Omega Drivers - Performance

ilia1986 · Jul 19, 2004, 09:49 AM

Ok, Im new here, so first of all, Hi to every1!

Now, Ive recently Installed Omega Drivers (v153xx) following this:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/dosw..._cry_tweak.txt

The thing is that According to this:

Quote:

CUSTOM VIDEO DRIVERS- You'd think that Nvidia would know how to get the most
out of it's own hardware, but apparantly this is not the case. A fellow
named Omega has made his own set of drivers for both Nvidia and ATI cards;
they rock the house, and they're FREE. My game suddenly went from bland and
flickery to crisp and glorious, with a skyrocket in FPS to boot! I don't
know what he did exactly, but it works.

, I shoudl be getting a "Skyrocket boost in FPSs", but I dont. Sure, games work a bit faster now, but that would be all. Where is the huge performance boost???

I have:

Athlon XP 1500+
GeForce 3 Ti 200 128MB
512 MB 133MHzz ram

Help/Explanation would be appreciated.

Zulan · Jul 19, 2004, 09:55 AM

Depends on the system the reviewer who you quoted has, if he has let's say a Pentium 3 GHZ and a nvidia Geforce FX 5900/5950 or even better a Geforce 6800/6800GT/6800Ultra, maybe with the Nvidia drivers his system wasn't getting the full performance, and the omega drivers released the performance, but seeying that your system ain't a rather new system, it is possible that the nvidia drivers allready gave you the max performance your system can achieve, and i especcially mean the Geforce 3 TI 200 you have with this.

ilia1986 · Jul 19, 2004, 09:58 AM

That Guy had a 5200.. which equals to GeForce 2, AFAIK.

Zulan · Jul 19, 2004, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ilia1986
That Guy had a 5200.. which equals to GeForce 2, AFAIK.

LOL

then i would take his comments with a grain of salt, since the FX 5200 can barely play farcry at the lowest settings.

ilia1986 · Jul 19, 2004, 11:24 AM

Yes he had a 5200, 384 MB of ram, and 950 MHz proc. And he was runing Far Cry at 60 FPSs during "walk in the jungle" scenes, on high settings. And he didnt say that OCing is actually better than the Omega Drivers. He credited them both the same.

Zulan · Jul 19, 2004, 12:29 PM

Recommended

* Supported OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP (only)
* Processor: AMD Athlon 2400-3000+ or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz
* RAM: 512-1024 MB
* Video Card: 128 MB GeForce 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT
* Sound Card: Sound Blaster® Audigy® series
* DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc)
* DVD-ROM: 8x-16x DVD
* Hard Drive Space: 4 GB
* Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)

Minimum

* Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP (only)
* Processor: 1 GHz
* RAM: 256 MB
* Video Card: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compatible graphics card
* Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0b-compatible PCI card
* DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc)
* DVD-ROM: 4x DVD
* Hard Drive Space: 4 GB
* Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)

Copied from the farcry Website.

meaning his whole PC can't run farcry at all, so he surely can't run it @ 60 FPS at all, no mather which scene he is playing, that guy is just full of hot air.

ilia1986 · Jul 19, 2004, 12:56 PM

You DO realize that he did run it do you? This is taken from GameFAQs. Not some fan site. This guy indeed ran Far Cry at 60 FPSs on high settings. Did you even read the link I posted? He used Custom drivers and OCing to get these results.

Death Machine · Jul 19, 2004, 01:01 PM

The article seems quite dubious to me.

ilia1986 · Jul 19, 2004, 01:18 PM

Well, it seems quite right to me. I see no reason why everything that this DrLucky said shouldnt be true.

realjessy · Jul 29, 2004, 04:41 AM

wat? u expect getting big boot on ur system......nah....alittle is good nuff....LOL

honestly ur system is bit outdated for farcry.......LOL

Zelig · Jul 29, 2004, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ilia1986
Well, it seems quite right to me. I see no reason why everything that this DrLucky said shouldnt be true.

Because it isn't really possible...

