Radeon Omega Drivers v2.5.76 (Cat 4.9)

DPGX · Sep 23, 2004, 03:32 AM

Can someone please post images of the control panel? Im interested in trying them but just formatted to get CCC working properly. Im really kinda anxious for the 4.10s to give Catalyst AI a shot, people have said 9x00 series will see a greater improvement in performance.

Thanks!

Mike

flexy · Sep 23, 2004, 03:42 AM

hey,

- i think its a GOOD idea because before i used other 3rd party programs (like powerstrip or others) JUST to set my clock rates. Then i discovered radclock/radlinker and think its very good because it uses little resources and does ONLY that - namely overclocking my card.

That he integrated it in the drivers is great because this saves me any other 3rd part tool just for my overclocks

- the 'problem with the installer': I fixed it by re-installing radlinker from the menu. But i (first) thought this might not help because i didnt see a relationship between the 3d-control-panel (which was missing) and radlinker. But after omega PMed me i tried it - and indeed it fixed my drivers

- WHAT IS the difference between "8x Quality AF" and "FORCED AF" ????? I have never seen this before and only knew "app preference, performance, quality"...so if "application preference" means "application preference" then the OTHERS (performance, quality) always meant "forced" - but what the *** now does the new "8 x forced" mean in comparison to "quality" or "performance" ????

Please someone enlighten me...

Chaos · Sep 23, 2004, 03:42 AM

Mirror now online finally

ericdrum · Sep 23, 2004, 03:57 AM

What does Omega plan for the 4.10's? Will he bundle the CCC?

swatX · Sep 23, 2004, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DPGX

Can someone please post images of the control panel? Im interested in trying them but just formatted to get CCC working properly. Im really kinda anxious for the 4.10s to give Catalyst AI a shot, people have said 9x00 series will see a greater improvement in performance.

Thanks!

Mike

i think catalyst AI is aimed more toward doomIII than any other game.

for people who wants to see how the omega CP looks like please refer to this thread as its updated.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-xp-radeon-display-drivers/38087-basic-radlinker-guide.html

BWX · Sep 23, 2004, 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flexy

hey,

"- i think its a GOOD idea because before i"

You said "because I"

-then make it optional, whether something it is forced on someone or not has nothing to do with your singular experience. I use ATI tool and have no need for Radlinker.
Basically what this means is that I can't use Omega drivers w/o having some other software forced down my throat.

Sharkims · Sep 23, 2004, 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericdrum

What does Omega plan for the 4.10's? Will he bundle the CCC?

NO!!!! He has a new CP the Omega-Radlinker CP to replace the ATI one. I hope he continues with this method instead of the bloatware buggy and resource hog CCC.

------------------------

I also would still like to know what "overlay video acceleration" does?

TwistedMetal · Sep 23, 2004, 06:15 AM

Video Overlay Overview

The great benefit of overlay surfaces is that they are non-destructive of the main VGA display underneath (the "Primary display surface"). If an overlay window is moved, any display information that needs to be revealed is already present in the VGA adapter's main image buffer. Whatever background imagery is obscured by the overlay's new position remains unchanged in the primary surface.

To perform video windowing without overlays involves replacing all the pixels in the primary surface with the video window's contents. When that window is moved, the graphics system must recreate all the display elements necessary to fill the hole it left behind.

Overlay technology became a part of the Windows operating system with DirectX 5.0. Virtually all VGA adapters manufactured since 1997 include some method of overlay support. The key factor affecting the performance of overlays in a given VGA implementation is the amount of memory available for the preparation of overlay surfaces.

