Proud new owner....

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of a Powercolor 9800 PRO!
I must say, the TV out is great, far better than than the GF3 Ti200.
Water and AA is great in HL2.
Would you guys care to impart any useful hints and tips for someone
who's new to the world of ATI? ;)

Cheers
 
Steve said:
of a Powercolor 9800 PRO!
I must say, the TV out is great, far better than than the GF3 Ti200.
Water and AA is great in HL2.
Would you guys care to impart any useful hints and tips for someone
who's new to the world of ATI? ;)

Cheers
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Yea, sell it to me for £5 inc p+p. :)
 
Steve Evans said:
of a Powercolor 9800 PRO!
I must say, the TV out is great, far better than than the GF3 Ti200.
Water and AA is great in HL2.
Would you guys care to impart any useful hints and tips for someone
who's new to the world of ATI? ;)

Cheers
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first - you've got a good card and enjoy it.
second - ATIs drivers are decent but not perfect.
they release new drivers every month and the version number
corresponds to year and month eg 2004 Nov driver is 4.11
and half way thru December we'll get 4.12 etc
every now and then there'll be a driver that works pretty well
for all games but in between you get drivers that improve some games
and cause problems with others - the best of this years bunch are
the 4.4 and 4.8s - I suggest you download one of them and keep it handy as
a backup - by all means try the latest but keep a backup handy.
the catalysts come in 2 flavours - basic driver with control panel 25mb dld
or with new super duper CCC control panel 44mb dld which is basically
a truckload of shit for ppl who like graphic equalizers and lots of keys on
their keyrings.
for a decent 3rd party driver go to www.omegadriver.net - their version of
the 4.4 was
excellent and their version of the 4.8 includes 2 OpenGL drivers - 1 for
older games
thats quick for Half-Life and Counter-Strike and a newer one for Call of
Duty etc ...
 
first - you've got a good card and enjoy it.
second - ATIs drivers are decent but not perfect.
they release new drivers every month and the version number
corresponds to year and month eg 2004 Nov driver is 4.11
and half way thru December we'll get 4.12 etc
every now and then there'll be a driver that works pretty well
for all games but in between you get drivers that improve some games
and cause problems with others - the best of this years bunch are
the 4.4 and 4.8s - I suggest you download one of them and keep it handy as
a backup - by all means try the latest but keep a backup handy.
the catalysts come in 2 flavours - basic driver with control panel 25mb dld
or with new super duper CCC control panel 44mb dld which is basically
a truckload of shit for ppl who like graphic equalizers and lots of keys on
their keyrings.
for a decent 3rd party driver go to www.omegadriver.net - their version of
the 4.4 was
excellent and their version of the 4.8 includes 2 OpenGL drivers - 1 for
older games
thats quick for Half-Life and Counter-Strike and a newer one for Call of
Duty etc ...
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Thanks sleepy, those are exactly the kind of handy hints I am looking
for. Currently on basic 4.11 and all seems well, but I might see if I
can squeeze some more fps out with those other drivers.

And no Jimbob, you can't have it, but I'll accept offers on my GF3! :)
 
Steve said:
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:26:35 GMT, "Sleepy"
Thanks sleepy, those are exactly the kind of handy hints I am looking
for. Currently on basic 4.11 and all seems well, but I might see if I
can squeeze some more fps out with those other drivers.

And no Jimbob, you can't have it, but I'll accept offers on my GF3! :)
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Ok, erm, £5 inc p + p? ;)
 
of a Powercolor 9800 PRO!
I must say, the TV out is great, far better than than the GF3 Ti200.
Water and AA is great in HL2.
Would you guys care to impart any useful hints and tips for someone
who's new to the world of ATI? ;)

Cheers
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Check out http://www.omegadrivers.net/ and try out the modified driver
set he puts out. Unfortunately he's a little behind this month and
might skip 4.11's and go right to 4.12's. The latest he has is based
on 4.10 with some hotfix from 4.11 (hence the beta name). Make sure
you read the readme and follow his directions. :)

Pluvious
 
Check out http://www.omegadrivers.net/ and try out the modified driver
set he puts out. Unfortunately he's a little behind this month and
might skip 4.11's and go right to 4.12's. The latest he has is based
on 4.10 with some hotfix from 4.11 (hence the beta name). Make sure
you read the readme and follow his directions. :)

Pluvious
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Are they really worthwhile? Do they add (and not subtract) anything
from the feature set of the ati drivers?
 
Sleepy said:
new super duper CCC control panel 44mb dld which is basically a truckload
of shit for ppl who like graphic >equalizers and lots of keys on their
keyrings.
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ROFL!

Classic stuff Sleepy!
 
Are they really worthwhile? Do they add (and not subtract) anything
from the feature set of the ati drivers?
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They seem to produce less problems than the official drivers and are
supposed to produce a higher quality image.
--

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
 
You mean audio techs and maintenance people, right? ;-)

Jebus! I hafta have a big jingly key-ring, otherwise I might lose the damn
thing, space-cadet that I am...

That thar CCC, however is just as you've described...it belongs with M$'
whole .NET bit of unnecessary bloatware...shitcanned with extreme
prejudice...

ATI are becoming a bunch of sellouts to Micro-Sothoth. They should
prioritize OpenGL professional support and basic Linux driver functionality,
where Nvidia is kicking them right where it hurts, instead of
overcomplicating their little fluffy poofter package with stuff we don't
need, when the old panel extensions work fine. What CCC says to me in plain
language, is that ATI's priorities are not where they should be. Someone
wanted to give their wannabe "web-designer" cousin some job security,
perhaps?

You can spackle as much makeup and shower as much smellgood-juice as you
want on a smelly, fat tramp, but in the morning after when the beer goggles
fall off, you'll still hafta chew off your trapped arm and leave it behind
in order to make a quick getaway...

A Bondo-buggy hooptie mobile only looks good with that Maaco paintjob until
it hits its first major speedbump...

In any case, you're stuck with more crack than Compton/South Central.

Now if both ATI and Nvidia would only start fixing more game issues and
hardware-specific related bugs, instead of making 3dMarket run better...
 
Steve Evans said:
Are they really worthwhile?
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I think so...

Do they add (and not subtract) anything
from the feature set of the ati drivers?
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Let me see...built-in softmodding (no biggie to do it with a patch script or
hex editor), integrated RadLinker, a better and more convenient control
panel in-yer-face (esp. compared to the CCC nonsense...), a few tweaks here
and there that mostly boost image quality without much if any performance
hit and vice-versa, didn't mess up the TV-out functionality...never tried
'em on an AIW yet, so I can't vouch for them here, but others have had good
results...ahh hell, why don't I just link the readme file? Here:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/radeon_omega_drivers.txt .
 
Are they really worthwhile? Do they add (and not subtract) anything
from the feature set of the ati drivers?
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I ONLY use his drivers! I will wait weeks (or in this case) months for
his version of the offical ones. The image quality and added features
are really worth it for gamers. Not for benchmarking per say.. but for
gaming.. they can't be beat.

Pluvious
 
Steve said:
Are they really worthwhile? Do they add (and not subtract) anything
from the feature set of the ati drivers?
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his drivers are highly recommended, and the only 3rd party drivers
officially recognized by ATI.
excellent drivers for any gamers, and overall system stability.

Remember newer drivers do not mean "the best" or that you need them,
upgrade your drivers only if your having issues that the current release
addresses.

Gordon
 
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