Radeon Omega Drivers v2.4.78 for Win 2k/XP

Rayder · Sep 8, 2003, 03:06 PM

I haven't tried a set of Omega's drivers in quite a long time. Since the last two Official Cat's didn't work out for me(game specific problems), I 'll give these a shot.

Just out of curiosity, have these drivers been discoved to fix any of the problems that the 3.7's have?

......finished D/L'ing them, off to check 'em out. I'll report back with my findings.

cypher21 · Sep 8, 2003, 04:50 PM

I've installed the omega 2.4.78 hacked 9700>9800 drivers, when i play some games (all i tried yet) the pc freezes. Fast write is disabled, and these drivers are the only ones installed.

can anybody help me?

specs: AMD 1900+
512 mb DDR pc 333 samsung
MSI KT3 ultra aru
2x 120gb maxtor 8mb cash
Club3d Ati Radeon 9700 NP

newest bios in mobo, newest via drivers newest..................

edit: I've tried the non-hacked drivers, and everything works fine

anybody had this prob 2?

Scoop · Sep 8, 2003, 04:55 PM

Wicked driver set mate.

Regards
Scoop

BBThumper · Sep 8, 2003, 05:17 PM

.........nice work again Omega

. Image quality is looking better and better...................

Rayder · Sep 8, 2003, 05:34 PM

OK. I did my 'quick tests' of some games and everything went well. Install went very smooth and I haven't experienced any lock-ups or crashes. I didn't install any of the 'extra' utilities though.

Here's the games I 'quick tested':
Hover Ace
Indiana Jones and the Emporor's Tomb
Midnight Club 2
Moto GP 2
Silent Hill 2
Star Trek Elite Force 2
Starsky & Hutch
The Hulk
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
TRON 2.0

...and the ANCIENT game 'Incoming' for my bro....

Well, 'Incoming hasn't worked correctly since the Cat 2.5's, so I didn't expect much. It's still goofed.
'The Hulk' has missing textures on the ground. Here's a link to a pic of what I mean....

This issue with 'The Hulk' has existed since the Cat 3.6's. Maybe I'll try re-installing 'Hulk' or running it at less than 1280x1024 to see if that makes any difference. As far as I can tell, there has never been a patch released for this game yet. Possibly, since I never saw anyone else compaining about it, this may be an 8500 specific problem. I don't have any other Radeon's to try it on except 8500 variations and they all show the same problem.

Every other game appears to run flawlessly, I encoutered no stuttering in EF2 with TB enabled. And IQ is as great as you come to expect from Omega.

I always run with all the sliders set to 'Quality' and no v-sync or AA, AF at 16x. My 3DMark01 score was 200 points down with the 32bit Z-Buffer enabled, with it disabled my score is the same as the Cat 3.5hotfix, 3.6 and the 3.7's.

I'd have to say CHEERS to Omega for a fine set of drivers. I'm gonna see if I can find a work-around for 'The Hulk' as that the only REAL game that I see having any problems. But I know that's not Omega's fault since it does it with the last two Official Cat's too.

lgoicalrealist · Sep 8, 2003, 06:18 PM

Not having any luck getting this to install on Mobility Radeon 7500 under WindowsXP. Error message is "This display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed on your system."

ATI Control panel has been uninstalled.

Any help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

-lr

~~wk357mag~~ · Sep 8, 2003, 06:31 PM

A mirror from the ACX

http://acx2.zforums.net/DLZ/rad_w2kxp_omega_2478.exe

Chaos · Sep 8, 2003, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lgoicalrealist
Not having any luck getting this to install on Mobility Radeon 7500 under WindowsXP. Error message is "This display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed on your system."

ATI Control panel has been uninstalled.

Any help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

-lr

I would start by going HERE and see if that solves things for you, if you have not done so by now....

