Radeon Win 2k/xp Omega Drivers 2.2.18

Mr.Floppy · Dec 12, 2002, 05:17 PM

just a little addition to the "Fastwrites"-Bug:
D3D-acceleration is not only disabled when FW is tuned (on or off is same effect) but when AGP-Speed is tuned (direction doesn't matter)

so it#s like i guessed that if you just leave the SMARTGART Panel untouched, nothin will happen?
hmm... strange thing anyway.

hope that to be fixed, even if its easy to avoid it, it's -uhm-

thx anyway mega-o (:

KraXed112 · Dec 13, 2002, 01:45 AM

Does anyone know if omega's drivers and dx9 rc2 will work ok with 3dmark?

RIV@NVX · Dec 13, 2002, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by KraXed112
Does anyone know if omega's drivers and dx9 rc2 will work ok with 3dmark?

They will.

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr.Floppy
just a little addition to the "Fastwrites"-Bug:
D3D-acceleration is not only disabled when FW is tuned (on or off is same effect) but when AGP-Speed is tuned (direction doesn't matter)

so it#s like i guessed that if you just leave the SMARTGART Panel untouched, nothin will happen?
hmm... strange thing anyway.

hope that to be fixed, even if its easy to avoid it, it's -uhm-

thx anyway mega-o (:

It is a problem because Omega's INF is for some older version and he probably needs to do a lot of work to recheck it if it will work for current one.

humanity · Dec 13, 2002, 04:31 PM

I had my first blue-screen today on these drivers. I might switch back to either the official 2.5 or even the old Omega/Plut on 2.1, as it's hard to tell if it's Fast Writes, AGP 4x, or neither of them that could cause the instability...and I can't begin to find out if I can't alter the settings without AGP Mode turning off. Oh well, I'll be patient for another good Omega or Cyborg set to play around with.

RIV@NVX · Dec 13, 2002, 05:15 PM

I am sorry to say that, but I don't like this set. I will get back to official Catalyst 2.5.
Looking foward to see what can Cyborg do.

humanity · Dec 13, 2002, 06:18 PM

Can't win 'em all I guess. I liked the drivers at first, but I can't be crashing in the 3rd quarter of a Madden 2003 game.

On another note, all my drivers are getting slow...looking like it's time for a format.

caqde · Dec 13, 2002, 08:03 PM

Interesting problems... Oh well maybe next time. So far these drivers have worked great for me. Keep up to good work OmegaDrive and Cyborg!

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AvA · Dec 14, 2002, 04:49 PM

I'm having some really difficult time w/ the latest Omega set.
My Dell laptop (Mobility 7500) got extremely slow in normal 2d life (except Autocad, which is working fine

), and D3D isn't working at all!

I tried to switch back to Plutonum 8.1, but I had no luck. It keep saying that something is missing. It's somehow weird since I did a clean uninstall before trying to install the old set.

Can't really tell what's wrong, since I do not have time to fiddle around with the drivers (I have to work and Acad is all I need

)
I'll try installing the original ATi 2.5.

Am I the only one experiencing this sort of problems?
I'll get back as soon as I can collect some more infos.

yash · Dec 15, 2002, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by KraXed112
Does anyone know if omega's drivers and dx9 rc2 will work ok with 3dmark?

Yes for me it works fine with a 9700 Pro...
No problems and not really any slower for the bench either.
All stuttering now gone and well they just plain kick ass.
Omega is DA MAN!

I was having total hell with my ATI 9700 Pro. Having owned almost every kind of Nvidia, 3DFX, and all the Radeon based cards in the past I do know how to change registry settings, LOD, texture setting etc. etc.
I have also tried every driver for the 9700 including the older Omegas and the 6228 Direct X9 drivers. They all stuttered for me (in Rally Sport) and threw me out of Q3 based games. I tried just about every kind of reg hack there was, turned TCL off, used alternate opengl dll’s, tried low quality textures, no 3dnow,or SSE, under clocked, over clocked, more AGP voltage, less AGP voltage on and on…
I was seriously hating this card.
However, the new Omega 62218's has solved the problems. I haven’t checked on what the differences are but I don’t really care at this point the damn thing finally works.
Omega also wrote some bitchin drivers back when the original Radeon DDR was out that allowed me to play Operation Flashpoint. All other ATI drivers at the time would really screw up the game.

