New Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.44 (Cat 4.5 based)

DosCervezas · May 20, 2004, 05:36 PM

I always do the full uninstall/reinstall method. I have done it so many times I think I am down to about 10 minutes now. Cab Cleaner takes the longest. I also take the added step of running regseeker before reinstall.

MEABeemer · May 20, 2004, 08:39 PM

Quote:

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

Answered your quote over here!

neokenzo · May 21, 2004, 12:41 AM

I installed this driver but I am having problems with Far Cry. The game stutters and I'm getting like 20fps while before I was getting like 40fps. Does anyone knows how to fix this? The Omega driver is great and I wouldnt want to uninstall it.

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by neokenzo
I installed this driver but I am having problems with Far Cry. The game stutters and I'm getting like 20fps while before I was getting like 40fps. Does anyone knows how to fix this? The Omega driver is great and I wouldnt want to uninstall it.

Is FarCry the only game that has dropped in performance that is that obvious?

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 01:18 AM

Quote:

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

This may help, straight from ATI

User Defined Component Video Modes
The CATALYST(tm) 4.5 driver provides a new interface that allows users to define the optimized modes for their HDTV's. This allows for images to be properly centered on their HDTV. The interface allows users specify a mode through a test window. Once the user saves this information, it will be saved as a user defined preference.

It has come to my attention that this feature is not actually available in CATALYST 4.5. This is due to an oversight on our part for which we apologize. We will include this feature in the next WHQL certified version of CATALYST.

However, for those who do have ATI's component output dongle and are anxious to try this feature, I can provide the hack to turn this feature on. (Note: This is not recommended unless you are an advanced user)

To modify the INF file.
Open (for edit) file>>>>>> CX_15419.inf (This file name is unique to the MAIN CATALYST 4.5 driver ONLY) By default (after download) this file will be located at>>>>> C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-01-040421a-015419c\Driver\2KXP_INF

2) In the section of the file labeled>>>>>>>>> [ati2mtag_SoftwareDeviceSettings]
3) Locate the following line>>>>>>> HKR,, DALRULE_DYNAMICMODESUPPORT, %REG_DWORD%, 1
4) insert the following line below the line located in step 3 >>>>>>>>>HKR,, CVRULE_CUSTOMIZEDMODESENABLED, %REG_DWORD%, 1
5) Save the file.
6) Re-install the driver by launching SETUP.EXE found at C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-01-040421a-015419c

neokenzo · May 21, 2004, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
Is FarCry the only game that has dropped in performance that is that obvious?

So far its only Far Cry. C&C Generals Zero Hour too actually. Its kinda jerky sometimes but still playable. But Far Cry is far the worst. It has drop to less than 10 fps at certain places in the mutiplayer game. Almost hard to play.

andy71600 · May 21, 2004, 03:09 AM

well the first time i try to install these drivers without completely uninstalling them my computer fucks up. I notice something weird after it installs the primary driver files two times, and then the same for the secondary. After the secondary drivers install the second time, there is an error saying something like 'this installation cannot continue please retry while using the standard VGA driver.

So i go and set it to the standard vga driver, but it still gives me the same error message... wtf. After this i go and try to uninstall the Omega drivers and get an error saying cannot initialize. Now im angry and reboot into safe mode to run driver cleaner.

After that is run i try to install the drivers again and get the same error. Now my display is all messed up and so my computer is restoring the image i took of my hd a few days ago...

damiandimitri · May 21, 2004, 04:37 PM

Hi,

i just discovered that changing the settings (from quality to performance) in the drivers made MOHAA stop working. Setting it back to default......and i can play it again.
I even re-installed windows to discover this..lol

Any one else had the same?

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by andy71600
well the first time i try to install these drivers without completely uninstalling them my computer fucks up. I notice something weird after it installs the primary driver files two times, and then the same for the secondary. After the secondary drivers install the second time, there is an error saying something like 'this installation cannot continue please retry while using the standard VGA driver.