Robert McClelland · Sep 8, 2003, 07:39 PM

I'm sticking with ati drivers Omega. Some reason your driver set lost me 200 points in 3dmark01se 9733 from 9997 ati drivers. So I'm going skip this set for now

Greylock · Sep 8, 2003, 08:33 PM

Hi!

Downloaded the file 3 times now (first time from dh, second from tc and 3rd time from dh again) but i always geht following error message if i want to install the drivers:
C:\Program Files\Radeon...\2kXP_INF\ATIOGLXX.DL_
A decompression error has been detected. (#7)

A decompression error has been detected. _CRC

Any ides on how to fix that?
Tried installing in safe mode, normal mode, normal drivers, hacked drivers, nothings seems to make any difference.

And another minor problem (experienced this with previous driver set):
Wenn i want to install the Display drivers (i dont even get this far with the 3.7based omegas

) i get an error message the DX9 is not installed (DX9.0b is installed - i guess its not correctly detected by the drivers). Anyway, i chose to install drivers anyway and never had any problems....

THX in advance!

[edit]
Uninstalled old drivers first and ran DC2.0 to remove all the old files.
Dunno y, but i got used to this procedure, nothing is better than a clean install

[/edit]

Chaos · Sep 8, 2003, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Greylock
Hi!

Downloaded the file 3 times now (first time from dh, second from tc and 3rd time from dh again) but i always geht following error message if i want to install the drivers:
C:\Program Files\Radeon...\2kXP_INF\ATIOGLXX.DL_
A decompression error has been detected. (#7)

A decompression error has been detected. _CRC

Any ides on how to fix that?
Tried installing in safe mode, normal mode, normal drivers, hacked drivers, nothings seems to make any difference.

And another minor problem (experienced this with previous driver set):
Wenn i want to install the Display drivers (i dont even get this far with the 3.7based omegas ) i get an error message the DX9 is not installed (DX9.0b is installed - i guess its not correctly detected by the drivers). Anyway, i chose to install drivers anyway and never had any problems....

THX in advance!

[edit]
Uninstalled old drivers first and ran DC2.0 to remove all the old files.
Dunno y, but i got used to this procedure, nothing is better than a clean install
[/edit]

Try this link

Greylock · Sep 8, 2003, 08:49 PM

i´ll give them a try, although i doubt its because of the file...
unil now noone else reported any problems...
BTW: OS is WinXP with SP1

Damn i hate my connection... 64 kbit down... takes 35 minutes to DL the drivers... just ridiculous... getting 0300 here...
*frustrated*

Robert McClelland · Sep 8, 2003, 08:55 PM

lol takes me whole hour download 15megs lol dail up at 46,600 all the time

Chaos · Sep 8, 2003, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Greylock
i´ll give them a try, although i doubt its because of the file...
unil now noone else reported any problems...
BTW: OS is WinXP with SP1

Damn i hate my connection... 64 kbit down... takes 35 minutes to DL the drivers... just ridiculous... getting 0300 here...
*frustrated*

Well after spending the time to grab them I hope they work for you....I hoped you were broadband cause they are on my ISP's server

Greylock · Sep 8, 2003, 09:32 PM

the DO work!

THX a lot!

and good night

Sherv · Sep 8, 2003, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Robert McClelland
I'm sticking with ati drivers Omega. Some reason your driver set lost me 200 points in 3dmark01se 9733 from 9997 ati drivers. So I'm going skip this set for now

You’re going to ditch the omega3.7 for a loss of points in a synthetic benchmark!!??
Your going to sacrifice IQ for a few points increase in 3dmark03, come on that’s not right.

Rayder · Sep 8, 2003, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Robert McClelland
I'm sticking with ati drivers Omega. Some reason your driver set lost me 200 points in 3dmark01se 9733 from 9997 ati drivers. So I'm going skip this set for now

Disable 'Support 32 bit Z-Buffer Depth' in the 'compatability setting' menu. THAT will get your 200 points back, it did for me.

