Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.74a for Win2k/XP

Omegadrive · Aug 3, 2003, 08:39 PM

Here's an update on the last release:

What's New?
(2.4.74a)
* Fixed the 9600 TX installation problem.
* Fixed all the other "card not recognized" problems. (Yes, really, I did it...)
* Included a new utility, rTool, ONLY because it offers an option to force Triple Buffering in OpenGL games and I can't enable it by default on the drivers because there are some games that will not run correctly with TB enabled, more info here:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...eadid=33699972
* Added TV Overscan support.
* Removed some tweaks that where causing problems.

Get them here.

Hope you like this one, Enjoy!

Wengy · Aug 3, 2003, 09:20 PM

Question:
i triede the hacked 3.2 drivers out there (but i would preefer yours since they are based on 3.6)
But - on the hacked 3.2 drivers i get acces to Smoothvision 2.1 - but in the omega drivers i only get smoothvision 2 - even if bot card and chipset is registred as 9800 pro.
the card i modded is a tachyon 9700pro - and as said - in 3.2 modded files i get smoothvision 2.1
How can i get them in the omega drivers ?

Wengy
Denmark

Omegadrive · Aug 3, 2003, 09:23 PM

SM 2.1 is enabled in the hack for my drivers, is just that it doesn't show up in the ATI CP, that's all.

If the chipset says 9800, there is nothign to worry about, the hack is working.

Chaos · Aug 3, 2003, 10:01 PM

Thanks again for the drivers Omega....

2K/XP Mirror available HERE

Dyre Straits · Aug 3, 2003, 10:05 PM

Until the Video-out = Invalid (monitor) Sync problem is fixed, I'm stuck with using CAT 3.4s.

I just installed these, hoping for the best, and can't use them because of the above problem.

Back to CAT 3.4 for me.

NOTE: Both CAT 3.5 and 3.6 are doing this...as well as Omega's versions based on these. When I go to reboot the computer, if I have my Video Out connected, I get a black monitor screen once it reaches the normal Windows XP screen. My monitor displays "Invalid Sync" on the screen. If I unplug the Video Out connection, I can boot into Windows just fine and then activate Video Out from the Control Panel. It works fine until I have to reboot again.

AshG · Aug 3, 2003, 10:27 PM

Do these fix the OpenGL sky color banding in Enemy Territory?

hawkeyeTA · Aug 3, 2003, 11:35 PM

BF1942 keeps crashing to desktop, any ideas?

brazilian · Aug 3, 2003, 11:55 PM

hawkeyeTA

yeah man, I got the same problem with bf1942... even with omega drivers, default drivers, hacked drivers, ati drivers...

I'm sure my rig doesn't have any problems (irq/drivers/settings/directx).

Even with the latest game updates it crashes... very odd.

I made a google search, and I realised that a lot of people got the same problem like us.
Very annoying

Anyway, I can live without this game... and thanks god, Half Life 2 is comming ;-)

cheers

raid517 · Aug 4, 2003, 12:04 AM

Hopefully these will work. Using them on my Heculese Radeon 9500 card caused lots of lock-ups and 'infinite loop' errors, especially when running GTA3. Should I try them, or should I stick with the official ATI drivers I wonder?

Q

olefarte · Aug 4, 2003, 12:25 AM

MOHAA crashes to the desktop on mine. Didn't do it with the first Omega 3.6's. Haven't tried the ATi's. All I ever use are Omega's. I went back to the original Omega 3.6.

P4 3.06, Intel D850EMV2, 512 PC1066 RDRAM, ATI 9700 Pro, Maxtor 200 Gig DiamondMax Plus 9, Audigy, Boston Speakers, CD/DVD Burner, 19" Flat Panel Monitor,

Shadow Lady · Aug 4, 2003, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
SM 2.1 is enabled in the hack for my drivers, is just that it doesn't show up in the ATI CP, that's all.
If the chipset says 9800, there is nothign to worry about, the hack is working.

hmmm... it shows SmoothVision 2.1 here (9500pro), anyway going download this drivers, i hope it doesnt crash on my machine anymore -.-

Garrita · Aug 4, 2003, 02:18 AM

yep, the 3.6 crashing thing keeps happening so i am going back to omega`s 3.5

oglsmm · Aug 4, 2003, 02:42 AM

Mirror is also avalible at http://www.mikerosoft.ca

oglsmm

JZL · Aug 4, 2003, 03:59 AM

I haven't used Omegadrive's for a little while, so this may be a dumb question. I ended up with the pre-Catylist CP, was I supposed to?

