BETA TESTING: nvidia Omega drivers 1.0.2940

Omegadrive · May 27, 2002, 01:12 AM

For all of you who didn't got selected in the first beta round of my drivers, now there is a second generation of the drivers, and they will be in OPEN beta testing.

The LOD for OpenGL is now more conservative than the one in the first beta round, It will look better than before, with less aliasing and shimmering. As for D3D, no luck yet, no way to adjust the LOD to a perfect setting yet (the drivers will still beta until I figure out how to make the LOD settings work correctly in D3D, if anyone knows please contact me).

Here are the instructions for the beta testing:
1) Install the regular 29.40 drivers and give them a roll in benchmarks, write down the results and take a notice of the image quality.
2) Download the Omega drivers.
3) After downloading them you must uncompress them to a folder of your choice using Winzip or any other utilitie that can extract CAB files.
4) They must be installed through the Device Manager, they don't have a SETUP.
5) No need to clean previous settings, the drivers are prepared to remove old settings, even unknown ones.
6) After the install just restart and test again.
7) Inform me of any problems or any advancements.

That's all I need, here is the temporary link to the new 2K/XP set:
http://www.omegacorner.com/files/bet...p_1.0.2940.cab

Enjoy!

johnandrew · May 27, 2002, 02:56 PM

i tried the 29.40s out with 3dmark2001 and got a score of 4284. then i installed the omega drivers and i got a score of 3600. sorry dude im going back to the detonators.

- dont you have some omega drivers for the 28.00 series? if so, post them and i'll give them a try too. -

digitalwanderer · May 27, 2002, 03:49 PM

Try his new drivers with something that uses openGL, he hasn't finished tweaking the D3D side yet. I got a huge performance boost in UT, (but under 98se), and the image quality is hella better.

The D3D stuff looked so awful it was almost cool & trippy....almost.

EDITED BITS: Just wanted to mention that Omegadrive's beta XP set has been 'leaked' and is now in the wild.

Chaos · May 27, 2002, 04:30 PM

I just gave them a go in Unreal Tournament and they do look real good. Better performance than the last set also.

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 04:44 PM

http://www.warp2search.net/article.p...thread&order=0

looks like someone likes to "borrow" the info on "leaked" sets from here... interesting.

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 05:00 PM

ive emailed both warp2search, rancho and newsfactory along with that german site http://planetxp.mip.mikemth.de/modul...cle&sid=1597.. to just "clear up" the fact that they got them from omegas official support forum HERE, very uncool they didnt even mention this place at all. a little common courtesy or asking the author would go a long way. they even have the drivers mirrored FGS.

Chaos · May 27, 2002, 05:05 PM

I did see mention on warp2search in the comments that they did originate here

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
I did see mention on warp2search in the comments that they did originate here

http://www.warp2search.net/article.p...thread&order=0 not here they didnt.

digitalwanderer · May 27, 2002, 05:17 PM

...did you notice that the poster's name was a bit familiar?

Chaos · May 27, 2002, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
http://www.warp2search.net/article.p...thread&order=0 not here they didnt.

If you scroll down you will see this comment:

Hummmmm ya the poster's name does sorta look familiar : )

The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Also the 1.0.2941 beta set for win9x/me is up (Score: 1)
by digitalwanderer on Monday, May 27 @ 18:10:20 CEST
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Omegadrive posted a comment about them over at http://www.rageunderground.com and you can find more comments about them over at http://www.hardwareheaven.com, Omegadrive & Cyborg's new site.

BTW-The D3D on this set is NOT finished nor is it really ready for primetime yet, they are definately beta....but the openGL is looking REAL good.

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 05:22 PM

yes thats because digital wanderer saw it and stepped in

, its nothing to do with warp2search, I know the guys well and they are cool...

ive emailed everyone with regards to this, I want some credit on the german site to this forum and more importantly I feel omega should have been asked. not only are his drivers mirrored but the important information in this thread he posted wasnt reproduced for users, NOR was he asked.

thats common courtesy.