So i go and set it to the standard vga driver, but it still gives me the same error message... wtf. After this i go and try to uninstall the Omega drivers and get an error saying cannot initialize. Now im angry and reboot into safe mode to run driver cleaner.

After that is run i try to install the drivers again and get the same error. Now my display is all messed up and so my computer is restoring the image i took of my hd a few days ago...

I have not had a chance to test this set due to my current system configuration, I'm sure Omega will spot your post and reply. Also perhaps Neon_Cowboy or Judas may be able to assist you since I believe they helped test them.

MEABeemer · May 21, 2004, 05:51 PM

Yo Chaos!!!

Seems like ya got a lot of ideas and answers concerning "driver" problems.

Could ya maybe help me out man?!

See my latest posts, if ya got time please.

Thanx!

lmaru · May 21, 2004, 06:48 PM

Hi guys,

I'm new italian member

I installed this new set of Omega too, but i've lost my hopes.
The stuttering is making me crazy.
I read many forums and many articles about that but nothing seems to resolve my problem.
If i had knew, i'd buy an Intel platform
It seems that "my" stuttering involves the D3D Games, infact Call Of Duty is good
PES 3 is almost perfetc but sometimes there are little stutter, but ColinMcrae4 is boring me in particular during the replays.
I proved many things as AGP 4x/8X, Fast write ON/OFF, Sync/no sync, with Sound blaster live value activated and no activated,
I have disabled many services as we can read in the many guide over internet.
I have formatted and reinstalled everything ( and now I have no more IRQ shared

I tried to end some possible process as NAV, MODEM ADSL etc
I proved to change AGPvoltage to 1,7
In bios I have disabled almost everything i can ( i have only parallel port enabled..)
I have used Defrag
My sistem is:
ASUS A7V600
Athlon 2500+ ( not overclocked)
512 V-data
Sapphire 9600XT 128
XP + spack + many updates
DX9b
The last Omega
SBlive value ( i need that in order to use an old sidewinder joy

)
Keyboard and mouse PS2 ( I proved to attach them to an usb port)
I proved original ATI driver

The only strange thing is that in the device manager i have the driver USB controller not installed, but i see four Controller Host universal VIA usb rev 5 and four "main HUB USB" correctly installed.
The usb port is ok

What it remains to me doing before sell the the mainboard and the cpu

Thanks
Ciao

Luca

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 07:23 PM

The one thing I didn't see mentioned was to do a fresh install of the VIA chipset drivers. THat may also explain the USB issue in Device Manager

They are available here

Quote:

Originally posted by lmaru
Hi guys,

I'm new italian member

I installed this new set of Omega too, but i've lost my hopes.
The stuttering is making me crazy.
I read many forums and many articles about that but nothing seems to resolve my problem.
If i had knew, i'd buy an Intel platform
It seems that "my" stuttering involves the D3D Games, infact Call Of Duty is good
PES 3 is almost perfetc but sometimes there are little stutter, but ColinMcrae4 is boring me in particular during the replays.
I proved many things as AGP 4x/8X, Fast write ON/OFF, Sync/no sync, with Sound blaster live value activated and no activated,
I have disabled many services as we can read in the many guide over internet.
I have formatted and reinstalled everything ( and now I have no more IRQ shared
I tried to end some possible process as NAV, MODEM ADSL etc
I proved to change AGPvoltage to 1,7
In bios I have disabled almost everything i can ( i have only parallel port enabled..)
I have used Defrag
My sistem is:
ASUS A7V600
Athlon 2500+ ( not overclocked)
512 V-data
Sapphire 9600XT 128
XP + spack + many updates
DX9b
The last Omega
SBlive value ( i need that in order to use an old sidewinder joy )
Keyboard and mouse PS2 ( I proved to attach them to an usb port)
I proved original ATI driver

The only strange thing is that in the device manager i have the driver USB controller not installed, but i see four Controller Host universal VIA usb rev 5 and four "main HUB USB" correctly installed.
The usb port is ok

What it remains to me doing before sell the the mainboard and the cpu

Thanks
Ciao

Luca

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MEABeemer
Yo Chaos!!!

