ATI Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.51

Omegadrive · Jun 17, 2004, 02:17 PM

Was the wait that long?

Sorry, I was working on something important that I wanted to share upon the release of these drivers, and here it is: omegadrivers.net

Ops!
Forgot, the drivers...

What's New? (2k/XP 2.5.51)

* Based on the official Catalyst 4.6 drivers.

* Updated the Omega version of RadLinker (1010), now Radlinker includes a new skin option and ads support x800 overclocking.

* Added some tweaks for OLG. Enabled OGL Triple Buffer by default.

* Added support for MANY NEW Radeon cards, FireGL cards and Mobility chipsets. ANY card should be supported now and the drivers will always install.

* Now the drivers should work a LOT better on laptops.

* Fixed FireGL card support, now it has full CP support and fully working OGL.

* Changed the installer graphics.

* Added a new option in the installer to select a faster OLG driver instead of just using the latest one, this driver runs Counter Strike like butter.

<b>Important note: The special OGL driver will NOT work on x800 cards.</b>

* The package keeps growing in size, the drivers will keep being distributed in compressed CAB format to save some bandwidth, it must be decompressed using one of these tools (latest version): WinAce, WinRAR or WinZip. Then run the extracted file to start installation of the drivers.

* Opened a new site!

Hope that's all, have been working for the last 16 hours straight just to get the site done on time for the drivers release and can no longer coordinate correctly.

You can get them on my new site.

BTW, I was planning on adding another surprise to the drivers, but couldn't finish it, maybe in an update.

Enjoy!

swatX · Jun 17, 2004, 02:31 PM

i am off to downloading this driver.. hoping to see some improvement on quality !!!

Bart1987 · Jun 17, 2004, 02:32 PM

the new site looks great. I'm going to download the driver right now.

Resurrector · Jun 17, 2004, 02:32 PM

From the looks of it I would say the wait was worth it. Thanks for all your hardwork. Off to install and bench and to try out that OpenGL driver.

p0rChM0nK3y · Jun 17, 2004, 02:39 PM

installing now.

swimtech · Jun 17, 2004, 02:44 PM

Thanks Omegadrive, looking forward to seeing the changes!

Will let you know on the laptop below, and BTW - new site looks nice!

kenny81 · Jun 17, 2004, 02:45 PM

weee THNKS!!!!

this · Jun 17, 2004, 02:46 PM

Hi, Omega,
I'v just got a problem with the latest drivers. I installed a download manager which shows a small, always-on-top semi-transparent window. I noticed extreme performance degredation in 3D games when this small window is shown - from 30fps down to 1fps. And I have tried other applications/games, and come to the conclusion that, when there is something that is transparent (transparent window in XP for example), the 3D performance goes down. I haven't meet this problem before while I was using an nVidia card. I didn't find the cause.

Could you please tell me how to maintain 3D performance while using those transparent things? I need the both.

Thank you.

PS: This problem happens in all drivers from Cat 4.1 to 4.5, and Omega drivers based on these official drivers.
My config is Celeron 2.4GHz + i865PE mb(Gigabyte) + Radeon 9500 64MB

*MapE* · Jun 17, 2004, 02:49 PM

Great to see the new drivers are out

Looking forward to trying them on my x800 (when I get it

)
Oh and nice website

Atlas · Jun 17, 2004, 02:52 PM

Cheers........ btw does anyone else have a mirror site?? Or maybe bittorent link??

Erroneus · Jun 17, 2004, 02:55 PM

Quote:

* Added a new option in the installer to select a faster OLG driver instead of just using the latest one, this driver runs Counter Strike like butter. Important note: The special OGL driver will NOT work on x800 cards.

Sounds alot like the driver from http://www.newgenerationorder.org/, is it the same OpenGL driver as they use or is there any difference and have anyone tested the 2 driver packs in CS, to see which one is the fastest?

