ATI n00b: Got a x850xt pcie coming. What drivers? Atitool?

[PingSpike]

I've heard that the official drivers require the dotnet framework or something to install...but that you can work around that? Can anyone explain that to me? And I think I'm going to need atitool to control the fan speed correct? I'm not really planning on overclocking at this current time, but probably will in the future.

 

[dguy6789]

Latest drivers.

ATi Tray Tools > ATi Tool.

 

[necro007]

That dotnet program is somthing CCC uses but you are going to need it eventually for some program.

I am not too sure about Ati Tray Tools being able to suport a X850XT, i could be wrong but for me my X1800XL did not work with it( i mean Ati Tray Tools didn't suport my card yet).

But iam using Ati Tool 0.25 Beta 14 and it works okay, I don't want to oc as yet(with Ati Tool) cause it still is beta and i don't want to take a chance and blow my card.

Also

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Latest drivers.

ATi Tray Tools > ATi Tool.

dguy do you mean that PingSpike should install ATi Tray Tools & ATi Tool ?

Why, not to sound mean or anything but is there some gain from having both ATi Tray Tools & ATi Tool running at the same time?

 

[PingSpike]

I think he means ati tray tools is better then ati tool. I was not aware there were two seperate entities.

I prefer "lite" style of drivers on my system usually. What are the omega drivers? Can I just install drivers without all the .net framework business and the CCC? (What would I be missing without the CCC?)

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Latest drivers.

ATi Tray Tools > ATi Tool.

:thumbsup:

ATI Tray Tools works great with my X800XT

 

[necro007]

I have used CCC, Ati Tray Tools and Ati Tool.

Out of the 3 the best one i felt was Ati Tool, CCC is just tool slow and big, Ati Tray Tools doesn't suport my video card yet so i maybe it is not right to compare it to the others but Ati Tools it just WOW.

Everything and anything I want to do is there, i just can't wait for Ati Tool 0.25 i have the Beta ver now.

 

[PingSpike]

So I should just install the latest catalyst display driver from ati's site and ati tray tool or ati tool and I should be fine? Am I understanding this correctly that ati tray tools, ati tool and CCC all do basically the same sort of thing?

 

[evolucion8]

There's some settings that appear in the CCC than do not appear on the other tools like ATi Tray Tool and ATi Tool, High Quality AF, 3:2 pulldown, Adaptive Anti Aliasing, don't know why, I reinstalled them many times on my X800XT PE and still not appear, that's why I prefer to use the slow CCC for now til that get fixed.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

ati tray tools.