Article: Mike "Neon Cowboy" Lady
Editor: Joe "Roadee" Dawson

 

Installer Notes

While the Omegas install was quite smooth and easy the DNA installer was less then pleasant. The DNA installer could use a lot of work. Not to mention what could happen when ATI realizes he’s removed their license agreement.

This is quite interesting…..

 

Omega drivers come bundled with several utilities. DNA drivers come bundled with only Radlinker, yet the installer package is almost the same size.

The DNA drivers have just recently started to use Setup Factory. In my opinion the DNA driver author doesn’t appear very knowledgeable with this package. He does not seem to be able to make the package swap files on demand and accept custom settings like the Omega installer does. This is especially noticeable by having to replace files in the installer directory to be able to use DNA’s softmod. Omega’s installer seems to take all the work out of the installation.

 

Test Setup

System loaded only with needed software and hardware for testing. All benchmarks are tested a 1024x768 @ 32bit color. To ensure no errors could occur, a clean os was installed between testing sets.

Hardware
Built by ATI 9600 XT w/Over Drive turned off
AMD 2500+ Barton w/SLK-800u Heatsink and 41 Cfm 80mm fan
Asus A7N8X Rev. 1.4 w/Bios Rev. 1007
1 GB (2x512) Geil Ultra Platinum PC 3500
120 GB Western digital HDD w/8mb cache
Sound blaster live 5.1
A1 400W Power supply
48x24x48x16 CDRW + DVD

Software
Windows XP Professional SP1a
NForce Chipset Drivers Version 3.75
3DMark03 Build 340
3DMark2001 SE Build 330
AquaMark3
Bench’em All
GL Excess 1.2
Gun Metal Benchmark 2
PCMark04
X2-Demo
Unreal 2
Unreal Tournament 2003
Chameleon Mark
Fraps 2.0
DNA 1.9.3.10a
Omega 2504
Official ATI Cat. 3.10’s

 

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