Robert McClelland · Sep 23, 2004, 06:15 AM

BWX ATI tool has to many bugs lol

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 06:16 AM

my god man.

if u dont like it dont use it. whats with u and CCC and now this.

basically radlinker gives more options and it just takes place of all the settings for the control panel. its better now, with way more options to boot.

did have the install problem, i had to install radlinker manually in order to adjust any kind of settings in dx or oGL im glad its now implimented, but lots of noobs use these drivers, and this problem is not a good thing at all.

i forgot to mention the performance seems to be way up in this version. battlefield 1942 doesnt feel so clunky or slow as it does sometimes, no slowdowns, or studering, no lag, just nice playing, even when flying choppers. great drivers so far. apparantly i was still getting "signal loss" and random reboots due to the original catalyst, so lets hope this works, if not im stuck with going to UniAN cause his drivers fix all those things, and has nice performance to boot

Toddimus · Sep 23, 2004, 06:17 AM

One word...fantastic!!!

Gave me at least a 50% gain in FPS on MS Flight Sim and F1 Challenge with performance settings MAXED out!!!! They also fixed some bugs in a particular mod for F1Challenge, nearly tripling FPS with added quality. I can't thank you enough!
This was enough to make me register so that I could make a post to commend you on your work!

On a side note... I did have some trouble installing...but I used the opportunity to update my nvidia chipset drivers so that the GART/AGP drivers would work with this driver set. WELL WORTH THE "HASSLE". It really wasn't much of a hassle, and once I tried these apps, I'd be willing to go thru much worse if I could get a performance AND quality increase like this!

Cheers, and thanks again!

BWX · Sep 23, 2004, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert McClelland

BWX ATI tool has to many bugs lol

I've been using ATI Tool since .17 and never ran into any bugs. It works great to OC my card, and no waiting for the ATI CP like radlinker- I don't have to use 18 mouse clicks to OC my card, just open, one click to load the preset, and close.. Much easier than Radlinker ever thought of being.. That's still not even the point, the point is that in order to use Omega drivers you have to install some third party program, it should be an option.. Not mandatory.

On top of that, doesn't Radlinker need .net to work properly? I think it used to.

mkk · Sep 23, 2004, 07:07 AM

I'm afraid you must be confusing RadLinker with something else, by how you describe your experiences with it. I'm sure that Omegadrive takes note of any user input on how various users would prefer things to be.

On a couple of other points I see that people really should read a bit more before posting in this thread. The Omega driver readme and this thread contains information that is being asked again and again.

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 07:13 AM

no, .net is NOT required. and radlinker is the new controls for omega. its not only includes the overclocking utilitiys but it takes over for all the sliders and settings in omega drivers.

apparantly their is a bug in the install that doesnt install radlinker, so its kinda like an option, tho u cant change any settings for directx or openGL. so u have to install it if u want to. ... i think u can still use ati tool if u want, it shouldnt mess anything up, but radlinker "IS" the interface for omega drivers now, and its because it can be customized and made changes and additions, and many other things. im sure u might even like it... tho knowning u, i cant tell.... if omega has an option to install either his control panel that utilizies radlinker, or the other control panel from ati (but edited by omega).... then the package may be bigger, and problems may arise, and support would be more crazy. but thats all speculation.

you should try it before u say anything about it. somehow it just seems like ur saying this off the tip of your tung, tho i cant honestly say u havent.

BWX · Sep 23, 2004, 07:22 AM

Like a bunch of other people, I get this-- can't even use drivers..

I used all the steps I always have including the latest DH Driver Cleaner..

I shouldn't have to install things separately-

lockves · Sep 23, 2004, 07:27 AM

Once again Omega team did a great job, I'm using omega drivers from about a year, and I'm very, very pleased. But... there is a problem.

I have a radeon 9000 (don't laugh) and with the last 5 version I'm experiecing a very weird manifestation with the omega drivers. In 3DMark 2003 and some games, certain type of textures are corupted: in 3dMark, the battle for proxycon and trolls lair, the textures from the walls and sometimes the girl's face. In some games, everything runs good for 3-4 minutes, then the some surfaces became really crapy, like a mixture of different textures.

With Ati's normal drivers, everything runs Ok. So it is probably a little registry setting made by Omega. I really want to know which is it, so if you can help me...