Chaos · May 27, 2002, 05:31 PM

Cool, I'm not trying to defend the site I just mentioned that I saw mention in the comment by digitalwanderer

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 05:33 PM

ok they have fixed it im glad to see

my emails paid off then

NewsFactory · May 27, 2002, 05:54 PM

Hi Zardon,

I Always give credit to the site or the person that I get news from but on this occasion I spotted the drivers on our sister site and did mention @ the time that I wasn't sure where they got the drivers as I could not find them on Omegacorner.com but that's changed after I got your email and all links point here to Driverheaven! am not going to steal stories from here as I post here on a regular bases!

Regards

NewsFactory

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 05:57 PM

no I never said you did. I know you bud, you are cool

its been sorted out in email.... I just respect the work omega and cyborg put into the sets and this site. its only common courtesy. thats not much to ask. perhaps this wont happen again.

this forum means alot to me, and I hope you are all getting something good from it. thats why it is here.

NewsFactory · May 27, 2002, 06:00 PM

No problem mate! why do you think I post my stories here ? best place to be when your not on http://www.warp2search.com !LOL

Zardon · May 27, 2002, 06:04 PM

yes warp2search is one of my favs as well

Impulse · May 28, 2002, 12:43 AM

These drivers perform great under Quake 3 Using a GF3 under Win2k SP2

. Good job, Omega

PAP · May 28, 2002, 01:29 AM

when the beta omega drivers were posted here did you not think they would reach around the world in 80 seconds. i think you did, maybe you just wanted to see if there was interest. believe me the world waits for your new set of drivers, as i do! keep up the good work. PAP

snoz · May 28, 2002, 05:50 AM

But i cant get NVrefresh tool working with them

so all modes are in refresh 60hz.

When i run the program it shows the right modes and refresh rates and i hit update .. reboot but when i play a game in X res it defaults to 60hz

Graphics do look alot shaper , so i hope very much u can fix this.

Im running

windows 2k

athlon xp 1900+
geforce 4 ti4400

mark99 · May 28, 2002, 10:42 AM

Can we get back on-topic please =)..

I'd really like to try these drivers for their OpenGL, although their not much good unless D3D is also working. In other words, can you release a version with just the OpenGL improvements and no changes to the D3D? Or indeed, can I do this myself, which I doubt if the primary .inf file has been altered too much.

Omegadrive · May 29, 2002, 03:54 AM

mark, the D3D part IS working and optimized, only the LOD is NOT ready, and in this case, with the current settings you may experience a slowdown in D3D, but the graphics are sharp (well... too sharp) and games run.
I'll update the drivers again this weekend with the D3D detail turned down to the standard mode until I get a hold of the problem (of fix it).

Skinner · May 29, 2002, 10:47 PM

Man, you finally did it, take away the blur in d3d, although it's a little bitle to much lodbias, but I read you gonna lower it a bit.

I searched myself a bit to find a way to increase the load in d3d and now you have done it in your driver, nice work

I can finally drop the anisotropic filteringhit, and take the full power of my Gf4.

The nice point of lodbias is when viewing at textures on big angles are a lot of sharper now, and I don't feel the need of using the much more heavy aniso now.

therock16 · Jun 6, 2002, 06:10 AM

Any updates on the drivers?

BenT · Jun 7, 2002, 01:37 AM

Great drivers Omega....I only lost about 10 FPS in most games, but they look absolutely fantastic! Anyway, what's 10 frames when you're looking at 80-100! I'd have to say that the GL is good, looks nice and performs well, but I noticed that for some reason that 3DNOW!, MMX and SSE are all disabled? Is this just some strange thing happening in my system? I turned them back on so all is well.... Can't wait to see the next set!

Keep up the good work!

BenT

Omegadrive · Jun 7, 2002, 05:45 AM

I'm still testing and experimenting, please be patient, as soon as I have something worthy I'll release it.

