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Raptr (AMD) What's the point?

runzwithsizorz

runzwithsizorz

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ok....I never game on line, I don't care about entering gaming competitions or scoring "high" game points. I game for fun for me, no one else. I care most about story, decent PC game play and bug free products (patches are fine to correct problems). So I am inclined to get rid of Raptr and gaming evolved ap. Any downside for getting rid of this annoyance? Seems to slow down PC shut down and pops up at weird times. Also, this program was hacked awhile back.

The Wife
 
None what so ever. In fact your games will most likely run better without them.

Raptr is complete garbage and AMD should be ashamed for jamming it into their driver releases, its far too easy to install Raptr by accident.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
None what so ever. In fact your games will most likely run better without them.

Raptr is complete garbage and AMD should be ashamed for jamming it into their driver releases, its far too easy to install Raptr by accident.
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This.

What's worse is the person who developed RadeonPro went to join AMD's Raptr team, forgoing development of every ATI and AMD GPU owners dream piece of software.
 
Raptr F'd up Battle Field 3 for me. I had a GTX260 when I swapped out to an AMD 280X BF3 became unplayable, like a slide show. I couldn't figure out why a much more powerful card performed so much worse. I uninstalled Raptr and all the problems disappeared. I wonder how many AMD owners simply thought BF3 was messed up or that their new card sucked?
 
I think you need it if you want to do video recording of your gaming sessions. I know the video recording is integrated into anyways.
 
I agree. I have no use for it at all. I dont record my games, and the game optimization feature has done an absolutely terrible job every time I have let it mess with my settings. For instance, with my HD7770 I was struggling with W3 at 1080p, lowest settings. One day I noticed it was running far worse the usual. Turns out Raptor had "optimized" the game to medium with Hairworks turned on!!

I personally disable raptor after every updating of CCC. I wish they made it more transparent to install the catalyst driver *without* installing raptor. It is not a bad software, per se, and has its place for some users, but I wish they just made it a separate download.
 
Midwayman said:
I think you need it if you want to do video recording of your gaming sessions. I know the video recording is integrated into anyways.
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Funny I got mildly excited over this feature and I couldn't get it to work in two different games.
BTW windows 10 has this built in.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
I agree. I have no use for it at all. I dont record my games, and the game optimization feature has done an absolutely terrible job every time I have let it mess with my settings. For instance, with my HD7770 I was struggling with W3 at 1080p, lowest settings. One day I noticed it was running far worse the usual. Turns out Raptor had "optimized" the game to medium with Hairworks turned on!!

I personally disable raptor after every updating of CCC. I wish they made it more transparent to install the catalyst driver *without* installing raptor. It is not a bad software, per se, and has its place for some users, but I wish they just made it a separate download.
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You can just uncheck the raptr box but yes its hidden well
 
I got rid of Raptr. I doubt I'll use catalyst control center either, as this is my older ROG laptop. The main computer has an Nvidia vid card.
 
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