Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.74 for Win2k/XP

Omegadrive · Jul 26, 2003, 01:15 AM

GTOmo, you have to re-install DX9.0b, it seems there is a problem with DX in your RIG, all those test must work. After Dx, re-install the drivers and see if in the Advanced SmartGart Options all is enabled.

Everyone, the dual monitor seems to be a bug in the current release, even the normal ATI drivers have the problem.

GTOmo · Jul 26, 2003, 04:36 AM

Thanks Omegadrive, I installed directx9.0b and ended up going back to the 3.5 omegas. Seems to be working well now, will do more testing, but seems to be alot more stable. Thanks again.

projectHUMAN · Jul 27, 2003, 11:03 PM

"I have this really annoying problem. Any driver greater than 3.4 (Omega and Official) I get this weird mouse lag in Raven Shield. IQ and framerate shoot through the roof with these newer sets but the mouse lag is holding me back from them. Does anyone else experience this? And if so, how do you remedy this? I've done all I can think of to fix it."

I posted that in the Gaming Forum but no one responded. I heard something about having Vsync off causing it. So I turned Vsync back on and it was fixed but I get really low frames in Raven Shield if I turn it on. Any driver from 3.4 and back it ran fine with Vsync off. I don't get it.

Desert_Siege · Jul 28, 2003, 05:28 AM

In the settings tab for Colors, you can make profiles for various games or whatever and save them and also enable hotkeys to adjust settings in game like increasing brightness, gamma...etc. These functions do not work now. Is it someting on my machine or is this something that is disabled? I use the hotkeys alot because sometimes in games, the screen is too dark so I set alt+f1 to increase brightness and alt+f2 to decrease it. These worked fine in the Cat 3.5's and the profiles when selected also loaded when 3d apps were loaded, but don't function anymore. I tried reinstalling the drivers and making the profiles and assigning hotkeys again, but to no avail, it still doesn't work. Any ideas or will I have to go back to 3.5?

studbagel9 · Jul 28, 2003, 06:12 AM

Try the Rage3D tweaker, it has profiles, though you have to manually switch them, but it's better than nothing.

BWX · Jul 28, 2003, 09:32 AM

Desert_S., did you check to make sure the ATI hotkey poller service was enabled and set to automatic in the Administrative tools/ services? Just a thought, maybe that's why it's not working for ya.

mars1 · Jul 28, 2003, 07:30 PM

hi
i installed the drivers and then i reboot into xp and get the message serious device failure and i only have 8 bit colours
then i have to uninstall the drivers to get the computer working properly
can anybody help
thanks

Desert_Siege · Jul 29, 2003, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
Desert_S., did you check to make sure the ATI hotkey poller service was enabled and set to automatic in the Administrative tools/ services? Just a thought, maybe that's why it's not working for ya.

Funny thing is adjusting desktop colors and brightness with the sliders works fine, just no 3d profiles or hotkeys. Oh well, I will screw with it some more and see whats what....

lakatta · Jul 30, 2003, 03:58 AM

Hi

drivers are great had a over 2000 jump in 3dmark 03

problem is this and please respond if you have had the same thing happen

I have a 9500 np saphire card

I installed the omega driver with the hack

now when i run the benchmark the screen has flashing blocks around/lack of better words/messed up

doesn anyone know the deal with this?

DunDan · Jul 30, 2003, 06:06 AM

I'm having an installation problem..seems to be looking for a rad_w2kxp_omega_2474.2 file on a SECOND disk???? help

BWX · Jul 30, 2003, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DunDan
I'm having an installation problem..seems to be looking for a rad_w2kxp_omega_2474.2 file on a SECOND disk???? help

I think that means you need to re-download the file. You got an incomplete copy somehow.

Rubini · Jul 31, 2003, 05:50 AM

Hi,

I like my old sim games and the 16bit FSAA finally works on Omega 2.4.60 (cat 3.5). But when I install the new Omega 2.4.74 (cat 3.6) the 16 bit FSAA go away again. Any way to fix this?

Thanks,

Rubini.

Aeryn27 · Jul 31, 2003, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lakatta

I have a 9500 np saphire card

I installed the omega driver with the hack

now when i run the benchmark the screen has flashing blocks around/lack of better words/messed up

doesn anyone know the deal with this?

I am having the exact same problem, ive tried reinstalling drivers and changing various settings but no joy, like b4 if anyone has a fix for this could ya help us out.

Thanks in Advance.

