- Aug 21, 2002
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I'll start with the good.
They FINALLY created a way to create "profiles" for individual games. Unfortunately this good point turns into a bad point. They're so anal about application detection the only way to automatically change the settings upon launching a game is to use the CCC to create a custom shortcut. Nice idea... in theory... but it doesn't work. I tried it with Doom 3, Far Cry, and SoF2. The games crash every time I try to use the CCC created shortcut.
The other way to switch profiles is to right click the tray icon and you can select profiles you've created from a list. That works good. If they just added that feature to the drivers, there would be no need for this CCC crap.
Now for the bad.
As mentioned before, the shortcuts created by CCC to apply profiles automatically don't work, at least not for every game for me. Since they don't work for me, I'm assuming they also don't work for other people as well since I'm not THAT special.
The UI is ok... but too flashy. I'd rather have the window look like a normal window. There are skins available for it, some are included, all of which I find very ugly. Maybe if you use a custom theme in Windows XP these skins would match pretty well, but I prefer the clean/plain functional look for menu's and stuff like that. They should have made a "Windows XP" skin that makes it look like any other window.
Don't try to change your display options by right clicking the desktop and going to properties... clicking on the advanced button on the settings tab rebooted my computer and it's NEVER done that before.
It's slow. It takes a good 5-10 seconds longer for it to load when Windows boots. Changes to display settings take a full 3-5 seconds, EVEN if you haven't clicked Apply yet. Switching profiles takes about the same amount of time. It doesn't seem to have any effect on performance in games though. I just expect things to happen a tad quicker on a 2.5 GHz Barton with 1 GB of RAM and a Raptor hard drive.
These might seem like tiny or petty things I'm complaining about. But they're tiny little annoyances. An annoyed computer user isn't what ATI's goal should be and there's really no excuse for these things. I don't care how much functionality it ads for OEM's if half the functions are broken or don't work as intended.
They FINALLY created a way to create "profiles" for individual games. Unfortunately this good point turns into a bad point. They're so anal about application detection the only way to automatically change the settings upon launching a game is to use the CCC to create a custom shortcut. Nice idea... in theory... but it doesn't work. I tried it with Doom 3, Far Cry, and SoF2. The games crash every time I try to use the CCC created shortcut.
The other way to switch profiles is to right click the tray icon and you can select profiles you've created from a list. That works good. If they just added that feature to the drivers, there would be no need for this CCC crap.
Now for the bad.
As mentioned before, the shortcuts created by CCC to apply profiles automatically don't work, at least not for every game for me. Since they don't work for me, I'm assuming they also don't work for other people as well since I'm not THAT special.
The UI is ok... but too flashy. I'd rather have the window look like a normal window. There are skins available for it, some are included, all of which I find very ugly. Maybe if you use a custom theme in Windows XP these skins would match pretty well, but I prefer the clean/plain functional look for menu's and stuff like that. They should have made a "Windows XP" skin that makes it look like any other window.
Don't try to change your display options by right clicking the desktop and going to properties... clicking on the advanced button on the settings tab rebooted my computer and it's NEVER done that before.
It's slow. It takes a good 5-10 seconds longer for it to load when Windows boots. Changes to display settings take a full 3-5 seconds, EVEN if you haven't clicked Apply yet. Switching profiles takes about the same amount of time. It doesn't seem to have any effect on performance in games though. I just expect things to happen a tad quicker on a 2.5 GHz Barton with 1 GB of RAM and a Raptor hard drive.
These might seem like tiny or petty things I'm complaining about. But they're tiny little annoyances. An annoyed computer user isn't what ATI's goal should be and there's really no excuse for these things. I don't care how much functionality it ads for OEM's if half the functions are broken or don't work as intended.
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