AMD Radeon Software Crimson announced, replaces CCC

[failquail]

Indeed, fantastic little machines given the astonishingly low price.

I'd love an updated one with a newer APU, but they don't seem to make any nowadays

On a netbook from 2011 actually, I have one though I upgraded mine from 3GB to 6GB of ram.

Dual core 1.6GHz E350 APU, an 11.6" nice & compact display. It was £300, and the sad part is I would update it but I can't find anything better these days. They are all unaffordablebooks or gutless 1GHz tripe, nothing in the middle.

Still, rant over, monthly updates is good. Now, about those Linux drivers...

Edit to add: I see from the slides it is based on the cross platform QT framework! Now, about those Linux drivers...

[DanceswithUnix]

Indeed, fantastic little machines given the astonishingly low price.

I'd love an updated one with a newer APU, but they don't seem to make any nowadays

I notice Ebuyer now have a Carrizo-L machine, but with a cruddy 15.6" display. That APU in an 11.6" display chassis just like the old DM1, yes very please. I live in hope.

[Biscuit]

I also have an x121e but its barely in one piece now, really been through the wars!

[failquail]

I also have an x121e but its barely in one piece now, really been through the wars!

Let me guess, the hinges?

Lenovo really dropped the ball on that one, though i understand they fixed it on later models.

Mine is semi-held together with superglue at this point, still fully functional though i must admit.

[Biscuit]

Haha yes the hinges!

[azrael-]

lol, yeah OK I will bite. About a second and a half for me, Win 7 and an SSD though.

Scarily I don't think it is any faster opening a second time, perhaps it is so badly written it needs more than 16GB or ram to cache it

Hmm: stares at spare SSD and netbook. No, I'm not so interested that I would do a Windows re-install!

Not sure about the current situation, but CCC used to be written using the .NET framework (in C#, most likely). The one thing I've never heard claimed is that .NET is fast.

[8bit]

Am I the only one that doesn't want banner ads (see the first screenshot explaining the layout)? If I've paid for a card then I don't want to be force-fed ads while trying to set it up and use it.

Come to that, why can't we just have a simple, unskinned app to control the settings instead of these big, bloaty, heavily themed apps with loads of extra stuff. If they must push out these sorts of integrating "gaming experience" things then I wish they'd offer a lightweight alternative for folks that prefer it. Like most folk I already have Steam and probably have most of their games delivered through that, I don't want my graphics driver trying to take over what Steam does. I'd much rather AMD put some real effort into delivering decent, stable Linux drivers than churning out guff like this.

[kalniel]

Am I the only one that doesn't want banner ads (see the first screenshot explaining the layout)? If I've paid for a card then I don't want to be force-fed ads while trying to set it up and use it.

Agreed, but since there are ads in CCC it's nothing new.

Come to that, why can't we just have a simple, unskinned app to control the settings instead of these big, bloaty, heavily themed apps with loads of extra stuff. If they must push out these sorts of integrating "gaming experience" things then I wish they'd offer a lightweight alternative for folks that prefer it. Like most folk I already have Steam and probably have most of their games delivered through that, I don't want my graphics driver trying to take over what Steam does. I'd much rather AMD put some real effort into delivering decent, stable Linux drivers than churning out guff like this.

Also agreed. But that's supposedly the direction this is moving in.

[aliquis]

10 times quicker?

That's easy. If I tried to launch AMD Catalyst Control Center now then it wouldn't launch at all.

So assuming this one actually does something it's already there.

(If AMD CCC hangs around in the background killing it possibly help. But I shouldn't have to do that ..)

[aliquis]

Also why should I have ADS in my drivers / graphics control center?

[Graywoodford]

hopefully this will be better, i have never been a fan of ccc myself, always found it very clunky and outdated