PC :
GA-7n400pro m/b
Athlon 1700XP
1Gb PC 2700
Sapphire 9500 128mb GPU
2 x 60 RAID 0
SB live 5.1 player
( all the usual stuff floppy etc )

sdark · Jul 31, 2003, 10:31 AM

Hi All,

Am having a major problem with the omega drivers. I have a Sapphire Radeon 9500 Atlantis 128MB DDR. I installed the card using the included drivers and then uninstalled these (all ATi components) via add/remove programs and installed the Omega 2.4.74 hacked drivers. The card appears to be working ok with the original drivers (no artifacts or anything) however, with the Omegas I get a strange checkerboard pattern overlaid on the screen when running 3D Mark 03. I have reinstalled DirectX 9b and still the same issue is apparent. All settings are at default.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

My Spec is:

Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro (nForce2 Chipset)
Athlon XP2200+
1536Mb DDR PC2700
Sapphire Radeon 9500 Atlantis 128MB DDR
180GB HD Storage on Raid0
Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 Digital

Running Windows XP Pro SP1 + All available updates from MS.

sacrilius · Jul 31, 2003, 10:49 AM

The Omega drivers gave me serious problems , had to totally remove them and re-installed catalyst drivers, working fine now.

asmatt · Jul 31, 2003, 06:13 PM

Lo,

I have given up, I got "Display not compatible" message

So I installed ATI Catalyst 3.6

Asus PC4800
Intel 2.8C Hz
Hercules ATI 9800 Pro
2 x 256 Mb Winbond CH5 PC3200
SB Live Platinum
1 Maxtor 120 Gb UDMA 133 / 7200
1 IBM 80 Gb / 7200
etc...

Thnx

xlokix · Aug 1, 2003, 12:53 AM

hey i get this error saying

-------------
radeon 9500 pro / 9700 (omega 2.4.74)

has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP

continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed woindows logo testing.
---------------"

what do i do, ignore it, or stop the installation??

BWX · Aug 1, 2003, 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by xlokix
hey i get this error saying

-------------
radeon 9500 pro / 9700 (omega 2.4.74)

has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP

continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed woindows logo testing.
---------------"

what do i do, ignore it, or stop the installation??

Just ignore it- and keep installing the Omegas. microsoft = lies. lol

DieseL77 · Aug 1, 2003, 07:25 AM

another well done job

works great here on my 9500pro. even boosted my 3dmark03 scores up to 4980 from 4720

next time i`ll break the 5000

wolfran · Aug 2, 2003, 10:44 AM

From what i have read in the forum, there are a lot of people that are having problem installing
omega drivers, especially with clean installation. I was just wondering if Omega can make the
installation to be the same as the catalyst drivers in the next releases so that everyone can
install omega drivers easier.

~~BMG_Cya=-~~ · Aug 2, 2003, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Just ignore it- and keep installing the Omegas. microsoft = lies. lol

Yes. If it were up to Microsoft, no one would ever leave MSN.com...would purchase everything they own from Microsoft...would...

DrTeeth · Aug 2, 2003, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolfran
From what i have read in the forum, there are a lot of people that are having problem installing
omega drivers, especially with clean installation. I was just wondering if Omega can make the
installation to be the same as the catalyst drivers in the next releases so that everyone can
install omega drivers easier.

All was well with the Omega 3.4's, could not install 3.5 or 3.6 (hacked driver). Installed Omega 3.6 okay on Win 98 SE (no hacked driver available).

Jul 26, 2003, 01:15 AM	Thread Starter #121
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	GTOmo, you have to re-install DX9.0b, it seems there is a problem with DX in your RIG, all those test must work. After Dx, re-install the drivers and see if in the Advanced SmartGart Options all is enabled. Everyone, the dual monitor seems to be a bug in the current release, even the normal ATI drivers have the problem. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Jul 26, 2003, 04:36 AM	#122
GTOmo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Herndon, VA Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	thanks Thanks Omegadrive, I installed directx9.0b and ended up going back to the 3.5 omegas. Seems to be working well now, will do more testing, but seems to be alot more stable. Thanks again.

Jul 28, 2003, 05:28 AM	#124
Desert_Siege Professional Slacker Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: KY Posts: 274 Rep Power: 0	This may sound stupid, but.... In the settings tab for Colors, you can make profiles for various games or whatever and save them and also enable hotkeys to adjust settings in game like increasing brightness, gamma...etc. These functions do not work now. Is it someting on my machine or is this something that is disabled? I use the hotkeys alot because sometimes in games, the screen is too dark so I set alt+f1 to increase brightness and alt+f2 to decrease it. These worked fine in the Cat 3.5's and the profiles when selected also loaded when 3d apps were loaded, but don't function anymore. I tried reinstalling the drivers and making the profiles and assigning hotkeys again, but to no avail, it still doesn't work. Any ideas or will I have to go back to 3.5?

