Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.43 for Win2k/XP

Omegadrive · May 16, 2003, 12:45 PM

Here they are, almost the same day as ATI drivers, and better than ever...

What's New?

* Based on the official Catalyst 3.4 ATI drivers. (9x/ME/2k/XP)
* Added support for the following chipsets: (9x/ME/2k/XP)
Radeon 9200
Radeon 9200 Pro
Radeon 9800
Radeon 9800 Pro
* Removed names for specific cards (Tyan, Gigabyte, etc.), now they all have a common name (9700, 9500, etc.) (9x/ME/2k/XP)
* Removed support for Mobility cards in the 2k/XP drivers, those of you that need support for mobility cards please use Patje's Mobility Modder utility to add support. The utility can be found here: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/patje/
* Updated all included utilities to most recent versions. (2k/XP)
* Added an Overclocking utility for all cards, can be found in the ATI Control Panel, it's a new tab. (2k/XP)
* Added the Advanced SmartGart options, can be found in the folder created by my drivers in the Start Menu. (9x/ME/2k/XP)
* The 9500->9700 and 9700->9800 hack is included and can be selected during the installation process, but now is better explained, easier for newbies. (9x/ME/2k/XP)
* The installer has been updated with more accurate information on all the areas, including the readme and options description. (9x/ME/2k/XP)

Just go to my site, download and enjoy!

God bless you all!!!

Striper · May 16, 2003, 12:55 PM

thanks alot,

i am going to test them today in the evening

Striper

Elias2k · May 16, 2003, 12:57 PM

after insalling the new omega drivers smoothvision II is displayed instead of 2.1 hacked ati drivers for my ati 9500!!

Omegadrive · May 16, 2003, 01:00 PM

Elias2k, I'm investigating that, since I know the hack is installed, but the CP is not showing SM2.1, but is indeed working.

Elias2k · May 16, 2003, 01:24 PM

thx man great work and very fast support !!!!

Elias2k · May 16, 2003, 01:26 PM

probs with gta vice city with catalyst 3.4 ??? do i only have probs playing gta vice city using cat 3.4???

joeyddr · May 16, 2003, 02:10 PM

am i stupid or are there no links on omegas page to download the new ones?

joeyddr · May 16, 2003, 02:10 PM

am i stupid or are there no links on omegas page to download the new ones?

MoAsT · May 16, 2003, 02:12 PM

plz omega upload the drivers

joeyddr · May 16, 2003, 02:15 PM

IMPORTANT: DRIVER SERVER WILL BE DOWN FOR A FEW MINUTES, PLEASE COME BACK LATER...

oops not stupid just blind.

MoAsT · May 16, 2003, 02:16 PM

any mirror ?

thiagodm · May 16, 2003, 02:20 PM

I'm waiting for a link
where is it??

MoAsT · May 16, 2003, 02:21 PM

Yeah thx, refresh the page and u will see

@dek · May 16, 2003, 02:24 PM

They are mirrored!

Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.43 for 2k/XP and 2.5.99 for Win9x/ME

Keep them coming!

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · May 16, 2003, 02:27 PM

Great work again Omega! You are making a believer outta me man.

The games I have tested so far, F1 2002 (2003) and Rallisport are a few frames up. (3-10)
IQ is great as always.

I know you make these drivers optimized for games and not benchmarks, but
I had a 350 point increase in 3DMark03!!!
(My CPU is still a bottleneck, but of course that's not your fault. Heh.)

One thing though, and I saw someone else mention it, the CP does say
Smoothvision II instead of 2.1. I did choose to install the 9700--->9800 hack
but nothing else. I'm not really into overclocking all that much.
I see you are working on this small issue already, so...

Again, great job.

Peace up.

Donosorxx · May 16, 2003, 02:55 PM

How do these new drivers compare to the previous Omega ones? Anyone that tested them, yet?

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · May 16, 2003, 03:09 PM

My previous post about 3 inches above or one page back depending on your board settings
gave some performance comparisons between the Omega 2407a's and the 2443's.

I guess I wasn't detailed enough. I have been using Omega drivers for going on 7-8 weeks now.
Highly recommended.

LaserLight · May 16, 2003, 03:11 PM

Hello...
I hope you respond coz this thing bothers me a little...
I don't know about software programming much, but my question is this.
First, I use Cat 3.4 + Rage3DTweak, and have no problem.
I'm tempted to use your driver...
My question is: What are they? What they do? Will they help my games and in what way? What are these hacks and will they work on my board?
My System is: Built by ATI Radeon 9500PRO, ATHLON XP 2700, 256x2 (512MB) DDR400 - that's what counts..ehh?

