Radeon Win 2k/xp Omega Drivers 2.2.18

***Zardon*** · Dec 10, 2002, 08:17 AM

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.

New (Omega 2.2.18)
* After a long time out of the 2k/XP drivers, I'M BACK!!!
* Based on the leaked 6218 drivers from Saphiretech (Catalyst 2.5).
* Mixed BOTH Windows + the control panel + all language files in one small package.
* Added a new resolution, 1200x900, and like the other "special" resolutions, is only avaiable in one refresh rate setting.
* Now you can choose between 75Hz, 85Hz and 100Hz in the "special" resolutions during setup.
* Added more tweaks to the drivers to 5B4 speed them up.
* Added a new PowerPlay option.
* Vsinc slider is now present in the ATI control panel if you want to force V-Sinc in D3D and OpenGL.
* Added the DX Override Refresh option in the ATI Displays Control Panel.
* Fixed Laptop support, now the drivers should install in ALL ATI Mobile cards.
* Shaved some MBs off the drivers by removing the WDM files plus the
Control Panel setup files. (All languages still available)
* Very Important!!!
I have tested the drivers ONLY in Windows XP, not 2000 or any mobility cards, so if you use them on Windows 2k PC or a Mobility card, let me know the results. I made sure all settings for 2k and mobile cards where correct, but I'm human and can make mistakes. Again, let me know how it all goes in Win2k and/or Mobile cards by E-Mail or by posting the problem in Driverheaven forum. Thanks.

Download them from our affliates TECHCONNECT HERE

LeanWolf · Dec 10, 2002, 09:08 AM

so many new drivers to choose from!!

here's a (probably stupid) question: is this new driver better than the new catalyst? game-wise, that is. btw, isn't 3dmark 2001 a gaming bench mark? so why would this driver not do well in 3dmark2001 ?

Andy

digitalwanderer · Dec 10, 2002, 09:12 AM

Is this the first time that Omegadrive and ATI have released their take on the same drivers on the same day?

(BTW- I like BOTH sets and they seem to work GREAT! Nice job Omegadrive!)

Torsti · Dec 10, 2002, 09:58 AM

This drivers Rock, no stutters at JB:nightfire anymore and IQ
is great.

Harboe · Dec 10, 2002, 11:14 AM

Gonna give them a shot. Thanks for all your work guys.

shuki · Dec 10, 2002, 11:31 AM

OMEGA, THANK YOU for releasing an XP driver set!!! Been waiting over 2 months for a tweaked set. Again, thank you

WhiteBase · Dec 10, 2002, 12:35 PM

With new Omega a Blue screen occurs if i try to usa opengl game (infinite loop with Scorched 3d... with previous drivers works great).
All ok with direct3d and 2d

RIV@NVX · Dec 10, 2002, 01:57 PM

Omega is back on 2k/XP. Nice to hear that!

Candyman · Dec 10, 2002, 03:00 PM

Has anyone got them working on a Mobility M1 yet? I know the hardware is old but I still have one in my laptop at home. I tried your older sets but it doesn't seem to find the hardware. Will try when I get hom...

RIV@NVX · Dec 10, 2002, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candyman
Has anyone got them working on a Mobility M1 yet? I know the hardware is old but I still have one in my laptop at home. I tried your older sets but it doesn't seem to find the hardware. Will try when I get hom...

What is M1 based of?

tazdevl · Dec 10, 2002, 03:13 PM

I'll test it on my Compaq with a Mobility 9000 later today or tomorrow.

WhiteBase · Dec 10, 2002, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candyman
Has anyone got them working on a Mobility M1 yet? I know the hardware is old but I still have one in my laptop at home. I tried your older sets but it doesn't seem to find the hardware. Will try when I get hom...

Catalyst drivers (and Omega's are modified catalyst) are only for ATI Radeon cards: M1 is a Ati Rage mobility

RIV@NVX · Dec 10, 2002, 04:16 PM

DXDiag reports no acceleration, 2D is slow, AGP Texturing is N/A etc. Smartgart reports AGP as OFF, FastWrites as Off.
Maybe a complete XP reinstallation will solve it.

schwarz2 · Dec 10, 2002, 04:24 PM

hey..
i have a radeon mobility 7500 m7...the new driver set quits working when i try to enable smartgart fast write....i restart the computer and get an error message that it had trouble communicating with the video card...then 2d stops working completely...even when i turn fast write off....i don't know though...it seems that with fast write off war 3 performed slightly better with the sapphire set....just goin by looks...appreciate your work though cyborg

schwarz

RIV@NVX · Dec 10, 2002, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by schwarz2
hey..
i have a radeon mobility 7500 m7...the new driver set quits working when i try to enable smartgart fast write....i restart the computer and get an error message that it had trouble communicating with the video card...then 2d stops working completely...even when i turn fast write off....i don't know though...it seems that with fast write off war 3 performed slightly better with the sapphire set....just goin by looks...appreciate your work though cyborg

schwarz

Heh, this is Omegadrive's set, not Cyborg

FastWrites screwed up whole thing for me too.
Also, it seems that Omega (accidentally) removed SMARTGART advanced (Start/Run type smartgart).

