Radeon Omega Drivers v2.4.78 for Win 2k/XP

Hkhalid · Sep 14, 2003, 11:00 PM

Omega Drivers have affect on Radeon 8500 or no use to use them with it ??

Screwz Luse · Sep 15, 2003, 02:28 AM

Hey, I'm having problems with my installation. I did run the w1zzard hacked drivers but decided to switch to the omega drivers after hearing some good things. Well, I uninstalled the w1zzard drivers completely and attempted to install the Omega drivers. The drivers appeared to install with no problem. After restarting as instructed, I tried logging in, where the screen flickered (correctly I assume) but then nothing happened for like 5 minutes. I restarted the computer manually and couldn't log in anymore. It would log in, then log right back out. I tried going into safe mode uninstalling the drivers, going back into normal mode, and reinstalling the drivers 2 (also tried the non-hacked drivers) with the same results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SPECS:
VID: ATI Radeon 9500
MOB: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
CPU: 2000+ AMD Athlon XP
RAM: 512 PC2100 DDR

BWX · Sep 15, 2003, 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Screwz Luse
I did run the w1zzard hacked drivers

What the heck are those?

Screwz Luse · Sep 15, 2003, 02:53 AM

I think it's kinda misleading how I used "hacked" dirvers but it just enables the 8 pipelines and 156bit bus in a 9500 np to convert to a 9700. It doesn't OC for you though, so you have to do it all on your own and such.. (http://www.ocfaq.com/softmod/index.php)

Anyone have any thoughts on my problems with the Omega drivers?

BWX · Sep 15, 2003, 03:01 AM

Use DH driver cleaner and cab cleaner in safe mode.

I still son't know what w1zzard drivers are.

Screwz Luse · Sep 15, 2003, 04:56 AM

Ah, well, I managed to get the omega drivers working but am having that dreaded checkerboard effect. Guh, it's wicked annoying. I haven't OCed my vid card any (at least, nothing past default installation clock speeds) so I'm not sure how to solve the problem... Anyone managed to fix it?

BWX · Sep 15, 2003, 05:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Screwz Luse
Ah, well, I managed to get the omega drivers working but am having that dreaded checkerboard effect. Guh, it's wicked annoying. I haven't OCed my vid card any (at least, nothing past default installation clock speeds) so I'm not sure how to solve the problem... Anyone managed to fix it?

If you get checkerboard, your card is not moddable. At least that's what I've heard.

cj7mudrover · Sep 15, 2003, 10:22 AM

I have to admit, I had better results with the normal driver, not modded, for my 9700 pro. This is my first time using omega drivers and I have to say that I am very impressed with the results. I can tell a significant difference in my graphics, clearer and smoother. Great job omega. Here were my results on testing...

3.7 Catylyst
3dmark03 - 5839
3dmark2001se - 17161

Omgea 2.4.78 (modded)
3dmark03 - 5698
3dmark2001se - 17153

Omega 2.4.78 (normal)
3dmark03 - 5857
3dmark2001se - 17475

As u can see, the modded driver didnt work well for me. What exactly does it do anyway??

Esaz666 · Sep 15, 2003, 01:44 PM

Nice Work OmegaDrive (Again). You should be employed by Ati ...

Ive switched from using cat Omega 3.4s now.
NO problems at all.

These cats seem to be the best for me since Omega 3.4s
Time will tell but these seem to be much better than the last
lot of releases.

Much respect due, I tried 3.5,3.6 Ati but I just stayed with Omega3.4s
The 3.4s were such a big leap in quality but the new 3.7s are in my opinion the
best drivers yet.