Thank you very much to you and Omega

Screenshots here http://uzihead.150m.com/

mkk · Sep 23, 2004, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWX

Like a bunch of other people, I get this-- can't even use drivers..

Another thing that has been covered more than once. Please, at the slight risk of sounding like a moderator, you are not contributing to the quality of this thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lockves

In some games, everything runs good for 3-4 minutes, then the some surfaces became really crapy, like a mixture of different textures.

I can only guess but that might well be something that Omegadrive knows about and will then surely answer when he sees it. In the meantime, do you happen to have any screenshot of the problem? It just might be of use.

BWX · Sep 23, 2004, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkk

Another thing that has been covered more than once. Please, at the slight risk of sounding like a moderator, you are not contributing to the quality of this thread.

.

Yeah it's kind of hard to research installation problems at 640 x 480 with a video driver not installed... So now I have to search through 150 posts to be able to correctly install a simple driver?

That shouldn't happen in the first place- That's the point. All I said was that other people had that problem, I remember seeing something about it when I was skimming the thread before.

Omega said this: "You need to uninstall the old Radlinker and install the new included one to get the Advanced 3D panel, thus, the new D3D and OGL options."

'I didn't have a previous Radlinker installed, so nothing to uninstall- plus what I am talking about is you shouldn't have to have third party programs installed to use a video card driver. Thanks for the scolding though..

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 08:16 AM

i to, didnt have radlinker installed, but if u just read my post, instead of cycling through 150 of them, just goto the programs files and omega folder, and then run radlinker install from their. to get it going again. someone mentioned something about startmenu shortcut to something, well im not sure what that was about, mabe 're" installing the drivers? ohh well, try it.

BWX · Sep 23, 2004, 08:23 AM

WTH.

After getting everything installed about 5 reboots later- I go in and adjust all my advanced settings, AA, AF, etc.... Adjust the screen res, refresh, etc...

I reboot and upon windows starting I get the long pause, then the black screen of Smartgart- Then the screen is back to 640 x 480 and all my settings are back to default! What is going on with these drivers? Usually Omega drivers are top notch- These things are anything but.. The install process alone was a pain, I don't understand why if Radlinker in needed to install the drivers, why isn't radlinker not only included, but actually installed before the drivers? It only makes sense..

Don't know what it is with ATI drivers lately, just more and more of a pain. Even the modded ones.

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWX

WTH.

After getting everything installed about 5 reboots later- I go in and adjust all my advanced settings, AA, AF, etc.... Adjust the screen res, refresh, etc...

I reboot and upon windows starting I get the long pause, then the black screen of Smartgart- Then the screen is back to 640 x 480 and all my settings are back to default! What is going on with these drivers? Usually Omega drivers are top notch- These things are anything but.. The install process alone was a pain, I don't understand why if Radlinker in needed to install the drivers, why isn't radlinker not only included, but actually installed before the drivers? It only makes sense..

Don't know what it is with ATI drivers lately, just more and more of a pain. Even the modded ones.

apparantly their is some error, stop getting all upset because of it. btw i wish you would format your system so u wouldnt have way to many probelms :P

seminox · Sep 23, 2004, 08:47 AM

Hi @all,

first of all: THIS IS THE F***IN BEST DRIVER I'VE EVER SEEN. THANK YOU !

now for my problem: after installing i have some new entries in my context menue called "Rad Linker" and "Custom Settings"

. How can i get rid of these context menue extensions ?? Please help, it's really annoying

me !

thx to all answers.....

eggs420 · Sep 23, 2004, 08:48 AM

Once I got a non-corrupt download, they installed fine for me. I gained about 300 points in '03, but I also installed NIS/NAV since last test so likely a few more were gained and lost before I noticed..

Anyway, TAA seems to have less flicker on text, or maybe I'm crazy. I couldn't stand it much at 60hz two releases ago, but these are great.

lockves · Sep 23, 2004, 08:58 AM

I found the problem
For those with the same problem:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Video\{9C876D8C-ECAC-4654-898A-BF29861FFEBC}\0000 an set AGPTextureMicroTiling=0 and AGPTextureTiling=0

It is a really weird problem, because i used tiling before and I never had it

The problem is described just about 5-6 posts ago. Just go up on the same page.

