I recently built a system that includes a single X1950 XTX. After I installed the 6.11 Catalyst package on a fresh install of XP Pro, I noticed that I have THREE instances of CLI.EXE running and TWO instances of another executable that begins with ATI (sorry, I wrote down the file name but forgot it this morning when I left for work).
I spent most of this past Saturday gaming at a small LAN party at a friend's place and never had a single problem. Is this normal? I still intend to check ATI's web site, but wanted to drop the question here as well.
The card is running with the following hardware:
EVGA nForce 680i motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2 GB of Corsair XMS2 Extreme DDR2-800 with EPP enabled (4-4-4-12)
500 GB Seagate SATA2 16mb cache
X-Fi Fatal1ty
yea its fine... the three instances of CLI.exe are the catalyst control center processes.. and the other 2 ati based ones are for the ATI hotkey poller. personally i use a different method but if your using the stock ATI drivers then those are normal.
By default the ATi drivers will launch one instance of CLI.exe for each display output it has available. Usually 2 monitors + 1 TV (ie DVi + VGA + Svideo).
It's annoying and uses some resources, but the impact is minimal/negligible.
disable taskbar appearance of it. I also disable hotkey poller as I do not need it.
I found my os was at 300mb ram without iexplore open. I do not believe they need one running for each monitor. I would like to keep the one instance running that controls it. This goes back some years, I keep forgetting...to be reminded the stupid jerks didn't evolve with common sense resource management. This cli is a hog, and I keep it going from right click desktop, or wherever else the second reason it is running. I haven't figured out yet.Only need one 54 mb ram sucker.
