When can we get omega driver for catalyst 3.1?

corundum · Feb 11, 2003, 02:40 PM

I used omega drivers for my laptop, and they works so good. Now, cat3.1 has been published, but mobility chips still are not in it...

Sherv · Feb 11, 2003, 02:56 PM

He hasn't posted them yet, don't even know if he's working on them, but he should be, can't wait!!!

ToshiroOC · Feb 11, 2003, 11:09 PM

Mobility chips aren't in the cat3.1s because only OEM companies use the mobility chips, and the OEMs prefer to release their own variants of the drivers in their own good time... I don't know if Omega is working on these new 3.1s - he might decide that they work plenty well, as he did with the 3.0s, and not worry about it, in which case its time to email and bug your laptop maufacturer

Zardon · Feb 11, 2003, 11:34 PM

he is working on his new drivers yes.

Thunderball.se · Feb 12, 2003, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ToshiroOC
Mobility chips aren't in the cat3.1s because only OEM companies use the mobility chips, and the OEMs prefer to release their own variants of the drivers in their own good time... I don't know if Omega is working on these new 3.1s - he might decide that they work plenty well, as he did with the 3.0s, and not worry about it, in which case its time to email and bug your laptop maufacturer

I don't think mobility cards have ever worked with ATI's official drivers. Heck, I haven't even managed to get official drivers working by messing with their config files even with all the tips from others on this board.

Just wait until the next tweaked driver from here is released.

(Compaq, btw, hasn't updated their ATI drivers for over six months, I think... pathetic.)

DONTSHOOT · Feb 12, 2003, 12:28 AM

*Waiting patiently for the Omega 3.1's*

Harboe · Feb 12, 2003, 10:09 AM

Hope he makes the driver so it works with Mafie, since ATI calims it's fixed, but really isnt.

corundum · Feb 12, 2003, 10:28 AM

corundum · Feb 12, 2003, 10:33 AM

and I am waiting for the mobility driver.

Omegadrive · Feb 13, 2003, 02:51 AM

Don't worry, I already have them with support up to Mobility IGP345M.
I'm in the testing phase and a release should be expected for this weekend if everything looks fine...

BTW, the only problem I have found so far is with No One Lives for Ever, I play at 1280x960, 4xFSAA, 16Aniso, and the game keeps turning FSAA OFF in the middle of scenes, usually when I enter a big area, and when it turns off, the game gets VERY choppy, I'll say like 4 or 5 FPS max, and the only way to solve it temporarely is to go into the options, change the detail level so the screen reloads and enter the game again, but as soon as I LOOK to the big area, choppiness again....

I think it has to do with the new 16bit FSAA implementation, but I'll do some more tests to be sure...

One more thing, I don't have Mafia to test the problem, Whould the demo do? (if there is one...

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digitalwanderer · Feb 13, 2003, 03:28 AM

And it should work to test.

Dumb question, but which flavor of Radeon are you running right now Omegadrive?

Omegadrive · Feb 13, 2003, 03:44 AM

Retail ATI 9700 Pro @ 351/330 (bios modified) in my PC, the Radeon 8500 non-OC in the Arcade machine and a GeForce 1 DDR in my wife's PC to test the nvidia drivers (Win98SE all of them, mine is the only one with dual boot).

Falstaff · Feb 13, 2003, 04:03 AM

mighty omega, we await the next driver, I am always impressed with the quality and improvement in your drivers, you rock, I see this whole effort becoming a cult, ha ha...

Falstaff · Feb 13, 2003, 04:06 AM

I love the flight sim called IL2, I know you've heard of it, but the omega drivers actually improve the quality of the whole experience and allow me and those who enjoy stunning visuals to totally emerse into the experience....thanx again..

dirtydog · Feb 13, 2003, 02:02 PM

thx omega !!!! hope to get your drivers soon

gibbon565 · Feb 13, 2003, 08:44 PM

Yeah I cant wait to get my hands on the too

digitalwanderer · Feb 13, 2003, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
Retail ATI 9700 Pro @ 351/330 (bios modified) in my PC, the Radeon 8500 non-OC in the Arcade machine and a GeForce 1 DDR in my wife's PC to test the nvidia drivers (Win98SE all of them, mine is the only one with dual boot).