I also used the 9500--> 9800 hack but my 9500 still shows as a 9700 like it used to.

Patriot · Aug 4, 2003, 04:00 AM

Hmmm...very strange. DxDiag gives me an error when I run the Direct3D tests. "Test failed at step 8: Creating 3D device" is what it says. DirectDraw tests work fine though. I would be more concerned but I tried all my favorite games (GTAIII, Vice City, Jedi Knight II, Max Payne, Postal 2, ST: Elite Force 2, MechWarrior series, EA Sports NHL series, MOHAA & Spearhead) seem to work just fine. Maybe I should just mark this one up as a win and shut up.

If anyone's interested, I'm running a P4 2.53MHz on a Via P4PB400 with 1GB of Corsair XMS PC2700 with a Radeon 9800 pro 256MB and a Audigy 2. It's all running (well, almost all) on Windows XP Pro.

Robert McClelland · Aug 4, 2003, 04:27 AM

Do you unstalled the old ones first? Or you ever try using notron system works?

TheBigL · Aug 4, 2003, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
* Added TV Overscan support.

Hope you like this one, Enjoy! [/B]

How to utilize it? I've been waiting a long time for overscan support, wish tv-tool would support ati drivers

Patriot · Aug 4, 2003, 04:39 AM

I tried uninstalling, using driver cleaner and reinstalling but it still won't run those tests. As for nortons', I haven't messed with anything from them in a while. Seemed liked they created problems for me and then tried to sell me something to fix it with.

Like I said though, I'm not sweating it too hard. The important things seem to be fine. Thanx, and how's Roscommon these days?

Chaos · Aug 4, 2003, 04:55 AM

Have you tried to reinstall DX9b.... I ran the redistributable (32 megs) version and it fixed all my DX problems

brazilian · Aug 4, 2003, 04:58 AM

did you tried to re-install directx? it may fix this errors...

Patriot · Aug 4, 2003, 04:59 AM

Good call. I haven't tried that. I'll let ya know how it goes.

cmac · Aug 4, 2003, 09:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
Have you tried to reinstall DX9b.... I ran the redistributable (32 megs) version and it fixed all my DX problems

Chaos, can you point me to where i can get the redistributable version of the dx9b. I'm on dialup and need to burn it to a cd for when I reformat.
Thanks

Harboe · Aug 4, 2003, 09:16 AM

Is there anything changed from the beta of this release?

Edit: Ups sorry, just saw the other tread from the beta. One note, i couldnt install it without installing the normal 3.6 first. Says my gfx isnt supportet (or something, cant remember, at work). I have a Sapphire 9700 No-Pro and running WinXP SP1.

Patriot · Aug 4, 2003, 09:45 AM

Well, Chaos, Brazilian, thanx. But I reloaded DX 9.0b and it still does it. As long as my games work, I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm going to bed. I gotta work for a living. C-Ya.

wolfran · Aug 4, 2003, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by brazilian
hawkeyeTA

yeah man, I got the same problem with bf1942... even with omega drivers, default drivers, hacked drivers, ati drivers...

I'm sure my rig doesn't have any problems (irq/drivers/settings/directx).

Even with the latest game updates it crashes... very odd.

I made a google search, and I realised that a lot of people got the same problem like us.
Very annoying

Anyway, I can live without this game... and thanks god, Half Life 2 is comming ;-)

cheers

Do you use No CD?? I notice that some No CD for battlefield 1942 has crashing problem so it would be better to use the original CD.

.dot · Aug 4, 2003, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hawkeyeTA
BF1942 keeps crashing to desktop, any ideas?