BenT, I disabled CPU instructions support, that's why is disabled by default, The reason?, is actually slower when they are enabled, I discovered this some time ago in the ATI drivers and now in the nvidia drivers.

Skinner · Jun 8, 2002, 11:45 PM

I hope you keep on gooing with it, I was pleasently surpriced what you did in d3d!
This is just what it needs, rivatuner's lod has no effect in d3d, how did you find the right registery?

Lamentation · Jun 9, 2002, 03:21 AM

This is just what it needs, rivatuner's lod has no effect in d3d, how did you find the right registery?

Is this right? I was thinking this did work, am I fooling myself? And when you say "LOD", are you talking about a setting somewhere that's different from what i can change in rivatuner?

Skinner · Jun 14, 2002, 01:03 AM

Yep, the mipmapsettings in rivatuner don't do anything with the latest drivers, they just need some extra sharpness.

Omega, any progress on the way?

Impulse · Jun 20, 2002, 10:16 AM

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May 27, 2002, 01:12 AM	#1
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	BETA TESTING: nvidia Omega drivers 1.0.2940 For all of you who didn't got selected in the first beta round of my drivers, now there is a second generation of the drivers, and they will be in OPEN beta testing. The LOD for OpenGL is now more conservative than the one in the first beta round, It will look better than before, with less aliasing and shimmering. As for D3D, no luck yet, no way to adjust the LOD to a perfect setting yet (the drivers will still beta until I figure out how to make the LOD settings work correctly in D3D, if anyone knows please contact me). Here are the instructions for the beta testing: 1) Install the regular 29.40 drivers and give them a roll in benchmarks, write down the results and take a notice of the image quality. 2) Download the Omega drivers. 3) After downloading them you must uncompress them to a folder of your choice using Winzip or any other utilitie that can extract CAB files. 4) They must be installed through the Device Manager, they don't have a SETUP. 5) No need to clean previous settings, the drivers are prepared to remove old settings, even unknown ones. 6) After the install just restart and test again. 7) Inform me of any problems or any advancements. That's all I need, here is the temporary link to the new 2K/XP set: http://www.omegacorner.com/files/bet...p_1.0.2940.cab Enjoy! __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 27, 2002, 02:56 PM	#2
johnandrew DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	eh.... i tried the 29.40s out with 3dmark2001 and got a score of 4284. then i installed the omega drivers and i got a score of 3600. sorry dude im going back to the detonators. - dont you have some omega drivers for the 28.00 series? if so, post them and i'll give them a try too. - __________________ ---------------------------------- if you cant beat em, flog em ----------------------------------

May 27, 2002, 03:49 PM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	OpenGL Try his new drivers with something that uses openGL, he hasn't finished tweaking the D3D side yet. I got a huge performance boost in UT, (but under 98se), and the image quality is hella better. The D3D stuff looked so awful it was almost cool & trippy....almost. EDITED BITS: Just wanted to mention that Omegadrive's beta XP set has been 'leaked' and is now in the wild. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 27, 2002, 04:30 PM	#4
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	New Omega Drivers I just gave them a go in Unreal Tournament and they do look real good. Better performance than the last set also. __________________

May 27, 2002, 05:05 PM	#7
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Drivers I did see mention on warp2search in the comments that they did originate here __________________

May 27, 2002, 04:44 PM	#5
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	http://www.warp2search.net/article.p...thread&order=0 looks like someone likes to "borrow" the info on "leaked" sets from here... interesting.

May 27, 2002, 05:00 PM	#6
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ive emailed both warp2search, rancho and newsfactory along with that german site http://planetxp.mip.mikemth.de/modul...cle&sid=1597.. to just "clear up" the fact that they got them from omegas official support forum HERE, very uncool they didnt even mention this place at all. a little common courtesy or asking the author would go a long way. they even have the drivers mirrored FGS.

