New Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.44 (Cat 4.5 based)

davidnsibs · May 19, 2004, 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by phantommenace2

*on a side note why would anyone with Windows XP use a 3rd party compression utilty

i like winrar because if the compressed file is corrupted, you can 'repair' the file and get out some of the stuff that was ok. i have a few times downloaded corrupt zip files and when ive repaired them only a nonessential thing was bad e.g. the readme file. also i think that both winzip and winrar are quicker to extract or compress things, ive not timed it, but it just seems that way to me

dzjepp · May 19, 2004, 08:36 PM

Omega would it be possible for you to try and possibly 'fix' the problem that ATI Cat's have with the mobo AGP aperture setting, somebody mentioned that there is a bug with the official ATI Cat's that Windows won't recognize an aperture setting over 64MB, unless you have 1GB of ram. I would like to set mine to 128MB and have it actually work, not just have the setting ignored by Windows.

Anyways I've read about this last week I'm thinking you also must know about this, I dunno if you thought about a possible fix or not or even if it would be possible or not.

But thanks for reading.

phantommenace2 · May 19, 2004, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by Shadow Lady
there is not only winzip u know... Winrar (only one of the other) uses .rar files which compress better and had more options to compress than .zip files, and for decompressing, windows xp doesnt decompress more files than .zip and .cab files, the rest (ARJ RAR ACE TAR etc...) has to be extracted with another app, also the ZIP decompresser that windowsXP uses is no complete, it has no easy repair for files, sometimes it doesnt extract the right way (AFAIK). But anyway as for ur other question, yes windowsXP can decompress .cab files, so enjoy ^^

All those other file types you mentioned (ARJ RAR ACE TAR etc) really does not do anything for the average or even above average home user cuz most people never use those types of files to begin with....zip files are the most common compressed format and most people use the zip format....so Windows XP really is just fine to use as a compression utilty for the average home user---and the fact that XP can decompress cab files as well is just a bonus!

P.S Thanks for letting me know that XP can decompress cab files...now I can get to the matter of downloading the new Omega drivers

massimo · May 19, 2004, 10:11 PM

First of all thankyou for the new drivers Omega.

Do you know if the Adobe gamma utility issue is still present on this set of drivers?

regards

Pluvious · May 19, 2004, 10:52 PM

First up THANK YOU Omega for your drivers. I always wait for your release each month instead of bothering with the Offical ones.

You rock!

I have a 9700 PRO:

Couple of Q's though.. this new tool called ATI Tool is odd. I ran the core tester first and it got upto 380.70 before it just stayed there after a bit. Took about 10 mins. Then once I 'thought' it had maxed out I went ahead and ran the Memory test and it only maxed out to 320.40 and at the same time dropped my core down to 379.80. Here's the rub.. I've successfully o/c'd my PRO to 378/330.75 manually. Is this ATI Tool being cautious or what?

edit: Don't care for the black background. Please make it an option next time(?)

dohcmark8 · May 19, 2004, 11:05 PM

Omega, I got the 2.5.44 set working great now, sorry I was so quick to judge on your set last night, turns out it had to do with my sound card drivers, I should've know better than to think that Omega would release less than perfect drivers.

Many thanks man.

davidnsibs · May 19, 2004, 11:15 PM

yes, thanks omega, much appreiciated, i know 3dmark isnt thought of very highly anymore, but i got 200 marks extra on 2001 and about 50 on 2003 versus the official 4.5s which made me happy! the atitool will be lower than you can do manually as it checks for ANY artifacts ie if there is 1 then it lowers the clock speed and starts again, your eyes have no hope of picking up such a small imperfection (well unless they are a lot better than mine + you have a good monitor). this makes it a great way of finding your max as you arnt pushing the card beyond what it is capable of, having a crash or major artifacts and having to reset

andy71600 · May 20, 2004, 04:16 AM

so you really can install a new version of the Omega drivers over the old ones? I always thought you had to do the uninstall, reboot into safe mode, use drivercleaner.... Was i doing all that for nothing?

Judas · May 20, 2004, 04:38 AM

simply install right over top... the only thin you have to do is do the uninstall and driver cleaner if you had another video card in... or if you had the ATI CAT's (official).. you would have ....HAVE TO uninstall the Catalyst Control panel... but not the drivers....

