New Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.44 (Cat 4.5 based)

mainman · May 19, 2004, 04:47 AM

Thanks Omega!!! Great work on these drivers!!!! Downloading now...

Omegadrive · May 19, 2004, 04:47 AM

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Originally posted by Morpheon
TAA....where is it.....I AM SOOOO EXCITED.....OMEGA I knew you would figure a way to add that to the new cats!!! BUT I just cant find the option....any help??

Thanks all

To use it you have to install the included RadLinker and follow the RadLinker guide on how to create RadLinks for your games.

pinstripe007 · May 19, 2004, 04:49 AM

Omega...just curious on what your settings are for OpenGL and Direct3d. I usually have AA and AF at 4x and 8x respectively on both. But the sliders for VSYNC and TRUFORM, should I mess with them or leave them as is? I heard in the past if you leave them both off you get better performance is that true?

Thanks for the input, and thanks for the brand new drivers...I am sure they won't dissappoint.

MythicaL · May 19, 2004, 04:57 AM

I hope my CoD won't crash again like it did with the 4.4 Omegas

Omegadrive · May 19, 2004, 04:57 AM

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Originally posted by pinstripe007
Omega...just curious on what your settings are for OpenGL and Direct3d. I usually have AA and AF at 4x and 8x respectively on both. But the sliders for VSYNC and TRUFORM, should I mess with them or leave them as is? I heard in the past if you leave them both off you get better performance is that true?

Thanks for the input, and thanks for the brand new drivers...I am sure they won't dissappoint.

Trueform, leave it off.
As for V-sync, is your choice. You will get better performance with v-sync off, but get texture tearing in fast games.

Shadow Lady · May 19, 2004, 05:24 AM

not only on fast games, it even botters me in 25fps and less its gross -.- Anyway, thx a lot Omega, I like your drivers a lot, sure it has helped me in too much ^^ keep the good work, sorry i cant donate -.-

BWX · May 19, 2004, 05:27 AM

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Originally posted by Omegadrive
..BTW, don't post using that color, it eats my eyes....

He's been warned a few times about that in the past I think/ people complaining...

Anyway, thanks for the great drivers, did you do any testing with these drivers and Farcry? With the last (Omega)set I think I got some texture flickering when zooming in with binocs and scope on long range weapons like sniper rifle...

Just wondering, but I'll test these out and see if it happens. It doesn't do it near as bad with stock 4.4 drivers, and even less with the stock 4.5's, but once in a while it still does. This is with a 9700pro @ 351.00/317.25, so it is an OC'd card, and that very well may be why I see the flickering so much, but I also see it at stock speed.

mainman · May 19, 2004, 05:38 AM

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Originally posted by BWX
He's been warned a few times about that in the past I think/ people complaining...

Anyway, thanks for the great drivers, did you do any testing with these drivers and Farcry? With the last (Omega)set I think I got some texture flickering when zooming in with binocs and scope on long range weapons like sniper rifle...

Just wondering, but I'll test these out and see if it happens. It doesn't do it near as bad with stock 4.4 drivers, and even less with the stock 4.5's, but once in a while it still does. This is with a 9700pro @ 351.00/317.25, so it is an OC'd card, and that very well may be why I see the flickering so much, but I also see it at stock speed.

Yep, i get that 2 with FarCry and i have my card o/c 2, im gonna see if these drivers fix it...

MythicaL · May 19, 2004, 05:43 AM

I fixed the crashing problem

Turns out I can't use EAX Audio on my Audigy 1 with kX drivers or the game will freeze.

Morpheon · May 19, 2004, 06:10 AM

KICK ASS DRIVERS....THE Temporal AA is just amazing

and let me tell you...my friend here has a X800pro and if you are on a AMD XP system the upgrade is not worth it until you run in on a next gen platform like AMD64 because with these new drivers the image quality is near the same on my XP (there are reviews that back this up for all of you doubers).....STILL RATHER HAVE THE X800Pro but still its nice to see my bios flashed, hardmodded, voltmodded, watercooled/extra heatsinked, TAA enabled and overclocked 9500 non pro can still run games with the big boys....

THANKS OMEGA BEST CATS YET!!!!

