10 Tips to improve your personal computing experience ati.com 10 Tips to improve your personal computing experience ATI Catalyst™
Tip 1: Install ATI Catalyst™ Tip 2: Update ATI Catalyst™ Tip 3: Choose the Look of ATI Catalyst™ Tip 4: Reduce Crashes with VPU Recover Tip 5: Maximize Your Refresh Rates Tip 6: Refresh Rate Tip 7: Performance Slider Tip 8: Set your card to Overdrive™ Mode Tip 9: Enable ATI Catalyst™ A.I. Tip 10: Check Frequently for New Versions of Catalyst
     
Tip 8: Set your card to Overdrive™ Mode


Action
 
Enable Overdrive™. This feature monitors the heart of your graphics card and will automatically increase the speed of your card if it is safe to do so.


Benefit
 
Overdrive™ makes your ATI graphics card work at faster and more efficiently.



Checklist
 
a. Right click anywhere on your desktop
b. Left click on the ATI Catalyst™Control Center option
c. Click the View Menu Option
d. Select the Advanced View Option (notice the list of items under Graphics Settings)
e. Select the Overdrive™ option under Graphic Settings
f. Ensure that turn on Overdrive™ is selected
g. Click Apply
* Note: Overdrive™ is not available on all cards


Faster System
Top Ten Tips
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    1. Install ATI Catalyst™ from your CD
    2. Update ATI Catalyst™ from ati.com
    3. Choose the look of ATI Catalyst™
    4. Reduce Crashes with VPU Recover
    5. Maximize your refresh rate

    6. Ensure your refresh rate is being applied to games
        and applications

    7. Performance Slider
    8. Set your card to Overdrive™ Mode
    9. Enable ATI Catalyst™ A.I.
    10. Check Frequently for New Versions of ATI Catalyst™

 
 

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