What the ATI Catalyst Custom Installation options mean
I published a guide about the NVIDIA driver installation process yesterday which looked at all the optional modules that get installed with the express installation option. Most of these features may not be needed but are installed by the majority of users anyway which may mean additional startup items and processes running in the background. I promised to do the same for the ATI Catalyst installation.
I do not own an ATI card right now which makes it a bit difficult as I can't test the effect of not installing components on the system. What I can do however is explain what each component is for so that you can customize the installation and avoid installing components that may add startup items and processes to the system despite the fact that you may not make use of their features at all.
- AMD APP SDK Runtime - This is the Runtime of the SDK, which you need if you use programs that use OpenCL. If you are not sure, I'd suggest you do not install it and see what happens. You can run the installer at any time later on to install the component if you happen to need it.
- ATI Display Driver - You should install the driver obviously to get the most out of your video card.
- HDMI/DP Audio Driver - This is similar to NVIDIA's HD Audio Driver. You only need it if you use audio via HDMI, for instance when you connect the card to a HD TV.
- AVIVO - A software package to use the graphics processor for video related tasks including video decoding, encoding and processing. You only need to install that if you use software that makes use of that, and then only if you want it to be used.
- HydraVision - This is AMD's multi-monitor management software which provides you among other things with virtual desktops and options to manage those virtual or physical desktops efficiently. You do not need to install the software even if you have multiple monitors connected to your PC as they will just work fine without HydraVision.
- AMD Drag and Drop Transcoding - Seems only useful if you are running Windows 7 or newer versions of Windows and connect portable media players to the system that make use of Windows 7 Device Stage. Chance is high that you do not, and even if you do, you have other options to transcode files to put them on your media player.
- Wmv9 vc-1 video playback - I could not really find out much about this component, it seems to accelerate video playback of WMV9 contents. I'd go with my guts on this one and say it is not really needed unless you play lots of wmv9 video files. Also seems to only be compatible with Windows 7 or newer.
- Catalyst Control Center - This is an optional component. Install if you want to fiddle around with settings and do not use a third party alternative such as ATI Tray Tools or Riva Tuner.
Hope that helps AMD / ATIÂ users who have troubles making decisions what to install during driver installation. If you have any questions or corrections fire away.
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This is very cool. I had no idea you could do this. Thanks.
Very useful, I tried so many times in the past but never succeeded!
Thanks a lot!
I used this before with Connectify Hotspot. Was frustratingly unstable for me. I had to repeatedly stop and start hostednetwork to unstick it.
My Connectify Hotspot symptom was:
After not being connected for an extended period of time; a client device is no longer able to connect to Hotspot until the Connectify service is restarted.
I discovered that it was just using Windows’ hostednetwork, which was unstable for me. Eventually gave up and just got another AP and ran cabling.
“but have a laptop or a desktop PC with a Wi-Fi card or USB dongle”
How do I know if my laptop has what it needs or is something that needs to be added? I used a mobile Wifi wireless device (like a phone but not) for internet in the past with a paid service. Now I connect to a neighbor’s (a relative) Wifi but I have no control or details on the setup of it and they aren’t technically-inclined to answer questions about it.
I didn’t know Windows 7 had this function. So the version in Windows 10 isn’t something new.
In Windows 7 you can create a hotspot from Control Panel directly.
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center > Manage wireless networks > Add. You should be able to define the name, password and security type. At the end check a box which asks you if you want to allow internet access through this network.
Step 7 – There is no drop down! The box is populated by “WiFi” (the name of my incoming wifi connection, which is not used as I use ethernet).
How do I fix this please? Windows 8.1 (Hotspot was set up and working, then suddenly stopped a couple of months ago.???)
Step 7 fix (I don’t know which part fixed it…)
1. enabled sharing on “WiFi” connection.
2. renamed the hotspot lan.
3. enabled sharing for the ethernet connection. No “home networking connection” box appeared.
2. (maybe I did this here)
4. when sharing tab was re-opened for ethernet, it was pre-populated with my renamed hotspot adapter name! Duh
I want to use my Samsung S5 hotspot on my laptop ,who has no windows,how do I create Internet connection on laptop
I used in my mobile HTC Desire 10 Pro, but first time mobile connected in second time on connecting obtaining ip address and not connected. i still wait for connected but same condition in last 5 time try to connect…
please suggest me best solution ,,
Regards,
Rana Arshad…
hi, I did all the steps and it appears on my wifi list, but it has no internet access. How to fix it? Thanks :)
After I hit start it says:
The hosted network couldn’t be started.
The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
The network card you want to share MUST be able to share. USE:
netsh wlan show all
Look at the output, find your (wifi) device, look for the line:
Hosted Network Supported
If the answer is No — you have to buy a wifi usb dongle that does support Hosted Network, or share another connection like your Ethernet port using a network cable.
Mine was a nice RTL 8188 but doesn’t support Hosted Network (and I think most RealTek’s don’t)
on my workstation, but on my Dell laptop with Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band internal mini-card YES, it does hostednetwork, so I just switched my cell phone tether over to the Dell. I probably would want the Dell to go with me on vacation, etc. anyway, so I’ll just use that one.
I had been looking online for this solution and none worked. This method, first time; zero issues.
Excellent advice
I got the new hosted network name to appear on the “Network and Sharing Center” list of networks. I followed all steps and got the expected results until step 8. I never got “Access type: Internet” but only got “Access type: internet not available.” Still, I was able to see this network from another device and connect to it. When I did this, however, Intel My Wifi Technology disabled itself. I kept manually re-enabling it, but it would disable itself again a few seconds later. After a few rounds of this, the network disappeared entirely. I had to go back to my command prompt (with admin rights) and start over, but then I could not get the hosted network to start. I kept getting a message along the lines of “resource not available,” and the network disappeared from the “Network and Sharing Center” list.
The network card you want to share MUST be able to share. USE:
netsh wlan show all
Look at the output, find your (wifi) device, look for the line:
Hosted Network Supported
If the answer is No — you have to buy a wifi usb dongle that does support Hosted Network, or share another connection like your Ethernet port using a network cable.
Mine was a nice RTL 8188 but doesn’t support Hosted Network (and I think most RealTek’s don’t)
on my workstation, but on my Dell laptop with Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band internal mini-card YES, it does hostednetwork, so I just switched my cell phone tether over to the Dell. I probably would want the Dell to go with me on vacation, etc. anyway, so I’ll just use that one.
Hi, I did all the steps and it worked, but when I try to connect with my mobile it didn’t work because it couldn’t obtain network address. How can i make the hostednetwork work as DHCP
thanks