*snicker snicker*

Catalyst Control Center's speed is a problem, more so because it has no settings the Control Panel didn't already offer. Maybe if they'd waited until that new adaptive texture filtering was in it, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's not. All you get now is the same settings, a bigger download & slower performance.

I don't know anything about the .net stuff, why does everyone hate it so much?

I don't, works great for me and my 9800 Pro, no problems at all. It could be a little faster in its response, but it'll improve.

people are just pissy because they have to download microsofts framework i develop in .NET and it is great to use compared to c++ that's messy and prone to memleaks if you dont take much care with your code. even if you develop managed directx9 applications like games, it woll only lose 1-2% of speed compared to native code. i dont know if the control center is geneally slow. on my system it runs fast enough. but if it really runs slow on those peoples system then its not .NET that slows it down. and those changing to nvidia because of the CCC... get a grip .NET is the future on windows. then switch to a unix based system too.

*chortle-chortle*

Yup, and you told us over at EB too....remind me to listen to you next time please. :oops:

I'd beg to differ. After all, this is garbage-collected bytecode we're talking about. (I'm tempted to omit 'collected' but that's another matter entirely. ;)

1-2%?! Are you kidding? Try running a C#/C++ D3D sample pair next time.