CrapolaJola · May 20, 2004, 05:16 AM

Yay just got these installed installed on my newly acquired longhorn v4074

. one question has anyone with the call of duty single player as w/ the omega 4.4s i posted that the sp (not mp tho oddly enough) froze and 1 or 2 other users noticed it (ill assume most didnt notice cuz they dont play or only mp). id try myself but i reformatted and my friend has my cods cds. thanks for the great release, one question why didnt you include radlinker 1.009 it doesn't offer much over the 1.008 version, but its a good feeling to have the latest version of everything

Shadow Lady · May 20, 2004, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by phantommenace2
All those other file types you mentioned (ARJ RAR ACE TAR etc) really does not do anything for the average or even above average home user cuz most people never use those types of files to begin with....zip files are the most common compressed format and most people use the zip format....so Windows XP really is just fine to use as a compression utilty for the average home user---and the fact that XP can decompress cab files as well is just a bonus!

mmm... so RAR and ACE files are not comoon for average users? mmm... interesting, I thought gamers were not average users

udkjack · May 20, 2004, 05:28 AM

Working like a charm

Only 1 little issue so far, but could as well happen with the official 4.5 cat's (didn't try them): The shadows of the cars are missing in DTM Race Driver 2.

Robert McClelland · May 20, 2004, 05:40 AM

Great Job Angle you save me

I got trueform back on my contral panel and they didn't crash my system lol I'm very happy. I wish ati hire you allready lol

Omegadrive · May 20, 2004, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CrapolaJola
[B one question why didnt you include radlinker 1.009 it doesn't offer much over the 1.008 version, but its a good feeling to have the latest version of everything

[/B]

That was a Typo, the version included is 1009, sorry, now fixed.

Fahim · May 20, 2004, 08:26 AM

Hi,

The Omega 4.5 is great but i got one problem. When I run ruby demo.......it quits to desktop with a BAD NEWS message. But when i tried with official 4.5, the demo works fine. How can this be solved???? I'm using Colourless's Ruby Wrapper v2.0.

mr yellow · May 20, 2004, 09:12 AM

Im experiencing problems on my TV display when enabling OVERSCAN with the new CAT 4.5 and Omegas based on 4.5.
The picture jumps or rather only diplays in the top 3quarters of the screen.

Can someone help? or r their others out there experiencing the sam problem?

RIV@NVX · May 20, 2004, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by phantommenace2
*on a side note why would anyone with Windows XP use a 3rd party compression utilty since XP does a good job of decompressing files by itself without the need for another program?....is there something that XP's does or does not do that WinZip does?....I believe XP also allows you to compress files to send as well*

Perhaps some people (like me) prefer to have it traditional way, not integrated into shell. Also, other solutions (7-zip, WinRAR) offer a lot more functionality than normal WinXP compression tools.

Distroyed · May 20, 2004, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by Omegadrive
Re-install the AGP chipset drivers for your MB, that's all.

Did as you said (even upgraded them)... problem persists. Any other ideas? (Thanks for the previous response, btw!)

saikoni · May 20, 2004, 11:08 AM

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Originally posted by Distroyed
Did as you said (even upgraded them)... problem persists. Any other ideas? (Thanks for the previous response, btw!)

Had the same problem, just disabled the vpu recover and everything is fine again, have you tried that?

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 20, 2004, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BOB050082
Everything is working great with this latest set except for one thing. Ive been noticing some pretty bad graphical corruption in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

As you can see, the console, the water, and the pazerfaust are a strage color and not being displayed properly. All other sets have been fine, except for this one, and this one issue. The only setting that I have changed in the control pannel is changing the color profile from desktop to 3d. No AA or AF enabled.

Windows XP SP1
Radeon 9800XT

hmm I play that game (1024x768 no aa/af) and it don't look like anything like that
again no pobs here

9600xt/9500pro
xp corp sp2 beta 2126

mr yellow · May 20, 2004, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mr yellow
Im experiencing problems on my TV display when enabling OVERSCAN with the new CAT 4.5 and Omegas based on 4.5.
The picture jumps or rather only diplays in the top 3quarters of the screen.

Can someone help? or r their others out there experiencing the sam problem?

[SIZE=xx-large]HELPPPP!!![/SIZE]

[SIZE=x-large]IS ANY ONE EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM[/SIZE]

Ta

MEABeemer · May 20, 2004, 11:43 AM

When I try to uninstall any version of Catalyst/Omega or just try to install it over the one currently installed, I get an "Internal Failure"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040707" "Description:".

And after clicking "OK" I get a "Severe"-error with the text: "ISLAYER.DLL not loaded into memory".

And after clicking "OK" again I get an "Unhandled Exeption"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040702" "Description: Failed to load dll: ISLAYER" "Setup will now terminate."