Thanks

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 09:01 AM

@ Seminox thats cause its radlinker.... it does it so you can setup profiles for each game. so that if u want differnt settings for one game or annother u dont have to keep changing them in the control panel. its really usefull for people to make custom changes, etc.

but u may not use that function, so it becomes annoying... try..
http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/
the main page, or mabe the faq http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/faq.htm

@ lockves could you please edit your post and describe the problem and what u did to fix it? that would help alot. apparantly i dont know what ur talking about, and im not sure where u posted before. (use edit button

)

seminox · Sep 23, 2004, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MindlessOath

@ Seminox thats cause its radlinker.... it does it so you can setup profiles for each game. so that if u want differnt settings for one game or annother u dont have to keep changing them in the control panel. its really usefull for people to make custom changes, etc.

but u may not use that function, so it becomes annoying... try..
http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/
the main page, or mabe the faq http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/faq.htm

@ lockves could you please edit your post and describe the problem and what u did to fix it? that would help alot. apparantly i dont know what ur talking about, and im not sure where u posted before. (use edit button

)

Whoah, awesome, this was just the best answer and it took only 10 minutes.... Thank you !!!

(PS: I'll try deinstalling the radlinker....)

Judas · Sep 23, 2004, 09:15 AM

no errors here and i had ATI Cat 4.9's with the CCC installed...

simple went to the add remove... removed the CCC first... didn't reboot... removed the CP.... then removed the ATI DRIVERS... then i used the ATI software Uninstaller... and reboot.. installed the omegas and my gaud.. i've never in my life had as smooth a install!

however i was able to replicated the same problem with another machine with the problem alot of people are having..... if there is a trace of radlinker already on.... it just gives that error.....erg.. i don't want to reformat that one machine

MindlessOath · Sep 23, 2004, 09:18 AM

if u uninstall radlinker u wont be able to change ur settings... radlinker is omega's new control panel section. ... mabe he can make an option to enable that or not in his next version tho.

NeoTribal · Sep 23, 2004, 09:24 AM

Niiice performace boost on these drivers! =D

No install issues here... I used the instructions in the "driver installation for n00bs" sticky that I always use, and everything went through without a hitch!

Finally hit over 20000 marks in 3dmark2001... not that benches mean life or death, but it's fun to see an ~300 point jump from the official 4.9's

All my games are running incredibly smooth now, and I love the integrated Radlinker, it has always felt like a perfect match to Omega Drivers...

Thanks again for a great release!

BTW: Quick question (I don't know if Omega has answered this or not): Is he thinking about somehow integrating the "CCC only" AI optimization switches we have been hearing about into a future release of his drivers?

I'm not sure if this would even be feasable without .NET and whatnot. (Seems as though some people would throw a hissy fit if .NET is even mentioned)

*sigh* But that's another thread entirely...

(Edit: Spelling and whatnot)

OxfordDon · Sep 23, 2004, 09:38 AM

Well, I've had more issues and problems with this set of Omega's than with all the others put together. That said, my Aquamark score has gone up from a high of 60,656 to a high of 61,484, so not all bad then. Even so, I'm still not totally convinced that I've got everything stable and back under control yet. Overall, I'm a little disappointed.

Sep 23, 2004, 03:42 AM	#122
flexy DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: TN Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	"forced" AF ???? hey, - i think its a GOOD idea because before i used other 3rd party programs (like powerstrip or others) JUST to set my clock rates. Then i discovered radclock/radlinker and think its very good because it uses little resources and does ONLY that - namely overclocking my card. That he integrated it in the drivers is great because this saves me any other 3rd part tool just for my overclocks - the 'problem with the installer': I fixed it by re-installing radlinker from the menu. But i (first) thought this might not help because i didnt see a relationship between the 3d-control-panel (which was missing) and radlinker. But after omega PMed me i tried it - and indeed it fixed my drivers - WHAT IS the difference between "8x Quality AF" and "FORCED AF" ????? I have never seen this before and only knew "app preference, performance, quality"...so if "application preference" means "application preference" then the OTHERS (performance, quality) always meant "forced" - but what the *** now does the new "8 x forced" mean in comparison to "quality" or "performance" ???? Please someone enlighten me...