I got two solutions for you (These only works if it crashes when you start the game).

1) Disable Force Refresh Rate.

2) Download The 1.4 Patch, Install it. And the go to your "Intall dir"\Mods\bf1942\Settings\VideoDefault.con (Open it notepad). And change "renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0" to "renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1"

Hope it helps... Well it did for me anyways

.dot · Aug 4, 2003, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Harboe
Is there anything changed from the beta of this release?

Edit: Ups sorry, just saw the other tread from the beta. One note, i couldnt install it without installing the normal 3.6 first. Says my gfx isnt supportet (or something, cant remember, at work). I have a Sapphire 9700 No-Pro and running WinXP SP1.

Same problem here with Sapphire 9600 Pro - With DX9b and WinXP non-sp1. But haven't tried to install the CAT 3.6 drivers from ATI yet.

wolfran · Aug 4, 2003, 01:50 PM

Hi,

This is the best driver i tried so far.
Image quality looks good and very fast.
I'm new to your driver and I have some questions:
1. I installed your hacked driver. How do I know that the hacked driver is installed properly?
I can't tell the difference from the normal Driver by looking at the ATI CP (It still says 9700 Pro).
People are talking about smoothvision 2.1. Where can i verify this? In ATI CP it just says
Smoothvision II? Is your CP the same as the ATI CP?
2. After installing your driver, I found that your driver somehow replaces the directx.cpl into the debug
version (and saying that it will be slower than the retail version). Can i reinstall directx again?
Or that will defeat your tweaks?
3. Just wondering if you could make the installer to be the same as the catalyst driver suite in
your next releases for easier installation, especially for clean install.

Thanks

BTW my spec:
Athlon Xp 2600+
Sapphire Radeon 9700 NP
Asus A7n8x
Win XP
2 * 256 MB RAM

hawkeyeTA · Aug 4, 2003, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by .dot
I got two solutions for you (These only works if it crashes when you start the game).

1) Disable Force Refresh Rate.

2) Download The 1.4 Patch, Install it. And the go to your "Intall dir"\Mods\bf1942\Settings\VideoDefault.con (Open it notepad). And change "renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0" to "renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1"

Hope it helps... Well it did for me anyways

Thanks, that helped.

zgrav · Aug 4, 2003, 03:20 PM

Looks like Omega added rTool to help with the banding: set it to use trilinear filtering at every stage. normal cats set to trilinear (instead of application pref) will only use trilinear filtering on the first processing stage, and then use bilenear filtering for subseqent passes. That causes the banding in some games.

Aug 3, 2003, 08:39 PM	#1
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.74a for Win2k/XP Here's an update on the last release: What's New? (2.4.74a) * Fixed the 9600 TX installation problem. * Fixed all the other "card not recognized" problems. (Yes, really, I did it...) * Included a new utility, rTool, ONLY because it offers an option to force Triple Buffering in OpenGL games and I can't enable it by default on the drivers because there are some games that will not run correctly with TB enabled, more info here: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...eadid=33699972 * Added TV Overscan support. * Removed some tweaks that where causing problems. Get them here. Hope you like this one, Enjoy! __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Aug 3, 2003, 09:23 PM	Thread Starter #3
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	SM 2.1 is enabled in the hack for my drivers, is just that it doesn't show up in the ATI CP, that's all. If the chipset says 9800, there is nothign to worry about, the hack is working. __________________ DRIVERHEAVEN ADMINISTRATOR <<E-MAIL>> <<PC SPECS>> GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Aug 3, 2003, 10:01 PM	#4
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Thanks again for the drivers Omega.... 2K/XP Mirror available HERE __________________

