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Omega Drivers are Out!
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:34:23 -0000, "The Berzerker"
wrote: wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Christmas has come early but the bad news is about the Dragonball U mod http://www.dragonballu.net/ -- Julian Richards computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk XP Home L7S7A2 motherboard Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers 1 GB RAM 10 GB + 80 GB HDs CD+DVD/CDRW drives |
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"The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Martin. |
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Marni wrote:
"The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Stop Half Life 2 from working in my case. Had to go back to ATI's 4.12 betas... |
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"Toe Jam" wrote in message
... Marni wrote: "The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Stop Half Life 2 from working in my case. Had to go back to ATI's 4.12 betas... What happened? My 9800 Pro works fine. Although, I must say, some kind of option must have been reset... because I went through an episode of failed fullscreen attempts. There's just something with my machine, certain games have problems with it, and just won't let the games run full screen, of even run. So I have to tweak config files, or play it safe, until I finally get it how I want. Fortuantely half-life 2 has a safe mode, and i just setup the video options from this, and things are back to how they were. |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 00:23:44 +0100, "Marni"
wrote: "The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Martin. Check out #3 for the cool extras: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Based on the Catalyst 4.12 Beta drivers. * New Radlinker installation method, now it should install correctly every time. * Fixed gamma issues with color control panel. * WMV acceleration is now off by default, you can turn it on in the Options panel. (for Laptops with issues-pluvious) * New quick shortcut for Radlinker, just right click your desktop and go directly to all the Advanced 3D settings. * Fixed Standby/Suspend/Hibernation bug. * Added a lot of new resolutions for wide screen monitor/dfp users. * Fixed the Forced Anisotropic settings, now they should not reset to Performance mode. * Removed the special Counter Strike OpenGL from the package, now that CS:S is available, this is no longer necessary. * Fixed some uninstall issues, now the drivers should completely be removed if you select to do so. ************** Important Notes: 1. Well, at last, the fix for the dreaded overlay video on some laptops bug has been found. The cause IS NOT the ATI drivers or any of my settings, the cause is a hardware bug, more specifically a BIOS bug. In the testing, many people already updated their Sager notebooks with a new BIOS provided by Sager and the video problem is GONE! So I encourage you to go to your manufacturer's web page and see if a new bios update has been issued for your laptop, and if not, e-mail the manufacturer so they can rush out a fix for this. 2. CCC will work with the Omega Drivers, but is NOT recommended that you install it, all the functions found in CCC are already included with RadLinker Omega Edition or will be included in a near future as this new CP project develops. 3. Now the Omega Drivers will use a built-in, special RadLinker version ("Advaced 3D" tab) with the following features: Uses NO resources. Doesn't require .NET to work. New settings for both D3D and OGL. Golbal controls to set both D3D and OGL in one pass. Automatic Per-application profiles. Integrated Overclocking. Desktop and Game Color/Gamma control. Game Color/Gamma control for profiles. Temporal AA settings (T2 & T3) and Temporal AA Threshold control. Trilinear filtering can be forced for Anisotropic filtering. Catalyst AI support. This new CP was made in conjunction with ChrisW, maker of Radlinker, as an exclusive feature for the Omega Drivers and we will keep adding features in future releases. 4. Since RadLinker is now a vital part of the Omega Drivers, it will not be an option to select during setup anymore, it will now automatically look for and uninstall ANY previous version and replace it with the new one. ************** REMINDERS: A- If you have the normal ATI drivers installed, uninstall the ATI Control Panel BEFORE upgrading to these drivers, the Omega Drivers already have the CP integrated and another CP will cause conflicts or other problems. B- There is no need to uninstall ANY previous drivers (ATI or OMEGA) when installing these, the new ones will overwrite any previous settings, but if you still want to uninstall them completely, is ok. C- In Windows 2k/XP, ALWAYS disable DDC in the ATI "Displays/Monitor" CP after installing drivers to be able to use ALL the refresh rates and resolutions your monitor supports, also this is the