ATi drivers phone home?

kalmark · Post by **kalmark** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:06 am

Hi!

Today I had sort of a crash in Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and for a split second I saw soem Ati-blabla window, but the the game window got focus again. But I could not do anything in the game, I had to log off and log on again to use Windows. Then, as I launched Outlook Express I saw that it's about to send and email to "Ati SmartStart" or whatever with a "crash.dat" binary file attached to it. Do Ati drivers do this without my knowledge? Or maybe I hit "OK" by mistake on a window that was "under" Splinter Cell?

Did anyone notice a similar behaviour?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:30 am

This is one of ATI’s most important features of CATALYST. It is called “VPU Recover”. You can find out more information about it here.

http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/VPU_OVERVIEW.pdf

You can also turn it off in the control panel if for some reason you don’t like it.

:yawinkle:

kalmark · Post by **kalmark** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:50 am

Well, this is a nice feature then

I'm an ATi freshman, and I could not hide it

Thanks Apoptosis