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ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series

I wanted to turn off Vertical Sync a 3D setting for my video card for improved FPS in a video game. I found that I couldn't find a control center of any kind. When I right click on my desktop, it's not there. I go to properties, settings, advanced, etc. It's no where to be found. I contacted ATI and they told me to uninstall my drivers and the adaptor drivers in device manager and reinstall from the link they sent me. I did so, restarted, and its clear that all drivers of any kind are removed. My screen is different, I can't tweak any monitor settings, it doesn't say the name of the video card in properties, and I can't even open my game. I reinstalled the Catalyst control center. It installs, and I click finish and then NOTHING happens. The control center is still no where to be found. My screen is no different. It doesn't ask me to restart or anything. I don't understand why after installing this, no kind of executable or command program exists. I go to the folder where it downloaded. So I went from having the driver downloaded with no command center, to no driver downloaded and no command center. Please help.

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Short diagnostic note for (and to expand on 's suggestions): the symptoms described — Catalyst appearing to install but no Control Center, Windows showing only a generic display driver and games refusing to run — point to one of a few repeatable causes: the discrete card is not actually being used (monitor plugged into onboard video), the AMD driver install never completed (prereqs, wrong package, or blocked by security/UAC), or the card/slot is failing. The checklist below is a focused, practical sequence to isolate the problem.

  1. Confirm physical/video-port: power down, ensure the monitor cable is in the card’s video output (not the motherboard). If the board/BIOS has a discrete-vs-integrated setting, confirm discrete is enabled.
  2. Device Manager diagnosis: open Display adapters, enable View -> Show hidden devices, and read Driver tab (Provider, Version, Date). “Standard VGA” or “Microsoft Basic Display Adapter” means the AMD driver is not installed.
  3. Installer/architecture/prereqs: verify OS is 32‑bit vs 64‑bit and run the matching AMD package as Administrator. Catalyst depends on Microsoft runtime libraries; if those runtimes are missing the control panel can silently fail. Install via the full driver+installer package and reboot.
  4. Clean uninstall then reinstall: perform a full driver cleanup in Safe Mode (use a reputable clean-uninstall tool or the vendor cleanup option), reboot, then run the AMD installer again and watch the Install Manager for error messages.
  5. Manual driver push: if the installer still fails, extract the package, then in Device Manager choose Update Driver -> Browse my computer -> Let me pick -> Have Disk and point to the driver .inf inside the extracted folder.
  6. Logs and hardware check: inspect Event Viewer for AMD/CCC errors during install; if the adapter never appears correctly, try the card in another PC or a known-good card in this PC to rule out hardware.

If the driver installs but Catalyst Control Center is missing, search for CCC.exe under Program Files\ATI or Program Files\AMD and run it as Administrator; otherwise a missing runtime or an AV/blocking policy is the usual culprit. If all steps fail, the behavior is commonly hardware-related and swapping the card for testing is the fastest final check.

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This is exactly what I've been doing. Using programs to uninstall what I currently have then reinstalling. Nothing happens. I even try downloading different versions including old versions and still nothing. It doesn't register with my computer.

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it didn't askyou to restart when you install the driver ,so did you restart the computer manually to see if made a difference.
.also any chance your computer has onboard video you could try using ,remove the ati video and hook to onboard ,then use the ati tool to remove all drivers ,shut down and install the ati video card

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