Omega drivers for Nvidia are AXED!?!
 

Found this on 3drage which came from Driver Heaven :

"Alot has been going on behind the scenes recently guys with Nvidia
regarding Omegas drivers and it looks like Omega might be forced to
stop making them. This is due to Nvidia hard handed tactics and not
wanting anyone to alter or touch their driver code in any way. Omega
has even had to remove Nvidia logos from his site or legal action will
be taken. This could possibly if taken further close these sites, so
we really have no option."


Gee... I wonder why Nvidia doesnt want someone hacking around in the
driver sets?.. .. could it be that someone might find some
"optimizing"? Pathetic.


Pluvious

could be, could be not. could be that Nvidia is sick of lamers screwing up
things in the drivers and giving them a bad name? could be.

"Pluvious" wrote in message
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Found this on 3drage which came from Driver Heaven :

"Alot has been going on behind the scenes recently guys with Nvidia
regarding Omegas drivers and it looks like Omega might be forced to
stop making them. This is due to Nvidia hard handed tactics and not
wanting anyone to alter or touch their driver code in any way. Omega
has even had to remove Nvidia logos from his site or legal action will
be taken. This could possibly if taken further close these sites, so
we really have no option."


Gee... I wonder why Nvidia doesnt want someone hacking around in the
driver sets?.. .. could it be that someone might find some
"optimizing"? Pathetic.


Pluvious

"Pluvious" wrote in message
...

Found this on 3drage which came from Driver Heaven :

"Alot has been going on behind the scenes recently guys with Nvidia
regarding Omegas drivers and it looks like Omega might be forced to
stop making them. This is due to Nvidia hard handed tactics and not
wanting anyone to alter or touch their driver code in any way. Omega
has even had to remove Nvidia logos from his site or legal action will
be taken. This could possibly if taken further close these sites, so
we really have no option."


Gee... I wonder why Nvidia doesnt want someone hacking around in the
driver sets?.. .. could it be that someone might find some
"optimizing"? Pathetic.


Pluvious


Or they do not want their valuable IP rights diluted by allowing
unauthorized modifcations by what could be the appearance of
semi-sanctioning.

"Pluvious" wrote in message
...

Found this on 3drage which came from Driver Heaven :

"Alot has been going on behind the scenes recently guys with Nvidia
regarding Omegas drivers and it looks like Omega might be forced to
stop making them. This is due to Nvidia hard handed tactics and not
wanting anyone to alter or touch their driver code in any way. Omega
has even had to remove Nvidia logos from his site or legal action will
be taken. This could possibly if taken further close these sites, so
we really have no option."


Gee... I wonder why Nvidia doesnt want someone hacking around in the
driver sets?.. .. could it be that someone might find some
"optimizing"? Pathetic.


Pluvious

Sounds like Nvidia is getting a little edgy. Think this "3Dmark" driver
cough enhancing episode had anything to do with it? Ever since I went
over to the dark side last chip cycle :) (9700pro) I could care less *what*
Nvidia does really.

"Blaedmon" wrote in message
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could be that Nvidia is sick of lamers screwing up
things in the drivers and giving them a bad name? could be.


They can't do any worse than Nvidia has done...

Chris Smith

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"Pluvious" wrote in message
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Found this on 3drage which came from Driver Heaven :

"Alot has been going on behind the scenes recently guys with Nvidia
regarding Omegas drivers and it looks like Omega might be forced to
stop making them. This is due to Nvidia hard handed tactics and not
wanting anyone to alter or touch their driver code in any way. Omega
has even had to remove Nvidia logos from his site or legal action
will
be taken. This could possibly if taken further close these sites, so
we really have no option."


Gee... I wonder why Nvidia doesnt want someone hacking around in the
driver sets?.. .. could it be that someone might find some
"optimizing"? Pathetic.


Pluvious

Sounds like Nvidia is getting a little edgy. Think this "3Dmark"
driver cough enhancing episode had anything to do with it? Ever
since I went
over to the dark side last chip cycle :) (9700pro) I could care
less *what*
Nvidia does really.

Amen to switching over to ATI. I switched too, and have been very
pleased w/ my 9700 pro! In my opinion, I don't care about benchmarks.
I mean it's a good tool to some degree, but it all comes down to how
the card performs w/ the games.

I can't wait to get that card. Price is still a little to high, right
now,
for me. Buddy has the 9500 and, after running the GF4 Ti's for awhile,
he's
totally ditched nVidia. I'm not far behind that path. Of course, I'm
sure
that in another year or so nVidia will be top dog again...and the cycle
will
continue. What I'm reading/hearing about the FX line does not really
impress me, at all.

This reminds me of all the hype about Geforce FX before it was launched.
Like it was supposed to replace an entire ILM render farm. Riiiiiiiiight.

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"Blaedmon" wrote in message
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could be that Nvidia is sick of lamers screwing up
things in the drivers and giving them a bad name? could be.


They can't do any worse than Nvidia has done...


ATI have..

K

"Blaedmon" wrote in message
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could be, could be not. could be that Nvidia is sick of lamers screwing up
things in the drivers and giving them a bad name?

This guy that makes the Omega drivers is definetly not a lamer. I have run
most of his driver sets for a while (nvidia and ATI both) with no problems
at all. Nvidia are just too uptight.

I can't wait to get that card. Price is still a little to high, right
now,
for me. Buddy has the 9500 and, after running the GF4 Ti's for awhile,
he's
totally ditched nVidia. I'm not far behind that path. Of course, I'm
sure
that in another year or so nVidia will be top dog again...and the cycle
will
continue. What I'm reading/hearing about the FX line does not really
impress me, at all.



My 9800pro 128 meg is the best piece of computer hardware I ever bought.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:13:55 GMT
"Doug Hook" wrote:


"Blaedmon" wrote in message
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could be, could be not. could be that Nvidia is sick of lamers
screwing up things in the drivers and giving them a bad name?

This guy that makes the Omega drivers is definetly not a lamer. I have
run most of his driver sets for a while (nvidia and ATI both) with no
problems at all. Nvidia are just too uptight.

You can tell that in their attitude toward Linux. They need to make up
their minds whether they are in the software or the hardware business.

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