Seems like ya got a lot of ideas and answers concerning "driver" problems.

Could ya maybe help me out man?!

See my latest posts, if ya got time please.

Thanx!

I am looking but have not found much specific to those problems , I wll check around some more though

neokenzo · May 21, 2004, 10:16 PM

I just found out why the games I'm playing is so slow. It has nothing to do with the Omega drivers. I enable Cool and Quite and it drop the performance of my pc big time. After disabling it, everything seems to be running fine

Sorry

Chaos · May 21, 2004, 10:44 PM

WEll it's good that you got it figured out neokenzo

Asking questions usually leads to a positive end result !

MEABeemer · May 21, 2004, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
I am looking but have not found much specific to those problems , I wll check around some more though

Okay thanx for ya support Chaos!

drift · May 22, 2004, 01:56 AM

Is it me, or is radlinker's blackground black now?!

neokenzo · May 22, 2004, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by drift
Is it me, or is radlinker's blackground black now?!

Its black

djherbal · May 22, 2004, 04:39 AM

Thanks Omega, your drivers deliver everytime, but something was amiss with the newest release...

ever since I installed the omega drivers 2.5.44, anytime I would play CS or NFSU, or any other game requiring opengl or directx, my computer would bsod after 3 minutes or so. By bsod I mean solid blue, sometimes barely a warning message and followed by an ear piercing pitch coming from the computer speaker. Usually a VPU recovery dialog box would pop up preceding a real BSOD, and sometimes the game will just hang, unresponsive to ctrl+alt+del.

After uninstalling the 2.5.44 and reinstalling the 2.5.36b, everything went back to normal. (no bsods, and optimal fps like all the other omega drivers)

Anyone experiencing a simiilar problem?

spec:
amd barton 2600+
1gb OCZ PC3200 cas 2.5 (2x512)
Albatron KX600 - VT600
ATi Radeon 9800 pro (stock), built by ATi
SB Audigy Gamer
430w PSU
1x 250gb Maxtor 7200rpm 8mb cache ata133
1x 250 gb WD 7200rpm ata100
1x 160 gb Maxtor 7200 ata133
1x 80 gb maxtor 7200 ata133
1x 250gb external Maxtor Onetouch 7200rpm

NSTar · May 22, 2004, 10:22 AM

Which omega version work best with a dell laptop system? I have the video expansion issue; the system reverts back to 800x600.
native resolution is 1900x1200... basically, it resets the video expansion option.

inspiron 8600 ati 9000 32meg Xp sp2 dx9b

alastor500 · May 22, 2004, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lmaru
Hi guys,

I'm new italian member

I installed this new set of Omega too, but i've lost my hopes.
The stuttering is making me crazy.
I read many forums and many articles about that but nothing seems to resolve my problem.
If i had knew, i'd buy an Intel platform
It seems that "my" stuttering involves the D3D Games, infact Call Of Duty is good
PES 3 is almost perfetc but sometimes there are little stutter, but ColinMcrae4 is boring me in particular during the replays.
I proved many things as AGP 4x/8X, Fast write ON/OFF, Sync/no sync, with Sound blaster live value activated and no activated,
I have disabled many services as we can read in the many guide over internet.
I have formatted and reinstalled everything ( and now I have no more IRQ shared
I tried to end some possible process as NAV, MODEM ADSL etc
I proved to change AGPvoltage to 1,7
In bios I have disabled almost everything i can ( i have only parallel port enabled..)
I have used Defrag
My sistem is:
ASUS A7V600
Athlon 2500+ ( not overclocked)
512 V-data
Sapphire 9600XT 128
XP + spack + many updates
DX9b
The last Omega
SBlive value ( i need that in order to use an old sidewinder joy )
Keyboard and mouse PS2 ( I proved to attach them to an usb port)
I proved original ATI driver

