driver colour problems omega + hd3850

fowley · Jun 14, 2008, 11:46 PM

I recently upgraded my graphics card to a hd3850 PCIe, its nice and i am happy with it but i have this strange problem with the Omega drivers.

it seems that red and blue are switched. not in all cases, but when i go to pick font colours for instance it will say blue and appear red, vice versa. the blue "welcome to skype" is a light orange aswell.

i tried with the proper ati drivers and the colours are ok, but in that case i cant strech the image to fit my tv properly. i would like to continue using the omega drivers, but the colour problem is starting to get to me.

in gmail the links for indox and drafts appear red (only in firefox, not ie).

seems to be definatly a driver issue, but i was wondering if there is some setting in the p,ega controlpanel to get teh colours displayed correctly.

thanks for any ideas
ciaran

heres what i mean by weird

fowley · Jun 14, 2008, 11:54 PM

seem to have fixed it now, i throttle down the hardware acceleration slider bar in the troubleshoot tab of the windows display driver. says it disables "cursor and bitmap accelerations".

its annoying not to have the card running at full capacity though. any ideas on solutions?

fowley · Jun 14, 2008, 11:57 PM

actually to get rid of the problem completely i have to throttle down the slider to "disable all but basic accelerations"

mkk · Jun 15, 2008, 12:28 AM

The problem probably stems from the version of Catalyst that the latest Omegadriver for your card is based on. I remember that the official ATI Catalyst driver had this type of problem around version 7.12.

Spyre · Jun 15, 2008, 07:29 AM

Enabling clear type was the workaround for that old bug.

Jun 14, 2008, 11:46 PM	#1
fowley DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	driver colour problems omega + hd3850 I recently upgraded my graphics card to a hd3850 PCIe, its nice and i am happy with it but i have this strange problem with the Omega drivers. it seems that red and blue are switched. not in all cases, but when i go to pick font colours for instance it will say blue and appear red, vice versa. the blue "welcome to skype" is a light orange aswell. i tried with the proper ati drivers and the colours are ok, but in that case i cant strech the image to fit my tv properly. i would like to continue using the omega drivers, but the colour problem is starting to get to me. in gmail the links for indox and drafts appear red (only in firefox, not ie). seems to be definatly a driver issue, but i was wondering if there is some setting in the p,ega controlpanel to get teh colours displayed correctly. thanks for any ideas ciaran heres what i mean by weird

Jun 15, 2008, 12:28 AM	#4
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,384 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	The problem probably stems from the version of Catalyst that the latest Omegadriver for your card is based on. I remember that the official ATI Catalyst driver had this type of problem around version 7.12. Last edited by mkk; Jun 15, 2008 at 12:34 AM.

Jun 15, 2008, 07:29 AM	#5
Spyre DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: England Posts: 240 Rep Power: 60	Enabling clear type was the workaround for that old bug. __________________ ATI Beta Tester game.AMD.Moderator

Jun 14, 2008, 11:54 PM	Thread Starter #2
fowley DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	seem to have fixed it now, i throttle down the hardware acceleration slider bar in the troubleshoot tab of the windows display driver. says it disables "cursor and bitmap accelerations". its annoying not to have the card running at full capacity though. any ideas on solutions?

Jun 14, 2008, 11:57 PM	Thread Starter #3
fowley DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	actually to get rid of the problem completely i have to throttle down the slider to "disable all but basic accelerations"