Anyways, Thanks alot!

Idan.

this · May 16, 2003, 03:12 PM

This version does work smoothly than any older drivers. Although the 3D Mark 2001's score is just the same as the previous version, the games run rather smoothly. And omega's wonderful tools included in this driver make the card fast and stable.

It's GREAT! Thank for Omega!!!

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · May 16, 2003, 03:46 PM

May have run into a small glitch.

I have your new 2.4.43 drivers installed Omega.

Upon re-booting my PC, because I had re-installed my Virus software,
the screen hung up, with no toolbar or icons showing, just the wallpaper.
In the middle of the wallpaper was the Advanced SmartGart Menu.
I closed that, and then got the "Windows XP has recovered from a serious error...blah blah"

I went ahead and sent the error report, which displayed the dialog box pictured in the link.
I'll put up the link in just a second.

Another thing, I went into my Program Files, and went into the new Omega driver folder
In the WinXPInfo subfolder, I saw the folders for Standard Driver, and another folder for
Hacked Driver. These two folders were seperate, and not in the same area as the driver files.

My specs are in my sig.

Thanks.

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · May 16, 2003, 03:50 PM

Here's the link to the error screen. Probably just a standard error screen.
If you need any more info, just let me know.

Thanks again.

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~hg/foru...=486699#486699

ryan328 · May 16, 2003, 03:53 PM

so fast

I'm going to try it

Thank you very much

MewtwoSama · May 16, 2003, 04:10 PM

Bring back Mobility Support!

Vengeance · May 16, 2003, 04:12 PM

Omega, I have a "Stupid question" I installed your new drivers for the first time! And I must say I like them.

Now for my question, I have a 9500Pro that I fashed my bios on so that I can over clock it. Which set of your drivers should I use the regular ones or the hacked ones? Right now I'm useing the regular 9500/9700 drivers. With no problems at all But will the hacked ones work any better with the 9500 Pro thats had the bios flashed?
Thanks.

occipiter · May 16, 2003, 04:28 PM

I've used old Omega drivers for my ASUS Notebook, they worked fine, please bring back mobility support.
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occipiter
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~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · May 16, 2003, 04:41 PM

Just a couple of other things...

I disabled Fastwrites, rebooted,and then went into F12002. The framerate was really jerky.
Naturally I turned them back on, and got good FPS again. I onlymention this because you
recommend to turn them off. On my PC they work much better on.

Finally, in the Program files I now have 2 folders:

The Omega 2407a's and the other folder the new 2.4.43's
Both seperate Program Folders/Files.

Can I delete the old 2407a folder with no il-effects?

Paradox52525 · May 16, 2003, 05:16 PM

Ok, this may be a stupid question, but how do you use the 9700->9800 hack? I selected the "hack" version of the drivers when I installed, but my card still shows up as a 9700 Pro. Is that the way it's supposed to work? There doesn't seem to be anything about it in the Omega 2.4.4.3 readme and I couldn't find any info on this forum either....very confused by the vagueness. Thanks in advance.

Scoop · May 16, 2003, 05:21 PM

Looking good here, first time Ive used them. This has the full works in no need to install rage 3d tweak therefore saving system resorces

Regards
Scoop

BuddMan · May 16, 2003, 06:08 PM

Well, Omega's drivers are great, but two problems. 1. The overclocking tool works, but even if I tell it to keep an overclock setting on boot up, it will not keep it. It resets to default everytime I restart even after I tell it to keep my overclocked settings. 2. Battlefield 1942 won't start if I have the forced refreshes enabled for some reason (not really a driver problem I guess, but still a problem). Anyone else have these problems? Rather than that everything is running great. Good job.

thor777 · May 16, 2003, 06:15 PM

Buddman:

Try this to fix your BF1942

Go to your Battlefield 1942 folder, Mods, bf1942, then the Settings folder. In that folder you will see a file called VideoDefault.con. Open the file with Notepad. In there you will see a line with this command:

renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0

Change the 0 to a 1 and then Save the file.