Bravo Omega keep it up. Lord knows I too damn tired to fuck with ATI driver deficit any longer.

tazdevl · Dec 15, 2002, 02:36 AM

FYI doesn't work with the Moblity 9000. Can't get it to install.

LeanWolf · Dec 15, 2002, 06:26 AM

Quote:

My Dell laptop (Mobility 7500) got extremely slow in normal 2d life (except Autocad, which is working fine ), and D3D isn't working at all!

I also have a dell with the M7

I installed and uninstalled Omega's driver twice with no problems, D3D worked great but OpenGL didn't work at all..
I had the same OpenGL problem with Catalyst 2.5

I'm using the leaked 6243s now and everything works fine..
waiting on Cyborg..

RIV@NVX · Dec 15, 2002, 12:16 PM

I used these for some time. Work nice overally (when I did clean system install).

kovorkian_ants · Dec 15, 2002, 08:11 PM

Are there any good drivers out for the 7500? this is starting to piss me off, I got better performance with my voodoo 5 5500. please help with some good stable drivers for xp, amd 1500 thunderbird, a7n266, 512 ddr. thanks , i will wait here holding this card over the trash can.

lewdvig · Dec 16, 2002, 12:28 AM

You guys must be doing something wrong, because my machine is faster with these drivers - the Windows shell seems way faster. All the XP effects seem faster. Games play just fine in D3D and OGL. But, sometimes laptop video drivers are made to work in a very tight set of circumstances - so a generic driver like these won't work.

jlandman · Dec 16, 2002, 03:36 AM

They work great for me; the first driver which doesn't crash with agp 8x enabled Furthermore they are very stable, and quality is excellent.

jlandman · Dec 16, 2002, 03:38 AM

They work great for me. The first drivers which runs flawlessly with agp 8x enabled, and doesn't lock. Furthermore: quality is excellent. Great job!

LeanWolf · Dec 16, 2002, 12:38 PM

Lewdvig:

Quote:

You guys must be doing something wrong, because my machine is faster with these drivers - the Windows shell seems way faster. All the XP effects seem faster. Games play just fine in D3D and OGL.

What's to do wrong? Full uninstall + install Omega = no NWN, though everything else was speedy and spiffy like you mentioned. What laptop do you have? You seem to be the only M7 to pull off these drivers flawlessly..

LeanWolf · Dec 20, 2002, 05:29 AM

*update* seems like it's JUST NWN that won't work. I installed Jedi Outcast (which I believe uses OpenGL) and it works fine! Can anyone tell me what the problem could be with NWN??

ShadowBR · Dec 20, 2002, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive

Also, poeple, try removing previous drivers, then delete the old INF files before restarting the PC, and then install my drivers. I found that if I installed the drivers over the previous ones (at least in XP) many settings where not correct, I mean, the way I tweaked them, and after doing the above, they worked. I noticed that this happened because Windows XP was using the OLD inf file instead of the new one, EVEN using the setup from ATI, which is weird, but it happened. Try what I said and give them a second run.

How to remove the OLD inf file?

Thanks.

Mr.Floppy · Dec 20, 2002, 06:39 AM

search in your Windows\inf patch along for .inf files with ATI in it..
hey, wait: theres a Driver installguide here on DH. try it

DRIVER INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR n00bs

~~Asuka~~ · Dec 20, 2002, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
OMEGADRIVE WRITES:

This are my "optimized" drivers for the ATI Radeon family of video cards, this version (Omega 2.2.18) is for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Special note:
THESE DRIVERS ARE MADE FOR GAMES, NOT BENCHMARKS!!! THEY FIX GRAPHICAL ERRORS, STABILITY PROBLEMS AND SOME SPEED ISSUES ONLY IN GAMES. THEY ADD VISUAL QUALITY, STABILITY AND MORE OPTIONS. IF YOU WANT DRIVERS FOR BENCHMARKS DOWNLOAD ATI'S ORIGINAL DRIVERS INSTEAD FOR 3DMARK2K1 AND OTHER BENCHMARKS.

