Omegadrivers (based on Catalyst 7.4) Now Available

Dyre Straits · Jun 12, 2007, 03:35 AM

Those who much prefer the Omegadrivers for ATI cards, you can get the latest release now by checking out the official Omegadriver website:

Omegadrivers.net

Just do a little reading and follow the links to what you're looking for.

Cheers!

Crawdaddy79 · Jun 12, 2007, 07:29 PM

I'm getting a "Unknown Device" after installing these (as well as a "found new hardware" with each reboot). I suspect it's the T200 AVStream drivers that it's looking for as I do not see it in my Device Manager like I used to.

My card is X1950XTX.

Dyre Straits · Jun 12, 2007, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crawdaddy79

I'm getting a "Unknown Device" after installing these (as well as a "found new hardware" with each reboot). I suspect it's the T200 AVStream drivers that it's looking for as I do not see it in my Device Manager like I used to.

My card is X1950XTX.

You are correct! Omega does not include the WDM drivers so you'll need to grab the version from the AMD/ATI website that matches the version of the drivers.

Crawdaddy79 · Jun 12, 2007, 10:36 PM

I guess that's a new thing? The ones based off of 7.1 didn't give me that error... Oh well.

Thanks for the info - will grab it now!

Dyre Straits · Jun 12, 2007, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crawdaddy79

I guess that's a new thing? The ones based off of 7.1 didn't give me that error... Oh well.

Thanks for the info - will grab it now!

Actually, it's not a new thing. Omega hasn't been including the WDM drivers for quite some time now. He explains it's to keep the filesize smaller for downloading from his site and the mirrors. (Likely to keep the cost of bandwidth lower.) So, let AMD/ATI handle the extra bandwidth.

However, if you follow his advice to simply install his drivers over the top of existing drivers, you'll not run into this problem.

welldl · Jun 12, 2007, 10:57 PM

I am waiting 7.5 .

Crawdaddy79 · Jun 13, 2007, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by welldl

I am waiting 7.5 .

The ones released by ATI are awful. Image Quality is down several notches as well as reliability. I don't see it a worthwhile investment for Omega to work on the 7.5s, as the 7.4s are superior.

NeoB!te · Jun 16, 2007, 04:24 PM

These Omega 360 drivers, YES 360!! finally Omega has made a 360 driver set. With the release of the xbox 360 a lot of products, and shows use the 360 number. For example "Anderson Cooper 360", "Colgate 360", "yahoo 360", "panascope 360", You get the picture.

Now with this new 360 number trend comes great products, and services, and with Omega this trend does not disappoint. I did a 35 hour test on the Warcats 5.13s, and 5.11XT, and a lot of other drivers from most of the popular modders. NONE OF THEM COME CLOSE TO THESE STABLE, CONSISTANT FPS DRIVERS!!!!!.

The other drivers usually had memory leaks after a few hours of playing, which lead to drops in fps after spawns and such.

BUT WITH THESE YOU GET CONSTANT HIGH PERFORMING DRIVERS!!!

Battlefield 2, and Counter Strike Source never ran so GOOOD. GET THESE, YOU WILL BE HAPPY.

Oh, and about the hardware installation wizard that pops up at the end. Well all you need to do is restart the computer, and that will go away.

I suggest you turn on fast writes for the X850XT AGP card, cause thats what I have. It makes Battlefield 2 work, and makes Counter Strike source extremely smooth, and AMAZING THANK YOU OMEgA <3!!! U R K1NG OF DRIVERS!!!

I hope you achieve god status in World of warcraft, and become king of the server with your amazing drivers.

Dyre Straits · Jun 16, 2007, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeoB!te

........

Oh, and about the hardware installation wizard that pops up at the end. Well all you need to do is restart the computer, and that will go away.

I suggest you turn on fast writes for the X850XT AGP card, cause thats what I have.......

I take it you're happy with these drivers.

But, that hardware installation wizard will not disappear if it's looking for the WDM drivers and can't find them. People will still need to download the WDM drivers for AMD/ATI for whatever version of drivers they're using.

AND, I always used FW ON on my system...and have for years.