Note to ATI......PLEASE keep the new cards modable....it will make soo many of us customers for life as it is just soooo much fun to see what you can make old cards do....(while MANY the others will just run them normal) THANKS ATI ABSOLUTE BEST AND I USED TO BE A nV fanboy.

Judas · May 19, 2004, 06:40 AM

the 4.5's don't officially support the X800 do they?... i mean.... we haven't a beta testing base big enough to even attempt it.... it will be nice if we can get a big enough base....

mike83wvu · May 19, 2004, 06:44 AM

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my friend here has a X800pro and if you are on a AMD XP system the upgrade is not worth it until you run in on a next gen platform like AMD64

Absolutely true in all the games that are cpu limited, in some there is a huge improvement with the X800 Pro especially at 1600x1200 with the AA&AF cranked up. I'll be upgrading once the 939 motherboards come out.

mike83wvu · May 19, 2004, 06:47 AM

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the 4.5's don't officially support the X800 do they?...

It claims they do but the performance was dismal for me.

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 19, 2004, 06:48 AM

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Originally posted by Below 30
[COLOR=cyan]Omegadrive, do you know anything about the HDTV feature in the 4.5 driver.[/COLOR]

I don't think that possable the x800 is the first card with
hardware hdtv support I'm 99.9% sure that why you can't see it ...

not happen to be running a x800 are ya?

why do so many people keep asking this? on forums everywere

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Originally posted by JJohnson1988
I hope my CoD won't crash again like it did with the 4.4 Omegas

cod hasn't crashed for most peole includeing me since cat COD hotfix. Make sure you have the 1.4 offical patch and check eveything temps voltages etc. but let not dissuss that here (to stay on topic)
if you wanna make a seprate post i'll try to help you there...

Quote:

Originally posted by Shadow Lady
not only on fast games, it even botters me in 25fps and less its gross -.- Anyway, thx a lot Omega, I like your drivers a lot, sure it has helped me in too much ^^ keep the good work, sorry i cant donate -.-

thats true even when fps is low then you monitor draws the image at a diffrent time as your screen refeshes and you eather see the redraw or it looks like crap ...

Quote:

Originally posted by JJohnson1988
I fixed the crashing problem Turns out I can't use EAX Audio on my Audigy 1 with kX drivers or the game will freeze.

ROFL ... cool glad to hear you got it fixed

Quote:

Originally posted by Morpheon
THANKS ATI ABSOLUTE BEST AND I USED TO BE A nV fanboy.

I've been there done that

and yes ati rules but so do these drivers

dohcmark8 · May 19, 2004, 06:48 AM

Hmmmmm........ this set stinks, the first time i've ever been dissapointed in a Omega set, these cause 'Black Hawk Down', and 'Comanche 4' to stutter. So I reverted back to the Omega 4.4's and all is good again.

Maybe the next set will be better.

Thanks alot Omega, the 4.4 set is great still.

p0rChM0nK3y · May 19, 2004, 06:56 AM

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Hmmmmm........ this set stinks

These drivers dont automatically suck just because of two problems. Hell, I have lots of problems with ATI's drivers, thats why i use Omega's.

mikedep333 · May 19, 2004, 06:56 AM

I've read that for R3XX series cards, the beta catalyst 4.5's have a shader improvement (link below) but that the regular 4.5's do not(nothing mentioned in the official release notes), and TheWall was saying that the betas are better with bf-vietnam. Can anybody confirm whether or not the official 4.5's have this improvement or not?
http://www.3dchipset.com/forums/view...hp?p=3727#3727
And if they are faster, wouldn't it make sense to at least offer a seperate driver package with them?
but of course, thanks for the new drivers anyway omega.

Omegadrive · May 19, 2004, 06:58 AM

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Originally posted by dohcmark8
Hmmmmm........ this set stinks, the first time i've ever been dissapointed in a Omega set, these cause 'Black Hawk Down', and 'Comanche 4' to stutter. So I reverted back to the Omega 4.4's and all is good again.

Maybe the next set will be better.

Thanks alot Omega, the 4.4 set is great still.

I had a tester that experinced the same stutter in games, he just re-installed the drivers again on top of the first install and done, stutter gone, try it.