By default, ATI drivers have this option disabled. Omega's will default it to Enabled. That's the option that signicantly affects the 3DMark score.

Labula · Sep 8, 2003, 11:30 PM

Good drivers except for the fact that I cant play Star Wars Galaxies anymore...back to ati 3.7's I go.

-dp-

Robert McClelland · Sep 8, 2003, 11:50 PM

oh ok didn't know that lol I reinstalled them later week

BWX · Sep 9, 2003, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rayder
Disable 'Support 32 bit Z-Buffer Depth' in the 'compatability setting' menu. THAT will get your 200 points back, it did for me.

By default, ATI drivers have this option disabled. Omega's will default it to Enabled. That's the option that signicantly affects the 3DMark score.

How does an OpenGL setting affect a DirectX application? Or is that openGL setting actually in the wrong spot in the drivers?

Dyre Straits · Sep 9, 2003, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
How does an OpenGL setting affect a DirectX application? Or is that openGL setting actually in the wrong spot in the drivers?

Huh??? I have that setting in my DirectX compatibility options. And, he's right, it's Enabled by default with Omega's drivers.

KRN-Drak · Sep 9, 2003, 12:36 AM

thats why omegas rock so much, i actually got a few little points BETTER scores with the new omegas and my picture wuality was drasticlly better

Shootist · Sep 9, 2003, 12:43 AM

is there support for the 9800se -> 9800pro mod in the new omega drivers?

BWX · Sep 9, 2003, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rayder
Disable 'Support 32 bit Z-Buffer Depth' in the 'compatability setting' menu. THAT will get your 200 points back, it did for me.

By default, ATI drivers have this option disabled. Omega's will default it to Enabled. That's the option that signicantly affects the 3DMark score.

Quote:

Originally posted by Dyre Straits
Huh??? I have that setting in my DirectX compatibility options. And, he's right, it's Enabled by default with Omega's drivers.

What?

Th only thing I have in any compatibility settings about Z-buffer depth is in OpenGL- Look at my Direct3D tab-

What setting are you guys talking about?

Dyre Straits · Sep 9, 2003, 01:20 AM

Here's the Omega Driver DirectX Option I have:

Cyan007 · Sep 9, 2003, 01:26 AM

Over the weekend I got a new motherboard / cpu / memory and I installed everything, it worked, I used the Cat 3.7 Official drivers and it was a big problem while playing a Day of Defeat (HL MOD). Everything on the right side of my keyboard was bound to whatever shift was and there was a lot of mouse lag. I switched back to the Omega 3.6 and it worked fine. Will this problem remain with the Omega 3.7's?

Dyre Straits · Sep 9, 2003, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
What?

Th only thing I have in any compatibility settings about Z-buffer depth is in OpenGL- Look at my Direct3D tab-

What setting are you guys talking about?

Did you uninstall the ATi Control Panel prior to installing Omega's drivers?

BWX · Sep 9, 2003, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dyre Straits
Did you uninstall the ATi Control Panel prior to installing Omega's drivers?

Yes, I did- along with running DC v2 in safe mode. I also manually checked the registry and c drive as I always do. I think I see the problem- you are not talking about the Omega's based on the 3.7's for the 9700pro - look at your screen shot- It's not v. 2.4.78 like mine.

Kgentatszu] · Sep 9, 2003, 02:28 AM

i'm using Omega's 3.5 and yet i do not have that option too...???

***Omegadrive*** · Sep 9, 2003, 02:30 AM

Don't think too much about that, look at your cards, the 32 support option is ONLY for 8500 and lower cards, R300 core based and above don't have that option because they are Dx9 parts, and Dx9 no loger supports 32bit Z-buffer in direct 3D, they now support up to 24Bit. At least, that's what it looks like since I have both a 9700 pro and a 8500 in another PC. Cheers!

