AMD Catalyst Driver / Windows 8 issue

[Fayainz]

Hi guys,

I've had a strange issue with my PC for sometime now.
Whenever I try open the Catalyst Control Center it fails to open and I get a dot Net related error in the Application Log:

Application: CLI.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException
Stack:
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(System.Object, System.Object[], System.Signature, Boolean)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(System.Object, System.Object[], System.Object[])
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(System.Object, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
at System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember(System.String, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Object, System.Object[], System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[], System.Globalization.CultureInfo, System.String[])
at ATI.ACE.CLI.EXE.CLI.Main(System.String[])

Followed by:

Faulting application name: CLI.exe, version: 4.5.0.0, time stamp: 0x51891528
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16451, time stamp: 0x50988aa6
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000000000003811c
Faulting process id: 0x20
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceac6a0a5bb241
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\CLI.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 4820dda4-185d-11e3-becd-90e6ba1e87e2
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

It appears to me to not be a Catalyst driver issue, since I've reinstalled Windows 8 twice before and attempted both the latest WHQL AMD drivers as well as the latest Beta 13.8 and 13.10 drivers and both show the same issue.

I suspect it's a dot net issue since the log shows framework version v4.0.30319.
Any idea's?

Thx

 

[PHaS3]

Yo,

Please fill in your system specs so we have an idea of what hardware you are running

I know you have tried driversweeper, the AMD Catalyst removal utility, and different driver versions. What versions of the AMD Drivers have you tried?

Thanks!

 

[Fayainz]

Done!

I have tried Driversweeper which didn't help.
I dont think the Catalyst drivers are at fault, but for the sake of being thorough.

I've tried:

13.4 WHQL
13.8_beta2
13.10_beta

 

[PHaS3]

http://benchmark3d.com/catalyst-control-center-wont-start-fix

Try that?