Good installer too.

p.s cj7mudrover. To check if the modded driver has worked check to see if your smoooth vision says 2.1, the modded driver changes some of the driver paths to the same as on radeon 9800. I have allways got better results with the modded driver version.

cj7mudrover · Sep 15, 2003, 04:53 PM

Thanks for the info. I figured I was suppoesed to get better performance out of the modded driver, but it didnt happen. Anything else I should check/look for?

caspol · Sep 15, 2003, 07:53 PM

Hi all, not sure this belongs here but here goes. Have Rad 9500 o/c'd to 9700 with Omega drivers. Most recent driver update is to 2.4.74a _but_ original drivers are still listed in start menu 2.4.60. I want to upgrade to latest listed release but should I unistall all previous versions or what is best route? Is it ok to remove older driver versions. Many thanks

Chaos · Sep 15, 2003, 08:06 PM

May I welcome you to DH

Omega has a newer release than the 2.4.74a set.....They can be found here (rad_w2kxp_omega_2478) They are built around the Catalyst 3.7 drivers from ATI...Omega's drivers have a built in uninstall process that should remove pervious drivers but it never hurts to use a tool like Driver Cleaner to totally remove all prior installations first....

cj7mudrover · Sep 15, 2003, 08:10 PM

To caspol, uninstall all versions and install the 2.4.78 driver.

Now, to esaz666, i cant seem to find where it says smoothvision 2.1. Only place I found that says smooth vision, is the opengl and direct3d tabs in the settings, it says Smoothvision II. Not sure if thats it or not. Also, with the modded driver, I am getting not as good of picture as the normal ones. When I drag windows around on the desktop and such, it trails and lags. Not too impressed. Neways, this is my first time using these omega drivers so I could be doing something wrong. Any Ideas??

tarasis · Sep 15, 2003, 08:40 PM

Hi,

This is the first time I have ever used these drivers and on the whole they are very good. Certainly better performing than the stock drivers that came with my laptop. (Advent 7016 - ATI Mobility 9000)

I do have one problem with them though, since installing them I can no longer use the hibernate mode of XP. When I reload after hibernating the screen is horribly corrupt, both the display and the background. If I reboot I don#t get the problem.

Anyone else seen this problem? Any thoughts?

Screwz Luse · Sep 15, 2003, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
If you get checkerboard, your card is not moddable. At least that's what I've heard.

Well, I know that I've used other hacked drivers and modded the card with no problems. It used to be that all you have to do is lower the clock and have no problems but because I haven't clocked the card any, I'm not what the prob is.

gaelrond · Sep 16, 2003, 03:19 AM

Hey, just heard about the Omega drivers and downloaded them to check them out. I have a question/problem though, and am not sure what is going on. Running the Advanced SMARTGART options, my system keeps resetting to both PCI and AGP read/write OFF. I have tried repeatedly to turn the AGP read/write on to no avail. Is there another setting somewhere I need to adjust, is my system just retarded, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks-

Chaos · Sep 16, 2003, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gaelrond
Hey, just heard about the Omega drivers and downloaded them to check them out. I have a question/problem though, and am not sure what is going on. Running the Advanced SMARTGART options, my system keeps resetting to both PCI and AGP read/write OFF. I have tried repeatedly to turn the AGP read/write on to no avail. Is there another setting somewhere I need to adjust, is my system just retarded, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks-

Check your BIOS to see if it's enabled there

gaelrond · Sep 16, 2003, 03:29 AM

Only option I see in my BIOS is for Fast Write, which I have disabled. I have a feeling I am missing something, but I haven't a clue what it is.

tarasis · Sep 17, 2003, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tarasis
I do have one problem with them though, since installing them I can no longer use the hibernate mode of XP. When I reload after hibernating the screen is horribly corrupt, both the display and the background. If I reboot I don#t get the problem.

Found out more infor on this, it seems that sometimes, when the computer comes out of hibernate mode, the clock rates for the ATI get screwed up. Normally the settings are 249.75 for the processor and 198 for the memory, however when the corruption occurs the values are both set to 319. (the values are from the clock rate panel).

The problem occurs regardless of whether the clock rate change check box is selected or not. So the question is, how do I lock the value so that it doesn't change under any circumstances?