Datachasm · Jun 17, 2007, 11:11 AM

i just installed these...

my monitors native res is 1680x1050... but the display is fubar after installation. now, my text is shaky in appearance, and the screen does not fit; you have to scroll the edges of the desktop.

in the ATI control panel, under the multiple monitor setup screen (i have a laptop with an external), for the external my res says its running at 1520x1050, but at display prop/settings its says 1680x1050.

i uninstalled, ran driver cleaner, rebooted, and reinstalled; didnt help.

anyways, been using the Omegas for over a year and no problems before. for now im gonna run my desktop at 1024x768 until someone posts a tip or i decide to revert back to the last release.

Knight_Rider · Jun 18, 2007, 10:15 PM

ATT seems to be broken.

Ecology · Jun 22, 2007, 01:47 PM

omega 330 css stress test 95.06
omega 360 css stress test 94.99

bye

Dyre Straits · Jun 22, 2007, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knight_Rider

ATT seems to be broken.

How so? All seems to be working fine on this end.

Knight_Rider · Jun 24, 2007, 09:51 AM

Oops install over the old version, Sorry. All is well now.

Rafnagud · Jul 15, 2007, 04:11 AM

Quote:

I will not make a big release out of these since they are based on the Cat 7.4 and [COLOR=#ffae00][COLOR=#ffae00! important][COLOR=#ffae00! important]ATI[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] already released the 7.5, which I already modded and they are in the test phase at the moment, so crossing my fingers they should be out next week.

It's been more than a month so i was wondering about the status of the new drivers?

Thanx.

kevinti · Jul 20, 2007, 09:48 AM

Hi Omega,

The latest Cat 7.7 is a so-much improved driver in term of IQ and performance. However, it's still lag behind the beloved Omega 7.4!

Cat 7.7 is surely worth your time to omegaed it! Many of us are looking forward to it!

Cheers!

petri1 · Jul 20, 2007, 05:03 PM

Hi i may have missed this but why is there no updated Nvidia driversbby Omega

is he purely ATI devoted

well sorry if i stir something up just wanted to know

gyoung · Jul 27, 2007, 09:08 AM

If I install these Omegas over the ATI 7.4 drivers, will they correctly handle the 2d vs 3d speed differences in the X1950XT pcie card?

goppi · Aug 7, 2007, 04:09 AM

Done excessive testing of different driver releases for the last few days and I'm really disappointed. Seems like driver hell is getting similar for ATI as it is with NVIDEA (at least for the 8xxx series on XP).

I tested the following drivers:

1.) ATI Catalyst 7.5
2.) ATI Catalyst 7.6
3.) ATI Catalyst 7.7
4.) NGO Catalyst 7.3
5.) Omega Catalst 7.4

1.) The Omegas are the only one which give acceptable quality on a HTPC. I checked all drivers with the HQV Benchmark DVD and the only driver passing the deinterlacer tests on VMR9 was the Omega (with overlay all others are working ok, but that's not an option for other reasons).

2.) The NGO and the Omega work correct with MediaPortal and a X1650PRO card whereas the Original 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7 where failing, causing a constant 100% CPU load on one core even when the app is beeing idle.

3.) So the world would be nearly perfect with the Omega, but I live in PAL land an the driver is missing the capability of 1080p/50Hz (60Hz works flawlessly). So is there a way to make the Omega handle 1080p/50Hz or it there a new version on the horizon which may solve the problem.

Regards,
goppi.

franz.b · Aug 12, 2007, 10:46 AM

Hi to everyone!
i need a little help to correct install of ati omegadrivers 38360 (catalyst 7.4).
it works fine on my pc in signature, but when i install it on a new partition with a new installation of winxpsp2 on the same pc, i cant see the "advanced 3d" tabs for overclocking!

the installation asks me if disable this function, but i always say no...
why?
how can i solve?

thanks a lot

welldl · Aug 24, 2007, 12:17 AM

Excuse me...er...this project stop ???

cause_of_chaos · Sep 2, 2007, 08:11 PM

Hi everybody,

Been using the Omega Drivers for what feels like an eternity.
First problem ever with them - I couldn't set 1360x768 for my newly bought Samsung LCD TV (1366x768), so had to settle for 1280x768. Tried uninstalling, and then using Driver Cleaner, but the Omegas just didn't want to know.