Sep 8, 2003, 03:06 PM	#31
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,037 Rep Power: 51	I haven't tried a set of Omega's drivers in quite a long time. Since the last two Official Cat's didn't work out for me(game specific problems), I 'll give these a shot. Just out of curiosity, have these drivers been discoved to fix any of the problems that the 3.7's have? ......finished D/L'ing them, off to check 'em out. I'll report back with my findings. __________________

Sep 8, 2003, 04:50 PM	#32
cypher21 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I've installed the omega 2.4.78 hacked 9700>9800 drivers, when i play some games (all i tried yet) the pc freezes. Fast write is disabled, and these drivers are the only ones installed. can anybody help me? specs: AMD 1900+ 512 mb DDR pc 333 samsung MSI KT3 ultra aru 2x 120gb maxtor 8mb cash Club3d Ati Radeon 9700 NP newest bios in mobo, newest via drivers newest.................. edit: I've tried the non-hacked drivers, and everything works fine anybody had this prob 2? Last edited by cypher21; Sep 8, 2003 at 05:13 PM.

Sep 8, 2003, 05:17 PM	#34
BBThumper DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Philly Posts: 81 Rep Power: 0	.........nice work again Omega . Image quality is looking better and better................... __________________ P4C800-E Deluxe 2.4C @ 3.5ghz 2x256 OCZ EL Gold pc3700 ATI 9800 XT X-pider Turbo case w/alot of pretty lights 3DMark2k1 Aqua Mark 3dMark2k3

Sep 8, 2003, 05:34 PM	#35
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,037 Rep Power: 51	OK. I did my 'quick tests' of some games and everything went well. Install went very smooth and I haven't experienced any lock-ups or crashes. I didn't install any of the 'extra' utilities though. Here's the games I 'quick tested': Hover Ace Indiana Jones and the Emporor's Tomb Midnight Club 2 Moto GP 2 Silent Hill 2 Star Trek Elite Force 2 Starsky & Hutch The Hulk Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness TRON 2.0 ...and the ANCIENT game 'Incoming' for my bro.... Well, 'Incoming hasn't worked correctly since the Cat 2.5's, so I didn't expect much. It's still goofed. 'The Hulk' has missing textures on the ground. Here's a link to a pic of what I mean.... This issue with 'The Hulk' has existed since the Cat 3.6's. Maybe I'll try re-installing 'Hulk' or running it at less than 1280x1024 to see if that makes any difference. As far as I can tell, there has never been a patch released for this game yet. Possibly, since I never saw anyone else compaining about it, this may be an 8500 specific problem. I don't have any other Radeon's to try it on except 8500 variations and they all show the same problem. Every other game appears to run flawlessly, I encoutered no stuttering in EF2 with TB enabled. And IQ is as great as you come to expect from Omega. I always run with all the sliders set to 'Quality' and no v-sync or AA, AF at 16x. My 3DMark01 score was 200 points down with the 32bit Z-Buffer enabled, with it disabled my score is the same as the Cat 3.5hotfix, 3.6 and the 3.7's. I'd have to say CHEERS to Omega for a fine set of drivers. I'm gonna see if I can find a work-around for 'The Hulk' as that the only REAL game that I see having any problems. But I know that's not Omega's fault since it does it with the last two Official Cat's too. __________________

Sep 8, 2003, 06:18 PM	#36
lgoicalrealist DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Not Installing on Mobility 7500 Not having any luck getting this to install on Mobility Radeon 7500 under WindowsXP. Error message is "This display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed on your system." ATI Control panel has been uninstalled. Any help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks! -lr

Sep 8, 2003, 04:55 PM	#33
Scoop DriverHeaven Alcoholic Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Round the corner from the chip shop and over the pond... Posts: 182 Rep Power: 0	Wicked driver set mate. Regards Scoop

Sep 8, 2003, 06:31 PM	#37
~~wk357mag~~ Banned Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 69 Rep Power: 0	A mirror from the ACX http://acx2.zforums.net/DLZ/rad_w2kxp_omega_2478.exe

