Post by Noel on Dec 14, 2015 13:55:39 GMT -6
Maybe the IoT is a good idea, but I don't see any good whatsoever in the DDoT.
The DDo who?
The Dumbing Down of Things!
Apps, with big fonts optimized for, shall we say, intelligence-challenged users.
ATI just released a new driver set called Crimson.
It's no more than a re-packaging of the Catalyst driver set, but with a new and "wonderfully" Dumbed Down user interface. In fact, it's less.
And oh, by the way, they left behind some important features that people actually use. I have set up a preset that auto-loads my color calibrations for all my monitors with the older Catalyst Control Center (CCC.exe). This has worked fine for years, and allows me to trust the colors I see on my displays.
Now, Crimson...
I could not find out whether the functionality I needed was preserved in Crimson until some other user actually tried it, discovered problems, and reported his findings - WEEKS after release. WEEKS after I had scoured the documentation and asked AMD.
Sure enough, it's become disintegrated, and even with a user-discovered manual workaround (to autostart the remnant of CCC.exe) there are now coordination issues around power state changes.
I mentioned the remnant of CCC.exe. Yes, that's right, apparently there is a remnant of the "old" Catalyst Control Center still delivered with the new DDoT Crimson control panel, presumably because the "designers" of the new DDoT interface couldn't bring themselves to think through all the functional requirements of re-implementing something that worked just fine before.
Sounds just like Windows 10, with the remnants of the old Control Panel still there because there is no actual DESIGN in the Settings panel.
What would we do without these new Dumbed Down interfaces with big fonts? Oh, I know: Get things done.
Grrrrrrrr!
I'm staying on an older Catalyst 15.9.1 version for now, which has a proper, functional control panel.
-Noel