Omega 4.5 poor game performance

alastor500 · May 20, 2004, 02:18 PM

I got great 3dmark 2001 scores with the Omega 4.5's but in the Omega 4.4's i had a much smoother time playing Max Payne 2.

Any ideas why? Mobility Radeon 9000.

neokenzo · May 20, 2004, 07:26 PM

I seem to have the same problem as well but the most obvious to me is Far Cry. It drop from 40 fps to about 20 fps and sometimes even below 10 fps. The rest of the games seems much slower too but not so obvious to me as Far Cry

rainlion · May 20, 2004, 08:41 PM

Same problem, poor performence in Couter-strike1.6, Mobility Radeon 9000

Regular John · May 20, 2004, 09:41 PM

The 4.5 drivers improved my 3Dmark03 by 30 points, yet in Call of Duty, my performance seems to have decreased. Strange

ATI 9800xt

Bart1987 · May 21, 2004, 02:09 AM

well, 30 points in 3dmark03 isn't much of a difference. And Call of Duty is an OpenGL game and 3dmark uses direct3d. So it isn't so strange that you can have improved speed in 3dmark and lower fps in COD.

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 21, 2004, 02:55 AM

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Originally posted by Bart1987
well, 30 points in 3dmark03 isn't much of a difference. And Call of Duty is an OpenGL game and 3dmark uses direct3d. So it isn't so strange that you can have improved speed in 3dmark and lower fps in COD.

yepers

I have to dedicated testing rigs (with a r300 and a rv360) and i get increases across the board in all the above mentioned games and benchmarks.... but of couse thier both desktops and 99.5% stable (nothing can be perfict

) I dunno about laptops. What are you guys compairing your scores against cat 4.4/4.5 ? or omega 4.4 /4.5 or what?

offtopic:
beware KS fans are on the loose again....

alastor500 · May 21, 2004, 07:31 AM

This is comparing with the Omega 4.4's, it seems 3dmark runs great but the games performance is so very poor.

Its not really fair on everyone.

Now i even rolled back and i get lower fps than i should get by a lot in the 4.4's, so now i am running 4.5 again.

I always run omega driver cleaner and the other one and clean the rest out myself (everything ati..... or anything with xx at the end).

neokenzo · May 21, 2004, 01:44 PM

Just played Zero Hour and its slow like hell. Made me feel like I was using my old laptop. Its not smooth at all. With my current set up it should be anything like this.
I've also tried to installed the previous Omega driver, ie for Cats 4.4 but nothings changed. Its still the same so I have installed back the current Omega driver.

neokenzo · May 21, 2004, 03:17 PM

I just found out why the games I'm playing is so slow. It has nothing to do with the Omega drivers. I enable Cool and Quite and it drop the performance of my pc big time. After disabling it, everything seems to be running fine

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 03:56 PM

Well that would sure effect the performance. If I am correct the Cool and Quiet feature reduces the CPU speed in an attempt to reduce power consumption and the temperature of your CPU

AMD Cool and Quiet

Cool and Quiet PDF

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 04:01 PM

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Originally posted by Regular John
The 4.5 drivers improved my 3Dmark03 by 30 points, yet in Call of Duty, my performance seems to have decreased. Strange

ATI 9800xt

30 3DMark points falls within the margin of error I would say so not really any increase there. It also uses DirectX not OpenGL like CoD does

alastor500 · May 21, 2004, 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by neokenzo
Just played Zero Hour and its slow like hell. Made me feel like I was using my old laptop. Its not smooth at all. With my current set up it should be anything like this.
I've also tried to installed the previous Omega driver, ie for Cats 4.4 but nothings changed. Its still the same so I have installed back the current Omega driver.

I see a pattern here, can we get a statement from Mr Omega about this???

Ah ok i see cool and quiet was the problem there, but it isnt for me

bcognan · May 22, 2004, 01:15 PM

Yep, I am getting horrible performance with the new Omega's as well.

Zero hour and Far Cry run like crap. Enemy territory crashes constantly, as well as CoD. I'm getting stuttering in a lot of other games. I switched back to the official cats and all is well again.

***Omegadrive*** · May 22, 2004, 03:30 PM

People, when you get LOWER speed than the previous drivers, and I mean a BIG difference, it always has to do with AGP support and hardware acceleration.
Try the following things:
1. Re-install the latest AGP chipset drivers for you MB. Many people forget to install these since they see windows is running fine, but is very important to install them, because sometimes, when changing drivers, windows de-activates hardware acceleration.
2. Look in the Advanced SmartGart Options and see if at least PCI/AGP READ are ENABLED, if all are enabled, the better.

Hope that helps.

m03 · May 22, 2004, 03:45 PM

Don't forget Judas' observation. He noticed stuttering after installing Omega 4.5s. His solution: re-install the Omega 4.5s straight over the top using the link in the Start Menu -> Programs -> Omega Drivers -> ReInstall Omegas

neokenzo · May 22, 2004, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by m03
Don't forget Judas' observation. He noticed stuttering after installing Omega 4.5s. His solution: re-install the Omega 4.5s straight over the top using the link in the Start Menu -> Programs -> Omega Drivers -> ReInstall Omegas

I dont have this problem anymore as I stated from my earlier post but when I 'thought' I had it, I tried reinstalling the Omega drivers by the way mentioned above and by reinstalling from the .exe file. Both seem not to worked when I tried it.

neokenzo · May 22, 2004, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
1. Re-install the latest AGP chipset drivers for you MB. Many people forget to install these since they see windows is running fine, but is very important to install them, because sometimes, when changing drivers, windows de-activates hardware acceleration.

Sorry for asking a silly question but what does it mean by AGP chipset drivers for MB?

Chaos · May 22, 2004, 09:05 PM

VIA Hyberion Drivers for the KT800 chipset

m03 · May 23, 2004, 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by neokenzo
I dont have this problem anymore as I stated from my earlier post but when I 'thought' I had it, I tried reinstalling the Omega drivers by the way mentioned above and by reinstalling from the .exe file. Both seem not to worked when I tried it.

That wasn't aimed at you neokenzo. It was an add-on to Omega's response. If anyone was running fine with pre-Omega 4.5 drivers and then see stuttering/slow-down in games after the Omega 4.5 install, first try re-installing the Omega's straight over the top and then investigate AGP chipset issues.

Sorry for the confusion.