Nvidia Omega Drivers 1.4345 for 2k/XP

Pikachu · May 11, 2003, 11:54 AM

Yeah i have seen not much improvement in my GF3. Maybe i just switch back to 3082

mike2h · May 11, 2003, 12:36 PM

omega said he optimises his drivers for the slower cards, might want to give those a shot. if you are playing newer games might want to try 4109. if you can, and are willing, test them both. you already know how the 3082 performs so would give us a good reference for g3. i am currentley running 4072 on my wifes g3. just reinstalled ut2003 and there was some minor speed & iq(subjective of course) improvement. i did this to test omegas point about game optimisation. he is right (of cousre). the difference did not carry over into anything else.(not positive that these drivers postdare ut2003 though) anyway if you are willing to try those 2 drivers-newest omega & 4109, please post your thoughts on the results. and yes i am rambling. again.

ryanraab · May 12, 2003, 11:00 PM

Now you'll have to omeganize the 44.03 one which is the best driver yet. Gives me an idea of what 50.00 is going to be like.

mike2h · May 12, 2003, 11:48 PM

what makkes it the best driver yet?

ryanraab · May 13, 2003, 12:21 AM

I tested it on a couple of games and the speed and quality were way better.

mike2h · May 13, 2003, 12:27 AM

colud you please tell me what games & what was your previous driver vers.?

ryanraab · May 13, 2003, 09:39 AM

Multiply games! I have a big collection of games and I tested them with the new drivers that is I tested most of my games. Nice and smooth all the way. If I play a game that is now broken because of the new drivers I will be sure to report it here. OK! mike2h

Gregory · May 19, 2003, 02:01 PM

I have installed the 43.45 Omega drivers and the quality of the graphics seems improved but It also seems to slow down my graphics. I am looking the best divers to use with a GF3 4200 ti 200 128 for a flight sim game ????

mike2h · May 19, 2003, 02:13 PM

did you use quality or perf. install? if qual try perf.

mike2h · May 19, 2003, 02:48 PM

for reference, my wifes comp is a celeron 2 1200@ 1300, geforce 3(non ti& overclock) running xp with 4109 . get a 3d mark 2001se score of 5605.

Gregory · May 19, 2003, 03:21 PM

I did the install of the Omega 43.45 and used the Perfromance leve setting. I am thinking that some of the newer drivers are really intended for the bigger Nvid card like the GF4 series.

Gregory · May 19, 2003, 03:25 PM

mike2h....I do not know what that score represents, but I will assume that it is a good score. My thanks to you for your advice....does the 41.0- come in an Omega version? Does the 32.o9 cme in an omega version also?

mike2h · May 19, 2003, 04:18 PM

i am not sure about it being a good score, i gave it as a reference. thought maybe you had 3dmark as it is a common bechmarking tool. that is what i get for assuming. as far as older vers of omega, check the archive, not sure how far back they go. i agree on the newer drivers being more optimised for g4 & up. question for you. did you go from 30 series driver to 40 series without a complete uninstall? or better yet, using the driver remover available on this website? quite a few people - including me, had various issues in that transition. just checking.

Bane the ECF · May 19, 2003, 11:48 PM

When are the 44.03 Omega drivers comin' out?

ryanraab · May 20, 2003, 11:25 PM

Is the person even working on them any more. Hasn't been news on them for awhile and 2 new drivers came up since the last release of omega.

Junk · May 20, 2003, 11:39 PM

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Originally posted by ryanraab
Is the person even working on them any more. Hasn't been news on them for awhile and 2 new drivers came up since the last release of omega.

please have patience. omega modifies drivers in his SPARE TIME, and does have a life outside of them.

also, as i understand it, he had a mobo die on him over the past few weeks.

ryanraab · May 20, 2003, 11:45 PM

Sry! Will the new drivers be based on 43.51 like he said before 44.03 came out or will did he stop the 43.51 that he said he was working on and goto 44.03.

***Omegadrive*** · May 21, 2003, 03:32 AM

I skipped the 43.51 and I'm going for the 44.03, even thou I have seen many post talking about the driver cheats... And since MS gave them the WHQL, I think is safe...
I hope to have some time to work on them on the weekend, so is possible Sunday night or Monday morning release if everything is ok.

ryanraab · May 21, 2003, 03:50 AM

Nice to hear that your still working away. I don't care about the cheats because I don't benchmark. The way I test drivers is by playing games. I would recommend everybody else to that so then there would be less chat about drivers cheating but they can do whatever they want. Need any beta tester. Your less drivers were kinda buggy.

mike2h · May 21, 2003, 04:33 AM

i thought the whql was for the 'fx' version only. i may be wrong on that & it may not make any difference for your 'magic' i was just curious.