Omegadrive · May 19, 2004, 07:01 AM

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Originally posted by mikedep333
I've read that for R3XX series cards, the beta catalyst 4.5's have a shader improvement (link below) but that the regular 4.5's do not(nothing mentioned in the official release notes), and TheWall was saying that the betas are better with bf-vietnam. Can anybody confirm whether or not the official 4.5's have this improvement or not?
http://www.3dchipset.com/forums/view...hp?p=3727#3727
And if they are faster, wouldn't it make sense to at least offer a seperate driver package with them?
but of course, thanks for the new drivers anyway omega.

Can you keep a secret?

These drivers are NOT based on the official ones, so guess on which ones they are based.

Judas · May 19, 2004, 07:05 AM

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Originally posted by Omegadrive
I had a tester that experinced the same stutter in games, he just re-installed the drivers again on top of the first install and done, stutter gone, try it.

Yes, i experienced stutters in any a few games that started to really push the envolope.... (anything DX8 and up would instantly steadily start to stutter... it wasn't like it was hardware not up to par.. it was just simply a set stutter..... Prince of Persia... 3DMark 03 (the first test wouldn't show any sign of stutter... but the rest would instantly)..... a various others that i had ran would either run silky smooth... ot instantly become a smooth... but chop show stutter...)

Simply going to start>all programs>Omega Drivers>(re) install Omega driver did the trick... no need for uninstalling first... just plaster it overtop..

IF ANYONE has an issue with radlinker... simply REMOVE it completely... then install from the omega start>all programs>Omega drivers menu...

dohcmark8 · May 19, 2004, 07:06 AM

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Originally posted by Omegadrive
I had a tester that experinced the same stutter in games, he just re-installed the drivers again on top of the first install and done, stutter gone, try it.

Thanks Omega. I will try it. It's like 1am and really late so ill try it tomorrow, I was planning on going to bed early tonight, but then I saw a post that the Omega 4.5 set has been released, and it kept me up another couple of hours. lol

Another reason to stick with Omega: Excellent support.

You would think with all the great service Omega has been providing to the community, that by now someone would of "handed" him a free X800 Pro or something, wouldnt ya?.

ViRuS2k · May 19, 2004, 07:11 AM

well time to download these WELL DONE Omega for adding an the Awsome Cool ATITOOL

this little tool is one amazeing little overclocking tool then after you find your right clocks then use radclocker again one sweet package ok now i have to go test lol

thewall · May 19, 2004, 07:18 AM

So I am guessing these are based on something else than the official 4.5. I like iit, downloading nooooow

Judas · May 19, 2004, 07:30 AM

hopefully in the future.... the creator of ATI tool can build a Omega edition... as it would be SWEET to have everything available right in the control panel.... what i'd like to see if radlinker make available a "currently profiled" list of games... so that you know which games have been setup from the defaults..

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 19, 2004, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dohcmark8
Hmmmmm........ this set stinks, the first time i've ever been dissapointed in a Omega set, these cause 'Black Hawk Down', and 'Comanche 4' to stutter. So I reverted back to the Omega 4.4's and all is good again.

Maybe the next set will be better.

Thanks alot Omega, the 4.4 set is great still.

um just loaded and played some "Black Hawk Down" no flickering or probems of any such kind ...
must be something else wrong

MythicaL · May 19, 2004, 07:45 AM

Yeah... I need new SB drivers. I'm downloading the Audigy 2 ZS ones but it takes a while because I need to limit the speed at 7kb/sec or so otherwise my gay ass brother will disconnect the router because of 'bandwidth hogging'

He should speak for himself that gay sack of....... ahem

thewall · May 19, 2004, 08:03 AM

Well I just installed and played 10 minutes of Bf- Vietnam. Same great performance as the beta 4.5 had for me. Got roughly the same points in both 3dmark 2003 (6600) and Aquamark(46000) as before. Thank's again for the time and effort you take in making these drivers.

Ne0_MoRTiZ · May 19, 2004, 08:14 AM

Ok, just a minor problem with Radlinker...

I did a full clean uninstall of ATI official 4.5 drivers using their uninstall software... then boot into Safe mode and clearing out the rest using DriverCleaner... then boot into normal mode to install these latest Omega drivers...