May 16, 2003, 12:45 PM	#1
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.43 for Win2k/XP Here they are, almost the same day as ATI drivers, and better than ever... What's New? * Based on the official Catalyst 3.4 ATI drivers. (9x/ME/2k/XP) * Added support for the following chipsets: (9x/ME/2k/XP) Radeon 9200 Radeon 9200 Pro Radeon 9800 Radeon 9800 Pro * Removed names for specific cards (Tyan, Gigabyte, etc.), now they all have a common name (9700, 9500, etc.) (9x/ME/2k/XP) * Removed support for Mobility cards in the 2k/XP drivers, those of you that need support for mobility cards please use Patje's Mobility Modder utility to add support. The utility can be found here: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/patje/ * Updated all included utilities to most recent versions. (2k/XP) * Added an Overclocking utility for all cards, can be found in the ATI Control Panel, it's a new tab. (2k/XP) * Added the Advanced SmartGart options, can be found in the folder created by my drivers in the Start Menu. (9x/ME/2k/XP) * The 9500->9700 and 9700->9800 hack is included and can be selected during the installation process, but now is better explained, easier for newbies. (9x/ME/2k/XP) * The installer has been updated with more accurate information on all the areas, including the readme and options description. (9x/ME/2k/XP) Just go to my site, download and enjoy! God bless you all!!! __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 16, 2003, 12:57 PM	#3
Elias2k DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	smooothvsison after insalling the new omega drivers smoothvision II is displayed instead of 2.1 hacked ati drivers for my ati 9500!!

May 16, 2003, 01:00 PM	Thread Starter #4
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	Elias2k, I'm investigating that, since I know the hack is installed, but the CP is not showing SM2.1, but is indeed working. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

May 16, 2003, 01:24 PM	#5
Elias2k DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	thx thx man great work and very fast support !!!!

May 16, 2003, 01:26 PM	#6
Elias2k DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	gta vice city probs with gta vice city with catalyst 3.4 ??? do i only have probs playing gta vice city using cat 3.4???

May 16, 2003, 12:55 PM	#2
Striper DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austria Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	thanks alot, i am going to test them today in the evening Striper

May 16, 2003, 02:10 PM	#7
joeyddr DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	am i stupid or are there no links on omegas page to download the new ones?

May 16, 2003, 02:12 PM	#9
MoAsT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	where are the links? plz omega upload the drivers

May 16, 2003, 02:15 PM	#10
joeyddr DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	IMPORTANT: DRIVER SERVER WILL BE DOWN FOR A FEW MINUTES, PLEASE COME BACK LATER... oops not stupid just blind.

May 16, 2003, 02:16 PM	#11
MoAsT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	hehe it is true.... any mirror ?

May 16, 2003, 02:20 PM	#12
thiagodm HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Posts: 35 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I'm waiting for a link where is it??

May 16, 2003, 02:21 PM	#13
MoAsT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	it is up now Yeah thx, refresh the page and u will see

May 16, 2003, 02:24 PM	#14
@dek Techconnect Owner Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: online :) Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	They are mirrored! Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.43 for 2k/XP and 2.5.99 for Win9x/ME Keep them coming!

May 16, 2003, 02:27 PM	#15
~~BMG_Cya=-~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 718 Rep Power: 0	Great work again Omega! You are making a believer outta me man. The games I have tested so far, F1 2002 (2003) and Rallisport are a few frames up. (3-10) IQ is great as always. I know you make these drivers optimized for games and not benchmarks, but I had a 350 point increase in 3DMark03!!! (My CPU is still a bottleneck, but of course that's not your fault. Heh.) One thing though, and I saw someone else mention it, the CP does say Smoothvision II instead of 2.1. I did choose to install the 9700--->9800 hack but nothing else. I'm not really into overclocking all that much. I see you are working on this small issue already, so... Again, great job. Peace up.

May 16, 2003, 02:55 PM	#16
Donosorxx DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	How do these new drivers compare to the previous Omega ones? Anyone that tested them, yet?

May 16, 2003, 03:09 PM	#17
~~BMG_Cya=-~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 718 Rep Power: 0	My previous post about 3 inches above or one page back depending on your board settings gave some performance comparisons between the Omega 2407a's and the 2443's. I guess I wasn't detailed enough. I have been using Omega drivers for going on 7-8 weeks now. Highly recommended.

May 16, 2003, 03:11 PM	#18
LaserLight DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 39 Rep Power: 0	Need Driver Info Hello... I hope you respond coz this thing bothers me a little... I don't know about software programming much, but my question is this. First, I use Cat 3.4 + Rage3DTweak, and have no problem. I'm tempted to use your driver... My question is: What are they? What they do? Will they help my games and in what way? What are these hacks and will they work on my board? My System is: Built by ATI Radeon 9500PRO, ATHLON XP 2700, 256x2 (512MB) DDR400 - that's what counts..ehh? Anyways, Thanks alot! Idan.

