Nvidia Omega Drivers v1.169.25 for Windows Vista

Originally Posted by kelston

Omega's drivers, from what i've always been led to believe, are not benchmark drivers.

Omega's goal with his drivers is to provide the best, optimal balance between performance and quality rather than straight up LEET FPS.

If you notice his tweaks, some are to up the image quality which, by default, will hurt performance, but are only applied if he feels that the improvement to quality is more than justified by the performance hit you would take.

Omega's drivers activate all image quality enhancers that provide minimal hits to your performance and all performance enhancers that provide minimal hits to your quality resulting in an ideal balance of speed and quality.

Overall, you will almost never see a noticeable FPS boost (at least, I never have) when using Omega's driver sets. What you will see, however, is similar or slightly lower FPS numbers with a marked improvement in image quality resulting basically in a much better looking game with no loss in playability and occasionally a gain in playability with some compatibility tweaks usually thrown in there as he is able to address some minor issues brought up after the official driver release.

Originally Posted by Broseybrose

the strange thing is, when i switched from 169.28 beta to 169.25 omega i noticed a MARKED increase in fps in all of my games... but i also believe i perceived a small loss in IQ. this is in vista32. has anyone else noticed or felt theyve perceived a loss of IQ with the 169.25 omegas?

Originally Posted by Mike Boogie

To be honest I didn't like these drivers I also noticed IQ is lower and benchmarks score where lower than the default drivers maybe Omega lost his touch with Nvidia drivers like he once had.