The only strange thing is that in the device manager i have the driver USB controller not installed, but i see four Controller Host universal VIA usb rev 5 and four "main HUB USB" correctly installed.
The usb port is ok

What it remains to me doing before sell the the mainboard and the cpu

Thanks
Ciao

Luca

Same problem as you, still waiting for some news, D3D is near unplayable.

lmaru · May 22, 2004, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
The one thing I didn't see mentioned was to do a fresh install of the VIA chipset drivers. THat may also explain the USB issue in Device Manager

They are available here

Do you mean I'd reinstall Hyperion 451 ?!

I installed them soon after formatted and installed XP

Should I try ?

Many thanks

Luca

Chaos · May 22, 2004, 03:19 PM

I would say it's worth a try, many times after installing new video card drivers, if I see noticable performance issue's a fresh chipset driver install often fixes that

ghost_zero · May 22, 2004, 03:42 PM

hi,

my friend has a problem with Warcraft III, it freezes after some time, and that already in the menu.
We don't know if it is an Omega-driver problem, but we know that this problem existed with Omega drivers based on v4.4 and the new ones. With the old drivers modded by the Mobility Modder from Patje, we know it worked, but we didn't test Warcraft III a long time ago, so it could be possible, that it also would now not work anymore with the Mobility Modded drivers.

His spec are, he has a notebook:
Mobile Athlong XP 2500+
Mobility Radeon 9600 64MB (I know that he needs to have FastWrite enabled, because as soon as he deactivates it, no 3D application would run anymore and also in normal Windows he would only have 8bit graphics, that I know because we tried with older Omega drivers and there we tried to deactivate FastWrite after install and after reboot that was what happened...)
512MB RAM
Windows XP Home Edition

Any ideas how to fix this problem or any other information?

ghost_zero · May 22, 2004, 03:43 PM

ah yes... I forgot to say that other 3D games works fine...

lmaru · May 22, 2004, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chaos
I would say it's worth a try, many times after installing new video card drivers, if I see noticable performance issue's a fresh chipset driver install often fixes that

I made it

colin4 has always the same annoying interruption/stutter

Thanks in any case

Other suggestions ?

Luca

mopheta · May 22, 2004, 07:25 PM

Hello, and sorry for my bad english. I have installed Omega´s 4.5 drivers, over the Omega´s 4.4.

All seem to work fine, but I have some problems that I can tell you all:

1) IL-2 sturmovik doesn´t work well in "perfect" mode (the decrease in performance is terrible... 70 fps without, and only 7 fps with "perfect" activated). ATI claims that 4.5 drivers made this "perfect" mode working without any performance loss, and these last Omega´s are based in 4.5.
I can´t see if the official 4.5 do a well work because I have a sapphire 9700 with a bios modified, and for some reason I can´t run the official ATI 4.5 drivers (this is the reason beacuse I´m using the omega drivers).

2) The shortcuts keys to modify the color profiles in D3D aplications doesn´t do anything for me. I can´t modify the contrast, gamma, or brightness. I suppose this is because my monitor (AOC Spectrum 7Vlr), becasue the Omega´s 4.4 worked very dark without the ATI patch to solve the monitor´s problem. Seem that my monitor is not very well for ati drivers.

3) IL-2 Sturmovik has some graphics errors playing in OpenGL (some strange artifacts). No problem running in D3D, but this game run better with OpenGL libraries, and only with openGL can be activated "perfect" mode (but I do not active because the 1st point).

4) Call of Duty v1.4 crash my computer with Omega´s 4.4 and now with 4.5. I must reset the computer. No idea why it happend. Only crash playing in single player mode..., no problem playing multiplayer. COD use OpenGL libraries.

