Problem with Omega drivers.

Nrobria · Jun 22, 2005, 11:18 PM

I have an ATI Mobilty Radeon 9700 256mb card and the drivers for it are ancient and are unsupported. Now the problem is when I install the Omega drivers, they work great, games run smooth, life is grand.

But the problem is that now when I put any dvd in or watch any avi file or any video file whatsoever the audio plays fine, but the video files are playing at like 3 fps.

Any reason it might be causing this that is an easy fix?

Thanks in advance.

thegave · Jun 23, 2005, 11:07 AM

check to see if WMV Acceleration is enabled in the ATI control panel. If its enabled try disabling it or vice versa. Do you have the wmva patch from microsoft? there's a thread on it in the ATI Drivers and Support forum.

Nrobria · Jul 14, 2005, 12:18 AM

With this ATI Control Panel are you talking about with the original factory drivers? I have no problems with them, or is this with the Omega drivers? And if so, where would I go about finding the WMV Acceleration option?

Thanks.

swimtech · Jul 14, 2005, 01:33 AM

Yup, games great, video rotten - and I honestly don't have a definitive answer - nor have I seen one for this. It seemed to occur after the Catalyst 3.xx or so (Omegadrive set)... Had to revert to the manufacturer's latest driver for my laptop below.

What make and model laptop you got?

Nrobria · Jul 14, 2005, 11:57 AM

It was from www.ibuypower.com

was the battalion 101 i believe.. been about 7 months since I got it.

Was the 17" widescreen model, with the 9700 256mb ati card, 1gig ram, 60g 7200rpm harddrive, P4 3.0E series processor.

the factory drivers work fine with dvd's and video games, but I was hopen for some more up-to-date drivers, but every omega driver I've downloaded I run into the same problem every time. runs games great, but any form of multimedia file I try to run I can count the frames per second. the audio is fine and plays normal, but trying to watch a movie isn't possible.

this WMV Acceloration thing is the only thing I've not heard of trying, but I'm not sure where to find this option setting.

Aligokalppeker · Jul 14, 2005, 01:22 PM

Even hardware acceleration for WMA is not enabled , DVD video's must be played quite well.Your CPU and card is powerful enough for that.Games run great but there's problem with video.
Then

- It should be related with player.Try another player.
- Reading DVD may interrupt displaying DVD frames,try from playing it from HD.Installing omega might change some settings about hardware (DMA or anything else)

Nrobria · Jul 15, 2005, 10:40 AM

I've tried many different players, and Omega drivers won't display video properly on all of them. Also I've tried running files straight from the harddrive, and they produce the same problem.

"Games run great but there's problem with video."

Not sure if you're meaning same thing I am, so just going to clear it up just incase. But video games run fine, I don't see FPS hits with omega drivers, they run games fine. Just DVD's, avi's, quicktime files, windows media files, anything that has to do with video is what gets messed up.

Seems like I might be sticking with my outdated laptop drivers. :\

IgneousPrime · Jul 15, 2005, 12:35 PM

Do you use Windows Media Player for all of your movies? I suggest you try different movie viewers such as DivX Player or BSPlayer. I love watching movies and anime episodes using BS Player (my current favorite), so I would give it a try. Wouldn't hurt

Edit: Whoops! This has already been said, haha. My bad. Shame shame shame

Aligokalppeker · Jul 15, 2005, 01:24 PM

There are problems about watching movies,it sounds like a CPU error.Because during encoding/decoding processes mostly CPU is used...But i've no idea what it can be???????????

swimtech · Jul 15, 2005, 04:14 PM

Tell ya guys - this is happening to a lot of folks with differing laptop hardware (CPU, memory, mainboards, etc...) - feels like a driver/interaction/conflict issue of some sort - the hard part is finding the differences between the manufacturer's driverset and Omegadrive's driverset. This video (yes, DVDs, AVIs, Mpegs, etc...)issue is frustrating... I've had problems regardless of the player application I've used as well...

Nrobria · Jul 16, 2005, 04:25 AM

Thanks swimtech.. I'll just stick with my factory drivers for now then.

Ohwell was worth a shot =)

swimtech · Jul 17, 2005, 04:14 AM

I'm still working on it too, and it's not just Omegadrive's driverset. This issue has bugged me for awhile and I'm gonna try to work it out or at least try and find a definitive answer - will take me a while though...

I really like Omegadrive's driver's - used them for years almost exclusively for their stability, quality, and speed in games.

flyguy42 · Jul 17, 2005, 05:56 AM

Do you have the same problem with official ATI drivers? Like the official ATI Mobility or using a modder on regular desktop ATI drivers?