No_Style · Jul 29, 2004, 04:38 PM

Let's see what he's saying:

Quote:

I run Far Cry on the above machine at the following settings:

RESOLUTION: 1024x768
AA: none
TEXTURES: High
TEXTURE FILTER: Trilinear
AF: 1
PARTICLES: High
SPECIAL EFFECTS : High
ENVIROMENT QUALITY: High
SHADOW QUALITY: Medium
WATER QUALITY: High
LIGHTING QUALITY: Low (not because of FPS but becuase anything above low
causes weird negative effects indoors)

FRAME RATES: Indoor - 60+
Outdoor - 28 (heavy battle with water and a lot of backround)
- 41 (walking around in jungle)

Welcome to DH

First of all, the Omega drivers, isn't "the NOS" for your video card which gives it a surge of performance. For some people, it may give performance increases, but it's not supposed to be rocking your world.

Now concerning the FAQ, I regard GameFAQs stuff pretty highly, because these people pretty much know what they're talking about when it comes to gaming, but tweaking...that could be a little iffy.

IF he got the framerates he claims, then good for him, but we're telling you it's unlikely. I say if you subtract 15 FPS from each of those 3 values he's stated, then that would be more accurate. It also depends on which level you're playing on in Far Cry, some levels are more intense on the hardware compared to others.

Here's a more reliable tweak guide available with pictures (C'mon, you know you love pictures

) over at TweakGuide's Far Cry Tweak Guide

ZeroOne · Jul 30, 2004, 12:47 PM

what about DirectX9c support with this drivers?

germanjulian · Jul 30, 2004, 01:08 PM

reminds me of the link I gave you of this guy on the o/c forums who said he has over 70FPS with 1280 resolution and high settings on his gefore 4 and barton something....

ColdPenguin · Aug 15, 2004, 12:31 AM

In the article that guy overclocked his video card from 200/350 to 250/400. That alone is probably where most of the boost is from. Furthermore he closed nearly all the background shit, which can eat up over half ur memory if u using windows xp and dont watch whats running carefully
plus he defragmented his hard drive which actually helps pevent some of the pauses when going into new areas because some of those big files games use to store textures model levels in get very fragmented across a heavily used drive.
He did a combination of things, it wasn't all because of the drivers.

PLus lighting is usually most intensive in many games so having thta on low certainly helps him out. I dont use Omega's drivers with far cry cus they seem to cause a lot of glitches,c heckerboarding etc. My lighting was on high however, so putting it on low might have fixed it if I was having a similar problem as him, but I wouldn't want to play it on low so i just use reference drivers.

Jul 19, 2004, 09:55 AM	#2
Zulan DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In your backyard Posts: 236 Rep Power: 0	Depends on the system the reviewer who you quoted has, if he has let's say a Pentium 3 GHZ and a nvidia Geforce FX 5900/5950 or even better a Geforce 6800/6800GT/6800Ultra, maybe with the Nvidia drivers his system wasn't getting the full performance, and the omega drivers released the performance, but seeying that your system ain't a rather new system, it is possible that the nvidia drivers allready gave you the max performance your system can achieve, and i especcially mean the Geforce 3 TI 200 you have with this. __________________ System 1: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 939) \| DVD-RW: Sony DVD RW DW-U18A \| Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2-54G \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6600 GT \| Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Soundblaster X-Fi \| Main HDD: 2 * Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB Serial ATA 10000RPM @ RAID 0 \| Storage HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 120 GB 8 MB Cache \| DVD: Lite-On 16* DVD \| OS: Windows XP SP2 \| PSU: Sweex 650W PSU *System 2:* CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ \| Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta2-FSR \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6200 256 MB \| Monitor: Hercules Prophetview 920 PRO \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Nvidia Soundstorm \| Main HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 80 GB 8 MB Cache \| CD-ROM: NEC 52* CD \| OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE \| PSU: A-Open 300W PSU *Laptop:* CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 3100+ \| GFX: SiS M760GX 128 MB \| Monitor: 15" XGA TFT LCD \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Realtek AC '97 audio \| HDD: 40 GB \| DVD-RW: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S \| OS: Windows XP PRO SP2

