Nvidia Omega Drivers v1.169.21 for Windows XP/2k

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 27, 2007, 05:16 AM

Honey, I'm home!!!
I'm back, been busy, read my front page, enjoy the new site, need... to... catch.. breath...

What's New in Omega Drivers?
v2.169.21

* Based on the Forceware 169.21 Official drivers.
+ Added resolutions not available on normal drivers and tweaked some that where.
* Added new D3D/OGL tweaks and removed obsolete ones.
- Removed all extra tools, only the drivers and Nvidia Control Panel are included.
* Lots of other internal changes that I can't remember, been too long from last release, hehe.

Known Issues:
Since this is my first nvidia driver's release in years and I have been working hard on the website, some features will not be available at the moment, like for example, laptop support, yeah, sorry, but I had to cut something out in order to make the release on time with the new website. Don't worry thou, laptop support will be back on next release for sure or in a possible re-release of the 169.21 drivers, that will depend on how fast nvidia releases their next WHQL set.

Get them here.

Enjoy!

>GSXR<mrbusa · Dec 27, 2007, 06:35 AM

OMG......
Thx man!
Never thought this day would come. I will certainly test these but might not have them installed to long because I need some of the fixes in the later beta's.

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 27, 2007, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by >GSXR<mrbusa

OMG......
Thx man!
Never thought this day would come. I will certainly test these but might not have them installed to long because I need some of the fixes in the later beta's.

Hu?
There are no betas that I know off after 169.21 that I know off...

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2007, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Omegadrive

Hu?
There are no betas that I know off after 169.21 that I know off...

He's talking about the 169.28 beta's that was released shortly after the .21 whql set Here.

Thnks for these i'll d/l and try them out later.

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 27, 2007, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by MIG-31

He's talking about the 169.28 beta's that was released shortly after the .21 whql set Here.

Thnks for these i'll d/l and try them out later.

Great, I never heard of those, I guess I was too busy working on my stuff, lol
What do they fix that the WHQL drivers don't?

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2007, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Omegadrive

Great, I never heard of those, I guess I was too busy working on my stuff, lol
What do they fix that the WHQL drivers don't?

I think they only hold a few updates that Unreal Tournament 3 requires..appart from that they are the same as the whql drivers,as far as i know.

Nick0323 · Dec 27, 2007, 08:18 AM

Nice, but didn't Nvidia ask another website to stop modding their drivers?

Or am I thinking of something else? lol.

Widkidone · Dec 27, 2007, 08:37 AM

Nick you are correct! Regeneration of the NGOHQ was "warned". But from my understanding Nvidia could not do too much to them.

wiskerbizkit · Dec 27, 2007, 08:51 AM

You are the man Omegadrive! I love the new site. you must have worked your rear off on that. Installing the drivers now.

About NGO: Nvidia was pissed at NGO for having a patch hosted that enabled SLi on non-SLi motherboards, NGO fought back so Nvidia tried whatever they could to to make their lives tougher.

wiskerbizkit · Dec 27, 2007, 10:52 AM

I can't get these to work with my HDTV

Nick0323 · Dec 27, 2007, 11:19 AM

Ahh okay, Nvidia should have joined forces with NGO since NGO appear to do a better job with their drivers.

SLI on Non-SLI mobo's FTW.

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2007, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick0323

Ahh okay, Nvidia should have joined forces with NGO since NGO appear to do a better job with their drivers.

Nice one sided opinion you made..All drivers react differently.I could see you're point if we all had had identical pc setups throughout. (that includes bios settings too).

I have tried both ngo's (although not the one's based on this set) in the past and i have had several problems with ngo tweaked drivers..

(I have never had any problems with Nvidias standered Drivers) so for me NGO's drivers don't work for me.

After a good hour of testing these drivers are the best i have used so far.
EDIT Nice work on you're website omega... looks good

I'm actually getting some pretty good FPS rates with these tweaked drivers with no errors.

Nick0323 · Dec 27, 2007, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MIG-31

Nice one sided opinion you made..All drivers react differently.I could see you're point if we all had had identical pc setups throughout. (that includes bios settings too).

I have tried both ngo's (although not the one's based on this set) in the past and i have had several problems with ngo tweaked drivers..