Tomorrow I am going to test reinstalling windows and installing ATI official Catalyst 2.5 and going to compare to my expirience of this (in UT mainly - D3D so-so, OpenGL so-so, NitroGL sucks).
Also, Darkstone can be interesing to test. Need to see, will report here.

LeanWolf · Dec 10, 2002, 05:48 PM

Quote:

With new Omega a Blue screen occurs if i try to usa opengl game (infinite loop with Scorched 3d... with previous drivers works great).
All ok with direct3d and 2d

Same result here with NWN on my mobility 7500 64MB.

tazdevl · Dec 10, 2002, 05:48 PM

Guys fastwrites typically aren't supported with mobile chipsets. In addition, while fastwrites sounds like a good idea in theory, it isn't in implementation and contributes virtually nothing to performance. In about 90% of the cases, fastwrites causes system instability and crashes.

Arikel · Dec 10, 2002, 06:32 PM

Fast writes and Smartgart have never seemed to work right on my rig, whether on an official driver, beta or tweaked set. I don't think what you're experiencing has much to do with Omega's tweakage, though if it were fixed I'd be pretty pleased.

Anyway, great work. These look better and run faster in DirectX, and are at least as good as the official 2.5 for me in OpenGL.

jzodda · Dec 10, 2002, 07:35 PM

thanks for the drivers! Gonna have to try them out this week. Been waiting for a long time

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 10, 2002, 08:04 PM

As I said in the readme, the drivers where tested in WinXP only, but I added the mobility support from scratch as I didn't had new mobility drivers from any company to take the settings from, so I mostly used the settings from old drivers and added what I thought it would work.
In the 2k side, I used the exact same settings from XP, but added the other 2k stuff that make them different from the XP ones, so it should work too.

Some advice: NEVER USE FASTWRITES, thank you!

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.

LeanWolf · Dec 10, 2002, 08:35 PM

Quote:

but I added the mobility support from scratch as I didn't had new mobility drivers from any company to take the settings from, so I mostly used the settings from old drivers and added what I thought it would work.

but dude, it DOESN't work, so how can we relax?

we can't use your sweet new driver!

If it helps, here's a link to the "latest" oficial driver for my mobility 7500 (6096):
https://support.dell.com/register.aspx just choose 'Inspiron 8100', then click 'downloads', then pick 'winXP' and 'video drivers' then GO

i don't use fastwrites and i did a thorough uninstall (i'm a master by now)

Quote:

delete the old INF files before restarting the PC

err.. what .inf file where? if it starts with ati* then i delete it as part of the uninstall instructions.

thanks!
andy

petecool · Dec 10, 2002, 09:10 PM

I'm having loads of problems since a few weeks, mostly with NFSHP2 on my Radeon 8500 (The problems didn't start with these drivers, but they are still present)

After a few minutes of racing NFSHP2 starts showing memory overclocking artifacts (red and blue dots and streaks on the textures - but the card isn't overclocked at all!). Also after some more time, I see some semi-transparent triangle shapes appearing - as if the polygon texturing wasn't fully done... I can alt-tab out of the game and back, and everything looks great... until it hardlocks the whole computer! (It happens wether I alt-tab or not, it doesn't matter)

I don't think this is a heat problem, the case temperature is 30C, the thing ran fine with 36C+ temperatures in summer.
NFSHP2 is the only game that doesn't work well anymore, Quake3/UrbanTerror runs just fine in this setup (haven't had the time to try them with the new drivers here)

*** edit: UrbanTerror works fine ***

Any ideas what might be wrong? How to alleviate this? The most NFSHP2 I played in a single session in three weeks was two races and it was less than an hour ago - all the other times: hardlock.

Thanks,

Pete

Alucard · Dec 10, 2002, 10:52 PM

I've got a Mobility 7500. OGL appears to work at least in Jedi Outcast, though performance appears considerably degraded in certain situations. However upgraded IQ seems to explain this.

Smartgart appears to report everything correctly and 2d acceleration is finally working again (haven't gotten it to work since Plutonium 8.1).