mike2h · May 21, 2003, 04:46 AM

you hit that real experience thing right on the nose. benchmarking has its place for checking new drivers & for finding the 'sweet spot' when overclocking, but the bottom line is the actual games. curious, i have run the 4345 omegas with gal civ, civ3, ut2003, war3, & some dungeon seige, have not had a hickup. what has been going on with you? i hate nasty surprises from my comp in the middle of a game.

ryanraab · May 21, 2003, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mike2h
you hit that real experience thing right on the nose. benchmarking has its place for checking new drivers & for finding the 'sweet spot' when overclocking, but the bottom line is the actual games. curious, i have run the 4345 omegas with gal civ, civ3, ut2003, war3, & some dungeon seige, have not had a hickup. what has been going on with you? i hate nasty surprises from my comp in the middle of a game.

All computers are different and the only game that I play in your list is ut2003.

mike2h · May 21, 2003, 11:43 AM

i dont know were the 'all computers are different' thing came into this. i just wantedto know what bugs you had.

ryanraab · May 23, 2003, 06:34 PM

NFS HP2 a problem with lighting effects with the omega drivers. You happy mike2h now that I told you!

mike2h · May 23, 2003, 06:41 PM

ooooh. a smartass

ryanraab · May 23, 2003, 06:51 PM

No spamming! Also Omegadrive when I apply anything higher the 4xS it looks bad is this normal. Anything higher is not able to be applied on the nvidias menu so I'm guessing it does that because I don't have support for it. Is that correct or am I in trouble?

***Omegadrive*** · May 24, 2003, 02:01 AM

If it is not on the nvidia CP then is not safe, that's why nvidia never included the option i the first place.

BTW, I'll be releasing the new sets based on the 44.03 this weekend if everything works good here...

ryanraab · May 24, 2003, 09:36 AM

Need any betatesters. Also did you do any major tweaks that were not in the last sets in this set. Who are they the same tweaks just using 44.03.

Bruzer · May 25, 2003, 05:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
...BTW, I'll be releasing the new sets based on the 44.03 this weekend if everything works good here...

That's great news! Can't wait.

I like to say that I just installed my first set of Omega drivers (43.45), and so far, I'd say these are the best drivers I've ever used. I only use driving sims, NASCAR and F1. I detected a small iperformance ncrease in the F1 sim (D3D), and a significant performance increase in the other (OpenGL). However, I noticed a visible positive difference in IQ in both! These are superb Omega.

Thanks for the awesome job and tremendous effort. These are far superior in all areas to the 'mystery meat' we see from nVidia these days.

ryanraab · May 25, 2003, 12:25 PM

Let me cause Omegadrive not all works good. Cause we have to wait next weekend am I right. Well I don't care! Don't want my computer to get killed because of third party tweaked nvidia driver now do we.

May 11, 2003, 12:36 PM	#32
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	pikachu omega said he optimises his drivers for the slower cards, might want to give those a shot. if you are playing newer games might want to try 4109. if you can, and are willing, test them both. you already know how the 3082 performs so would give us a good reference for g3. i am currentley running 4072 on my wifes g3. just reinstalled ut2003 and there was some minor speed & iq(subjective of course) improvement. i did this to test omegas point about game optimisation. he is right (of cousre). the difference did not carry over into anything else.(not positive that these drivers postdare ut2003 though) anyway if you are willing to try those 2 drivers-newest omega & 4109, please post your thoughts on the results. and yes i am rambling. again. __________________

May 12, 2003, 11:48 PM	#34
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	44.03 what makkes it the best driver yet? __________________

May 13, 2003, 12:27 AM	#36
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	colud you please tell me what games & what was your previous driver vers.? __________________

May 19, 2003, 02:01 PM	#38
Gregory DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	omega drivers/nvidiaand GF3 4200 I have installed the 43.45 Omega drivers and the quality of the graphics seems improved but It also seems to slow down my graphics. I am looking the best divers to use with a GF3 4200 ti 200 128 for a flight sim game ????

May 19, 2003, 02:13 PM	#39
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	did you use quality or perf. install? if qual try perf. __________________

May 11, 2003, 11:54 AM	#31
Pikachu DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Yeah i have seen not much improvement in my GF3. Maybe i just switch back to 3082

May 12, 2003, 11:00 PM	#33
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Now you'll have to omeganize the 44.03 one which is the best driver yet. Gives me an idea of what 50.00 is going to be like.

May 13, 2003, 12:21 AM	#35
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	I tested it on a couple of games and the speed and quality were way better.