(I have never had any problems with Nvidias standered Drivers) so for me NGO's drivers don't work for me.

After a good hour of testing these drivers are the best i have used so far.

Yeh I'm not really one sided since I prefer ATI drivers (excluding the CCC) over Omega drivers.

**Vikingod** · Dec 27, 2007, 03:09 PM

Alright folks, enough NGO talk. I'm sure they have a forum for that. Lets discuss Omega's work.

I'll get these installed this evening. Thanks for the release Omega, we've missed you.

sUPERHJELTEn · Dec 27, 2007, 03:53 PM

The Omega drivers seems to work really well, and I would love to use them. But, at the moment, I'm having some serious issues when trying to force higher HZ in 800x600 and 640x480. I use those resolutions in many of the games I play so it is vital that I can force the HZ to 100 or preferably 120. But as it stands now, I can't do that with the omega drivers. It does work for 1024 and 11xx resolutions.

Any suggestions on what the problem could be? I'm using refreshforce (reforce) to force the HZ. I've also tried refreshlock but nothing works. Might try powerstrip but I would like to avoid that.

EDIT: Just encountered another problem. The 1024x768 resolution is totally gone in Counter-Strike. I cannot choose that resolution at all now.

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 27, 2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by sUPERHJELTEn

The Omega drivers seems to work really well, and I would love to use them. But, at the moment, I'm having some serious issues when trying to force higher HZ in 800x600 and 640x480. I use those resolutions in many of the games I play so it is vital that I can force the HZ to 100 or preferably 120. But as it stands now, I can't do that with the omega drivers. It does work for 1024 and 11xx resolutions.

Any suggestions on what the problem could be? I'm using refreshforce (reforce) to force the HZ. I've also tried refreshlock but nothing works. Might try powerstrip but I would like to avoid that.

EDIT: Just encountered another problem. The 1024x768 resolution is totally gone in Counter-Strike. I cannot choose that resolution at all now.

Hmm, why you trying to play at those low resolutions??? lol
The reason is that I limited the drivers to 85Hz on every resolution, I was working on the extra resolutions and had to do it for them to work, anyway, I'll make up to 120Hz available on next release for 1024x768 and lower resolutions.

sUPERHJELTEn · Dec 27, 2007, 05:28 PM

I see

I love those resolutions, and use them in games quite often.

Would appreciate it a lot if you could make lower resolutions work with 120Hz

Guess I'll use ...some other drivers until then, than!

BlueMak · Dec 27, 2007, 05:36 PM

Any chance of having the nvidia fixed aspect ratio option fixed on your versions? Has been broken since 97.x or something.

thomasabarnes · Dec 27, 2007, 07:34 PM

Welcome back Omega! Thanks for the new drivers. I'm running 'em now.

wiskerbizkit · Dec 28, 2007, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Omegadrive

Hmm, why you trying to play at those low resolutions??? lol
The reason is that I limited the drivers to 85Hz on every resolution, I was working on the extra resolutions and had to do it for them to work, anyway, I'll make up to 120Hz available on next release for 1024x768 and lower resolutions.

This wouldn't have anything to do with my problem would it? I'm on a 32 inch HD 1360x768 using the VGA connector (hdmi is borked on the 8 series). when i install omega's it goes through the xp loading screen and then my tv tells me its not supported. However it works fine on stock drivers.

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 28, 2007, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by wiskerbizkit

This wouldn't have anything to do with my problem would it? I'm on a 32 inch HD 1360x768 using the VGA connector (hdmi is borked on the 8 series). when i install omega's it goes through the xp loading screen and then my tv tells me its not supported. However it works fine on stock drivers.

1360x768 is supported, from 60 to 85Hz and LCDs use 60Hz, so it should be fine, don't know what can be happening.
Try this:
Switch the resolutions with the normal drivers to 800x600@60Hz, restart PC, uninstall the nvidia drivers, restart when prompted, cancel the new hardware windows and install my drivers, restart at end and now see if all works.

wiskerbizkit · Dec 28, 2007, 05:36 AM

I'll give it a shot

wiskerbizkit · Dec 28, 2007, 05:56 AM

sweet it worked... have i told you lately that i love you?