So, I am forced to use the Catalysts (7.8), and low and behold, my LCD is now detected and 1360x768 over DVI-HDMI is possible (using it now).

In the Catalyst Control center, my TV is registered just as SAMSUNG, but the rest of the PC just lists it as a "Plug and Play" Monitor.

Do the Omega Drivers support Samsung LCD TVs (mine is the LE23R88BDX)?
If so, what am I doing wrong?

cause_of_chaos

thegave · Sep 9, 2007, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Actually, it's not a new thing. Omega hasn't been including the WDM drivers for quite some time now. He explains it's to keep the filesize smaller for downloading from his site and the mirrors. (Likely to keep the cost of bandwidth lower.) So, let AMD/ATI handle the extra bandwidth.

However, if you follow his advice to simply install his drivers over the top of existing drivers, you'll not run into this problem.

So doing a full uninstall and driver clean/cab clean is old fashioned now?

junka · Sep 17, 2007, 05:22 AM

I installed these to see what all the fuss was about, can't say I was impressed, very messy, went back to beloved Cats 6.10

Dyre Straits · Sep 17, 2007, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thegave

So doing a full uninstall and driver clean/cab clean is old fashioned now?

Not really old-fashioned, it's just not necessary. Even the Catalyst Team states it's not necessary to uninstall previous drivers to update drivers. Never has been.

Jalle64 · Sep 17, 2007, 11:50 AM

Yes I´ve done that for the last four years, and havn´t got any anomalies och crasches at all, so I don´t now what all the fuzz is about

junka · Sep 18, 2007, 01:32 AM

I have a problem, can someone help. After playing the Quake wars demo and then booting up Medieval 2 the text in Medieval 2 is messed up and only restarting the computer can cure it. Is there something I can do to fix it without a restart?

cox · Sep 28, 2007, 03:45 AM

I think omega got that job from ATI and cant do any drivers any more..
He is under pressure from the ATI bosses

X-fi6 · Sep 29, 2007, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cox

I think omega got that job from ATI and cant do any drivers any more..
He is under pressure from the ATI bosses

Hehe if so from now on I'll be downloading the official ATI drivers because now Omega's working on them so he'll probably make them Omega-Driver quality!

Jun 16, 2007, 04:24 PM	#8
NeoB!te DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 57 Rep Power: 0	These Omega 360 drivers, YES 360!! finally Omega has made a 360 driver set. With the release of the xbox 360 a lot of products, and shows use the 360 number. For example "Anderson Cooper 360", "Colgate 360", "yahoo 360", "panascope 360", You get the picture. Now with this new 360 number trend comes great products, and services, and with Omega this trend does not disappoint. I did a 35 hour test on the Warcats 5.13s, and 5.11XT, and a lot of other drivers from most of the popular modders. NONE OF THEM COME CLOSE TO THESE STABLE, CONSISTANT FPS DRIVERS!!!!!. The other drivers usually had memory leaks after a few hours of playing, which lead to drops in fps after spawns and such. BUT WITH THESE YOU GET CONSTANT HIGH PERFORMING DRIVERS!!! Battlefield 2, and Counter Strike Source never ran so GOOOD. GET THESE, YOU WILL BE HAPPY. Oh, and about the hardware installation wizard that pops up at the end. Well all you need to do is restart the computer, and that will go away. I suggest you turn on fast writes for the X850XT AGP card, cause thats what I have. It makes Battlefield 2 work, and makes Counter Strike source extremely smooth, and AMAZING THANK YOU OMEgA <3!!! U R K1NG OF DRIVERS!!! I hope you achieve god status in World of warcraft, and become king of the server with your amazing drivers. __________________ P4 3.9GHZ 1041FSB x850XT 527/600 2GB OCZ PC 3200 @ CL 2-3-2-5 74 GB Raptor, 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache 19" Sync Master DF Last edited by NeoB!te; Jun 16, 2007 at 04:34 PM.