Aug 3, 2003, 10:27 PM	#6
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Aug 3, 2003, 11:55 PM	#8
brazilian DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brazil - Sâo Paulo Posts: 77 Rep Power: 0	hawkeyeTA yeah man, I got the same problem with bf1942... even with omega drivers, default drivers, hacked drivers, ati drivers... I'm sure my rig doesn't have any problems (irq/drivers/settings/directx). Even with the latest game updates it crashes... very odd. I made a google search, and I realised that a lot of people got the same problem like us. Very annoying Anyway, I can live without this game... and thanks god, Half Life 2 is comming ;-) cheers __________________ A7V133 Rev 1.05 BrazilianTech 1010b Expert Bios 2200+ Tbred-b @ 2.26Ghz \| Vcore-1.7 \| 134x17 - most stable setting so far Thermaltake Volcano 7+ @ Medium ATI Radeon 9500 128mb SoftModed to 9700 @ 310mem/350clock Micron 768mb PC133 SoundBlaster Live! Value @ pci#3 Maxtor 30Gb 7200rpm 2mb cache ATA100 Troni FullTower Case with 500W Power suply + 3 80mm Case fans Slackware 8.1 & Windows Xp Pro Sp1

Aug 3, 2003, 09:20 PM	#2
Wengy DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Question: i triede the hacked 3.2 drivers out there (but i would preefer yours since they are based on 3.6) But - on the hacked 3.2 drivers i get acces to Smoothvision 2.1 - but in the omega drivers i only get smoothvision 2 - even if bot card and chipset is registred as 9800 pro. the card i modded is a tachyon 9700pro - and as said - in 3.2 modded files i get smoothvision 2.1 How can i get them in the omega drivers ? Wengy Denmark

Aug 3, 2003, 11:35 PM	#7
hawkeyeTA DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	BF1942 keeps crashing to desktop, any ideas?

Aug 4, 2003, 12:04 AM	#9
raid517 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,518 Rep Power: 0	Hopefully these will work. Using them on my Heculese Radeon 9500 card caused lots of lock-ups and 'infinite loop' errors, especially when running GTA3. Should I try them, or should I stick with the official ATI drivers I wonder? Q

Aug 4, 2003, 12:25 AM	#10
olefarte DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	MOHAA crashes to the desktop on mine. Didn't do it with the first Omega 3.6's. Haven't tried the ATi's. All I ever use are Omega's. I went back to the original Omega 3.6. P4 3.06, Intel D850EMV2, 512 PC1066 RDRAM, ATI 9700 Pro, Maxtor 200 Gig DiamondMax Plus 9, Audigy, Boston Speakers, CD/DVD Burner, 19" Flat Panel Monitor,

Aug 4, 2003, 02:18 AM	#12
Garrita DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chile, the south of world! Posts: 35 Rep Power: 0	yep, the 3.6 crashing thing keeps happening so i am going back to omega`s 3.5 __________________ Asus a7n8x DX 2.0 (1005 bios)\| 512 Kingston DDR400 pc3200 \| Ati Radeon 9500 pro (340/319) \| Seagate 7200.7 120gb \| barton 2500+ @3000+(200fsb) 1.70V \| WinXP SP1 \| hacked omega 3.5 drivers

Aug 4, 2003, 02:42 AM	#13
oglsmm DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0	Sweet Thanks! Mirror is also avalible at http://www.mikerosoft.ca oglsmm __________________ [color=green][/color]

Aug 4, 2003, 03:59 AM	#14
JZL DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I haven't used Omegadrive's for a little while, so this may be a dumb question. I ended up with the pre-Catylist CP, was I supposed to? I also used the 9500--> 9800 hack but my 9500 still shows as a 9700 like it used to.

Aug 4, 2003, 04:00 AM	#15
Patriot DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan, USofA Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Hmmm...very strange. DxDiag gives me an error when I run the Direct3D tests. "Test failed at step 8: Creating 3D device" is what it says. DirectDraw tests work fine though. I would be more concerned but I tried all my favorite games (GTAIII, Vice City, Jedi Knight II, Max Payne, Postal 2, ST: Elite Force 2, MechWarrior series, EA Sports NHL series, MOHAA & Spearhead) seem to work just fine. Maybe I should just mark this one up as a win and shut up. If anyone's interested, I'm running a P4 2.53MHz on a Via P4PB400 with 1GB of Corsair XMS PC2700 with a Radeon 9800 pro 256MB and a Audigy 2. It's all running (well, almost all) on Windows XP Pro. __________________ For those who stand guard, freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.

