Profiles Manager

Use profiles to create customized environments for your desktop, video, and 3D applications. Define and save into a profile your own personal video settings that can be quickly activated manually, through a hot key, or by file association.

Note: A profile applies to a specific graphics card. If there is more than one graphics card installed in your computer, you need to select the appropriate card before creating, loading, or activating a profile.

What do you want to do?

Display Profiles Manager

  1. Click Profiles in the Dashboard.
  2. Select Profiles Manager.

Create a profile

A profile can be created from any aspect of Catalyst™ Control Center.

  1. Make customized changes by adjusting the various sliders and buttons for the aspects to be included in your profile.
  2. Open the Profiles Manager.
  3. Enter a name for your Profile in Create or Edit Profile.
  4. Enter a description of the profile.
  5. Select the composition, activation, and applications options that you wish to apply to the profile.
  6. Click Save.

Set the composition of the profile

  1. Open the Profiles Manager.
  2. Click the Composition tab.
  3. Select the options to be included in the profile.
    • all Catalyst™ Control Center settings applies the available settings for all graphics adapters.
    • the following settings applies only the settings selected in the treeview.

Activate a profile

  1. Open the Profiles Manager.
  2. Select a profile from Create or Edit a Profile drop-down menu.
  3. Click the Activation tab.
  4. Set a profile to activate manually:
    • Click Manually by then select your preferred method for activating a profile. For example, a shortcut on your desktop.
    • If you choose Hotkeys assignment, select a Hot key modifier and a keyboard key.

Activate an application, file, or shortcut when a profile is started

  1. Open the Profiles Manager.
  2. Click the Applications tab.
  3. Click opens the following application, file or shortcut.
  4. Click the browse ("...") button and browse to the file you want associated with your profile.
  5. Click on the file name, then click Open to select the file.

Save a profile

  1. Open the Profiles Manager.
  2. Enter a name for the profile in the Enter or select a profile name box.
  3. Select options for the profile.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Click the Activate & Close button to apply the saved profile and close the Profiles Manager.
    • Optionally, click the Activate button to apply the saved profile but leave the Profiles Manager open.
    • Optionally, click the Close button to close the Profiles Manager without applying the saved Profile.

Delete a profile

  1. Open the Profile Manager.
  2. Select a profile from the Create or Edit a Profile drop-down menu.
  3. Click Delete.
  4. Click OK to confirm.