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X800XT & Catalyst 6.1 w/0.24 or 0.25b11 loose overclock

Rooke

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Video Card(s) Sapphire ATI X800XT oc'd to c531.0/m535.5
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Ever since I installed ATI Catalyst 6.1, both ATITool 0.24 & 0.25b11 loose the overclocks after ( & before(?) ) any 3D program closes. It now always resets the Core & Mem back to 499.5 which is the default for my card.

I first detected this problem when running the new 3DMark06. Even tho it reported my frequencies as 531/531 in the details when it started, after it finished and sent my results to the web site, it reported my frequencies as 499.5/499.5.

Since then I've tested both ATITool 0.24 & 0.25b11 with the 3D test in DxDiag, Half-Life 2, Doom3, Darwinia and Halo and the same things happens with all of them.

I have no real way of knowing (that I know of) whether it's reseting the frequencies as soon as the any of the games start, other than they seem to play less smooth than when I knew the overclocks were in effect.

I've never turned on 3D-Detection in ATITool, so that can't be the problem and as far I know the overclock frequencies stayed put with ATI Catalyst 5.12 & 5.13.

One last thing: I always have OverDrive turned off in the ATI Control Center.

Help! :respect:
 

Rooke

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Processor P4 560 3.6GHz oc'd to 4.0GHz
Motherboard Asus P5AD2 Premium
Cooling CoolerMaster Hyper6+ / Zalman VF700-Cu
Memory Crucial 1GB Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz
Video Card(s) Sapphire ATI X800XT oc'd to c531.0/m535.5
Storage (2) WD 74GB Raptors in Raid 0
Display(s) NEC FE21111sb 21" Crt
Case SilverStone Temjin 3 ( Nimitz )
Audio Device(s) onboard C-Media
Power Supply PC P & C Turbo-Cool 510 Express
Software WinXP Pro SP2
I could have sworn I turned off Overdrive in the ATI control center before I disabled the CLI.exe from starting at boot-time.

Duh! :banghead:

I thought I'd check everything just one more time...

So, after re-enabling the ATI HotKey poller service and restarting the runtime, I brought up the Control Center, and guess what was staring me in the face? Yep. Overdrive was turned on.

/me kicks self around the block. :ohwell:
 
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