5) Fifa 2004 (hate this game, but I don´t know why doesn´t work fine) don´t work smooth. Fraps says 85 fps all the time (85 is the refresh forced frequency of my monitor), but seem to be any vsync problem. This happend with all Fifa games (2003, 2004, and the last Uefa Euro). I don´t know if this is a problem of the game, any related to drivers, or what. The same problem happend with any resolution or details level (the problem is not the computer power).

All others games seem to work fine.

Thanks Omega.

Chilljf · May 22, 2004, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ghost_zero
hi,

my friend has a problem with Warcraft III, it freezes after some time, and that already in the menu.
We don't know if it is an Omega-driver problem, but we know that this problem existed with Omega drivers based on v4.4 and the new ones. With the old drivers modded by the Mobility Modder from Patje, we know it worked, but we didn't test Warcraft III a long time ago, so it could be possible, that it also would now not work anymore with the Mobility Modded drivers.

I am using the 4.5 Omegas & I am getting some random crashing in wc3. I am using a small overclock 2500xp to 3200xp in which Ive played wc3 for over a year steady & had no problems. Anything higher wc3 would randomlly crash after a little play. I know wc3 is very sensitive to ocing. Yesterday I had wc3 freeze up on me 2 times & I have vpu recover off. Ive gone back to stock to check if its the 4.5 Omega's or my system oc is now unstable. Ill post results after some gaming all day

ghost_zero · May 22, 2004, 11:19 PM

for my friend it always crashes... and I know that this problem also exists with old Omega based on v4.4 ...
What's more is that it already hangs in the menu, even if you do nothing after some seconds it freeze...
And he has nothing overclocked...

Darkbandit · May 23, 2004, 12:02 AM

Am having a problem with the new Omega drivers. I have a Inspiron 8600 running a 1.4 Ghz Centrino processor, and when I install the drivers after installing the latest chipset drivers from Dell's website, I have a tremendous slowdown whenever my screen refreshes. Could there be a conflict with the drivers and the chipset drivers that I have downloaded?

May 20, 2004, 05:36 PM	#121
DosCervezas DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 229 Rep Power: 0	I always do the full uninstall/reinstall method. I have done it so many times I think I am down to about 10 minutes now. Cab Cleaner takes the longest. I also take the added step of running regseeker before reinstall. __________________ *"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience".*

May 21, 2004, 12:41 AM	#123
neokenzo DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 103 Rep Power: 0	I installed this driver but I am having problems with Far Cry. The game stutters and I'm getting like 20fps while before I was getting like 40fps. Does anyone knows how to fix this? The Omega driver is great and I wouldnt want to uninstall it. __________________ [COLOR=Navy] [/COLOR]

May 21, 2004, 05:51 PM	#130
MEABeemer C-Groove StreetFighter Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 405 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Yo Chaos!!! Seems like ya got a lot of ideas and answers concerning "driver" problems. Could ya maybe help me out man?! See my latest posts, if ya got time please. Thanx! __________________ XBox360 Slim 250GB

May 21, 2004, 10:16 PM	#134
neokenzo DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 103 Rep Power: 0	I just found out why the games I'm playing is so slow. It has nothing to do with the Omega drivers. I enable Cool and Quite and it drop the performance of my pc big time. After disabling it, everything seems to be running fine Sorry __________________ [COLOR=Navy] [/COLOR]

May 21, 2004, 10:44 PM	#135
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	WEll it's good that you got it figured out neokenzo Asking questions usually leads to a positive end result ! __________________

May 21, 2004, 03:09 AM	#127
andy71600 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The moon Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	well the first time i try to install these drivers without completely uninstalling them my computer fucks up. I notice something weird after it installs the primary driver files two times, and then the same for the secondary. After the secondary drivers install the second time, there is an error saying something like 'this installation cannot continue please retry while using the standard VGA driver. So i go and set it to the standard vga driver, but it still gives me the same error message... wtf. After this i go and try to uninstall the Omega drivers and get an error saying cannot initialize. Now im angry and reboot into safe mode to run driver cleaner. After that is run i try to install the drivers again and get the same error. Now my display is all messed up and so my computer is restoring the image i took of my hd a few days ago...