Sep 8, 2003, 07:39 PM	#39
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	I'm sticking with ati drivers Omega. Some reason your driver set lost me 200 points in 3dmark01se 9733 from 9997 ati drivers. So I'm going skip this set for now __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Sep 8, 2003, 08:33 PM	#40
Greylock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0	corrupt installation file?!? Hi! Downloaded the file 3 times now (first time from dh, second from tc and 3rd time from dh again) but i always geht following error message if i want to install the drivers: C:\Program Files\Radeon...\2kXP_INF\ATIOGLXX.DL_ A decompression error has been detected. (#7) A decompression error has been detected. _CRC Any ides on how to fix that? Tried installing in safe mode, normal mode, normal drivers, hacked drivers, nothings seems to make any difference. And another minor problem (experienced this with previous driver set): Wenn i want to install the Display drivers (i dont even get this far with the 3.7based omegas ) i get an error message the DX9 is not installed (DX9.0b is installed - i guess its not correctly detected by the drivers). Anyway, i chose to install drivers anyway and never had any problems.... THX in advance! [edit] Uninstalled old drivers first and ran DC2.0 to remove all the old files. Dunno y, but i got used to this procedure, nothing is better than a clean install [/edit] Last edited by Greylock; Sep 8, 2003 at 08:38 PM.

Sep 8, 2003, 08:49 PM	#42
Greylock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0	i´ll give them a try, although i doubt its because of the file... unil now noone else reported any problems... BTW: OS is WinXP with SP1 Damn i hate my connection... 64 kbit down... takes 35 minutes to DL the drivers... just ridiculous... getting 0300 here... frustrated

Sep 8, 2003, 08:55 PM	#43
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	lol takes me whole hour download 15megs lol dail up at 46,600 all the time __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Sep 8, 2003, 09:32 PM	#45
Greylock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0	the DO work! THX a lot! and good night

Sep 8, 2003, 11:30 PM	#48
Labula DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	Good drivers except for the fact that I cant play Star Wars Galaxies anymore...back to ati 3.7's I go. -dp-

Sep 8, 2003, 11:50 PM	#49
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	oh ok didn't know that lol I reinstalled them later week __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Sep 9, 2003, 12:36 AM	#52
KRN-Drak DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 0	thats why omegas rock so much, i actually got a few little points BETTER scores with the new omegas and my picture wuality was drasticlly better __________________ etc

Sep 9, 2003, 12:43 AM	#53
Shootist DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hi is there support for the 9800se -> 9800pro mod in the new omega drivers?

Sep 9, 2003, 01:26 AM	#56
Cyan007 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Newport News, VA Posts: 212 Rep Power: 0	Over the weekend I got a new motherboard / cpu / memory and I installed everything, it worked, I used the Cat 3.7 Official drivers and it was a big problem while playing a Day of Defeat (HL MOD). Everything on the right side of my keyboard was bound to whatever shift was and there was a lot of mouse lag. I switched back to the Omega 3.6 and it worked fine. Will this problem remain with the Omega 3.7's? __________________ Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 Shuttle SN95G5 v3 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Geil 1024MB PC3200 DDR400 (512x2) ATI AIW Radeon X800XT Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA

Sep 9, 2003, 02:28 AM	#59
Kgentatszu] DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,802 Rep Power: 0	hmmm....strange i'm using Omega's 3.5 and yet i do not have that option too...???

Sep 9, 2003, 02:30 AM	#60
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	Don't think too much about that, look at your cards, the 32 support option is ONLY for 8500 and lower cards, R300 core based and above don't have that option because they are Dx9 parts, and Dx9 no loger supports 32bit Z-buffer in direct 3D, they now support up to 24Bit. At least, that's what it looks like since I have both a 9700 pro and a 8500 in another PC. Cheers! __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!