Currently i use NGO 1.4beta and it runs very smooth

Atlas · Jun 17, 2004, 03:02 PM

wow NGO is mirroring ! =)

some · Jun 17, 2004, 03:05 PM

Same errors with new OGL driver as NGO fastest one, with 16bit colors. So remember to use 32bit colors before running (-32bpp to the launch options in CS).

Why doesn't Gamma Panel work even these are 4.6 based? With Cat4.6 gamma adjusts works just like the old days. Forced to use pstrip

mr yellow · Jun 17, 2004, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by swimtech
Thanks Omegadrive, looking forward to seeing the changes!

Will let you know on the laptop below, and BTW - new site looks nice!

Are the new Omega's out yet??? And what about the web address?

Please give me a link to both

Cause i can't seem to find them.

Yahoo · Jun 17, 2004, 03:11 PM

Does these drivers support ATI Rage Mobility, which I have in my laptop? Thanks. I use them with my desktop's 9500PRO and they are great!!!! Great work, Omega!!!

Zardon · Jun 17, 2004, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erroneus
Sounds alot like the driver from http://www.newgenerationorder.org/, is it the same OpenGL driver as they use or is there any difference and have anyone tested the 2 driver packs in CS, to see which one is the fastest?

Currently i use NGO 1.4beta and it runs very smooth

I was talking to the NGO guys yesterday, they are working with omega now.

Dom · Jun 17, 2004, 03:17 PM

Yay!

Yahoo · Jun 17, 2004, 03:21 PM

newgenerationorder.org is pretty quick for download. At least so far....

Widkidone · Jun 17, 2004, 03:22 PM

Would this drivers work on my Sapphire 9800XT?

Covertghost · Jun 17, 2004, 03:23 PM

Its to bad that the opengl driver will not work for the X800 Series of video cards. Why won't it work for the x800 series?

jam_mango · Jun 17, 2004, 03:32 PM

It won't work on x800 as it is from an old driver set AFAIK 3.x.

Mr_Mo · Jun 17, 2004, 03:46 PM

I'm sure this is great work as always, but where is the control panel?
I tried reinstalling the drivers, but with no luck

I'm using a Powercolor 9500 with the 9500@9700 mod included in your driverpackage.

iCzMan · Jun 17, 2004, 03:50 PM

Got a problem...

After installing the newest omega, my America's Army won't start, this is the message I got:

Quote:

No Label

OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
CPU: AuthenticAMD PentiumPro-class processor @ 2150 MHz with 511MB RAM
Video: No Video

Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Acceleration in the Display1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for your graphics card.

I checked my dxdiag and d3d acceleration is already enable. When I had Cat4.6 it worked fine.
I'll try cleaning the drivers and reinstall omega.

*MapE* · Jun 17, 2004, 03:53 PM

More mirrors up

coldKingdom · Jun 17, 2004, 04:01 PM

My mirror:
http://omega.coldkingdom.net/rad_w2kxp_omega_2551.cab

10mbit line

/coldKingdom

~~REGENERAT1ON~~ · Jun 17, 2004, 04:02 PM

this set is really kick ass!
great work Omegadrive

Virtualbs · Jun 17, 2004, 04:02 PM

Just found a nasty bug!!!
Omega, you forgot to update the link to www.omegadrivers.net on the last line of the driver's readme file!

Cheers,
Virtualbs

Omegadrive · Jun 17, 2004, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr_Mo
I'm sure this is great work as always, but where is the control panel?
I tried reinstalling the drivers, but with no luck

I'm using a Powercolor 9500 with the 9500@9700 mod included in your driverpackage.

Use Driver Cleaner, something went wrong.

Quote:

Originally posted by iCzMan
Got a problem...

After installing the newest omega, my America's Army won't start, this is the message I got:

I checked my dxdiag and d3d acceleration is already enable. When I had Cat4.6 it worked fine.
I'll try cleaning the drivers and reinstall omega.

