Catalyst Control Center is a utility that comes bundled with the driver that makes your AMD graphics card work. It shows up as CCC.exe in your Task Manager, and in most cases you don’t need to worry about it. You may have to dig into your Catalyst Control Center settings if you play games on your computer, and it may require attention if it ever goes haywire, but you can usually just leave it alone.
CCC.exe (Catalyst Control Center) memory leak
Catalyst Control Center starts up when you turn on your computer, because it needs to run in the background to manage the operation of your AMD video card. This same software was also used to manage ATI video cards before AMD bought ATI, so older computers with ATI cards may also have CCC.exe installed.
If you don’t play video games on your computer, you probably don’t need to use Catalyst Control Center. If you do, the software lets you check for driver updates for your video card and manage its operation.
Some of the basic things you can do with Catalyst Control Center include changing the resolution or desktop area and the screen refresh rate. There are also several advanced settings that are useful for gamers. For example, you can change anti-aliasing settings in Catalyst Control Center, which removes jagged edges from 3D objects.