May 27, 2002, 05:17 PM	#9
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Yes, but... ...did you notice that the poster's name was a bit familiar? __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 27, 2002, 05:22 PM	#11
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	yes thats because digital wanderer saw it and stepped in , its nothing to do with warp2search, I know the guys well and they are cool... ive emailed everyone with regards to this, I want some credit on the german site to this forum and more importantly I feel omega should have been asked. not only are his drivers mirrored but the important information in this thread he posted wasnt reproduced for users, NOR was he asked. thats common courtesy.

May 27, 2002, 05:31 PM	#12
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Omega Drivers Cool, I'm not trying to defend the site I just mentioned that I saw mention in the comment by digitalwanderer __________________

May 27, 2002, 05:33 PM	#13
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ok they have fixed it im glad to see my emails paid off then

May 27, 2002, 05:54 PM	#14
NewsFactory News Guru Join Date: May 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 0	Hi Zardon, I Always give credit to the site or the person that I get news from but on this occasion I spotted the drivers on our sister site and did mention @ the time that I wasn't sure where they got the drivers as I could not find them on Omegacorner.com but that's changed after I got your email and all links point here to Driverheaven! am not going to steal stories from here as I post here on a regular bases! Regards NewsFactory

May 27, 2002, 05:57 PM	#15
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	no I never said you did. I know you bud, you are cool its been sorted out in email.... I just respect the work omega and cyborg put into the sets and this site. its only common courtesy. thats not much to ask. perhaps this wont happen again. this forum means alot to me, and I hope you are all getting something good from it. thats why it is here.

May 27, 2002, 06:00 PM	#16
NewsFactory News Guru Join Date: May 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 0	No problem mate! why do you think I post my stories here ? best place to be when your not on http://www.warp2search.com !LOL

May 27, 2002, 06:04 PM	#17
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	yes warp2search is one of my favs as well

May 28, 2002, 01:29 AM	#19
PAP DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	when the beta omega drivers were posted here did you not think they would reach around the world in 80 seconds. i think you did, maybe you just wanted to see if there was interest. believe me the world waits for your new set of drivers, as i do! keep up the good work. PAP __________________ Windows XP Professinal Sp2 XP 3000+ 333FSB,Asus A7N8X-X O/C FSB 180 @2.34 Ghz, temp 38c-45c Raidmax Scorpio 868W Blue, Antec true330 Corsair XMS Model TWINX1024-3200XLPT Cas 2 2 2 5, w/ Platinum Heat Spreader BFG Tech. 6800 GT OC, Forceware 66.81 O/C 405/1.2 temp 58c-72c Viewsonic A90f+ 19in. Flat screen SB Audigy Gamer, Klipsch THX 2.1 Seagate 40 gig 7200 rpm 52x32x52 cd/rw, 16x dvd

May 28, 2002, 12:43 AM	#18
Impulse l33t Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 248 Rep Power: 0	These drivers perform great under Quake 3 Using a GF3 under Win2k SP2 . Good job, Omega

May 28, 2002, 05:50 AM	#20
snoz DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: England Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Great drivers But i cant get NVrefresh tool working with them so all modes are in refresh 60hz. When i run the program it shows the right modes and refresh rates and i hit update .. reboot but when i play a game in X res it defaults to 60hz Graphics do look alot shaper , so i hope very much u can fix this. Im running windows 2k athlon xp 1900+ geforce 4 ti4400 __________________ [color=red] Windows 2000 sr3 Athlon XP 1900+ Epox 8k3a kt333 chipset [/color] [color=yellow]Via 4 in 1 4.45 [/color] [color=red]768mb of Crucial pc2700 cas 2.5 ram Soundblaster Audigy[/color][color=yellow] 5.12.1.253 drivers [/color] [color=red]Geforce 4 ti4400[/color] [color=yellow]Nvidia Detonator 41.80[/color]

May 28, 2002, 10:42 AM	#21
mark99 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Remove Rubish D3D Code Only Can we get back on-topic please =).. I'd really like to try these drivers for their OpenGL, although their not much good unless D3D is also working. In other words, can you release a version with just the OpenGL improvements and no changes to the D3D? Or indeed, can I do this myself, which I doubt if the primary .inf file has been altered too much.

