Problems with Catalyst 5.6

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Just installed Catalyst 5.6, having previously been using Catalyst 4.7.

Now I get very sluggish screen updates in Windows. When Windows first
starts, the screen goes blank several times, each time it redraws the
background which takes about two seconds. There is also slowdown
whenever I open a menu with transparency effects (e.g. the start menu or
any drop-down menu)

The Catalyst Control Center fails to start, I get this:

cli.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK
to terminate the application.


System is Athlon 64 3500+ with Radeon X800 Pro (256Mb)

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Andrew R. Gillett wrote:
> In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, Andrew R. Gillett wrote:
>
>>Just installed Catalyst 5.6, having previously been using Catalyst 4.7.
>>
>>Now I get very sluggish screen updates in Windows. When Windows first
>>starts, the screen goes blank several times, each time it redraws the
>>background which takes about two seconds. There is also slowdown
>>whenever I open a menu with transparency effects (e.g. the start menu or
>>any drop-down menu)
>>
>>The Catalyst Control Center fails to start, I get this:
>>
>>cli.exe - Application Error
>>The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK
>>to terminate the application.
>
>
> After a reboot, the slowdown isn't happening any more, but cli.exe still
> crashes.

I would be insulting your intelligence if I asked whether you installed
the required .NET framework to support the CCC??


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>> Now I get very sluggish screen updates in Windows. When Windows first
>> starts, the screen goes blank several times, each time it redraws the
>> background which takes about two seconds. There is also slowdown
>> whenever I open a menu with transparency effects (e.g. the start menu or

Whenever I've updated to new or different Catalysts, XP always seems to do
this sluggish screen rewrite after the first boot on install. It always goes
back to normal on the second reboot. It seems to be a common "feature". The
only time it stayed that way was the first time I installed an ATI card
switching over from Nvidia a couple of years back. The reason was my failure
to remove all traces of the Nvidia drivers and dll's. Once I did this, it
acted normally. I also thought there was something wrong because there was
no video card BIOS "splash" on bootup, but upon googling I found that ATI
cards just don't do it.

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Sometime on, or about Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:38:21 GMT, patrickp wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:55:28 -0700, Sam <srs2_11BS@HotmailBS.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Sometime on, or about Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:08:54 +0100, Andrew R. Gillett
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Just installed Catalyst 5.6, having previously been using Catalyst 4.7.
>>>
>>> Now I get very sluggish screen updates in Windows. When Windows first
>>> starts, the screen goes blank several times, each time it redraws the
>>> background which takes about two seconds. There is also slowdown
>>> whenever I open a menu with transparency effects (e.g. the start menu or
>>> any drop-down menu)
>>>
>>> The Catalyst Control Center fails to start, I get this:
>>>
>>> cli.exe - Application Error
>>> The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK
>>> to terminate the application.
>>>
>>> System is Athlon 64 3500+ with Radeon X800 Pro (256Mb)
>>
>>Did you totally uninstall the old drivers before installing the new ones?
>>I've had problems in the past when I hadn't done that.
>>
>>The ATI Uninstall Utility that's in the Add or Remove Programs does a
>>pretty decent job of doing this. Reboot after uninstalling and cancel any
>>Windows prompting for new video drivers. Then install the Catalyst 5.6
>>drivers.
>>
>>Sam
>
> Yes, speaking as one who's always taken care about removing old ATI
> stuff before changing drivers, the ATI Software Uninstall Utility
> seems to to an excellent job, Sam. I use it the same way as you do -
> to remove remains after uninstalling, rather than as an uninstall
> method itself, as some people seem to do.
>
> I'd also recommend deleting the ATI unpacking folder (usually C:\ATI)
> after using the Uninstall Utility.
>
> Patrick
>
> <patrickp@5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me...

I never let ATI install into the root directory... always change it to
c:\program files\ATI instead. And, yes I do wipe that out when it's no
longer needed. It writes the new drivers into a sub-folder of a different
name anyhow, so there's no danger of them mixing.

A long time ago, I used to just install the new drivers right over the old
ones. Once I started noticing slow re-drawing of the screen and other
oddities, I started doing a total uninstall first. It takes longer, since
you have to reboot after doing the uninstall. But the end results are worth
it.

Sam
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