As you can see, I did everything perfectly... EXCEPT... I forgot to uninstall my Radclocker.
So I got a few errors here and there while installing Omega's drivers so no big deal I thought.

Anyway, I then went on to uninstall my previous verson of Radclocker and installed the ones that came with Omegas... Well... after 4 attempts... I still got Radclocker??!!

Wasn't I meant to get Radlinker instead? I know cuz I've previously played around with the latest Radlinker that comes with the TempAA settings.

Hmm...

Cosmos · May 19, 2004, 08:25 AM

Good work Omega, especially on:
* Fixed the "Hibernation not working" problem in laptops.

Nyana · May 19, 2004, 08:29 AM

trying them later .. but i know it will be a great release as ever.

May 19, 2004, 04:47 AM	#31
mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,961 Rep Power: 69	Thanks Omega!!! Great work on these drivers!!!! Downloading now... __________________

May 19, 2004, 04:49 AM	#33
pinstripe007 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 105 Rep Power: 0	Omega...just curious on what your settings are for OpenGL and Direct3d. I usually have AA and AF at 4x and 8x respectively on both. But the sliders for VSYNC and TRUFORM, should I mess with them or leave them as is? I heard in the past if you leave them both off you get better performance is that true? Thanks for the input, and thanks for the brand new drivers...I am sure they won't dissappoint. __________________ [color=blue] [color=red][color=darkgreen]\|Desktop\| [/color]Mobo:[/color] DFI nForce2 "Ultra Infinity" [color=red]CPU:[/color] AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 3200+ Barton [color=red]RAM:[/color] 2x256 & 1x512 PC3200 Buffalo Technology CH-5 @ 11-2-2-2.0 [color=red]Vid:[/color] Sapphire ATI r9700pro @ 360/320 [color=darkgreen]\|Laptop - Prostar 3722\| [color=red]Display: [/color][color=blue]15.4" WSXGA+ [/color][color=yellow]; [color=red]CPU: [/color][color=blue]1.7 GHz Dothan 2MB L2 Cache[/color]; [color=red]RAM: [/color][color=blue]1024MB PC2700 DDR[/color]; [color=red]Vid: [/color][/color][/color][color=blue]ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128M[/color] [/color]

May 19, 2004, 04:57 AM	#34
MythicaL I like computers. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In front of a monitor Posts: 3,399 Rep Power: 87 System Specs	I hope my CoD won't crash again like it did with the 4.4 Omegas __________________ Always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust.

May 19, 2004, 05:24 AM	#36
Shadow Lady Avril Fan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: somewhere in colombia, okok, bogotÃ¡ city :p Posts: 1,262 Rep Power: 0	not only on fast games, it even botters me in 25fps and less its gross -.- Anyway, thx a lot Omega, I like your drivers a lot, sure it has helped me in too much ^^ keep the good work, sorry i cant donate -.- __________________ Oblivion ftw

May 19, 2004, 05:43 AM	#39
MythicaL I like computers. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In front of a monitor Posts: 3,399 Rep Power: 87 System Specs	I fixed the crashing problem Turns out I can't use EAX Audio on my Audigy 1 with kX drivers or the game will freeze. __________________ Always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust.

May 19, 2004, 06:10 AM	#40
Morpheon DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	KICK ASS DRIVERS....THE Temporal AA is just amazing and let me tell you...my friend here has a X800pro and if you are on a AMD XP system the upgrade is not worth it until you run in on a next gen platform like AMD64 because with these new drivers the image quality is near the same on my XP (there are reviews that back this up for all of you doubers).....STILL RATHER HAVE THE X800Pro but still its nice to see my bios flashed, hardmodded, voltmodded, watercooled/extra heatsinked, TAA enabled and overclocked 9500 non pro can still run games with the big boys.... THANKS OMEGA BEST CATS YET!!!! Note to ATI......PLEASE keep the new cards modable....it will make soo many of us customers for life as it is just soooo much fun to see what you can make old cards do....(while MANY the others will just run them normal) THANKS ATI ABSOLUTE BEST AND I USED TO BE A nV fanboy. __________________ Hi

May 19, 2004, 06:48 AM	#45
dohcmark8 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Confusing thy Confuser! Posts: 49 Rep Power: 0	Hmmmmm........ this set stinks, the first time i've ever been dissapointed in a Omega set, these cause 'Black Hawk Down', and 'Comanche 4' to stutter. So I reverted back to the Omega 4.4's and all is good again. Maybe the next set will be better. Thanks alot Omega, the 4.4 set is great still.