Rob

kl33r · Sep 17, 2003, 01:12 PM

Can someone attach or upload the ATIoglxx.dll from Omega 2.4.78 please? I've re-download Omega 2.4.78 twice on my 56k and it keeps giving me decompression errors which makes me unable to install the drivers... since during installation it asks me where is this xxx file??

Right now I just need the ATIogl.dll since this time it only prompts once unlike the first download it had errors on multiple files.

I really can't download another 15MB on my 56k - speed only about 1.5kb/s usually

Please pls pls upload or attach

Omegadrive · Sep 18, 2003, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kl33r
Can someone attach or upload the ATIoglxx.dll from Omega 2.4.78 please? I've re-download Omega 2.4.78 twice on my 56k and it keeps giving me decompression errors which makes me unable to install the drivers... since during installation it asks me where is this xxx file??

Right now I just need the ATIogl.dll since this time it only prompts once unlike the first download it had errors on multiple files.

I really can't download another 15MB on my 56k - speed only about 1.5kb/s usually
Please pls pls upload or attach

Use a download manager like Getright to download the files, that will resume broken downloads and you will not have that problem again.

kl33r · Sep 18, 2003, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
Use a download manager like Getright to download the files, that will resume broken downloads and you will not have that problem again.

I did.... I used GetRight for both downloads, and both of them had corrupted files in them... I even downloaded from 2 mirrors. One from DriverHeaven and the other from the mirror provided by Chaos

Someone upload it pls

kl33r · Sep 18, 2003, 09:38 AM

Sorry I mean ATIoglxx.DL_

not .dll

wolfran · Sep 18, 2003, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kl33r
I did.... I used GetRight for both downloads, and both of them had corrupted files in them... I even downloaded from 2 mirrors. One from DriverHeaven and the other from the mirror provided by Chaos

Someone upload it pls

hi,
I actually find that downloading sensitive programs like drivers is best to download it without a download manager. Sometimes the way that download manager segments the download for resuming is not perfect and may result in corruption. My advice is try to download the driver from the links without using a download manager such as getright or others.
Hope it help.

wolfran · Sep 18, 2003, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kl33r
I did.... I used GetRight for both downloads, and both of them had corrupted files in them... I even downloaded from 2 mirrors. One from DriverHeaven and the other from the mirror provided by Chaos

Someone upload it pls

hi,
I actually find that downloading sensitive programs like drivers is best to download it without a download manager. Sometimes the way that download manager segments the download for resuming is not perfect and may result in corruption. My advice is try to download the driver from the links without using a download manager such as getright or others.
Hope it help.

wolfran · Sep 18, 2003, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kl33r
I did.... I used GetRight for both downloads, and both of them had corrupted files in them... I even downloaded from 2 mirrors. One from DriverHeaven and the other from the mirror provided by Chaos

Someone upload it pls

hi,
I actually find that downloading sensitive programs like drivers is best to download it
without a download manager. Sometimes the way that download manager segments
the download for resuming is not perfect and may result in corruption. My advice is try
to download the driver from the links without using a download manager such as
getright or others.

Hope it help.

Junk · Sep 18, 2003, 10:27 PM

i know that with the nvidia drivers, you can only mess with fsaa, vsync, and oc'ing.

are there any settings that i shouldn't change with the ati omega's?

Chaos · Sep 18, 2003, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Junk
i know that with the nvidia drivers, you can only mess with fsaa, vsync, and oc'ing.

are there any settings that i shouldn't change with the ati omega's?

Anything contained in the ATI Control Panel is fair game as far as I know

kl33r · Sep 19, 2003, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolfran
hi,
I actually find that downloading sensitive programs like drivers is best to download it
without a download manager. Sometimes the way that download manager segments
the download for resuming is not perfect and may result in corruption. My advice is try
to download the driver from the links without using a download manager such as
getright or others.

Hope it help.

If I dont use a download manager... then my download would probably get broken since my connection frequently "hangs"...

COme on i need someone to upload it..