Sep 23, 2004, 03:42 AM	#123
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	Mirror now online finally __________________

Sep 23, 2004, 03:57 AM	#124
ericdrum DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: The SLC Posts: 149 Rep Power: 0	What does Omega plan for the 4.10's? Will he bundle the CCC? __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3500+ MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Ultra 2 gig Corsair XMS 3200 eVGA 6800 GT SB Audigy2 w/ KX Project Drivers 2-80 gig Western Digital SATA 7200 RAID 0 200 GB Seagate Barricuda 7200 for Storage Ultra Xconnect 500W Power Supply Windows XP SP2 Antec P160W case

Sep 23, 2004, 06:15 AM	#128
TwistedMetal MC John-117 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Phoenix, Arizona Posts: 728 Rep Power: 0	Video Overlay Overview The great benefit of overlay surfaces is that they are non-destructive of the main VGA display underneath (the "Primary display surface"). If an overlay window is moved, any display information that needs to be revealed is already present in the VGA adapter's main image buffer. Whatever background imagery is obscured by the overlay's new position remains unchanged in the primary surface. To perform video windowing without overlays involves replacing all the pixels in the primary surface with the video window's contents. When that window is moved, the graphics system must recreate all the display elements necessary to fill the hole it left behind. Overlay technology became a part of the Windows operating system with DirectX 5.0. Virtually all VGA adapters manufactured since 1997 include some method of overlay support. The key factor affecting the performance of overlays in a given VGA implementation is the amount of memory available for the preparation of overlay surfaces. __________________ [color=red][/color]

Sep 23, 2004, 06:15 AM	#129
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	BWX ATI tool has to many bugs 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

Sep 23, 2004, 03:32 AM	#121
DPGX DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Can someone please post images of the control panel? Im interested in trying them but just formatted to get CCC working properly. Im really kinda anxious for the 4.10s to give Catalyst AI a shot, people have said 9x00 series will see a greater improvement in performance. Thanks! Mike

Sep 23, 2004, 06:16 AM	#130
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	my god man. if u dont like it dont use it. whats with u and CCC and now this. basically radlinker gives more options and it just takes place of all the settings for the control panel. its better now, with way more options to boot. did have the install problem, i had to install radlinker manually in order to adjust any kind of settings in dx or oGL im glad its now implimented, but lots of noobs use these drivers, and this problem is not a good thing at all. i forgot to mention the performance seems to be way up in this version. battlefield 1942 doesnt feel so clunky or slow as it does sometimes, no slowdowns, or studering, no lag, just nice playing, even when flying choppers. great drivers so far. apparantly i was still getting "signal loss" and random reboots due to the original catalyst, so lets hope this works, if not im stuck with going to UniAN cause his drivers fix all those things, and has nice performance to boot __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison Last edited by MindlessOath; Sep 23, 2004 at 06:56 AM.

Sep 23, 2004, 06:17 AM	#131
Toddimus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	One word...fantastic!!! Gave me at least a 50% gain in FPS on MS Flight Sim and F1 Challenge with performance settings MAXED out!!!! They also fixed some bugs in a particular mod for F1Challenge, nearly tripling FPS with added quality. I can't thank you enough! This was enough to make me register so that I could make a post to commend you on your work! On a side note... I did have some trouble installing...but I used the opportunity to update my nvidia chipset drivers so that the GART/AGP drivers would work with this driver set. WELL WORTH THE "HASSLE". It really wasn't much of a hassle, and once I tried these apps, I'd be willing to go thru much worse if I could get a performance AND quality increase like this! Cheers, and thanks again!