May 21, 2004, 04:37 PM	#128
damiandimitri DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 23 Rep Power: 0	Hi, i just discovered that changing the settings (from quality to performance) in the drivers made MOHAA stop working. Setting it back to default......and i can play it again. I even re-installed windows to discover this..lol Any one else had the same?

May 21, 2004, 06:48 PM	#131
lmaru DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Hi guys, I'm new italian member I installed this new set of Omega too, but i've lost my hopes. The stuttering is making me crazy. I read many forums and many articles about that but nothing seems to resolve my problem. If i had knew, i'd buy an Intel platform It seems that "my" stuttering involves the D3D Games, infact Call Of Duty is good PES 3 is almost perfetc but sometimes there are little stutter, but ColinMcrae4 is boring me in particular during the replays. I proved many things as AGP 4x/8X, Fast write ON/OFF, Sync/no sync, with Sound blaster live value activated and no activated, I have disabled many services as we can read in the many guide over internet. I have formatted and reinstalled everything ( and now I have no more IRQ shared I tried to end some possible process as NAV, MODEM ADSL etc I proved to change AGPvoltage to 1,7 In bios I have disabled almost everything i can ( i have only parallel port enabled..) I have used Defrag My sistem is: ASUS A7V600 Athlon 2500+ ( not overclocked) 512 V-data Sapphire 9600XT 128 XP + spack + many updates DX9b The last Omega SBlive value ( i need that in order to use an old sidewinder joy ) Keyboard and mouse PS2 ( I proved to attach them to an usb port) I proved original ATI driver The only strange thing is that in the device manager i have the driver USB controller not installed, but i see four Controller Host universal VIA usb rev 5 and four "main HUB USB" correctly installed. The usb port is ok What it remains to me doing before sell the the mainboard and the cpu Thanks Ciao Luca

May 22, 2004, 01:56 AM	#137
drift DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Is it me, or is radlinker's blackground black now?!

May 22, 2004, 04:39 AM	#139
djherbal DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	bsod Thanks Omega, your drivers deliver everytime, but something was amiss with the newest release... ever since I installed the omega drivers 2.5.44, anytime I would play CS or NFSU, or any other game requiring opengl or directx, my computer would bsod after 3 minutes or so. By bsod I mean solid blue, sometimes barely a warning message and followed by an ear piercing pitch coming from the computer speaker. Usually a VPU recovery dialog box would pop up preceding a real BSOD, and sometimes the game will just hang, unresponsive to ctrl+alt+del. After uninstalling the 2.5.44 and reinstalling the 2.5.36b, everything went back to normal. (no bsods, and optimal fps like all the other omega drivers) Anyone experiencing a simiilar problem? spec: amd barton 2600+ 1gb OCZ PC3200 cas 2.5 (2x512) Albatron KX600 - VT600 ATi Radeon 9800 pro (stock), built by ATi SB Audigy Gamer 430w PSU 1x 250gb Maxtor 7200rpm 8mb cache ata133 1x 250 gb WD 7200rpm ata100 1x 160 gb Maxtor 7200 ata133 1x 80 gb maxtor 7200 ata133 1x 250gb external Maxtor Onetouch 7200rpm

May 22, 2004, 10:22 AM	#140
NSTar DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Which omega version work best with a dell laptop system? I have the video expansion issue; the system reverts back to 800x600. native resolution is 1900x1200... basically, it resets the video expansion option. inspiron 8600 ati 9000 32meg Xp sp2 dx9b