Aug 4, 2003, 04:27 AM	#16
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,668 Rep Power: 196 System Specs	Do you unstalled the old ones first? Or you ever try using notron system works? __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun" http://www.speedtest.net/result/1949536385.png correct the correct one now

Aug 4, 2003, 04:39 AM	#18
Patriot DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan, USofA Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	I tried uninstalling, using driver cleaner and reinstalling but it still won't run those tests. As for nortons', I haven't messed with anything from them in a while. Seemed liked they created problems for me and then tried to sell me something to fix it with. Like I said though, I'm not sweating it too hard. The important things seem to be fine. Thanx, and how's Roscommon these days? __________________ For those who stand guard, freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.

Aug 4, 2003, 04:55 AM	#19
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Have you tried to reinstall DX9b.... I ran the redistributable (32 megs) version and it fixed all my DX problems __________________

Aug 4, 2003, 04:58 AM	#20
brazilian DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brazil - Sâo Paulo Posts: 77 Rep Power: 0	did you tried to re-install directx? it may fix this errors... __________________ A7V133 Rev 1.05 BrazilianTech 1010b Expert Bios 2200+ Tbred-b @ 2.26Ghz \| Vcore-1.7 \| 134x17 - most stable setting so far Thermaltake Volcano 7+ @ Medium ATI Radeon 9500 128mb SoftModed to 9700 @ 310mem/350clock Micron 768mb PC133 SoundBlaster Live! Value @ pci#3 Maxtor 30Gb 7200rpm 2mb cache ATA100 Troni FullTower Case with 500W Power suply + 3 80mm Case fans Slackware 8.1 & Windows Xp Pro Sp1

Aug 4, 2003, 04:59 AM	#21
Patriot DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan, USofA Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Good call. I haven't tried that. I'll let ya know how it goes. __________________ For those who stand guard, freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.

Aug 4, 2003, 09:16 AM	#23
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Is there anything changed from the beta of this release? Edit: Ups sorry, just saw the other tread from the beta. One note, i couldnt install it without installing the normal 3.6 first. Says my gfx isnt supportet (or something, cant remember, at work). I have a Sapphire 9700 No-Pro and running WinXP SP1.

Aug 4, 2003, 09:45 AM	#24
Patriot DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan, USofA Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Well, Chaos, Brazilian, thanx. But I reloaded DX 9.0b and it still does it. As long as my games work, I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm going to bed. I gotta work for a living. C-Ya. __________________ For those who stand guard, freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.

Aug 4, 2003, 01:50 PM	#28
wolfran DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 414 Rep Power: 0	Great Driver!!! Hi, This is the best driver i tried so far. Image quality looks good and very fast. I'm new to your driver and I have some questions: 1. I installed your hacked driver. How do I know that the hacked driver is installed properly? I can't tell the difference from the normal Driver by looking at the ATI CP (It still says 9700 Pro). People are talking about smoothvision 2.1. Where can i verify this? In ATI CP it just says Smoothvision II? Is your CP the same as the ATI CP? 2. After installing your driver, I found that your driver somehow replaces the directx.cpl into the debug version (and saying that it will be slower than the retail version). Can i reinstall directx again? Or that will defeat your tweaks? 3. Just wondering if you could make the installer to be the same as the catalyst driver suite in your next releases for easier installation, especially for clean install. Thanks BTW my spec: Athlon Xp 2600+ Sapphire Radeon 9700 NP Asus A7n8x Win XP 2 * 256 MB RAM Last edited by wolfran; Aug 5, 2003 at 01:56 AM.

Aug 4, 2003, 03:20 PM	#30
zgrav DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	BANDING Looks like Omega added rTool to help with the banding: set it to use trilinear filtering at every stage. normal cats set to trilinear (instead of application pref) will only use trilinear filtering on the first processing stage, and then use bilenear filtering for subseqent passes. That causes the banding in some games.