Latest Omega "2.6.25a" Problem

^nighthawk^ · Jun 14, 2005, 11:11 AM

Ok i'll start first with system specs and move on to the problems.

Proc: AMD Athlon 64 4000+
Mobo: Abit Fatal1ty AN8
Mem: 1Gb Corsair 3200LL
HDD: 1 x 160Gb (OS) 1 x 250Gb (Storage)
GFX: Sapphire X800 XT Vivo (PCI-Express)
SFX: Hercules Digifire 7.1
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2

Latest Drivers installed for all:
6.53 Nforce chipset.
Latest cool n quiet driver.
6.09 DTS Soundcard drivers
Omega's 2.6.25a

Ok here's the problem:

Fresh instance of windows, normally omega's work fine (i reinstall a lot)
Many games worked fine, however the original unreal tournament GOTY Edition showed real slowdown and at other times blinding speed over and above what it should have been playing at.

Now my friend didnt believe this despite seeing in on my comp, but a week later he reinstalled and using the latest omega's encountered the same problem. He switched to the latest official ATI ones (5.5 at the time i think) and it disappears.

Now i have been using the omegas for a long time so i'm not a noob to driver removal, cleaning etc. So if this a known problem i'm sorry for posting.

However i thought i'd raise the issue. Others should try these drivers and see if they have the same issues if they havent already.

I'd like to offer congrats to omegadrive on such good work on the drivers, i'm not here to criticise only to report my findings in this release.

ChoGGi · Jun 14, 2005, 11:41 AM

i noticed unreal games have some trouble with cool and quiet, you can try disabling it.
you can see if this does anything
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H3X4D3C1M4L · Jun 14, 2005, 02:22 PM

Does it lag in parts then speed up almost like a video to music, i.e. video stops, music keeps going, then it speeds through the video to catch up

...that sounds like a timing issue to me.

Could be related to Cool n' Quiet

^nighthawk^ · Jun 15, 2005, 11:07 AM

I've disabled cool and quiet and this still occurs. So i think it may still be a graphics driver issue as it doesnt do it with the cats. Still my next LAN game is a week and a half away so hopefully omegadrive will have a version based on 5.5 or 5.6 out (fingers crossed). And i'll see how this goes.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jun 15, 2005, 04:53 PM

Switch to stock 5.4...most problem free release so far, for me anyway.