Jun 22, 2007, 01:47 PM	#12
Ecology DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Europe Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	omega 330 css stress test 95.06 omega 360 css stress test 94.99 bye __________________ to perennial memory:

Jul 20, 2007, 09:48 AM	#16
kevinti DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 58 Rep Power: 0	Hi Omega, The latest Cat 7.7 is a so-much improved driver in term of IQ and performance. However, it's still lag behind the beloved Omega 7.4! Cat 7.7 is surely worth your time to omegaed it! Many of us are looking forward to it! Cheers! __________________ Cheers! Kevin @ sg [COLOR=blue]WindowsXP Home Edition (SP2)[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Pentium4 2.8c HT[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]1.75GB PC2700/333 DDR DIMM RAM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Sapphire ATI X1950Pro 512MB (AGP) with Omega-Cat 7.4[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Creative SBS 560 5.1 Speaker System on Creative SB Audigy Value[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Total Hardisk = 200GB[/COLOR]

Jul 20, 2007, 05:03 PM	#17
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 780 Rep Power: 0	Hi i may have missed this but why is there no updated Nvidia driversbby Omega is he purely ATI devoted well sorry if i stir something up just wanted to know __________________ [COLOR=#232d35] [COLOR=Red]Intel Core 2 Quad 9450@2,66GHZ PowerColor Ati Radeon HD4870 512mb Gigabyte GaE-X38 4GB Kingston Hyper X [/COLOR] [/COLOR]

Jul 27, 2007, 09:08 AM	#18
gyoung DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0	Will they work with X1950XT PCIe speed differences? If I install these Omegas over the ATI 7.4 drivers, will they correctly handle the 2d vs 3d speed differences in the X1950XT pcie card?

Jun 12, 2007, 07:29 PM	#2
Crawdaddy79 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	I'm getting a "Unknown Device" after installing these (as well as a "found new hardware" with each reboot). I suspect it's the T200 AVStream drivers that it's looking for as I do not see it in my Device Manager like I used to. My card is X1950XTX.

Jun 12, 2007, 10:36 PM	#4
Crawdaddy79 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	I guess that's a new thing? The ones based off of 7.1 didn't give me that error... Oh well. Thanks for the info - will grab it now!

Jun 12, 2007, 10:57 PM	#6
welldl DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	I am waiting 7.5 .

Jun 17, 2007, 11:11 AM	#10
Datachasm DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	i just installed these... my monitors native res is 1680x1050... but the display is fubar after installation. now, my text is shaky in appearance, and the screen does not fit; you have to scroll the edges of the desktop. in the ATI control panel, under the multiple monitor setup screen (i have a laptop with an external), for the external my res says its running at 1520x1050, but at display prop/settings its says 1680x1050. i uninstalled, ran driver cleaner, rebooted, and reinstalled; didnt help. anyways, been using the Omegas for over a year and no problems before. for now im gonna run my desktop at 1024x768 until someone posts a tip or i decide to revert back to the last release.

Jun 18, 2007, 10:15 PM	#11
Knight_Rider DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 131 Rep Power: 0	ATT seems to be broken.

Jun 24, 2007, 09:51 AM	#14
Knight_Rider DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 131 Rep Power: 0	Oops install over the old version, Sorry. All is well now.

Jul 15, 2007, 04:11 AM	#15
Rafnagud DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Quote: I will not make a big release out of these since they are based on the Cat 7.4 and [COLOR=#ffae00][COLOR=#ffae00! important][COLOR=#ffae00! important]ATI[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] already released the 7.5, which I already modded and they are in the test phase at the moment, so crossing my fingers they should be out next week. It's been more than a month so i was wondering about the status of the new drivers? Thanx.

