Sad news about Omega's drivers:

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Pluvious

Omega has posted a long explanation why no new sets have been released
by him in two months. Looks like he's calling it quits, and I for one
am deeply saddened to lose his famous drivers.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!


Pluvious
 
Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!


Pluvious
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I don't see any banner ads because they are in Flash and I don't use
Flash in FF. I stick to stock drivers now anyway. But best of luck to
Omega.
 
I don't see any banner ads because they are in Flash and I don't use
Flash in FF. I stick to stock drivers now anyway. But best of luck to
Omega.
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Actually I don't see them either but I turned off my ad blocker just
so I could click his. Sounds like he really needs the help since he's
unemployed along with his wife now. :(

I've had to go back to CAT's too and I noticed a drop in framerate
right away. :( (from Omega 4.12b's to CAT 5.3 no CCC)


Pluvious
 
Pluvious said:
Actually I don't see them either but I turned off my ad blocker just
so I could click his. Sounds like he really needs the help since he's
unemployed along with his wife now. :(

I've had to go back to CAT's too and I noticed a drop in framerate
right away. :( (from Omega 4.12b's to CAT 5.3 no CCC)
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I never used the Omega drivers, but I'm still sorry to hear of this (I've
always stuck to the ATI releases). What do you think of the DNA drivers as
found on the Guru 3D site? I had a chat with one bloke working in a local
shop and he swears by them.
 
Pluvious said:
Omega has posted a long explanation why no new sets have been released
by him in two months. Looks like he's calling it quits, and I for one
am deeply saddened to lose his famous drivers.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!


Pluvious
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lol. i THINK i'LL GET OVER IT!
 
Pluvious said:
Omega has posted a long explanation why no new sets have been released
by him in two months. Looks like he's calling it quits, and I for one
am deeply saddened to lose his famous drivers.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!


Pluvious
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That is unfortunate. He has worked hard to offer a good optimized version of
ATI's drivers. I'm sure it is a lot of work, and people are just taking
advantage of the fact that he does all this work for free, and don't care to
donate anything. I used his drivers on and off over the years, and would
donate when I could, usually with every significant release, or a release
that fixed an issue that I had with the official ATI drivers. A few bucks
from everyone who has used his drivers would make his efforts worthwhile.

Anyways, I only say this because I have been down that road before. The
internet is full of 99% greedy people with 1%, or probably less, people who
actually care to pay for something they find useful. Efforts from people
that dedicate their time free of charge, and only hope to break even in the
end. I dedicated hunreds of hours to building a website and adding content,
only to end up in the hole financially because of it.

Well, best of luck to him, and hope things turn around. ATI's drivers have
improved greatly, but Omega drivers always added that little bit of oomph,
or offered a more stable solution.
 
NightSky 421 said:
I never used the Omega drivers, but I'm still sorry to hear of this (I've
always stuck to the ATI releases). What do you think of the DNA drivers
as found on the Guru 3D site? I had a chat with one bloke working in a
local shop and he swears by them.
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Same for me - never used them. Tried to install it once some time ago but
the installation messed up, so I deleted it right away and forgot about it.
I am fairly happy with the latest Ati driver.
This guy is in Puerto Rico..outch!




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Maybe I read it wrong but if people do some doating he may continue, but
with the donations droppin off it's not worth his while. I have been
using his drivers for awhile, but I'm one of the guilty of not donating
so I did. Hopefully some more people will too.


Pluvious wrote:
 
Exactly. Even $5 helps. Imagine if several hundred people that are religious
users donate $5, that should be a big help.
 
I am everything but religious, but if I can dish out hundreds for hardware,
I can also pay 5 bucks for decent drivers that I have been using for months
on different machines with different ATI cards, without any problem.

My contribution just went there and I don't feel better or worse. Good works
needs retribution, that's just the way it is, especially when retribution is
voluntary, based on your satisfaction only.