May 13, 2003, 09:39 AM	#37
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Multiply games! I have a big collection of games and I tested them with the new drivers that is I tested most of my games. Nice and smooth all the way. If I play a game that is now broken because of the new drivers I will be sure to report it here. OK! mike2h

May 19, 2003, 02:48 PM	#40
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	gregory for reference, my wifes comp is a celeron 2 1200@ 1300, geforce 3(non ti& overclock) running xp with 4109 . get a 3d mark 2001se score of 5605. __________________

May 19, 2003, 03:21 PM	#41
Gregory DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	43.45 drivers I did the install of the Omega 43.45 and used the Perfromance leve setting. I am thinking that some of the newer drivers are really intended for the bigger Nvid card like the GF4 series.

May 19, 2003, 03:25 PM	#42
Gregory DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	same post mike2h....I do not know what that score represents, but I will assume that it is a good score. My thanks to you for your advice....does the 41.0- come in an Omega version? Does the 32.o9 cme in an omega version also?

May 19, 2003, 04:18 PM	#43
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	i am not sure about it being a good score, i gave it as a reference. thought maybe you had 3dmark as it is a common bechmarking tool. that is what i get for assuming. as far as older vers of omega, check the archive, not sure how far back they go. i agree on the newer drivers being more optimised for g4 & up. question for you. did you go from 30 series driver to 40 series without a complete uninstall? or better yet, using the driver remover available on this website? quite a few people - including me, had various issues in that transition. just checking. __________________

May 19, 2003, 11:48 PM	#44
Bane the ECF DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 220 Rep Power: 0	When are the 44.03 Omega drivers comin' out? __________________ ASUS K8N-E Motherboard Athlon 64 3200+ 10x200MHz Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Heatsink & Fan 2x512MB Mushkin Black Level 2 PC-3500 ATi Radeon X800 SE 256MB 100GB Western Digital SE 8MB 7200RPM 320GB Seagate 8MB 7200 RPM Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sony 19" E400 Trinitron Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A All-Aluminum Logitech Z-5300 5.1 Surround Sound

May 20, 2003, 11:25 PM	#45
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Is the person even working on them any more. Hasn't been news on them for awhile and 2 new drivers came up since the last release of omega.

May 20, 2003, 11:45 PM	#47
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	blabla Sry! Will the new drivers be based on 43.51 like he said before 44.03 came out or will did he stop the 43.51 that he said he was working on and goto 44.03.

May 21, 2003, 03:32 AM	#48
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	I skipped the 43.51 and I'm going for the 44.03, even thou I have seen many post talking about the driver cheats... And since MS gave them the WHQL, I think is safe... I hope to have some time to work on them on the weekend, so is possible Sunday night or Monday morning release if everything is ok. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 21, 2003, 03:50 AM	#49
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Nice to hear that your still working away. I don't care about the cheats because I don't benchmark. The way I test drivers is by playing games. I would recommend everybody else to that so then there would be less chat about drivers cheating but they can do whatever they want. Need any beta tester. Your less drivers were kinda buggy.

May 21, 2003, 04:33 AM	#50
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	Omegadrive i thought the whql was for the 'fx' version only. i may be wrong on that & it may not make any difference for your 'magic' i was just curious. __________________

May 21, 2003, 04:46 AM	#51
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	ryanraab you hit that real experience thing right on the nose. benchmarking has its place for checking new drivers & for finding the 'sweet spot' when overclocking, but the bottom line is the actual games. curious, i have run the 4345 omegas with gal civ, civ3, ut2003, war3, & some dungeon seige, have not had a hickup. what has been going on with you? i hate nasty surprises from my comp in the middle of a game. __________________

May 21, 2003, 11:43 AM	#53
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	i dont know were the 'all computers are different' thing came into this. i just wantedto know what bugs you had. __________________

May 23, 2003, 06:34 PM	#54
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	NFS HP2 a problem with lighting effects with the omega drivers. You happy mike2h now that I told you!

May 23, 2003, 06:41 PM	#55
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,489 Rep Power: 74 System Specs	ooooh. a smartass

May 23, 2003, 06:51 PM	#56
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	No spamming! Also Omegadrive when I apply anything higher the 4xS it looks bad is this normal. Anything higher is not able to be applied on the nvidias menu so I'm guessing it does that because I don't have support for it. Is that correct or am I in trouble?

May 24, 2003, 02:01 AM	#57
*Omegadrive* Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,612 Rep Power: 59	If it is not on the nvidia CP then is not safe, that's why nvidia never included the option i the first place. BTW, I'll be releasing the new sets based on the 44.03 this weekend if everything works good here... __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 24, 2003, 09:36 AM	#58
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Need any betatesters. Also did you do any major tweaks that were not in the last sets in this set. Who are they the same tweaks just using 44.03.

May 25, 2003, 12:25 PM	#60
ryanraab DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Rep Power: 0	Let me cause Omegadrive not all works good. Cause we have to wait next weekend am I right. Well I don't care! Don't want my computer to get killed because of third party tweaked nvidia driver now do we.