Haven't tried d3d yet, but I'll report back once I have.

One last thing. the announcement mentioned a Powerplay option? where can I find it?

Overall excellent work. Thank you!

cheers,
Andrew

lewdvig · Dec 10, 2002, 11:58 PM

As a Mobility 7500 owner I just want to say:

I LOVE YOU!

I will let you know what I find.

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
[B]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.

New (Omega 2.2.18)
* Added a new PowerPlay option.
* Fixed Laptop support, now the drivers should install in ALL ATI Mobile cards.
I have tested the drivers ONLY in Windows XP, not 2000 or any mobility cards, so if you use them on Windows 2k PC or a Mobility card, let me know the results. I made sure all settings for 2k and mobile cards where correct, but I'm human and can make mistakes. Again, let me know how it all goes in Win2k and/or Mobile cards by E-Mail or by posting the problem in Driverheaven forum. Thanks.

***Omegadrive*** · Dec 11, 2002, 12:06 AM

Alucard, I was checking the INF again and I found an error for the mobility cards, I forgot to enable the powerplay control panel, but you can enable it by going into the registry and look for this key "ExtEvent_EnablePowerPlay"
It will be at "0", change it to "1" (you may need to do it several times, it installs various copies in the registry), then restart.
I have never seen this control panel working, but some users have reported that it exist. Try the above to see if it shows and let me know

petecool, EA games have ALWAYS had problems with NON-NVIDIA cards, even the demo of NFSHP2 locks on me every now and then, there is no solution until EA issues a patch OR ATI actually finds is a bug in the drivers and fix it...

luleandy, I have to register to be able to download from Dell, and I don't have any Dell products...

Do you know of another place where I can get them?
The INF files (at least in XP) are called OEM##.INF, you must check all the OEM files to see which ones belong to ATI and delete them.

petecool · Dec 11, 2002, 12:26 AM

Omega, that's weird, I never had any problems with EA games, ever before... I played hours and hours of NFS5 with both my Intel 810 (crap!) and my Radeon 8500, and I never had a single crash that I can remember. I also played some NHL2002 without problems... but maybe you didn't play the same games as me.

But even then, was the crashing ever as chronic as making it impossible to play over 10 minutes without stopping and restarting the game? This must be a driver issue since putting in your drivers raised the time I could play to about 8~10 minutes instead of 1~2 max...

Thanks anyway, I'm sure I'll find a way... when I finish those damn homeworks

lewdvig · Dec 11, 2002, 12:58 AM

Radeon 7500 Mobility

Quake 3 is great. 100fps 10*7 maxed (on battery no less)

Counterstrike is great.

UT2k3 is awesome.

3DMark is great.

Not sure why others are having problems, but these are awesome on my laptop.

I didn't find a powerplay tab though. Is there a registry setting that I need to change?

lewdvig · Dec 11, 2002, 01:00 AM

Oops, missed the instructions there.

lewdvig · Dec 11, 2002, 01:01 AM

I agree, EA games crash my desktop/8500 all the time.

lewdvig · Dec 11, 2002, 01:28 AM

I folowed the instructions and changed the dozen or so refernces of this key in the registry. No luck. I would like to see the panel, but it is not crucial.

Dec 10, 2002, 08:17 AM	#1
*Zardon* lifeless Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 31,959 Rep Power: 3148	Radeon Win 2k/xp Omega Drivers 2.2.18 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. New (Omega 2.2.18) * After a long time out of the 2k/XP drivers, I'M BACK!!! * Based on the leaked 6218 drivers from Saphiretech (Catalyst 2.5). * Mixed BOTH Windows + the control panel + all language files in one small package. * Added a new resolution, 1200x900, and like the other "special" resolutions, is only avaiable in one refresh rate setting. * Now you can choose between 75Hz, 85Hz and 100Hz in the "special" resolutions during setup. * Added more tweaks to the drivers to 5B4 speed them up. * Added a new PowerPlay option. * Vsinc slider is now present in the ATI control panel if you want to force V-Sinc in D3D and OpenGL. * Added the DX Override Refresh option in the ATI Displays Control Panel. * Fixed Laptop support, now the drivers should install in ALL ATI Mobile cards. * Shaved some MBs off the drivers by removing the WDM files plus the Control Panel setup files. (All languages still available) * Very Important!!! I have tested the drivers ONLY in Windows XP, not 2000 or any mobility cards, so if you use them on Windows 2k PC or a Mobility card, let me know the results. I made sure all settings for 2k and mobile cards where correct, but I'm human and can make mistakes. Again, let me know how it all goes in Win2k and/or Mobile cards by E-Mail or by posting the problem in Driverheaven forum. Thanks. Download them from our affliates TECHCONNECT HERE

