To use or not use Catalyst?

[clerick]

I've been wondering if there is any real benefit to even letting the CCC run while i play AH.  I do use the overclock utility and have most things set to "application preference" but, beyond the overclocking, is it maybe hurting more than it's helping?

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[Tigger29]

Depends on the rest of your system stats... most likely any benefits you gain from overclocking you will lose due to the resources of CCC running in the background.

Personally I use Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools... does (most) of the same stuff that CCC does at a fraction of the footprint.  I'm running v1.7.9.1531 but I haven't updated it in a while...  www.guru3d.com

[TequilaChaser]

Depends on the rest of your system stats...

just like Tigger posted...... your PC build / specs  will be the depending factor on whether you can gain anything visualy verses your PC taking a bad resources hit and hurting your overall game play / views

I personally have CCC on some of my PCs  and also, like Tigger have opted for Tray Tools instead on some other PCs in the past, because of the smaller footprint/resources being used.....

regarding Aces High & CCC or ATI Tray Tools.....  Aces High only requires the ATI  or the Nvidia Display Driver and nothing else....... Aces High's built in Graphics settings & abilities will make use of your Video Card's AA availability as well as other things regarding shaders etc.....

at least that is how I understood Skuzzy explaining it several years ago.......    I do not think anything has changed since the new graphics engine was put in to place, although I could be completely wrong.....

If your Computer is Strong enough, you can run any Graphics software suites ( ATI / Nvidia ) and not really notice a difference in whether it is hampering your Aces High game play..........  but for those with lower end computers, I would recommend to just use the Video Card's  Graphics Display Driver only, and not install any video card tweaking software

hope this helps

TC

[clerick]

thank you, that's what I was wondering. My system is lower end but I usually maintain 60 fps at mid level settings in game. I'll just do away with the CCC.

[Ack-Ack]

I've been wondering if there is any real benefit to even letting the CCC run while i play AH.  I do use the overclock utility and have most things set to "application preference" but, beyond the overclocking, is it maybe hurting more than it's helping?

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You don't need to use CCC with ATI cards, it's just bloat ware.  You can use Ray's ATI Tray Tools instead with a much smaller resource footprint and it have more options to fine tune your card.

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[zack1234]

I have just downloaded Ray adams tool


Does the automatic overclock option any good?