Kgentatszu] · Sep 19, 2003, 12:33 PM

i cant locate the file that you have requested.....Omega 3.7 right??

Sep 15, 2003, 03:01 AM	#125
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,665 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Use DH driver cleaner and cab cleaner in safe mode. I still son't know what w1zzard drivers are. __________________

Sep 15, 2003, 10:22 AM	#128
cj7mudrover DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I have to admit, I had better results with the normal driver, not modded, for my 9700 pro. This is my first time using omega drivers and I have to say that I am very impressed with the results. I can tell a significant difference in my graphics, clearer and smoother. Great job omega. Here were my results on testing... 3.7 Catylyst 3dmark03 - 5839 3dmark2001se - 17161 Omgea 2.4.78 (modded) 3dmark03 - 5698 3dmark2001se - 17153 Omega 2.4.78 (normal) 3dmark03 - 5857 3dmark2001se - 17475 As u can see, the modded driver didnt work well for me. What exactly does it do anyway?? __________________ Abit NF7-S Ver. 2.0 AMD 2500+ (217x10 ~ 2170mhz) Ati 9700 Pro (396/351)

Sep 15, 2003, 01:44 PM	#129
Esaz666 BeardHeaven Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Uk,Earth,Universe,3rd dimention Posts: 298 Rep Power: 57	Nice Work OmegaDrive (Again). You should be employed by Ati ... Ive switched from using cat Omega 3.4s now. NO problems at all. These cats seem to be the best for me since Omega 3.4s Time will tell but these seem to be much better than the last lot of releases. Much respect due, I tried 3.5,3.6 Ati but I just stayed with Omega3.4s The 3.4s were such a big leap in quality but the new 3.7s are in my opinion the best drivers yet. Good installer too. p.s cj7mudrover. To check if the modded driver has worked check to see if your smoooth vision says 2.1, the modded driver changes some of the driver paths to the same as on radeon 9800. I have allways got better results with the modded driver version. Last edited by Esaz666; Sep 15, 2003 at 01:53 PM.

Sep 15, 2003, 04:53 PM	#130
cj7mudrover DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the info. I figured I was suppoesed to get better performance out of the modded driver, but it didnt happen. Anything else I should check/look for? __________________ Abit NF7-S Ver. 2.0 AMD 2500+ (217x10 ~ 2170mhz) Ati 9700 Pro (396/351)

Sep 15, 2003, 08:06 PM	#132
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	May I welcome you to DH Omega has a newer release than the 2.4.74a set.....They can be found here (rad_w2kxp_omega_2478) They are built around the Catalyst 3.7 drivers from ATI...Omega's drivers have a built in uninstall process that should remove pervious drivers but it never hurts to use a tool like Driver Cleaner to totally remove all prior installations first.... __________________

Sep 14, 2003, 11:00 PM	#121
Hkhalid DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Lahore,Pakistan Posts: 81 Rep Power: 0	Omega Drivers have affect on Radeon 8500 or no use to use them with it ??

Sep 15, 2003, 02:28 AM	#122
Screwz Luse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Hey, I'm having problems with my installation. I did run the w1zzard hacked drivers but decided to switch to the omega drivers after hearing some good things. Well, I uninstalled the w1zzard drivers completely and attempted to install the Omega drivers. The drivers appeared to install with no problem. After restarting as instructed, I tried logging in, where the screen flickered (correctly I assume) but then nothing happened for like 5 minutes. I restarted the computer manually and couldn't log in anymore. It would log in, then log right back out. I tried going into safe mode uninstalling the drivers, going back into normal mode, and reinstalling the drivers 2 (also tried the non-hacked drivers) with the same results. Any help would be greatly appreciated. SPECS: VID: ATI Radeon 9500 MOB: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe CPU: 2000+ AMD Athlon XP RAM: 512 PC2100 DDR

Sep 15, 2003, 02:53 AM	#124
Screwz Luse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	I think it's kinda misleading how I used "hacked" dirvers but it just enables the 8 pipelines and 156bit bus in a 9500 np to convert to a 9700. It doesn't OC for you though, so you have to do it all on your own and such.. (http://www.ocfaq.com/softmod/index.php) Anyone have any thoughts on my problems with the Omega drivers?