I wanted to try out the new Omega drivers for XP to see how good they really are, so I did the usual clean uninstall procedure, and they installed without any problems. However, after I rebooted, I noticed a good bit of slow down with normal windows operations (opening and moving windows around, scrolling etc.). I didn't think much about it and went to try out the DX performance - and was really shocked: everything was slowed down to 10% (at the very most). I strongly felt reminded of my old P133 (or of driving with activated hand brake). Another test gave me the same slideshow-like performance. I then tried changing some of the settings (esp. Vsync always on-default-always off), but it didn't change anything! I already knew that they would be a bit slower, but about 10% of the original performance is just plain ridiculous! So I eventually went and did another clean uninstall and then installed the new 2.5 ones, and my system was back up to it's previous speed again.
Seems that Omega has got some sort of grave bug in his driver set which causes this extreme slowdown...
Anyway, I've d/led now DX9 and the new 3.0 cats (no problems with the download) and will see how they work now.

Mr.Floppy · Dec 20, 2002, 10:57 PM

HELP!!! plz READ a thread before posting...

it was allready mentioned that there is a "AGP/Fastwrites-Bug" that could accour under certain circumstances.
just read the thread from the beginning. thx
oh, and the 3.0er and DX9 all work really fine for me. no Problems so far. jst GTA3 (thus crappy game) doesnt want to start anymore. just d.click it, screen switches resolution and then: it looks like my Desktop, but actually it isnt. ill do Alt+Tab see the errormsg, click it and thats it. game's not runnin. any1 got an Idea? it's like that since the RC2 i guess.

btw: @Omega: will there be a new release based on the new 3.0 for DX9? Would be nice (and logical somehow)

Thx and gn8

barrybeal · Dec 25, 2002, 02:02 PM

I have Sapphire Tech Radeon 8500LE 128MB running under Windows XP SP1 and now DirectX 9 on a ECS K7S5A (SIS 735 chipset) - no problem going from SP1 Radeon 8500 drivers to the Omega Drivers - no problems yet (other than a IBM Deskstar 60GXP hard drive crash) - Thanks for the Drivers - GREAT JOB

RIV@NVX · Dec 25, 2002, 02:06 PM

Hmmm... I think that ATI has changed a lot in drivers lately, so maybe Omega will need to recheck his tweaks, maybe it needs to be kind of re-done (using newest set). I know it is a lot of work, but maybe it is the best way.

Daemonarch · Dec 25, 2002, 02:27 PM

Some Omega tweaks are wrong.

An example: there isn't any "VolFog" (volumetric fog) string in Ati D3D driver !

RIV@NVX · Dec 25, 2002, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Daemonarch
Some Omega tweaks are wrong.

An example: there isn't any "VolFog" (volumetric fog) string in Ati D3D driver !

Probably there was, but there isn't anymore.

Daemonarch · Dec 25, 2002, 03:14 PM

VolFog string there wasn't ever ! From the first ati driver release to the last Catalyst 2.5 !

RIV@NVX · Dec 25, 2002, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Daemonarch
VolFog string there wasn't ever ! From the first ati driver release to the last Catalyst 2.5 !

Hmmm... it is very strange! What does Omega say on this?

Daemonarch · Dec 25, 2002, 05:01 PM

VolFog is present in Radeonator tweaker also, but is a false d3d string!

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 25, 2002, 06:35 PM

VolFog WAS present on old drivers, and now that you mention it, I look it up in the DLL and it is not there, maybe ATI remove it some drivers ago and I didn't noticed it.
Anyway, if it is not in the DLL it will do no harm if it is in the registry since the driver will ignore the command.
I' haven't checked ALL the tweaks in a long time, I'll do that sometime this week and update the tweaks for the next revision of the drivers (but not the ones for Dec 25, I already got those out...).