Try re-installing the AGP chipset drivers for your MB.

dsdsdk · Jun 17, 2004, 04:05 PM

darn... some of these questions.... will it work on my Sapphire 9800XT... no dont dl it, it will kill your card!

i cant find the site and a dl link?! try looking in #0....

sorry just woke up...

MythicaL · Jun 17, 2004, 04:07 PM

Thanks OmegaDrive!

I like your new site too

Jun 17, 2004, 02:17 PM	#1
Omegadrive Drivers? What Drivers??? Join Date: May 2002 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 1,526 Rep Power: 75	ATI Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.51 Was the wait that long? Sorry, I was working on something important that I wanted to share upon the release of these drivers, and here it is: omegadrivers.net Ops! Forgot, the drivers... What's New? (2k/XP 2.5.51) * Based on the official Catalyst 4.6 drivers. * Updated the Omega version of RadLinker (1010), now Radlinker includes a new skin option and ads support x800 overclocking. * Added some tweaks for OLG. Enabled OGL Triple Buffer by default. * Added support for MANY NEW Radeon cards, FireGL cards and Mobility chipsets. ANY card should be supported now and the drivers will always install. * Now the drivers should work a LOT better on laptops. * Fixed FireGL card support, now it has full CP support and fully working OGL. * Changed the installer graphics. * Added a new option in the installer to select a faster OLG driver instead of just using the latest one, this driver runs Counter Strike like butter. <b>Important note: The special OGL driver will NOT work on x800 cards.</b> * The package keeps growing in size, the drivers will keep being distributed in compressed CAB format to save some bandwidth, it must be decompressed using one of these tools (latest version): WinAce, WinRAR or WinZip. Then run the extracted file to start installation of the drivers. * Opened a new site! Hope that's all, have been working for the last 16 hours straight just to get the site done on time for the drivers release and can no longer coordinate correctly. You can get them on my new site. BTW, I was planning on adding another surprise to the drivers, but couldn't finish it, maybe in an update. Enjoy!

Jun 17, 2004, 02:31 PM	#2
swatX ba\|\\|\\|ed Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 618 Rep Power: 0	i am off to downloading this driver.. hoping to see some improvement on quality !!! __________________ thx stick for the sig

Jun 17, 2004, 02:32 PM	#4
Resurrector DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	From the looks of it I would say the wait was worth it. Thanks for all your hardwork. Off to install and bench and to try out that OpenGL driver. __________________ [color=Red]Fire Dragon[/color] ------------------------------- Athlon64 3700+ Cooled by TT Big Typhoon Abit KV8 Pro v1.1 1Gb Corsair PC3200C2 @ 2-3-2-10 9800Pro Flashed to XT Cat 5.12 160gb Seagate SATA Audigy 2 ZS

Jun 17, 2004, 02:39 PM	#5
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Jun 17, 2004, 02:44 PM	#6
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Thanks Omegadrive, looking forward to seeing the changes! Will let you know on the laptop below, and BTW - new site looks nice! __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jun 17, 2004, 02:32 PM	#3
Bart1987 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 634 Rep Power: 0	the new site looks great. I'm going to download the driver right now.

Jun 17, 2004, 02:45 PM	#7
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Jun 17, 2004, 02:46 PM	#8
this DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Hi, Omega, I'v just got a problem with the latest drivers. I installed a download manager which shows a small, always-on-top semi-transparent window. I noticed extreme performance degredation in 3D games when this small window is shown - from 30fps down to 1fps. And I have tried other applications/games, and come to the conclusion that, when there is something that is transparent (transparent window in XP for example), the 3D performance goes down. I haven't meet this problem before while I was using an nVidia card. I didn't find the cause. Could you please tell me how to maintain 3D performance while using those transparent things? I need the both. Thank you. PS: This problem happens in all drivers from Cat 4.1 to 4.5, and Omega drivers based on these official drivers. My config is Celeron 2.4GHz + i865PE mb(Gigabyte) + Radeon 9500 64MB

Jun 17, 2004, 02:49 PM	#9
MapE Designer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: With all the icebears. Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Great to see the new drivers are out Looking forward to trying them on my x800 (when I get it ) Oh and nice website __________________

Jun 17, 2004, 02:52 PM	#10
Atlas DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	Cheers........ btw does anyone else have a mirror site?? Or maybe bittorent link??