Mmmmmm.....9700 Pro.

I look forward to your 3.1 set, I can't get the bloody gamma over 75Mhz in 98se to save me arse.

sKywOlf · Feb 15, 2003, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Harboe
Hope he makes the driver so it works with Mafie, since ATI calims it's fixed, but really isnt.

How do you mean they didn't fix it???
On my maechine Mafia now finally runs the way it should !!!!

sKywOlf

Harboe · Feb 15, 2003, 11:04 PM

What card do you have? I have a 8500LE and have read about others that didnt have it fixed also.

sKywOlf · Feb 15, 2003, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Harboe
What card do you have? I have a 8500LE and have read about others that didnt have it fixed also.

Ohw ok, perhaps that's the why. I have an Ait Radeon 9700 Pro

DONTSHOOT · Feb 16, 2003, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Harboe
Hope he makes the driver so it works with Mafie, since ATI calims it's fixed, but really isnt.

??? What flavor Radeon are you running, I have a 9700 pro and it runs Mafia flawlessly maxed out ?!

radical · Feb 16, 2003, 11:00 PM

HI omega I love ure drivers and thyve always worked well for me but in order to play project entropia Im having to run the l8est cat 3.1s and can't wait for ure version to come out ..............
just a problem I have with IGI2 that Ive posted and had answers to on another forum(hope thas not frowned on)

Its the large leaf patterns I get in IGI2 on my 9000 pro with the 3.1 cats and It appears It is something to do with the zbuffer@32bit ......... The workaround is to run the zbuffer 16 bit(without stencil) which hasn't been addressed by codemasters as i think they feel it's a driver fault not a game engine fault
the only workaround I know to run the game without the huge leaf patterns flashing all over the map are to be found in a post I found from 16th jan and was solved by coffindancer found here http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthr...&highlight=igi2
So if u fancy running the l8est IGI2 single or multiplayer demo could this be added to the list of things to be sorted or tweaked out in ure next driver set plz assuming u can emulate the fault on ure radeon 9700 ?? ..............

Flyser · Feb 16, 2003, 11:48 PM

i realy waiting for this driver

cmac · Feb 17, 2003, 07:01 AM

there here

RIV@NVX · Feb 17, 2003, 11:17 AM

Further discussion continiues in the Omega 2.3.92 thread.

Feb 11, 2003, 02:40 PM	#1
corundum DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: China Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	When can we get omega driver for catalyst 3.1? I used omega drivers for my laptop, and they works so good. Now, cat3.1 has been published, but mobility chips still are not in it...

Feb 11, 2003, 11:09 PM	#3
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	Mobility chips aren't in the cat3.1s because only OEM companies use the mobility chips, and the OEMs prefer to release their own variants of the drivers in their own good time... I don't know if Omega is working on these new 3.1s - he might decide that they work plenty well, as he did with the 3.0s, and not worry about it, in which case its time to email and bug your laptop maufacturer __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Feb 12, 2003, 12:28 AM	#6
DONTSHOOT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: DETROIT Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	Waiting patiently for the Omega 3.1's __________________ A7N8xD Uber1004 AXP2200+ 166x11 2x512 Crucial 2700@5-2-2-2 ATI9700Pro SB Audigy HP DVD Writer DVD200xi XP sp1 Happiness is a Rental DVD that is UNDER 4.7GB

Feb 12, 2003, 10:28 AM	Thread Starter #8
corundum DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: China Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Thx Thx Thx

Feb 12, 2003, 10:33 AM	Thread Starter #9
corundum DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: China Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Thank patje and ToshiroOC and I am waiting for the mobility driver.