Dec 12, 2002, 05:17 PM	#61
Mr.Floppy the puzzled aimless Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: nb/germany Posts: 74 Rep Power: 0	just a little addition to the "Fastwrites"-Bug: D3D-acceleration is not only disabled when FW is tuned (on or off is same effect) but when AGP-Speed is tuned (direction doesn't matter) so it#s like i guessed that if you just leave the SMARTGART Panel untouched, nothin will happen? hmm... strange thing anyway. hope that to be fixed, even if its easy to avoid it, it's -uhm- thx anyway mega-o (: __________________ dont try this at home! - my (current) rig

Dec 13, 2002, 01:45 AM	#62
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Dec 13, 2002, 05:15 PM	#65
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,480 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	I am sorry to say that, but I don't like this set. I will get back to official Catalyst 2.5. Looking foward to see what can Cyborg do. __________________ -- Vedran

Dec 14, 2002, 04:49 PM	#68
AvA DH Aficionado Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	M7 Problems I'm having some really difficult time w/ the latest Omega set. My Dell laptop (Mobility 7500) got extremely slow in normal 2d life (except Autocad, which is working fine ), and D3D isn't working at all! I tried to switch back to Plutonum 8.1, but I had no luck. It keep saying that something is missing. It's somehow weird since I did a clean uninstall before trying to install the old set. Can't really tell what's wrong, since I do not have time to fiddle around with the drivers (I have to work and Acad is all I need ) I'll try installing the original ATi 2.5. Am I the only one experiencing this sort of problems? I'll get back as soon as I can collect some more infos.

Dec 15, 2002, 02:36 AM	#70
tazdevl DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 310 Rep Power: 0	FYI doesn't work with the Moblity 9000. Can't get it to install. __________________ RIG: P4 2.6C, Thermalright SP94/Panaflo 92MM M1A, IC7 Max3, Swifty MCX159, 1GB Geil PC4000 Ultra Plat, Modded Radeon 8500, Audigy 2, 2X WD Raptor RAID 0, WD 250GB SE, Plex 708A, 166SDVD, LianLi PC75, WinXP Pro SP1, Z680's.

Dec 13, 2002, 04:31 PM	#64
humanity Secret Agent X-9 Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 Rep Power: 0	I had my first blue-screen today on these drivers. I might switch back to either the official 2.5 or even the old Omega/Plut on 2.1, as it's hard to tell if it's Fast Writes, AGP 4x, or neither of them that could cause the instability...and I can't begin to find out if I can't alter the settings without AGP Mode turning off. Oh well, I'll be patient for another good Omega or Cyborg set to play around with.

Dec 13, 2002, 06:18 PM	#66
humanity Secret Agent X-9 Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 Rep Power: 0	Can't win 'em all I guess. I liked the drivers at first, but I can't be crashing in the 3rd quarter of a Madden 2003 game. On another note, all my drivers are getting slow...looking like it's time for a format.

Dec 13, 2002, 08:03 PM	#67
caqde DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 437 Rep Power: 45	Interesting problems... Oh well maybe next time. So far these drivers have worked great for me. Keep up to good work OmegaDrive and Cyborg! AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Gigabyte GA_7vrxp rev 1.1 Crucial's ATI Radeon 8500LE 128mb 256mb of Crucial DDR 2100 TDK VeloCD 48x16x48 Burner Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD-rom Windows 2000 Pro SP-3 FSP-400 GN PowerSupply SX830 Antec Case

Dec 15, 2002, 12:16 PM	#72
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,480 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	I used these for some time. Work nice overally (when I did clean system install). __________________ -- Vedran

Dec 15, 2002, 08:11 PM	#73
kovorkian_ants DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	radeon 7500 Are there any good drivers out for the 7500? this is starting to piss me off, I got better performance with my voodoo 5 5500. please help with some good stable drivers for xp, amd 1500 thunderbird, a7n266, 512 ddr. thanks , i will wait here holding this card over the trash can.

Dec 16, 2002, 12:28 AM	#74
lewdvig DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0	M7 You guys must be doing something wrong, because my machine is faster with these drivers - the Windows shell seems way faster. All the XP effects seem faster. Games play just fine in D3D and OGL. But, sometimes laptop video drivers are made to work in a very tight set of circumstances - so a generic driver like these won't work. __________________ Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice E6 325*8), ASUS A8R-MVP, Thermalright XP90, 2x512 Generic DDR400 (TCC5 2T, 432 MHz), ATI AIW X1900, WinXP, WD 200GB + 250GB 7200RPM HDDs, BenQ 1655, Creative Audigy, 3DMark05: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1976148[color=#0000ff] [/color] Acer Ferrari 4005WLMI, Turion MT37, ATI Mobility X700 128 MB 3DMark03: [color=#0000ff]http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4327648[/color]

Dec 16, 2002, 03:36 AM	#75
jlandman DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	They work great for me; the first driver which doesn't crash with agp 8x enabled Furthermore they are very stable, and quality is excellent.