Aug 7, 2007, 04:09 AM	#19
goppi DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Done excessive testing of different driver releases for the last few days and I'm really disappointed. Seems like driver hell is getting similar for ATI as it is with NVIDEA (at least for the 8xxx series on XP). I tested the following drivers: 1.) ATI Catalyst 7.5 2.) ATI Catalyst 7.6 3.) ATI Catalyst 7.7 4.) NGO Catalyst 7.3 5.) Omega Catalst 7.4 1.) The Omegas are the only one which give acceptable quality on a HTPC. I checked all drivers with the HQV Benchmark DVD and the only driver passing the deinterlacer tests on VMR9 was the Omega (with overlay all others are working ok, but that's not an option for other reasons). 2.) The NGO and the Omega work correct with MediaPortal and a X1650PRO card whereas the Original 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7 where failing, causing a constant 100% CPU load on one core even when the app is beeing idle. 3.) So the world would be nearly perfect with the Omega, but I live in PAL land an the driver is missing the capability of 1080p/50Hz (60Hz works flawlessly). So is there a way to make the Omega handle 1080p/50Hz or it there a new version on the horizon which may solve the problem. Regards, goppi.

Aug 12, 2007, 10:46 AM	#20
franz.b DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi to everyone! i need a little help to correct install of ati omegadrivers 38360 (catalyst 7.4). it works fine on my pc in signature, but when i install it on a new partition with a new installation of winxpsp2 on the same pc, i cant see the "advanced 3d" tabs for overclocking! the installation asks me if disable this function, but i always say no... why? how can i solve? thanks a lot __________________ MB Gigabyte GA7n400pro2(rev2.0), Barton 2500+, Artic Cooling Copper Lite, 2x1Gb ddr400 Kingston, HD 2xSamsung HD160JJ RAID-0 + Maxtor 6Y120M0 120GB SATA, ATI Radeon 9600 256MB, Pinnacle PCTV Pro, DVD Samsung SH-D162C, DVD R/RW/RAM LG GSA-H44N, monitor Philips Brillance 22", modem Zyxel Prestige 630-11 USB, alim. Tecnoware silent 500w, wXpProSp2

Aug 24, 2007, 12:17 AM	#21
welldl DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	Excuse me...er...this project stop ???

Sep 2, 2007, 08:11 PM	#22
cause_of_chaos DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: London, United Kingdom Posts: 111 Rep Power: 26 System Specs	Hi everybody, Been using the Omega Drivers for what feels like an eternity. First problem ever with them - I couldn't set 1360x768 for my newly bought Samsung LCD TV (1366x768), so had to settle for 1280x768. Tried uninstalling, and then using Driver Cleaner, but the Omegas just didn't want to know. So, I am forced to use the Catalysts (7.8), and low and behold, my LCD is now detected and 1360x768 over DVI-HDMI is possible (using it now). In the Catalyst Control center, my TV is registered just as SAMSUNG, but the rest of the PC just lists it as a "Plug and Play" Monitor. Do the Omega Drivers support Samsung LCD TVs (mine is the LE23R88BDX)? If so, what am I doing wrong? cause_of_chaos __________________ AMD Phenom [COLOR=Red]9600 Black Edition[/COLOR] @ [COLOR=Red]2.3Ghz[/COLOR] Crucial Ballistix PC2 8500 ~ [COLOR=Red]1066 FSB[/COLOR] Timings [COLOR=Red]5-5-5-15[/COLOR] Asus [COLOR=Red]M3A32-MVP Deluxe[/COLOR] CrossfireX Mobo ~ [COLOR=Red]0801 Bios[/COLOR] MSI [COLOR=Red]ATI RX3870[/COLOR] 512Mb PCI-e 2.0 Graphics Card

Sep 17, 2007, 05:22 AM	#24
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	I installed these to see what all the fuss was about, can't say I was impressed, very messy, went back to beloved Cats 6.10 __________________

Sep 17, 2007, 11:50 AM	#26
Jalle64 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 231 Rep Power: 0	Yes I´ve done that for the last four years, and havn´t got any anomalies och crasches at all, so I don´t now what all the fuzz is about __________________ Stalin were so old that he was standing there Le(a)ni´n!

Sep 18, 2007, 01:32 AM	#27
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	I have a problem, can someone help. After playing the Quake wars demo and then booting up Medieval 2 the text in Medieval 2 is messed up and only restarting the computer can cure it. Is there something I can do to fix it without a restart? __________________

Sep 28, 2007, 03:45 AM	#28
cox DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 119 Rep Power: 0	I think omega got that job from ATI and cant do any drivers any more.. He is under pressure from the ATI bosses