Dec 10, 2002, 09:08 AM	#2
LeanWolf alpha male Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: offpiste Posts: 5,570 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	so many new drivers to choose from!! here's a (probably stupid) question: is this new driver better than the new catalyst? game-wise, that is. btw, isn't 3dmark 2001 a gaming bench mark? so why would this driver not do well in 3dmark2001 ? Andy __________________

Dec 10, 2002, 09:12 AM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,621 Rep Power: 0	Question. Is this the first time that Omegadrive and ATI have released their take on the same drivers on the same day? (BTW- I like BOTH sets and they seem to work GREAT! Nice job Omegadrive!) __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 10, 2002, 12:35 PM	#7
WhiteBase DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 28 Rep Power: 0	OpenGl failure with radeo mobility M7 32Mb With new Omega a Blue screen occurs if i try to usa opengl game (infinite loop with Scorched 3d... with previous drivers works great). All ok with direct3d and 2d __________________ "*Fletto i muscoli e sono nel vuoto.." [COLOR=green]Italia! [/COLOR]* I Babi.. io c'ero! P3 866@933 su Asus Cusl2, 512Mb ram Infineon cl2 e Ati radeon 8500Le Asus L3540 512Mb DDR Hardware Upgrade forum member Last edited by WhiteBase; Dec 10, 2002 at 01:18 PM.

Dec 10, 2002, 01:57 PM	#8
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,480 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	Omega is back on 2k/XP. Nice to hear that! __________________ -- Vedran

Dec 10, 2002, 09:58 AM	#4
Torsti DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 23 Rep Power: 0	This drivers Rock, no stutters at JB:nightfire anymore and IQ is great.

Dec 10, 2002, 11:14 AM	#5
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Gonna give them a shot. Thanks for all your work guys.

Dec 10, 2002, 11:31 AM	#6
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	OMEGA, THANK YOU for releasing an XP driver set!!! Been waiting over 2 months for a tweaked set. Again, thank you

Dec 10, 2002, 03:00 PM	#9
Candyman [DH] Lover! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	Has anyone got them working on a Mobility M1 yet? I know the hardware is old but I still have one in my laptop at home. I tried your older sets but it doesn't seem to find the hardware. Will try when I get hom... __________________ AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 2.53GHz Abit NF7-S v.2 Thermalright SP-97 w/ TT Smart Fan 2 2 x 512MB GeIL PC3500 Platinum DDR 2 x 120GB WD HDD - RAID-0 2 x 80GB Barracuda V HDD - RAID-0 ATI Radeon AIW 9800PRO SB Audigy 2 HP L2335 23" LCD (DVI-D) WinXP Pro SP2

Dec 10, 2002, 03:13 PM	#11
tazdevl DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 310 Rep Power: 0	I'll test it on my Compaq with a Mobility 9000 later today or tomorrow. __________________ 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 10, 2002, 04:16 PM	#13
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,480 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	DXDiag reports no acceleration, 2D is slow, AGP Texturing is N/A etc. Smartgart reports AGP as OFF, FastWrites as Off. Maybe a complete XP reinstallation will solve it. __________________ -- Vedran

Dec 10, 2002, 04:24 PM	#14
schwarz2 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	hey.. i have a radeon mobility 7500 m7...the new driver set quits working when i try to enable smartgart fast write....i restart the computer and get an error message that it had trouble communicating with the video card...then 2d stops working completely...even when i turn fast write off....i don't know though...it seems that with fast write off war 3 performed slightly better with the sapphire set....just goin by looks...appreciate your work though cyborg schwarz

Dec 10, 2002, 05:48 PM	#17
tazdevl DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 310 Rep Power: 0	Guys fastwrites typically aren't supported with mobile chipsets. In addition, while fastwrites sounds like a good idea in theory, it isn't in implementation and contributes virtually nothing to performance. In about 90% of the cases, fastwrites causes system instability and crashes. __________________ 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 10, 2002, 06:32 PM	#18
Arikel DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 225 Rep Power: 0	Fast writes and Smartgart have never seemed to work right on my rig, whether on an official driver, beta or tweaked set. I don't think what you're experiencing has much to do with Omega's tweakage, though if it were fixed I'd be pretty pleased. Anyway, great work. These look better and run faster in DirectX, and are at least as good as the official 2.5 for me in OpenGL.