Feb 11, 2003, 02:56 PM	#2
Sherv DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Fife, Scotland Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	He hasn't posted them yet, don't even know if he's working on them, but he should be, can't wait!!!

Feb 11, 2003, 11:34 PM	#4
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	he is working on his new drivers yes.

Feb 12, 2003, 10:09 AM	#7
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Hope he makes the driver so it works with Mafie, since ATI calims it's fixed, but really isnt.

Feb 13, 2003, 02:51 AM	#10
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	Don't worry, I already have them with support up to Mobility IGP345M. I'm in the testing phase and a release should be expected for this weekend if everything looks fine... BTW, the only problem I have found so far is with No One Lives for Ever, I play at 1280x960, 4xFSAA, 16Aniso, and the game keeps turning FSAA OFF in the middle of scenes, usually when I enter a big area, and when it turns off, the game gets VERY choppy, I'll say like 4 or 5 FPS max, and the only way to solve it temporarely is to go into the options, change the detail level so the screen reloads and enter the game again, but as soon as I LOOK to the big area, choppiness again.... I think it has to do with the new 16bit FSAA implementation, but I'll do some more tests to be sure... One more thing, I don't have Mafia to test the problem, Whould the demo do? (if there is one... ) __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Feb 13, 2003, 03:28 AM	#11
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	There is a Mafia demo. And it should work to test. Dumb question, but which flavor of Radeon are you running right now Omegadrive? __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Feb 13, 2003, 03:44 AM	#12
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	Retail ATI 9700 Pro @ 351/330 (bios modified) in my PC, the Radeon 8500 non-OC in the Arcade machine and a GeForce 1 DDR in my wife's PC to test the nvidia drivers (Win98SE all of them, mine is the only one with dual boot). __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Feb 13, 2003, 04:03 AM	#13
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Mt. Olympus mighty omega, we await the next driver, I am always impressed with the quality and improvement in your drivers, you rock, I see this whole effort becoming a cult, ha ha... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Feb 13, 2003, 04:06 AM	#14
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	In addition I love the flight sim called IL2, I know you've heard of it, but the omega drivers actually improve the quality of the whole experience and allow me and those who enjoy stunning visuals to totally emerse into the experience....thanx again.. __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Feb 13, 2003, 02:02 PM	#15
dirtydog DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: austria / europe Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	thx omega !!!! hope to get your drivers soon

Feb 13, 2003, 08:44 PM	#16
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Feb 15, 2003, 11:04 PM	#19
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	What card do you have? I have a 8500LE and have read about others that didnt have it fixed also.

Feb 16, 2003, 11:00 PM	#22
radical DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	HI omega I love ure drivers and thyve always worked well for me but in order to play project entropia Im having to run the l8est cat 3.1s and can't wait for ure version to come out .............. just a problem I have with IGI2 that Ive posted and had answers to on another forum(hope thas not frowned on) Its the large leaf patterns I get in IGI2 on my 9000 pro with the 3.1 cats and It appears It is something to do with the zbuffer@32bit ......... The workaround is to run the zbuffer 16 bit(without stencil) which hasn't been addressed by codemasters as i think they feel it's a driver fault not a game engine fault the only workaround I know to run the game without the huge leaf patterns flashing all over the map are to be found in a post I found from 16th jan and was solved by coffindancer found here http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthr...&highlight=igi2 So if u fancy running the l8est IGI2 single or multiplayer demo could this be added to the list of things to be sorted or tweaked out in ure next driver set plz assuming u can emulate the fault on ure radeon 9700 ?? ..............

Feb 16, 2003, 11:48 PM	#23
Flyser DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	i realy waiting for this driver

Feb 17, 2003, 11:17 AM	#25
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,476 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Further discussion continiues in the Omega 2.3.92 thread. __________________ -- Vedran