Sep 23, 2004, 07:07 AM	#133
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,384 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	I'm afraid you must be confusing RadLinker with something else, by how you describe your experiences with it. I'm sure that Omegadrive takes note of any user input on how various users would prefer things to be. On a couple of other points I see that people really should read a bit more before posting in this thread. The Omega driver readme and this thread contains information that is being asked again and again.

Sep 23, 2004, 07:13 AM	#134
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	no, .net is NOT required. and radlinker is the new controls for omega. its not only includes the overclocking utilitiys but it takes over for all the sliders and settings in omega drivers. apparantly their is a bug in the install that doesnt install radlinker, so its kinda like an option, tho u cant change any settings for directx or openGL. so u have to install it if u want to. ... i think u can still use ati tool if u want, it shouldnt mess anything up, but radlinker "IS" the interface for omega drivers now, and its because it can be customized and made changes and additions, and many other things. im sure u might even like it... tho knowning u, i cant tell.... if omega has an option to install either his control panel that utilizies radlinker, or the other control panel from ati (but edited by omega).... then the package may be bigger, and problems may arise, and support would be more crazy. but thats all speculation. you should try it before u say anything about it. somehow it just seems like ur saying this off the tip of your tung, tho i cant honestly say u havent. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison Last edited by MindlessOath; Sep 23, 2004 at 07:19 AM.

Sep 23, 2004, 07:22 AM	#135
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,665 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Like a bunch of other people, I get this-- can't even use drivers.. I used all the steps I always have including the latest DH Driver Cleaner.. I shouldn't have to install things separately- __________________ Last edited by BWX; Sep 23, 2004 at 07:27 AM.

Sep 23, 2004, 07:27 AM	#136
lockves DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Once again Omega team did a great job, I'm using omega drivers from about a year, and I'm very, very pleased. But... there is a problem. I have a radeon 9000 (don't laugh) and with the last 5 version I'm experiecing a very weird manifestation with the omega drivers. In 3DMark 2003 and some games, certain type of textures are corupted: in 3dMark, the battle for proxycon and trolls lair, the textures from the walls and sometimes the girl's face. In some games, everything runs good for 3-4 minutes, then the some surfaces became really crapy, like a mixture of different textures. With Ati's normal drivers, everything runs Ok. So it is probably a little registry setting made by Omega. I really want to know which is it, so if you can help me... Thank you very much to you and Omega Screenshots here http://uzihead.150m.com/ Last edited by lockves; Sep 23, 2004 at 08:09 PM.

Sep 23, 2004, 08:16 AM	#139
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	i to, didnt have radlinker installed, but if u just read my post, instead of cycling through 150 of them, just goto the programs files and omega folder, and then run radlinker install from their. to get it going again. someone mentioned something about startmenu shortcut to something, well im not sure what that was about, mabe 're" installing the drivers? ohh well, try it. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Sep 23, 2004, 08:23 AM	#140
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,665 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	WTH. After getting everything installed about 5 reboots later- I go in and adjust all my advanced settings, AA, AF, etc.... Adjust the screen res, refresh, etc... I reboot and upon windows starting I get the long pause, then the black screen of Smartgart- Then the screen is back to 640 x 480 and all my settings are back to default! What is going on with these drivers? Usually Omega drivers are top notch- These things are anything but.. The install process alone was a pain, I don't understand why if Radlinker in needed to install the drivers, why isn't radlinker not only included, but actually installed before the drivers? It only makes sense.. Don't know what it is with ATI drivers lately, just more and more of a pain. Even the modded ones.

Sep 23, 2004, 08:47 AM	#142
seminox DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Context menue extensions Hi @all, first of all: THIS IS THE F***IN BEST DRIVER I'VE EVER SEEN. THANK YOU ! now for my problem: after installing i have some new entries in my context menue called "Rad Linker" and "Custom Settings" . How can i get rid of these context menue extensions ?? Please help, it's really annoying me ! thx to all answers.....