Dec 10, 2002, 07:35 PM	#19
jzodda DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	thanks for the drivers! Gonna have to try them out this week. Been waiting for a long time

Dec 10, 2002, 08:04 PM	#20
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	Take it easy guys... As I said in the readme, the drivers where tested in WinXP only, but I added the mobility support from scratch as I didn't had new mobility drivers from any company to take the settings from, so I mostly used the settings from old drivers and added what I thought it would work. In the 2k side, I used the exact same settings from XP, but added the other 2k stuff that make them different from the XP ones, so it should work too. Some advice: NEVER USE FASTWRITES, thank you! 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. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Dec 10, 2002, 09:10 PM	#22
petecool DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Laval, Canada Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	I'm having loads of problems since a few weeks, mostly with NFSHP2 on my Radeon 8500 (The problems didn't start with these drivers, but they are still present) After a few minutes of racing NFSHP2 starts showing memory overclocking artifacts (red and blue dots and streaks on the textures - but the card isn't overclocked at all!). Also after some more time, I see some semi-transparent triangle shapes appearing - as if the polygon texturing wasn't fully done... I can alt-tab out of the game and back, and everything looks great... until it hardlocks the whole computer! (It happens wether I alt-tab or not, it doesn't matter) I don't think this is a heat problem, the case temperature is 30C, the thing ran fine with 36C+ temperatures in summer. NFSHP2 is the only game that doesn't work well anymore, Quake3/UrbanTerror runs just fine in this setup (haven't had the time to try them with the new drivers here) * edit: UrbanTerror works fine * Any ideas what might be wrong? How to alleviate this? The most NFSHP2 I played in a single session in three weeks was two races and it was less than an hour ago - all the other times: hardlock. Thanks, Pete Last edited by petecool; Dec 10, 2002 at 10:31 PM.

Dec 10, 2002, 10:52 PM	#23
Alucard DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	I've got a Mobility 7500. OGL appears to work at least in Jedi Outcast, though performance appears considerably degraded in certain situations. However upgraded IQ seems to explain this. Smartgart appears to report everything correctly and 2d acceleration is finally working again (haven't gotten it to work since Plutonium 8.1). Haven't tried d3d yet, but I'll report back once I have. One last thing. the announcement mentioned a Powerplay option? where can I find it? Overall excellent work. Thank you! cheers, Andrew

Dec 11, 2002, 12:06 AM	#25
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	Alucard, I was checking the INF again and I found an error for the mobility cards, I forgot to enable the powerplay control panel, but you can enable it by going into the registry and look for this key "ExtEvent_EnablePowerPlay" It will be at "0", change it to "1" (you may need to do it several times, it installs various copies in the registry), then restart. I have never seen this control panel working, but some users have reported that it exist. Try the above to see if it shows and let me know petecool, EA games have ALWAYS had problems with NON-NVIDIA cards, even the demo of NFSHP2 locks on me every now and then, there is no solution until EA issues a patch OR ATI actually finds is a bug in the drivers and fix it... luleandy, I have to register to be able to download from Dell, and I don't have any Dell products... Do you know of another place where I can get them? The INF files (at least in XP) are called OEM##.INF, you must check all the OEM files to see which ones belong to ATI and delete them. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Dec 11, 2002, 12:26 AM	#26
petecool DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Laval, Canada Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Omega, that's weird, I never had any problems with EA games, ever before... I played hours and hours of NFS5 with both my Intel 810 (crap!) and my Radeon 8500, and I never had a single crash that I can remember. I also played some NHL2002 without problems... but maybe you didn't play the same games as me. But even then, was the crashing ever as chronic as making it impossible to play over 10 minutes without stopping and restarting the game? This must be a driver issue since putting in your drivers raised the time I could play to about 8~10 minutes instead of 1~2 max... Thanks anyway, I'm sure I'll find a way... when I finish those damn homeworks

Dec 11, 2002, 12:58 AM	#27
lewdvig DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0	Yup, these rock! Radeon 7500 Mobility Quake 3 is great. 100fps 10*7 maxed (on battery no less) Counterstrike is great. UT2k3 is awesome. 3DMark is great. Not sure why others are having problems, but these are awesome on my laptop. I didn't find a powerplay tab though. Is there a registry setting that I need to change?

Dec 11, 2002, 01:00 AM	#28
lewdvig DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0	Powerplay Oops, missed the instructions there. __________________ 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 11, 2002, 01:01 AM	#29
lewdvig DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0	EA Games I agree, EA games crash my desktop/8500 all the time. __________________ 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 11, 2002, 01:28 AM	#30
lewdvig DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0	Powerplay I folowed the instructions and changed the dozen or so refernces of this key in the registry. No luck. I would like to see the panel, but it is not crucial. __________________ 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]