Omega Drivers ROCK!

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My system specs are as follows

Athlon xp 2400@ 2177
Epox 8k3ae Mobo
ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM
512 ddr2100
WinXP w/sp 1

I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker.
The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the
benchmark it would freeze up.
So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at
380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind.
I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will.
Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the
omega's . Heh,heh,heh
Dave
 
GeeZer said:
My system specs are as follows

Athlon xp 2400@ 2177
Epox 8k3ae Mobo
ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM
512 ddr2100
WinXP w/sp 1

I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker.
The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing
the benchmark it would freeze up.
So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs
at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind.
I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will.
Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the
omega's . Heh,heh,heh
Dave
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best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors
opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it
 
GeeZer wrote:




best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors
opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it
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Fast writes is probably useless, but there are a couple of games I have
that crash when its not enabled... NWN, SFC3, NOLF2, you can get around
this by disabling hardware mouse but its easier for me to just leave
fast writes enabled.
 
GeeZer said:
My system specs are as follows

Athlon xp 2400@ 2177
Epox 8k3ae Mobo
ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM
512 ddr2100
WinXP w/sp 1

I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker.
The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the
benchmark it would freeze up.
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3.8 based Omegas are latest anymore, Omega realeased saturday new ones:

"Surprise!!!

New Omega Drivers release!!!


NO, these are NOT the Catalyst 3.8 based drivers that I released on
10/08, this is an entire new version of the drivers (newer than the Cat
3.8), but they are NOT the Catalyst 3.9.
As usual, go to the ATI download's page to grab these and make sure you
read the readme to see what's new in them."
 
Guess I'll try NWN with it enabled... maybe it'l stop the crashing? (I'm
willing to try anything)

bye, Rick
 
Matti said:
3.8 based Omegas are latest anymore, Omega realeased saturday new ones:
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And here's the change log:

What's New? (2.4.96)
* Based on the leaked Dell drivers (I'm sure almost nobody heard about
these, it was a small leak and it was controlled in time by ATI).
(2k/XP)
* New Control Panel option, the WMV hardware support. (2k/XP)
* More Smartshaders effects for OpenGL. (2k/XP)
* Fixed the TV out problems, now the monitor is no longer locked at 60Hz
with TV enabled. (2k/XP)
* Fixed the mutiple monitor problems in the device manager and ATI CP.
(2k/XP)
* Fixed the "Soft-Mods", some games should no longer crash. (2k/XP)
* Enabled Overclocking support in the normal and soft-moded drivers for
ALL CARDS based on the following chipsets, even if they are locked:
RV250/RV280/R300/RV350. (2k/XP)
* Removed rTool from the driver package as it is no longer needed.
(2k/XP)
* Added the ATI Software uninstaller. (2k/XP)

Thomas
 
what is 'soft mod' ?




Thomas Engler said:
And here's the change log:

What's New? (2.4.96)
* Based on the leaked Dell drivers (I'm sure almost nobody heard about
these, it was a small leak and it was controlled in time by ATI).
(2k/XP)
* New Control Panel option, the WMV hardware support. (2k/XP)
* More Smartshaders effects for OpenGL. (2k/XP)
* Fixed the TV out problems, now the monitor is no longer locked at 60Hz
with TV enabled. (2k/XP)
* Fixed the mutiple monitor problems in the device manager and ATI CP.
(2k/XP)
* Fixed the "Soft-Mods", some games should no longer crash. (2k/XP)
* Enabled Overclocking support in the normal and soft-moded drivers for
ALL CARDS based on the following chipsets, even if they are locked:
RV250/RV280/R300/RV350. (2k/XP)
* Removed rTool from the driver package as it is no longer needed.
(2k/XP)
* Added the ATI Software uninstaller. (2k/XP)

Thomas
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what is 'soft mod' ?
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To make a card behave like another card purely by the use of drivers.
9500s to 9700s, 9700s and 9800SEs to 9800pro etc. There's no guarantee
that it will work but the Omega drivers have the facility to try in a
user friendly manner. My 9800Se is bust and being replaced under
warranty so I'll have to wait and see.
--

Julian Richards
(e-mail address removed)

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives
 
Rick said:
Guess I'll try NWN with it enabled... maybe it'l stop the crashing? (I'm
willing to try anything)

bye, Rick
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What i find interesting is that I have fast writes disabled in CMOS, but the
ATi drivers show it enabled...and have never had any crashes with NWN...


Kris
 
What i find interesting is that I have fast writes disabled in CMOS, but the
ATi drivers show it enabled...and have never had any crashes with NWN...


Kris
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I have it enabled in BIOS, and ATI drivers won't enable it. :0
 
I agree. Been using the Omega drivers on my Sony Vaio notebook. They are
rock solid. Much better than the supplied drivers from Sony. And any time
I've had a question, the author of the drivers responds back to me.
 
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