces of ATI's software that I could find. Installed 6.2 drivers. Wouldn't ya know it - Control Center STILL won't open.

At least it did something though - Pro/E seems to work now. The "solution" before, from PTC, was to disable all hardware acceleration.

Still no CCC lovin' though. Sucks too, I can't even use Rage3d's tweaker - IT now relies on the Control Center being usable.

 

[yofa42]

ati drivers are finicky, esp. with unfresh installs.

you have to delete all traces of the previous driver before installing the new one, and suffer through the xp vga compatibility mode for one boot.

control panel, add/remove programs, ati anything. there's also an ati software uninstall utility in that list that can automate that too.

after uninstalling all things ati, reboot, then install the new drivers. that fixes most problems.

yes, ccc does suck. it's certainly no nvidia installation experience. i only keep the ati for the a-i-wonder. if i could live without the feature set, i'd be jumping ship to nvidia hardware in a second. if you've tried to get at mmc to work on a 9000-series card, you'd sympathize.