Jul 28, 2003, 06:12 AM	#125
studbagel9 Rolling the Hard Six Join Date: May 2003 Location: Lock Haven, PA Posts: 767 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Try the Rage3D tweaker, it has profiles, though you have to manually switch them, but it's better than nothing. __________________

Jul 28, 2003, 09:32 AM	#126
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	Desert_S., did you check to make sure the ATI hotkey poller service was enabled and set to automatic in the Administrative tools/ services? Just a thought, maybe that's why it's not working for ya. __________________

Jul 27, 2003, 11:03 PM	#123
projectHUMAN Subsonic Stigmata Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 136 Rep Power: 0	"I have this really annoying problem. Any driver greater than 3.4 (Omega and Official) I get this weird mouse lag in Raven Shield. IQ and framerate shoot through the roof with these newer sets but the mouse lag is holding me back from them. Does anyone else experience this? And if so, how do you remedy this? I've done all I can think of to fix it." I posted that in the Gaming Forum but no one responded. I heard something about having Vsync off causing it. So I turned Vsync back on and it was fixed but I get really low frames in Raven Shield if I turn it on. Any driver from 3.4 and back it ran fine with Vsync off. I don't get it.

Jul 28, 2003, 07:30 PM	#127
mars1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	new omega drivers for xp hi i installed the drivers and then i reboot into xp and get the message serious device failure and i only have 8 bit colours then i have to uninstall the drivers to get the computer working properly can anybody help thanks

Jul 30, 2003, 03:58 AM	#129
lakatta DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi drivers are great had a over 2000 jump in 3dmark 03 problem is this and please respond if you have had the same thing happen I have a 9500 np saphire card I installed the omega driver with the hack now when i run the benchmark the screen has flashing blocks around/lack of better words/messed up doesn anyone know the deal with this?

Jul 30, 2003, 06:06 AM	#130
DunDan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ontario Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I'm having an installation problem..seems to be looking for a rad_w2kxp_omega_2474.2 file on a SECOND disk???? help

Jul 31, 2003, 05:50 AM	#132
Rubini DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: São Paulo, Brasil Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Omega 2.4.74 and 16bit FSAA Hi, I like my old sim games and the 16bit FSAA finally works on Omega 2.4.60 (cat 3.5). But when I install the new Omega 2.4.74 (cat 3.6) the 16 bit FSAA go away again. Any way to fix this? Thanks, Rubini.

Jul 31, 2003, 10:31 AM	#134
sdark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi All, Am having a major problem with the omega drivers. I have a Sapphire Radeon 9500 Atlantis 128MB DDR. I installed the card using the included drivers and then uninstalled these (all ATi components) via add/remove programs and installed the Omega 2.4.74 hacked drivers. The card appears to be working ok with the original drivers (no artifacts or anything) however, with the Omegas I get a strange checkerboard pattern overlaid on the screen when running 3D Mark 03. I have reinstalled DirectX 9b and still the same issue is apparent. All settings are at default. Does anyone have any suggestions? My Spec is: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro (nForce2 Chipset) Athlon XP2200+ 1536Mb DDR PC2700 Sapphire Radeon 9500 Atlantis 128MB DDR 180GB HD Storage on Raid0 Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 Digital Running Windows XP Pro SP1 + All available updates from MS. Last edited by sdark; Jul 31, 2003 at 10:43 AM.

Jul 31, 2003, 10:49 AM	#135
sacrilius Evil Je$ter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA. Born in Brooklyn, NY Posts: 127 Rep Power: 0	The Omega drivers gave me serious problems , had to totally remove them and re-installed catalyst drivers, working fine now. __________________ ASUS A7N8X E Deluxe MOBO Rev. 2.0 AMD Athlon XP 3200+ ATI Radeon 128MB DDR 9800 Pro Ultra MEMORY 1.5GB PC-3200/400MHz WD Raptor 36GBX2 SiI Raid 0 & WD 40GB HD Windows XP Pro SP2 Corporate

Jul 31, 2003, 06:13 PM	#136
asmatt DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Lo, I have given up, I got "Display not compatible" message So I installed ATI Catalyst 3.6 Asus PC4800 Intel 2.8C Hz Hercules ATI 9800 Pro 2 x 256 Mb Winbond CH5 PC3200 SB Live Platinum 1 Maxtor 120 Gb UDMA 133 / 7200 1 IBM 80 Gb / 7200 etc... Thnx

Aug 1, 2003, 12:53 AM	#137
xlokix DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	umm????/ hey i get this error saying ------------- radeon 9500 pro / 9700 (omega 2.4.74) has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed woindows logo testing. ---------------" what do i do, ignore it, or stop the installation??

Aug 1, 2003, 07:25 AM	#139
DieseL77 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	another well done job works great here on my 9500pro. even boosted my 3dmark03 scores up to 4980 from 4720 next time i`ll break the 5000

Aug 2, 2003, 10:44 AM	#140
wolfran DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 414 Rep Power: 0	From what i have read in the forum, there are a lot of people that are having problem installing omega drivers, especially with clean installation. I was just wondering if Omega can make the installation to be the same as the catalyst drivers in the next releases so that everyone can install omega drivers easier.