ATI driver - CLI wants to connect to the Internet

[forumposter32]

I updated to the latest ATI driver. Then I found out I needed .NET to stop stupid cli.exe error messages. Yeah, they stopped alright. They stopped and now I have to deal with this stupid program trying to connect to the Internet.

What is it trying to do and how can I shut it off? Or can you or should you?

 

[akugami]

Maybe you should have just installed the drivers and not the Catalyst Control Center?

 

[forumposter32]

Oh, I'm not good at uninstalling and re-installing drivers. So, I prefer finding out how to remove or block it.

 

[rbV5]

Its probably just connecting to the local host not the internet.

 

[forumposter32]

I don't know but it was driving me nuts. And I swear when it was on, it seemed to slow down my web surfing. So, I went in the control panel and clicked to remove the control center. It's deleted alright. The UT2004 performance is the same. However, I lost 10% in performance in Unreal Tournament GOTY (1999).
Kind of tried to find out about Generic Host Process for Win32 Services but it seems integrated in the OS.

 

[Viper96720]

Can you change your vid card settings now? Display advanced settings. If not just go to ATI and download the control panel. It's in the 5.8 driver low speed section

 

[pibb]

im getting the same crap, just allow/disallow it and be over with it

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: pibb
im getting the same crap, just allow/disallow it and be over with it

ATI's CCC uses a Client/Server relationship to talk to the driver locally, if you disallow it, its not going to work properly. I've done alot of testing with CCC, and I've found no gaming performance issues at all, so I doubt if any gaming performance drop you see has anything to do with CCC.

You don't need to use CCC at all though. Uninstall it and use the legacy Control Panel, or perhaps ATI tray tools to configure the driver settings if it bothers you.