Dec 16, 2002, 03:38 AM	#76
jlandman DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	They work great for me. The first drivers which runs flawlessly with agp 8x enabled, and doesn't lock. Furthermore: quality is excellent. Great job!

Dec 20, 2002, 05:29 AM	#78
LeanWolf alpha male Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: offpiste Posts: 5,571 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	update seems like it's JUST NWN that won't work. I installed Jedi Outcast (which I believe uses OpenGL) and it works fine! Can anyone tell me what the problem could be with NWN?? __________________

Dec 20, 2002, 06:39 AM	#80
Mr.Floppy the puzzled aimless Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: nb/germany Posts: 74 Rep Power: 0	search in your Windows\inf patch along for .inf files with ATI in it.. hey, wait: theres a Driver installguide here on DH. try it DRIVER INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR n00bs __________________ dont try this at home! - my (current) rig

Dec 20, 2002, 10:57 PM	#82
Mr.Floppy the puzzled aimless Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: nb/germany Posts: 74 Rep Power: 0	HELP!!! plz READ a thread before posting... it was allready mentioned that there is a "AGP/Fastwrites-Bug" that could accour under certain circumstances. just read the thread from the beginning. thx oh, and the 3.0er and DX9 all work really fine for me. no Problems so far. jst GTA3 (thus crappy game) doesnt want to start anymore. just d.click it, screen switches resolution and then: it looks like my Desktop, but actually it isnt. ill do Alt+Tab see the errormsg, click it and thats it. game's not runnin. any1 got an Idea? it's like that since the RC2 i guess. btw: @Omega: will there be a new release based on the new 3.0 for DX9? Would be nice (and logical somehow) Thx and gn8 __________________ dont try this at home! - my (current) rig Last edited by Mr.Floppy; Dec 20, 2002 at 11:03 PM.

Dec 25, 2002, 02:02 PM	#83
barrybeal DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	I have Sapphire Tech Radeon 8500LE 128MB running under Windows XP SP1 and now DirectX 9 on a ECS K7S5A (SIS 735 chipset) - no problem going from SP1 Radeon 8500 drivers to the Omega Drivers - no problems yet (other than a IBM Deskstar 60GXP hard drive crash) - Thanks for the Drivers - GREAT JOB

Dec 25, 2002, 02:06 PM	#84
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,480 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	Hmmm... I think that ATI has changed a lot in drivers lately, so maybe Omega will need to recheck his tweaks, maybe it needs to be kind of re-done (using newest set). I know it is a lot of work, but maybe it is the best way. __________________ -- Vedran

Dec 25, 2002, 02:27 PM	#85
Daemonarch DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Some Omega tweaks are wrong. An example: there isn't any "VolFog" (volumetric fog) string in Ati D3D driver ! __________________ "Sono una Veste Nera e qualunque cosa io faccia è per trarne un vanntaggio....anche se pur minimo...."

Dec 25, 2002, 03:14 PM	#87
Daemonarch DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	VolFog string there wasn't ever ! From the first ati driver release to the last Catalyst 2.5 !

Dec 25, 2002, 05:01 PM	#89
Daemonarch DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	VolFog is present in Radeonator tweaker also, but is a false d3d string!

Dec 25, 2002, 06:35 PM	#90
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	VolFog WAS present on old drivers, and now that you mention it, I look it up in the DLL and it is not there, maybe ATI remove it some drivers ago and I didn't noticed it. Anyway, if it is not in the DLL it will do no harm if it is in the registry since the driver will ignore the command. I' haven't checked ALL the tweaks in a long time, I'll do that sometime this week and update the tweaks for the next revision of the drivers (but not the ones for Dec 25, I already got those out...). __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!