And after clicking "OK" for the last time it exits!

This has happened to me since I ever had a Radeon in Microsoft Windows XP (ATi Radeon 7200 VIVO 64MB DDR / Gigabyte Radeon 8500XT 128MB DDR / ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB / and now waiting for the ATi X800 XT PCI Express).

The only solution I ever came up with is a clean install.

Nobody in the world could ever help me, they tried to help but came up with non-working solutions.

Can anyone (who maybe even had experience with this problem) REALLY help me?

Firefox · May 20, 2004, 11:49 AM

Downloading now, THX Omega

mr yellow · May 20, 2004, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MEABeemer
When I try to uninstall any version of Catalyst/Omega or just try to install it over the one currently installed, I get an "Internal Failure"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040707" "Description:".

And after clicking "OK" I get a "Severe"-error with the text: "ISLAYER.DLL not loaded into memory".

And after clicking "OK" again I get an "Unhandled Exeption"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040702" "Description: Failed to load dll: ISLAYER" "Setup will now terminate."

And after clicking "OK" for the last time it exits!

This has happened to me since I ever had a Radeon in Microsoft Windows XP (ATi Radeon 7200 VIVO 64MB DDR / Gigabyte Radeon 8500XT 128MB DDR / ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB / and now waiting for the ATi X800 XT PCI Express).

The only solution I ever came up with is a clean install.

Nobody in the world could ever help me, they tried to help but came up with non-working solutions.

Can anyone (who maybe even had experience with this problem) REALLY help me?

Have checked ur memory? maybe its faulty

MEABeemer · May 20, 2004, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mr yellow
Have checked ur memory? maybe its faulty

I made an image of my drive and installed it on different kind of PC's.

They all showed the same error.

Donald24 · May 20, 2004, 12:53 PM

Hey, I've just installed the new set on my 9800pro, and I am glad, that the gamma-override key made it into Omegadrive's standards.
I've heard about temporary AA, is this option not implemented in this set? I would deactivate it anyway, hehe, just curious.

Well if you install the set on top of your existing previous Omega-set, I've got errors with Radlinker, not finding its *.msi packet, so I would recommend to de-install that before, if you want the latest version, but it still does only oc - I did not find any improvements there. I've got couple of installation problems with Radlinker in the past, when changing drivers, install loops mainly.

I do not know why Refreshforce got exchanged by MultiRes, I am not a guy liking memory resident programs, I am minimalistic in this point of view, and I find it simply annoying to switch to every resolution I am using in games, to set its desired refresh rate, this after every driver-update, and did I mention that it does only work when you are running that MultiRes? And I think many users, do not use that tray hot-switching resolution often.. Long live Refreshforce!!! It's set up in 30secs for every res, no more to say.

Ah, one thing, I've got curious about the "DriverCleaner - Omega-Edition" so I started it, just to have a look at the options, well, ehm, then I clicked "Start"

not knowing that it meant "START CLEANING"....
admittedly stupid - but I think it's quite misleading.

Well you can imagine, what was needed to do then..

Anyway, I wait for Omega's edition as well after every official release, it's nice package. Thanks, Omega.

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 20, 2004, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MEABeemer
I made an image of my drive and installed it on different kind of PC's.

They all showed the same error.

i ansered your post here
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...026#post354026

scorp64 · May 20, 2004, 01:53 PM

Ok, I fixed the hibernate problem on my HP notebook. I uninstalled everything, rebooted in VGA mode, and reinstalled the driver only with none of the extras. Let the system reboot, checked Event Viewer for error messages, rebooted again, and then tried hibernate.

On another issue, I installed the new drivers on my desktop, AIW 9700Pro, last night. I initially installed them over the previous version, but after reboot I thought I was back in the 80s the screen redraws were so slow. After a little troubleshooting I completely uninstalled the drivers, rebooted and installed the new drivers only, rebooted and everything is fine.

So for me, installing over the old drivers just doesn't work.

BOB050082 · May 20, 2004, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omegadrive
Reset the color profiles and try again, maybe something went awery. BTW, that is not graphical corruption, that is just color corruption.

Reset it, still had the problem. Reinstalled drivers on top of existing ones, still had the problem. Completely removed, installed them fresh, and I still have the problem. I think it might be an Open GL issue seeing as DirectX apps run fine and dandy.

Shadow Lady · May 20, 2004, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by andy71600
so you really can install a new version of the Omega drivers over the old ones? I always thought you had to do the uninstall, reboot into safe mode, use drivercleaner.... Was i doing all that for nothing?