Jun 17, 2004, 03:02 PM	#12
Atlas DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	wow NGO is mirroring ! =)

Jun 17, 2004, 03:05 PM	#13
some DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 92 Rep Power: 0	Same errors with new OGL driver as NGO fastest one, with 16bit colors. So remember to use 32bit colors before running (-32bpp to the launch options in CS). Why doesn't Gamma Panel work even these are 4.6 based? With Cat4.6 gamma adjusts works just like the old days. Forced to use pstrip Last edited by some; Jun 17, 2004 at 03:23 PM.

Jun 17, 2004, 03:11 PM	#15
Yahoo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Does these drivers support ATI Rage Mobility, which I have in my laptop? Thanks. I use them with my desktop's 9500PRO and they are great!!!! Great work, Omega!!! Last edited by Yahoo; Jun 17, 2004 at 03:48 PM.

Jun 17, 2004, 03:17 PM	#17
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Yay!

Jun 17, 2004, 03:21 PM	#18
Yahoo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	newgenerationorder.org is pretty quick for download. At least so far....

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Widkidone DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Diego, Ca Posts: 711 Rep Power: 0	Would this drivers work on my Sapphire 9800XT? __________________ Case- Cooler Master ATC-201B-BXT Aluminum Case Power Supply- Antec 480w TrueBlue480 ATX-12V MX518 Mouse CPU- AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ (2.4GHz) Socket-939 Motherboard-K8N Neo2 Platinum 2 GB DDR (2 pcs 1GB) PC-3200 (400) OCZ Dual Channel Platinum Hard Drive- WD 74GB 8MB 10000rpm S-ATA WD740GD Sound Card- Creative SB Audigy 2 Zs Platinum CDRW- LG GCE-8525BI 52X32X52 CD-RW OS- Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition w/SP2 Video-Radeon X850XT AGP 256MB

Jun 17, 2004, 03:23 PM	#20
Covertghost DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Its to bad that the opengl driver will not work for the X800 Series of video cards. Why won't it work for the x800 series?

Jun 17, 2004, 03:32 PM	#21
jam_mango DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	It won't work on x800 as it is from an old driver set AFAIK 3.x.

Jun 17, 2004, 03:46 PM	#22
Mr_Mo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	No controlpanel? I'm sure this is great work as always, but where is the control panel? I tried reinstalling the drivers, but with no luck I'm using a Powercolor 9500 with the 9500@9700 mod included in your driverpackage.

Jun 17, 2004, 03:53 PM	#24
MapE Designer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: With all the icebears. Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	More mirrors up __________________

Jun 17, 2004, 04:01 PM	#25
coldKingdom DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	My mirror: http://omega.coldkingdom.net/rad_w2kxp_omega_2551.cab 10mbit line /coldKingdom

Jun 17, 2004, 04:02 PM	#26
~~REGENERAT1ON~~ NGO Crew Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 409 Rep Power: 0	this set is really kick ass! great work Omegadrive

Jun 17, 2004, 04:02 PM	#27
Virtualbs DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Portugal Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0	Serious bug! Just found a nasty bug!!! Omega, you forgot to update the link to www.omegadrivers.net on the last line of the driver's readme file! Cheers, Virtualbs

Jun 17, 2004, 04:05 PM	#29
dsdsdk DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denmark, CPH. Posts: 586 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	darn... some of these questions.... will it work on my Sapphire 9800XT... no dont dl it, it will kill your card! i cant find the site and a dl link?! try looking in #0.... sorry just woke up...

Jun 17, 2004, 04:07 PM	#30
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