May 16, 2003, 03:12 PM	#19
this DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Nice Job! This version does work smoothly than any older drivers. Although the 3D Mark 2001's score is just the same as the previous version, the games run rather smoothly. And omega's wonderful tools included in this driver make the card fast and stable. It's GREAT! Thank for Omega!!!

May 16, 2003, 03:46 PM	#20
~~BMG_Cya=-~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 718 Rep Power: 0	May have run into a small glitch. I have your new 2.4.43 drivers installed Omega. Upon re-booting my PC, because I had re-installed my Virus software, the screen hung up, with no toolbar or icons showing, just the wallpaper. In the middle of the wallpaper was the Advanced SmartGart Menu. I closed that, and then got the "Windows XP has recovered from a serious error...blah blah" I went ahead and sent the error report, which displayed the dialog box pictured in the link. I'll put up the link in just a second. Another thing, I went into my Program Files, and went into the new Omega driver folder In the WinXPInfo subfolder, I saw the folders for Standard Driver, and another folder for Hacked Driver. These two folders were seperate, and not in the same area as the driver files. My specs are in my sig. Thanks.

May 16, 2003, 03:50 PM	#21
~~BMG_Cya=-~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 718 Rep Power: 0	Here's the link to the error screen. Probably just a standard error screen. If you need any more info, just let me know. Thanks again. http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~hg/foru...=486699#486699

May 16, 2003, 03:53 PM	#22
ryan328 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	so fast I'm going to try it Thank you very much

May 16, 2003, 04:10 PM	#23
MewtwoSama DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Ack! Bring back Mobility Support!

May 16, 2003, 04:12 PM	#24
Vengeance DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Fort Worth TX Posts: 643 Rep Power: 0	Omega, I have a "Stupid question" I installed your new drivers for the first time! And I must say I like them. Now for my question, I have a 9500Pro that I fashed my bios on so that I can over clock it. Which set of your drivers should I use the regular ones or the hacked ones? Right now I'm useing the regular 9500/9700 drivers. With no problems at all But will the hacked ones work any better with the 9500 Pro thats had the bios flashed? Thanks. __________________ [color=red]Rage3D Super Moderator[/color] [color=red]BFG 6800 GT [/color]

May 16, 2003, 04:28 PM	#25
occipiter DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Why not mobility support :/ I've used old Omega drivers for my ASUS Notebook, they worked fine, please bring back mobility support. ---------- occipiter ----------

May 16, 2003, 04:41 PM	#26
~~BMG_Cya=-~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 718 Rep Power: 0	Just a couple of other things... I disabled Fastwrites, rebooted,and then went into F12002. The framerate was really jerky. Naturally I turned them back on, and got good FPS again. I onlymention this because you recommend to turn them off. On my PC they work much better on. Finally, in the Program files I now have 2 folders: The Omega 2407a's and the other folder the new 2.4.43's Both seperate Program Folders/Files. Can I delete the old 2407a folder with no il-effects?

May 16, 2003, 05:16 PM	#27
Paradox52525 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Ok, this may be a stupid question, but how do you use the 9700->9800 hack? I selected the "hack" version of the drivers when I installed, but my card still shows up as a 9700 Pro. Is that the way it's supposed to work? There doesn't seem to be anything about it in the Omega 2.4.4.3 readme and I couldn't find any info on this forum either....very confused by the vagueness. Thanks in advance.

May 16, 2003, 05:21 PM	#28
Scoop DriverHeaven Alcoholic Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Round the corner from the chip shop and over the pond... Posts: 182 Rep Power: 0	Looking good here, first time Ive used them. This has the full works in no need to install rage 3d tweak therefore saving system resorces Regards Scoop Last edited by Scoop; May 16, 2003 at 06:06 PM.

May 16, 2003, 06:08 PM	#29
BuddMan DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 79 Rep Power: 0	Well, Omega's drivers are great, but two problems. 1. The overclocking tool works, but even if I tell it to keep an overclock setting on boot up, it will not keep it. It resets to default everytime I restart even after I tell it to keep my overclocked settings. 2. Battlefield 1942 won't start if I have the forced refreshes enabled for some reason (not really a driver problem I guess, but still a problem). Anyone else have these problems? Rather than that everything is running great. Good job.

May 16, 2003, 06:15 PM	#30
thor777 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	Buddman: Try this to fix your BF1942 Go to your Battlefield 1942 folder, Mods, bf1942, then the Settings folder. In that folder you will see a file called VideoDefault.con. Open the file with Notepad. In there you will see a line with this command: renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0 Change the 0 to a 1 and then Save the file.