Solved Catalyst Control Center taking forever to start

[greyeyezz]

I need this loaded at startup as I have custom gamma and flat panel settings.

I have minimal items checked at startup. I did a clean install of 13.9 drivers using DDU.

Boot times:

Boot time without CCC:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 66265ms


With CCC:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 91452ms

Then to make matters worse the desktop sits there for 20 seconds before my custom CCC settings load.
This is a four year old GPU, HD5770, so I doubt a driver update would help.

I tried rolling back to an earlier driver (11.12) which worked flawlessly before but ATI related processes were crashing right and left.

Is it time for a Nvidia card?
Whats the correct process for completely uninstalling ATI drivers? Just using control panel leaves files,folders and registry entries scattered everywhere.

 

[greyeyezz]

Some specs might be helpfull;

AMD Phenom X4 970
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 rev 1.1
G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
XFX Radeon HD5770
Corsair 650TX 650W

 

[Mark Phelps]

I would at least try installing the Catalyst 13.12 drivers.

If those don't improve the situation, I would try the Beta 14.2 drivers.

 

[ShamrockRig]

AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta Driver for Windows

 

[greyeyezz]

I ended up reformatting system, it needed rebuilt. All is good now. Thanks.