Jun 22, 2005, 11:18 PM	#1
Nrobria DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Problem with Omega drivers. I have an ATI Mobilty Radeon 9700 256mb card and the drivers for it are ancient and are unsupported. Now the problem is when I install the Omega drivers, they work great, games run smooth, life is grand. But the problem is that now when I put any dvd in or watch any avi file or any video file whatsoever the audio plays fine, but the video files are playing at like 3 fps. Any reason it might be causing this that is an easy fix? Thanks in advance.

Jul 14, 2005, 01:33 AM	#4
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Yup, games great, video rotten - and I honestly don't have a definitive answer - nor have I seen one for this. It seemed to occur after the Catalyst 3.xx or so (Omegadrive set)... Had to revert to the manufacturer's latest driver for my laptop below. What make and model laptop you got? __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jul 15, 2005, 04:14 PM	#10
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Tell ya guys - this is happening to a lot of folks with differing laptop hardware (CPU, memory, mainboards, etc...) - feels like a driver/interaction/conflict issue of some sort - the hard part is finding the differences between the manufacturer's driverset and Omegadrive's driverset. This video (yes, DVDs, AVIs, Mpegs, etc...)issue is frustrating... I've had problems regardless of the player application I've used as well... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jul 17, 2005, 04:14 AM	#12
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	I'm still working on it too, and it's not just Omegadrive's driverset. This issue has bugged me for awhile and I'm gonna try to work it out or at least try and find a definitive answer - will take me a while though... I really like Omegadrive's driver's - used them for years almost exclusively for their stability, quality, and speed in games. __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jun 23, 2005, 11:07 AM	#2
thegave -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 96 Rep Power: 0	check to see if WMV Acceleration is enabled in the ATI control panel. If its enabled try disabling it or vice versa. Do you have the wmva patch from microsoft? there's a thread on it in the ATI Drivers and Support forum.

Jul 14, 2005, 12:18 AM	Thread Starter #3
Nrobria DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	With this ATI Control Panel are you talking about with the original factory drivers? I have no problems with them, or is this with the Omega drivers? And if so, where would I go about finding the WMV Acceleration option? Thanks.

Jul 14, 2005, 11:57 AM	Thread Starter #5
Nrobria DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	It was from www.ibuypower.com was the battalion 101 i believe.. been about 7 months since I got it. Was the 17" widescreen model, with the 9700 256mb ati card, 1gig ram, 60g 7200rpm harddrive, P4 3.0E series processor. the factory drivers work fine with dvd's and video games, but I was hopen for some more up-to-date drivers, but every omega driver I've downloaded I run into the same problem every time. runs games great, but any form of multimedia file I try to run I can count the frames per second. the audio is fine and plays normal, but trying to watch a movie isn't possible. this WMV Acceloration thing is the only thing I've not heard of trying, but I'm not sure where to find this option setting.

Jul 14, 2005, 01:22 PM	#6
Aligokalppeker DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: TR Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	Even hardware acceleration for WMA is not enabled , DVD video's must be played quite well.Your CPU and card is powerful enough for that.Games run great but there's problem with video. Then - It should be related with player.Try another player. - Reading DVD may interrupt displaying DVD frames,try from playing it from HD.Installing omega might change some settings about hardware (DMA or anything else)

Jul 15, 2005, 10:40 AM	Thread Starter #7
Nrobria DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	I've tried many different players, and Omega drivers won't display video properly on all of them. Also I've tried running files straight from the harddrive, and they produce the same problem. "Games run great but there's problem with video." Not sure if you're meaning same thing I am, so just going to clear it up just incase. But video games run fine, I don't see FPS hits with omega drivers, they run games fine. Just DVD's, avi's, quicktime files, windows media files, anything that has to do with video is what gets messed up. Seems like I might be sticking with my outdated laptop drivers. :\

Jul 15, 2005, 12:35 PM	#8
IgneousPrime DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Do you use Windows Media Player for all of your movies? I suggest you try different movie viewers such as DivX Player or BSPlayer. I love watching movies and anime episodes using BS Player (my current favorite), so I would give it a try. Wouldn't hurt Edit: Whoops! This has already been said, haha. My bad. Shame shame shame

Jul 15, 2005, 01:24 PM	#9
Aligokalppeker DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: TR Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	There are problems about watching movies,it sounds like a CPU error.Because during encoding/decoding processes mostly CPU is used...But i've no idea what it can be???????????

Jul 16, 2005, 04:25 AM	Thread Starter #11
Nrobria DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Thanks swimtech.. I'll just stick with my factory drivers for now then. Ohwell was worth a shot =)

Jul 17, 2005, 05:56 AM	#13
flyguy42 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Do you have the same problem with official ATI drivers? Like the official ATI Mobility or using a modder on regular desktop ATI drivers?