No, it wasn't for nothin, is just better that way since u are sure there will be nothin causin trouble, normally installin over doesnt cause trouble but u cant be too sure about it :P like, some people prefer to install the new drivers in a clean windows installation, i wanna do that but for XP SP2

May 19, 2004, 10:11 PM	#94
massimo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: italy Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	Gamma issue First of all thankyou for the new drivers Omega. Do you know if the Adobe gamma utility issue is still present on this set of drivers? regards

May 19, 2004, 10:52 PM	#95
Pluvious Elisha = hottie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA CA. SF Bay Area Posts: 1,318 Rep Power: 56	First up THANK YOU Omega for your drivers. I always wait for your release each month instead of bothering with the Offical ones. You rock! I have a 9700 PRO: Couple of Q's though.. this new tool called ATI Tool is odd. I ran the core tester first and it got upto 380.70 before it just stayed there after a bit. Took about 10 mins. Then once I 'thought' it had maxed out I went ahead and ran the Memory test and it only maxed out to 320.40 and at the same time dropped my core down to 379.80. Here's the rub.. I've successfully o/c'd my PRO to 378/330.75 manually. Is this ATI Tool being cautious or what? edit: Don't care for the black background. Please make it an option next time(?) __________________ Last edited by Pluvious; May 19, 2004 at 11:23 PM.

May 19, 2004, 11:15 PM	#97
davidnsibs 9500pro Forever Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bath, UK Posts: 273 Rep Power: 0	yes, thanks omega, much appreiciated, i know 3dmark isnt thought of very highly anymore, but i got 200 marks extra on 2001 and about 50 on 2003 versus the official 4.5s which made me happy! the atitool will be lower than you can do manually as it checks for ANY artifacts ie if there is 1 then it lowers the clock speed and starts again, your eyes have no hope of picking up such a small imperfection (well unless they are a lot better than mine + you have a good monitor). this makes it a great way of finding your max as you arnt pushing the card beyond what it is capable of, having a crash or major artifacts and having to reset __________________ Goodbye 9500pro, you've been a faithful servant through Half life, Deus Ex, Unreal 2, Max Payne 1+2, Nolf 1+2, CoD, Far Cry, Civ IV, F.E.A.R and many more

May 20, 2004, 05:16 AM	#100
CrapolaJola The Great DaK Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 317 Rep Power: 0	hmm Yay just got these installed installed on my newly acquired longhorn v4074 . one question has anyone with the call of duty single player as w/ the omega 4.4s i posted that the sp (not mp tho oddly enough) froze and 1 or 2 other users noticed it (ill assume most didnt notice cuz they dont play or only mp). id try myself but i reformatted and my friend has my cods cds. thanks for the great release, one question why didnt you include radlinker 1.009 it doesn't offer much over the 1.008 version, but its a good feeling to have the latest version of everything __________________ P2 X4 @ 3.6ghz, 4gb ddr3, SSD, 5870 @ 950/1250 + a 3ghz i5 lappy

May 20, 2004, 05:40 AM	#103
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,252 Rep Power: 193 System Specs	Great Job Angle you save me I got trueform back on my contral panel and they didn't crash my system lol I'm very happy. I wish ati hire you allready lol __________________ "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://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2242746

May 19, 2004, 08:36 PM	#92
dzjepp Black Mesa Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 76 Rep Power: 0	Omega would it be possible for you to try and possibly 'fix' the problem that ATI Cat's have with the mobo AGP aperture setting, somebody mentioned that there is a bug with the official ATI Cat's that Windows won't recognize an aperture setting over 64MB, unless you have 1GB of ram. I would like to set mine to 128MB and have it actually work, not just have the setting ignored by Windows. Anyways I've read about this last week I'm thinking you also must know about this, I dunno if you thought about a possible fix or not or even if it would be possible or not. But thanks for reading.

May 19, 2004, 11:05 PM	#96
dohcmark8 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Confusing thy Confuser! Posts: 49 Rep Power: 0	Omega, I got the 2.5.44 set working great now, sorry I was so quick to judge on your set last night, turns out it had to do with my sound card drivers, I should've know better than to think that Omega would release less than perfect drivers. Many thanks man.

May 20, 2004, 04:16 AM	#98
andy71600 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The moon Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	so you really can install a new version of the Omega drivers over the old ones? I always thought you had to do the uninstall, reboot into safe mode, use drivercleaner.... Was i doing all that for nothing?

May 20, 2004, 05:28 AM	#102
udkjack DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Working like a charm Only 1 little issue so far, but could as well happen with the official 4.5 cat's (didn't try them): The shadows of the cars are missing in DTM Race Driver 2.