Jul 19, 2004, 12:29 PM	#6
Zulan DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In your backyard Posts: 236 Rep Power: 0	Recommended * Supported OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP (only) * Processor: AMD Athlon 2400-3000+ or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz * RAM: 512-1024 MB * Video Card: 128 MB GeForce 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT * Sound Card: Sound Blaster® Audigy® series * DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc) * DVD-ROM: 8x-16x DVD * Hard Drive Space: 4 GB * Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players) Minimum * Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP (only) * Processor: 1 GHz * RAM: 256 MB * Video Card: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compatible graphics card * Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0b-compatible PCI card * DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (included on disc) * DVD-ROM: 4x DVD * Hard Drive Space: 4 GB * Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players) Copied from the farcry Website. meaning his whole PC can't run farcry at all, so he surely can't run it @ 60 FPS at all, no mather which scene he is playing, that guy is just full of hot air. __________________ System 1: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 939) \| DVD-RW: Sony DVD RW DW-U18A \| Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2-54G \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6600 GT \| Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Soundblaster X-Fi \| Main HDD: 2 * Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB Serial ATA 10000RPM @ RAID 0 \| Storage HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 120 GB 8 MB Cache \| DVD: Lite-On 16* DVD \| OS: Windows XP SP2 \| PSU: Sweex 650W PSU *System 2:* CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ \| Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta2-FSR \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6200 256 MB \| Monitor: Hercules Prophetview 920 PRO \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Nvidia Soundstorm \| Main HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 80 GB 8 MB Cache \| CD-ROM: NEC 52* CD \| OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE \| PSU: A-Open 300W PSU *Laptop:* CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 3100+ \| GFX: SiS M760GX 128 MB \| Monitor: 15" XGA TFT LCD \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Realtek AC '97 audio \| HDD: 40 GB \| DVD-RW: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S \| OS: Windows XP PRO SP2

Jul 30, 2004, 12:47 PM	#13
ZeroOne DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 185 Rep Power: 0	re what about DirectX9c support with this drivers? __________________ ICE 0000 0001

Jul 30, 2004, 01:08 PM	#14
germanjulian Back in London Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 0	reminds me of the link I gave you of this guy on the o/c forums who said he has over 70FPS with 1280 resolution and high settings on his gefore 4 and barton something.... __________________ /\|\ Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2, E-VGA GeForce 7800 GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, 500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, Lian Li PC-V1100 Aluminum Case Black, etc. http://germanjulian.com /\|\

Jul 19, 2004, 09:58 AM	Thread Starter #3
ilia1986 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	That Guy had a 5200.. which equals to GeForce 2, AFAIK.

Jul 19, 2004, 11:24 AM	Thread Starter #5
ilia1986 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Yes he had a 5200, 384 MB of ram, and 950 MHz proc. And he was runing Far Cry at 60 FPSs during "walk in the jungle" scenes, on high settings. And he didnt say that OCing is actually better than the Omega Drivers. He credited them both the same.

Jul 19, 2004, 12:56 PM	Thread Starter #7
ilia1986 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	You DO realize that he did run it do you? This is taken from GameFAQs. Not some fan site. This guy indeed ran Far Cry at 60 FPSs on high settings. Did you even read the link I posted? He used Custom drivers and OCing to get these results.

Jul 19, 2004, 01:01 PM	#8
Death Machine DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0	The article seems quite dubious to me.

Jul 19, 2004, 01:18 PM	Thread Starter #9
ilia1986 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Well, it seems quite right to me. I see no reason why everything that this DrLucky said shouldnt be true.

Jul 29, 2004, 04:41 AM	#10
realjessy DrvierHeaven Driver Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	wat? u expect getting big boot on ur system......nah....alittle is good nuff....LOL honestly ur system is bit outdated for farcry.......LOL

Aug 15, 2004, 12:31 AM	#15
ColdPenguin ***** goon Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	In the article that guy overclocked his video card from 200/350 to 250/400. That alone is probably where most of the boost is from. Furthermore he closed nearly all the background shit, which can eat up over half ur memory if u using windows xp and dont watch whats running carefully plus he defragmented his hard drive which actually helps pevent some of the pauses when going into new areas because some of those big files games use to store textures model levels in get very fragmented across a heavily used drive. He did a combination of things, it wasn't all because of the drivers. PLus lighting is usually most intensive in many games so having thta on low certainly helps him out. I dont use Omega's drivers with far cry cus they seem to cause a lot of glitches,c heckerboarding etc. My lighting was on high however, so putting it on low might have fixed it if I was having a similar problem as him, but I wouldn't want to play it on low so i just use reference drivers.