Omega's based on 6.2 is out.. no CCC needed

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http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Pluvious
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Thanks. I decided to dump the CCC drivers and go back to the Omega
drivers. XP full boot time is quite a bit shorter now. Also
uninstalled the .NET crap.

CCC w/CCC system tray icon
page file usage=235
commit charge=238420

Omega w/ATI Tools system tray icon
page file usage=156
commit charge=160268
 
Is the ditching of CCC and .NET your sole reason for using the Omegas? You
could always just use ATI Tray Tools with a driver-only installation.
 
Is the ditching of CCC and .NET your sole reason for using the Omegas? You
could always just use ATI Tray Tools with a driver-only installation.
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Basically, yes. I know I could do that but I decided to get it all in
one via the Omega drivers.
 
Anyone know if they support the Mobility X1600? The regular 6.2 Mobility
CAT's don't yet, and I've been eagerly waiting for a driver version that
wouldn't force me to use the CCC on my laptop. There's quite enough
stuff running on it as it is (59 processes after boot).

So far the only drivers for X1600 Mobility I've found are the ones that
came with the machine. ATI Tray Tools didn't work very well either (it
fails to detect the chip properly; works, but not very well).

Wilf Wood kirjoitti:
 
The following are listed in the Omega 6.2 INF file:

"Radeon X1600 Series (Omega 3.8.221)" = ati2mtag_RV26V, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C2
"Radeon X1600 Series (Omega 3.8.221) " = ati2mtag_RV26V, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C0

It should work with your Mobility X1600.
 
Mark C. said:
The following are listed in the Omega 6.2 INF file:

"Radeon X1600 Series (Omega 3.8.221)" = ati2mtag_RV26V,
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C2
"Radeon X1600 Series (Omega 3.8.221) " = ati2mtag_RV26V,
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C0

It should work with your Mobility X1600.
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How much better are the Omega drivers?
 
themillman said:
How much better are the Omega drivers?
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It's the same basic driver as ATI's, with several added utilities
(Tray Tools, MultiRes, an overclocking function etc). IMO
it's a better designed and more rounded driver.
 
It's the same basic driver as ATI's, with several added utilities
(Tray Tools, MultiRes, an overclocking function etc). IMO
it's a better designed and more rounded driver.
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People do say that the Omegas have worked when the official drivers
have not, notably with laptops.
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|On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:08:37 GMT, "Mark C."
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|>It's the same basic driver as ATI's, with several added utilities
|>(Tray Tools, MultiRes, an overclocking function etc). IMO
|>it's a better designed and more rounded driver.
|
|People do say that the Omegas have worked when the official drivers
|have not, notably with laptops.
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When I installed this set it specificly asked if I have a laptop, so these are
tuned for such.

Pluvious
 
Great. I installed them, and they do indeed work. And they have the much
much better Control Panel instead of the massive CCC; boots a bit
quicker plus three processes less running now.

Odd, that ATI itself hasn't yet released CAT 6.2's for my chip yet. The
regular CAT's won't even install on my laptop and the mobility drivers
available don't yet support X1?00 Mobility chips (and refuse to
install). Shouldn't be too much work since the Omegas work.


Mark C. kirjoitti:
 
vellu said:
Great. I installed them, and they do indeed work. And they have the much
much better Control Panel instead of the massive CCC; boots a bit
quicker plus three processes less running now.
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With a bit of work you could prolly get that 55 down to 30 or so :-)
Especially crap like Real Networks, some virus scanner etc. Some
are horribly intrusive and/or cause a terrible impact on performance.
 
Not really, it's mostly device related. Bluetooth alone is 6 processes.
Add to that WLAN/GPRS (and Nokia PC Suite)/Infrared, touchpad+other
additional buttons, battery+power managers and other laptop related
things it adds up to 56 processes after boot.

Only three things not directly related to hardware (firewall, antivirus
and anti-spy/adware programs) are running.

But I don't really care about the actual process count. But I did want
to get rid of CCC, since it's just about the biggest piece of bloatware
I've ever seen.


Mark C. kirjoitti:
 
People do say that the Omegas have worked when the official drivers
have not, notably with laptops.
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It is common to say that omega will have better stability. the reason
is that the engeneer are working at ati to get a set of new drivers.
as omega people are using them as they know all about error that could
occur with the release. So to me it just a bunch of people getting all
the reward of others at ati. poeple complainning about ccc are just a
bunch of people on pentium 3 with 128megs or ram.
 
DDC said:
poeple complainning about ccc are just a
bunch of people on pentium 3 with 128megs or ram.
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No, we are usually gamers that want maximum resources for our games and
not wasted by unnecessary bloatware drivers.
 
vellu said:
Not really, it's mostly device related. Bluetooth alone is 6 processes.
Add to that WLAN/GPRS (and Nokia PC Suite)/Infrared, touchpad+other
additional buttons, battery+power managers and other laptop related
things it adds up to 56 processes after boot.

Only three things not directly related to hardware (firewall, antivirus
and anti-spy/adware programs) are running.

But I don't really care about the actual process count. But I did want
to get rid of CCC, since it's just about the biggest piece of bloatware
I've ever seen.
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I'm down to 22 processes and 2 are because of Winpatrol and Thunderbird.
I only run what's really needed.
 
As it turns out, I had to revert back to the original drivers, and CCC,
that came with the laptop. The Omegas seemed to work just fine, until I
tried the TV-out. Was pretty messed up; image on TV was a narrow section
in the middle of the screen covering maybe one fifth of the screens
horizontal width.

Back to original drivers, and the TV-out works as it should giving a
fullscreen image to the TV aswell.

And what's up with ATI? Cat 6.3's still don't support Mobility X1*00
series chipsets. Do they not make drivers for their own products?

vellu kirjoitti:
 
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