May 20, 2004, 08:26 AM	#105
Fahim DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In Front of my PC Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Hi, The Omega 4.5 is great but i got one problem. When I run ruby demo.......it quits to desktop with a BAD NEWS message. But when i tried with official 4.5, the demo works fine. How can this be solved???? I'm using Colourless's Ruby Wrapper v2.0. __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ ASUS CROSSHAIR AM2 Motherboard 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz SDRAM 160GB+500GB+750GB+1TB+1TB+750GB+250GB+750GB+750GB+ 1TB+120GB+400GB [COLOR=green]NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB (650,1940)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#008000][color=red]ATI RADEON HD 3870 512MB (800,2340)[/color][/COLOR] [COLOR=#008000][color=red]ASUS AX800 XL 256MB (??)[/color][/COLOR] Coolermaster Real Power 1000W PSU

May 20, 2004, 09:12 AM	#106
mr yellow Driverheaven Trooper Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Yavin 4 Posts: 154 Rep Power: 0	OVERSCAN promplems on TV Im experiencing problems on my TV display when enabling OVERSCAN with the new CAT 4.5 and Omegas based on 4.5. The picture jumps or rather only diplays in the top 3quarters of the screen. Can someone help? or r their others out there experiencing the sam problem?

May 20, 2004, 11:43 AM	#112
MEABeemer C-Groove StreetFighter Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 405 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	When I try to uninstall any version of Catalyst/Omega or just try to install it over the one currently installed, I get an "Internal Failure"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040707" "Description:". And after clicking "OK" I get a "Severe"-error with the text: "ISLAYER.DLL not loaded into memory". And after clicking "OK" again I get an "Unhandled Exeption"-error with the text: "Error Number: 0x80040702" "Description: Failed to load dll: ISLAYER" "Setup will now terminate." And after clicking "OK" for the last time it exits! This has happened to me since I ever had a Radeon in Microsoft Windows XP (ATi Radeon 7200 VIVO 64MB DDR / Gigabyte Radeon 8500XT 128MB DDR / ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB / and now waiting for the ATi X800 XT PCI Express). The only solution I ever came up with is a clean install. Nobody in the world could ever help me, they tried to help but came up with non-working solutions. Can anyone (who maybe even had experience with this problem) REALLY help me? __________________ XBox360 Slim 250GB

May 20, 2004, 11:49 AM	#113
Firefox DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Downloading now, THX Omega

May 20, 2004, 12:53 PM	#116
Donald24 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	Hey, I've just installed the new set on my 9800pro, and I am glad, that the gamma-override key made it into Omegadrive's standards. I've heard about temporary AA, is this option not implemented in this set? I would deactivate it anyway, hehe, just curious. Well if you install the set on top of your existing previous Omega-set, I've got errors with Radlinker, not finding its *.msi packet, so I would recommend to de-install that before, if you want the latest version, but it still does only oc - I did not find any improvements there. I've got couple of installation problems with Radlinker in the past, when changing drivers, install loops mainly. I do not know why Refreshforce got exchanged by MultiRes, I am not a guy liking memory resident programs, I am minimalistic in this point of view, and I find it simply annoying to switch to every resolution I am using in games, to set its desired refresh rate, this after every driver-update, and did I mention that it does only work when you are running that MultiRes? And I think many users, do not use that tray hot-switching resolution often.. Long live Refreshforce!!! It's set up in 30secs for every res, no more to say. Ah, one thing, I've got curious about the "DriverCleaner - Omega-Edition" so I started it, just to have a look at the options, well, ehm, then I clicked "Start" not knowing that it meant "START CLEANING".... admittedly stupid - but I think it's quite misleading. Well you can imagine, what was needed to do then.. Anyway, I wait for Omega's edition as well after every official release, it's nice package. Thanks, Omega.

May 20, 2004, 01:53 PM	#118
scorp64 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Ok, I fixed the hibernate problem on my HP notebook. I uninstalled everything, rebooted in VGA mode, and reinstalled the driver only with none of the extras. Let the system reboot, checked Event Viewer for error messages, rebooted again, and then tried hibernate. On another issue, I installed the new drivers on my desktop, AIW 9700Pro, last night. I initially installed them over the previous version, but after reboot I thought I was back in the 80s the screen redraws were so slow. After a little troubleshooting I completely uninstalled the drivers, rebooted and installed the new drivers only, rebooted and everything is fine. So for me, installing over the old drivers just doesn't work.