Sep 23, 2004, 08:48 AM	#143
eggs420 my bud > yours Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: chicago Posts: 399 Rep Power: 0	Once I got a non-corrupt download, they installed fine for me. I gained about 300 points in '03, but I also installed NIS/NAV since last test so likely a few more were gained and lost before I noticed.. Anyway, TAA seems to have less flicker on text, or maybe I'm crazy. I couldn't stand it much at 60hz two releases ago, but these are great. __________________ AMD64 2800+ // Chaintech VNF3-250 // 2X512mb PDI ddr400 2-3-2-5 // 80gb 7200RPM WD w/8mb cache // Leadtek 6800GT // 144kbit IDSL Clan -=CCC=- Admin 69.31.96.68 BF2 PUBLIC RANKED SERVER 205.218.65.236 BF2 DEMO SERVER

Sep 23, 2004, 08:58 AM	#144
lockves DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I found the problem For those with the same problem: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Video\{9C876D8C-ECAC-4654-898A-BF29861FFEBC}\0000 an set AGPTextureMicroTiling=0 and AGPTextureTiling=0 It is a really weird problem, because i used tiling before and I never had it The problem is described just about 5-6 posts ago. Just go up on the same page. Thanks Last edited by lockves; Sep 23, 2004 at 09:21 AM.

Sep 23, 2004, 09:01 AM	#145
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	@ Seminox thats cause its radlinker.... it does it so you can setup profiles for each game. so that if u want differnt settings for one game or annother u dont have to keep changing them in the control panel. its really usefull for people to make custom changes, etc. but u may not use that function, so it becomes annoying... try.. http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/ the main page, or mabe the faq http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/faq.htm @ lockves could you please edit your post and describe the problem and what u did to fix it? that would help alot. apparantly i dont know what ur talking about, and im not sure where u posted before. (use edit button ) __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Sep 23, 2004, 09:18 AM	#148
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	if u uninstall radlinker u wont be able to change ur settings... radlinker is omega's new control panel section. ... mabe he can make an option to enable that or not in his next version tho. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Sep 23, 2004, 09:24 AM	#149
NeoTribal 1" Lobes! =D Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 187 Rep Power: 0	Niiice performace boost on these drivers! =D No install issues here... I used the instructions in the "driver installation for n00bs" sticky that I always use, and everything went through without a hitch! Finally hit over 20000 marks in 3dmark2001... not that benches mean life or death, but it's fun to see an ~300 point jump from the official 4.9's All my games are running incredibly smooth now, and I love the integrated Radlinker, it has always felt like a perfect match to Omega Drivers... Thanks again for a great release! BTW: Quick question (I don't know if Omega has answered this or not): Is he thinking about somehow integrating the "CCC only" AI optimization switches we have been hearing about into a future release of his drivers? I'm not sure if this would even be feasable without .NET and whatnot. (Seems as though some people would throw a hissy fit if .NET is even mentioned) sigh But that's another thread entirely... (Edit: Spelling and whatnot) __________________ To the Dark Tower Childe Roland went...

Sep 23, 2004, 09:38 AM	#150
OxfordDon DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0	Well, I've had more issues and problems with this set of Omega's than with all the others put together. That said, my Aquamark score has gone up from a high of 60,656 to a high of 61,484, so not all bad then. Even so, I'm still not totally convinced that I've got everything stable and back under control yet. Overall, I'm a little disappointed. __________________ [color=blue]Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi Motherboard[/color] [color=blue]2 x GeForce 7800GTX[/color] [color=blue]AMD Athlon 64 FX-55[/color] [color=blue]Audigy 2 ZS[/color] [color=blue]OCZ PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 1024MB[/color] [color=blue]2 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB (RAID 0)[/color] [color=blue]Seagate 7200.8 300GB SATA 8MB Cache[/color] [color=blue]Windows XP Pro[/color]