Sep 15, 2003, 04:56 AM	#126
Screwz Luse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Ah, well, I managed to get the omega drivers working but am having that dreaded checkerboard effect. Guh, it's wicked annoying. I haven't OCed my vid card any (at least, nothing past default installation clock speeds) so I'm not sure how to solve the problem... Anyone managed to fix it?

Sep 15, 2003, 07:53 PM	#131
caspol DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Belfast Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi all, not sure this belongs here but here goes. Have Rad 9500 o/c'd to 9700 with Omega drivers. Most recent driver update is to 2.4.74a _but_ original drivers are still listed in start menu 2.4.60. I want to upgrade to latest listed release but should I unistall all previous versions or what is best route? Is it ok to remove older driver versions. Many thanks

Sep 15, 2003, 08:10 PM	#133
cj7mudrover DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	To caspol, uninstall all versions and install the 2.4.78 driver. Now, to esaz666, i cant seem to find where it says smoothvision 2.1. Only place I found that says smooth vision, is the opengl and direct3d tabs in the settings, it says Smoothvision II. Not sure if thats it or not. Also, with the modded driver, I am getting not as good of picture as the normal ones. When I drag windows around on the desktop and such, it trails and lags. Not too impressed. Neways, this is my first time using these omega drivers so I could be doing something wrong. Any Ideas?? __________________ Abit NF7-S Ver. 2.0 AMD 2500+ (217x10 ~ 2170mhz) Ati 9700 Pro (396/351)

Sep 15, 2003, 08:40 PM	#134
tarasis DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hi, This is the first time I have ever used these drivers and on the whole they are very good. Certainly better performing than the stock drivers that came with my laptop. (Advent 7016 - ATI Mobility 9000) I do have one problem with them though, since installing them I can no longer use the hibernate mode of XP. When I reload after hibernating the screen is horribly corrupt, both the display and the background. If I reboot I don#t get the problem. Anyone else seen this problem? Any thoughts?

Sep 16, 2003, 03:19 AM	#136
gaelrond DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	question Hey, just heard about the Omega drivers and downloaded them to check them out. I have a question/problem though, and am not sure what is going on. Running the Advanced SMARTGART options, my system keeps resetting to both PCI and AGP read/write OFF. I have tried repeatedly to turn the AGP read/write on to no avail. Is there another setting somewhere I need to adjust, is my system just retarded, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks-

Sep 16, 2003, 03:29 AM	#138
gaelrond DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Only option I see in my BIOS is for Fast Write, which I have disabled. I have a feeling I am missing something, but I haven't a clue what it is.

Sep 17, 2003, 01:12 PM	#140
kl33r DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Can someone attach or upload the ATIoglxx.dll from Omega 2.4.78 please? I've re-download Omega 2.4.78 twice on my 56k and it keeps giving me decompression errors which makes me unable to install the drivers... since during installation it asks me where is this xxx file?? Right now I just need the ATIogl.dll since this time it only prompts once unlike the first download it had errors on multiple files. I really can't download another 15MB on my 56k - speed only about 1.5kb/s usually Please pls pls upload or attach

Sep 18, 2003, 09:38 AM	#143
kl33r DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Sorry I mean ATIoglxx.DL_ not .dll

Sep 18, 2003, 10:27 PM	#147
Junk DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 395 Rep Power: 0	i know that with the nvidia drivers, you can only mess with fsaa, vsync, and oc'ing. are there any settings that i shouldn't change with the ati omega's? __________________

Sep 19, 2003, 12:33 PM	#150
Kgentatszu] DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,802 Rep Power: 0	i cant locate the file that you have requested.....Omega 3.7 right??