May 19, 2004, 06:56 AM	#47
mikedep333 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	I've read that for R3XX series cards, the beta catalyst 4.5's have a shader improvement (link below) but that the regular 4.5's do not(nothing mentioned in the official release notes), and TheWall was saying that the betas are better with bf-vietnam. Can anybody confirm whether or not the official 4.5's have this improvement or not? http://www.3dchipset.com/forums/view...hp?p=3727#3727 And if they are faster, wouldn't it make sense to at least offer a seperate driver package with them? but of course, thanks for the new drivers anyway omega. __________________ Athlon 64 3000+ Asus K8V Deluxe (k8t800) Gig of pc2100 Sapphire Radeon 9700 @ 304/290 ATI TV Wonder PCI

May 19, 2004, 07:11 AM	#52
ViRuS2k HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Uk Posts: 8,334 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	well time to download these WELL DONE Omega for adding an the Awsome Cool ATITOOL this little tool is one amazeing little overclocking tool then after you find your right clocks then use radclocker again one sweet package ok now i have to go test lol

May 19, 2004, 07:18 AM	#53
thewall DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 100 Rep Power: 0	So I am guessing these are based on something else than the official 4.5. I like iit, downloading nooooow

May 19, 2004, 07:45 AM	#56
MythicaL I like computers. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In front of a monitor Posts: 3,399 Rep Power: 87 System Specs	Yeah... I need new SB drivers. I'm downloading the Audigy 2 ZS ones but it takes a while because I need to limit the speed at 7kb/sec or so otherwise my gay ass brother will disconnect the router because of 'bandwidth hogging' He should speak for himself that gay sack of....... ahem __________________ Always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust.

May 19, 2004, 08:03 AM	#57
thewall DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 100 Rep Power: 0	Well I just installed and played 10 minutes of Bf- Vietnam. Same great performance as the beta 4.5 had for me. Got roughly the same points in both 3dmark 2003 (6600) and Aquamark(46000) as before. Thank's again for the time and effort you take in making these drivers.

May 19, 2004, 08:14 AM	#58
Ne0_MoRTiZ DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Ok, just a minor problem with Radlinker... I did a full clean uninstall of ATI official 4.5 drivers using their uninstall software... then boot into Safe mode and clearing out the rest using DriverCleaner... then boot into normal mode to install these latest Omega drivers... As you can see, I did everything perfectly... EXCEPT... I forgot to uninstall my Radclocker. So I got a few errors here and there while installing Omega's drivers so no big deal I thought. Anyway, I then went on to uninstall my previous verson of Radclocker and installed the ones that came with Omegas... Well... after 4 attempts... I still got Radclocker??!! Wasn't I meant to get Radlinker instead? I know cuz I've previously played around with the latest Radlinker that comes with the TempAA settings. Hmm...

May 19, 2004, 08:25 AM	#59
Cosmos DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	Good work Omega, especially on: * Fixed the "Hibernation not working" problem in laptops. __________________ ---------- AMD Winchester 3000+ @ 2.25GHz ATI X850XT PE, 256MB, Overdrive 2GB OCZ @ 400MHz, Dual Channel Creative Audigy 2ZS, 6.1 Surround Seagate 7200.9 500GB SATAII Antec P180 Case, 550W PSU ----------

May 19, 2004, 08:29 AM	#60
Nyana DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kamen / Germany Posts: 159 Rep Power: 0	trying them later .. but i know it will be a great release as ever. __________________ [color=darkblue]Visit:[/color] RPG24 Network Community · powered by Lex Vitae & VANEN [color=gray]P4P800 Deluxe · P4 3.0 GHz HT · 4096MB Corsair XMS3200C2 @ 2-3-3-6 Radeon X1950 Pro · SB X-Fi Fatal1ty · WD Raptor-74GB & WD Raptor-150GB 500W Levicom · Syncmaster 215TW 21" wide TFT · System Air cooled by Zalman [/color]