May 29, 2002, 03:54 AM	Thread Starter #22
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	mark, the D3D part IS working and optimized, only the LOD is NOT ready, and in this case, with the current settings you may experience a slowdown in D3D, but the graphics are sharp (well... too sharp) and games run. I'll update the drivers again this weekend with the D3D detail turned down to the standard mode until I get a hold of the problem (of fix it). __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 29, 2002, 10:47 PM	#23
Skinner DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	Man, you finally did it, take away the blur in d3d, although it's a little bitle to much lodbias, but I read you gonna lower it a bit. I searched myself a bit to find a way to increase the load in d3d and now you have done it in your driver, nice work I can finally drop the anisotropic filteringhit, and take the full power of my Gf4. The nice point of lodbias is when viewing at textures on big angles are a lot of sharper now, and I don't feel the need of using the much more heavy aniso now. __________________ CMStackercase * Intel Core2Duo E6600@3gHz * Asus P5W DH * Club 3d HD3870 Crossfired * 4x1 Gig OCZ 6400C4 * Quantum Atlas 15KII SCSI U160 174 G * EizoT966 * X-Fi Fatal1ty * Logitech Z5500 and some other stuff

Jun 6, 2002, 06:10 AM	#24
therock16 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downey, CA Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	Any updates on the drivers?

Jun 7, 2002, 01:37 AM	#25
BenT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Great drivers Omega....I only lost about 10 FPS in most games, but they look absolutely fantastic! Anyway, what's 10 frames when you're looking at 80-100! I'd have to say that the GL is good, looks nice and performs well, but I noticed that for some reason that 3DNOW!, MMX and SSE are all disabled? Is this just some strange thing happening in my system? I turned them back on so all is well.... Can't wait to see the next set! Keep up the good work! BenT

Jun 7, 2002, 05:45 AM	Thread Starter #26
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	I'm still testing and experimenting, please be patient, as soon as I have something worthy I'll release it. BenT, I disabled CPU instructions support, that's why is disabled by default, The reason?, is actually slower when they are enabled, I discovered this some time ago in the ATI drivers and now in the nvidia drivers. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Jun 8, 2002, 11:45 PM	#27
Skinner DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	I hope you keep on gooing with it, I was pleasently surpriced what you did in d3d! This is just what it needs, rivatuner's lod has no effect in d3d, how did you find the right registery? __________________ CMStackercase * Intel Core2Duo E6600@3gHz * Asus P5W DH * Club 3d HD3870 Crossfired * 4x1 Gig OCZ 6400C4 * Quantum Atlas 15KII SCSI U160 174 G * EizoT966 * X-Fi Fatal1ty * Logitech Z5500 and some other stuff

Jun 9, 2002, 03:21 AM	#28
Lamentation DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: TN Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	This is just what it needs, rivatuner's lod has no effect in d3d, how did you find the right registery? Is this right? I was thinking this did work, am I fooling myself? And when you say "LOD", are you talking about a setting somewhere that's different from what i can change in rivatuner?

Jun 14, 2002, 01:03 AM	#29
Skinner DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	Yep, the mipmapsettings in rivatuner don't do anything with the latest drivers, they just need some extra sharpness. Omega, any progress on the way? __________________ CMStackercase * Intel Core2Duo E6600@3gHz * Asus P5W DH * Club 3d HD3870 Crossfired * 4x1 Gig OCZ 6400C4 * Quantum Atlas 15KII SCSI U160 174 G * EizoT966 * X-Fi Fatal1ty * Logitech Z5500 and some other stuff

Jun 20, 2002, 10:16 AM	#30
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