May 22, 2004, 03:19 PM	#143
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	I would say it's worth a try, many times after installing new video card drivers, if I see noticable performance issue's a fresh chipset driver install often fixes that __________________

May 22, 2004, 03:42 PM	#144
ghost_zero DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 62 Rep Power: 0	hi, my friend has a problem with Warcraft III, it freezes after some time, and that already in the menu. We don't know if it is an Omega-driver problem, but we know that this problem existed with Omega drivers based on v4.4 and the new ones. With the old drivers modded by the Mobility Modder from Patje, we know it worked, but we didn't test Warcraft III a long time ago, so it could be possible, that it also would now not work anymore with the Mobility Modded drivers. His spec are, he has a notebook: Mobile Athlong XP 2500+ Mobility Radeon 9600 64MB (I know that he needs to have FastWrite enabled, because as soon as he deactivates it, no 3D application would run anymore and also in normal Windows he would only have 8bit graphics, that I know because we tried with older Omega drivers and there we tried to deactivate FastWrite after install and after reboot that was what happened...) 512MB RAM Windows XP Home Edition Any ideas how to fix this problem or any other information?

May 22, 2004, 03:43 PM	#145
ghost_zero DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 62 Rep Power: 0	ah yes... I forgot to say that other 3D games works fine...

May 22, 2004, 07:25 PM	#147
mopheta DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hello, and sorry for my bad english. I have installed Omega´s 4.5 drivers, over the Omega´s 4.4. All seem to work fine, but I have some problems that I can tell you all: 1) IL-2 sturmovik doesn´t work well in "perfect" mode (the decrease in performance is terrible... 70 fps without, and only 7 fps with "perfect" activated). ATI claims that 4.5 drivers made this "perfect" mode working without any performance loss, and these last Omega´s are based in 4.5. I can´t see if the official 4.5 do a well work because I have a sapphire 9700 with a bios modified, and for some reason I can´t run the official ATI 4.5 drivers (this is the reason beacuse I´m using the omega drivers). 2) The shortcuts keys to modify the color profiles in D3D aplications doesn´t do anything for me. I can´t modify the contrast, gamma, or brightness. I suppose this is because my monitor (AOC Spectrum 7Vlr), becasue the Omega´s 4.4 worked very dark without the ATI patch to solve the monitor´s problem. Seem that my monitor is not very well for ati drivers. 3) IL-2 Sturmovik has some graphics errors playing in OpenGL (some strange artifacts). No problem running in D3D, but this game run better with OpenGL libraries, and only with openGL can be activated "perfect" mode (but I do not active because the 1st point). 4) Call of Duty v1.4 crash my computer with Omega´s 4.4 and now with 4.5. I must reset the computer. No idea why it happend. Only crash playing in single player mode..., no problem playing multiplayer. COD use OpenGL libraries. 5) Fifa 2004 (hate this game, but I don´t know why doesn´t work fine) don´t work smooth. Fraps says 85 fps all the time (85 is the refresh forced frequency of my monitor), but seem to be any vsync problem. This happend with all Fifa games (2003, 2004, and the last Uefa Euro). I don´t know if this is a problem of the game, any related to drivers, or what. The same problem happend with any resolution or details level (the problem is not the computer power). All others games seem to work fine. Thanks Omega.

May 22, 2004, 11:19 PM	#149
ghost_zero DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 62 Rep Power: 0	for my friend it always crashes... and I know that this problem also exists with old Omega based on v4.4 ... What's more is that it already hangs in the menu, even if you do nothing after some seconds it freeze... And he has nothing overclocked...

May 23, 2004, 12:02 AM	#150
Darkbandit DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Am having a problem with the new Omega drivers. I have a Inspiron 8600 running a 1.4 Ghz Centrino processor, and when I install the drivers after installing the latest chipset drivers from Dell's website, I have a tremendous slowdown whenever my screen refreshes. Could there be a conflict with the drivers and the chipset drivers that I have downloaded?