best way to avoid the 60Hz RR bug. D- The WDM drivers for VIVO and AIW cards are not included, but they can be downloaded separately from a link in my drivers page. E- The Radeon cards do support FastWrites and they will work with it on (on some machines), but it is not recommended, there is NO SPEED gain when using FW, and this option will affect your PC's stability a LOT, most game crashes and problems are because FW is enabled. F- Install the included Multires utility to have access to ALL the available resolutions in the Omega Drivers, standard Windows doesn't show all of them. G- Always uninstall the previous version of RadLinker before installing the new one included in the latest Omega Drivers. H- After installing the new drivers and rebooting, if your desktop is SLOW and games won't run, is because AGP acceleration has been disabled by Windows, in order to fix this you MUST re-install the latest AGP chipset drivers for your Mother Board (this also includes laptops). After rebooting check the Advanced SmartGart Options in the Omega Start Menu and see if at least AGP/PCI read are both ENABLED, if all of them are enabled, the better, but some MBs doesn't support AGP/PCI write functions, if all still disabled, just click on "Retest All" and press OK to restart. I- If you are using an Omega soft-mod and you are experiencing crashes, black screens, artifacts or the "check board effect" during game play, run the new included Driver Swapper utility and select the Normal driver, the reason is that your card is not accepting the soft-mod due to broken/incompatible hardware. J- See Omega FAQ on my site for further questions. I don't recommend the use of ANY external tweakers with my drivers (specially Rage3D Tweaker), as they override my special settings and will make my work useless. The only time I recommend a tweaker is when you have a specific problem with a specific tweak and need to change it in order to make the drivers work correctly. Also if you use a tweaker for overclocking, FSAA, Gamma or Aniso settings, is just fine, but you'll be better off using the integrated ATI CP for that (which is ok by me if you change any setting in it). If you have any problems with this drivers please go to my webpage and look in the ATI help section for answers. If still have problems look for the drivers thread in www.driverheaven.net forums and let me know what is going on. If you happen to find a new tweak or fix for a specific game or many games and it proves that it works then drop me an E-Mail (don't post it in the forums), I'll make sure credit will be granted to that person in this INFO file. IMPORTANT: Don't bother ATI about these drivers as they are unsupported by them! ************************************************** ******************************* |
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"Marni" wrote in message k... "The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Martin. When I got my X800 XT I could not get Far Cry to work with any of the ATI drivers, so I tried the Omega drivers and it worked. The Omega drivers are the ATI drivers that have been tweaked to run better with games. |
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Nothing.Wouldnt bother,i dont understand why they do.
"Marni" wrote in message k... "The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Martin. |
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"Aussie" wrote in message ... Nothing.Wouldnt bother,i dont understand why they do. "Marni" wrote in message k... "The Berzerker" wrote in message ... wahay! http://www.omegadrivers.net/ What do they do, that normal drivers dont? Martin. The reason I bother is that Omega tunes the driver for us. I could do what Omega does with ATI drivers but why the hell do I want to put myself through that ever time I upgrade my drivers. If I have an issue with an Omega setting such as I do with VPU Recover, I just uncheck it. But most of Omega's settings are just the way I like them. Not to mention a custom RadLinker. There are plenty of reasons to use Omega's drivers over ATI's IMO! |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 06:53:54 -0500, "Z28" wrote:
The reason I bother is that Omega tunes the driver for us. I could do what Omega does with ATI drivers but why the hell do I want to put myself through that ever time I upgrade my drivers. If I have an issue with an Omega setting such as I do with VPU Recover, I just uncheck it. But most of Omega's settings are just the way I like them. Not to mention a custom RadLinker. There are plenty of reasons to use Omega's drivers over ATI's IMO! They also include the 9800SE softmod plus from what I can see they seem to have fewer problems most notably with updating to a newer version. -- Julian Richards computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk XP Home L7S7A2 motherboard Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers 1 GB RAM 10 GB + 80 GB HDs CD+DVD/CDRW drives |
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