Wednesday, November 11, 2009

ATI CCC Problems

Hello all, sorry it's been so long since I've updated the blog but I've been trying to get settled in my new home and have been slowly transforming into a college student zombie.

I thought I'd detail my latest escapade which happened last night and today. It has to do with Ati's catalyst control center, and its neverending pursuit to make me go crazy.

After a botched windows update a month or two ago, I noticed that I was unable to install the newer ATI Driver for my Radeon 4850x2. The ATI wizard would execute until I selected either install or uninstall, in which case it would crash and windows 7 warned me of a compatibility problem. After a lot of searching and finding no answers, I decided to delve deeper into the installation package that ATI supplies us with.

One such package was the most interesting, the ATI CIM package (Catalyst installation manager). The file ATISetup.exe was located inside of it which had some very useful command-line switches.

After some prodding, I came up with this solution.