Peace \/

Lorenzo Sandini, Finland.
www.brokenbones.d2g.com
 
Pluvious said:
Omega has posted a long explanation why no new sets have been released
by him in two months. Looks like he's calling it quits, and I for one
am deeply saddened to lose his famous drivers.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!
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Hmmm, how do those things work ? The banner ads ?
If was to click on them, say 10 times, would he get 10 payments from the
sponsors, or, because
I'd be clicking from the same I.P. , would he only get paid the once per
ad ?
'cos I have no problem taking out 10 minutes, and doing mass
add-clicking (LOL), but it would be
pointless if he only got paid the once.

Just a thought.

--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn


NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
 
Jez said:
Hmmm, how do those things work ? The banner ads ?
If was to click on them, say 10 times, would he get 10 payments from the
sponsors, or, because
I'd be clicking from the same I.P. , would he only get paid the once per
ad ?
'cos I have no problem taking out 10 minutes, and doing mass add-clicking
(LOL), but it would be
pointless if he only got paid the once.

Just a thought.
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Good point. I think most advertisers have it set to unique IP's once a day
to prevent against just that.
 
I'm an atheist but I did give him $10 some time ago. He's worked hard and
long, with his talents I can't see why he should have a hard time finding a
job.....may have to move though.
 
Omega has posted a long explanation why no new sets have been released
by him in two months. Looks like he's calling it quits, and I for one
am deeply saddened to lose his famous drivers.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Ps. Make sure you click on his banner ads too!


Pluvious
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Update:


This is posted to omega's site today:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Well, I don't know what to say this, I really have no words to
describe what has happened during the last week...

I'm still crying of happiness, the support has been overwhelming, so
much, that I can't possibly answer all the 1000+ emails I have
received, in fact, I'm still reading each and every one of them to
make sure I don't miss anyone, so don't worry if you don't get a reply
mail, just be assured I did read it and I'm really grateful for your
spiritual and economic support.
I haven't posted in forums or updated my front page since last update
because I was looking for the right words to express how happy me and
my wife are right now and I know a simple thank you is not enough to
cover all of this, but is all I can give right now, along with a few
tears you will not be able to see, but I think your hearts will feel.
With this I close my update and rest assured the Omega Drivers will
not die since now I see how much I'm needed and I don't want to
disappoint each and everyone that mailed me with their kind words of
hope.

Thanks to everyone and God bless :_)


P. S.
Next release will come in the form of 2 ATI driver sets and 1 Nvidia
set, I hope that is enough to cover everyone


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Omega's forever!!

ps.. he got tons of $$ from donations after people freaked out over
him not continuing..

Pluvious
 
P. S.
Next release will come in the form of 2 ATI driver sets and 1 Nvidia
set, I hope that is enough to cover everyone


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Omega's forever!!

ps.. he got tons of $$ from donations after people freaked out over
him not continuing..

Pluvious
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nice con job
 
Inglo said:
nice con job
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Con?

If somebody does something that other people like, should they not be
remunerated?

It's not like he has a duty to supply up to date video driver tweaks for
everybody for the rest of his life. He has to eat as well, and if he
can't afford the time to do the drivers, then he can't find the time.
If he's being remunerated for his time, then maybe he can afford it. Is
that a con? Of course not.

Ben
 
Con?

If somebody does something that other people like, should they not be
remunerated?

It's not like he has a duty to supply up to date video driver tweaks for
everybody for the rest of his life. He has to eat as well, and if he
can't afford the time to do the drivers, then he can't find the time.
If he's being remunerated for his time, then maybe he can afford it. Is
that a con? Of course not.
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I regard him as the final word on Radeon drivers. Why don't they hire
him?
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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
 
Julian said:
I regard him as the final word on Radeon drivers. Why don't they hire
him?
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I don't use his drivers, I've tried them a couple of times, and not
noticed any advantage.

They probably don't hire him because they're too busy dreaming up such
useful features as the crappy CCC and smartshader effects that make your
games stupid colours.

It's in intensive job.

Ben
 
On 3/26/2005 3:10 PM Pluvious brightened our day with:
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nice con job
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Those empowered with free will and I'm one of them, will back their
arses up into your face and leave you looking like a turd with ears.

You really are a witless ! suffering from a chaos of individualism,
Pluvious - you having a bad day ? or just a bucolic pratt !

The ' God Bless You ' man is a giver - what do you give ?

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