Radeon Omega Drivers v2.5.76 (Cat 4.9)

Arikel · Sep 23, 2004, 11:31 PM

Yay, I can OC my 9600 non-pro again! Thanks for another great set of drivers, Omega. I'm glad you hear you weathered the hurricanes OK.

FR4GGL3 · Sep 23, 2004, 11:33 PM

first: glad you are safe - horrible pix that i saw on tv...

i also had the "command line blahblah" on install but now everything is fine.
i like the new radlinker - great job u2!
no performance increases here - but i think it is simply my machine

in fact i got a decrease compared to your last set
4.8:
aquamark: ~39.050
3dmark03: ~5.250
3dmark01: ~17.600
4.9:
aquamark: ~38.960
3dmark03: ~5.240
3dmark01: ~17.500

not a big one - just for the protocol
i guess i have to start overclocking my good old 9700pro

all in all another good omega - set
bye
the ad-clicking-FR4GGL3

Jitter · Sep 23, 2004, 11:42 PM

I apologize I have to take back the first part of my post. The first time I ran aquamark w/ the omega 4.9's my Overclock didnt take. I went to explore the control panel a bit more and noticed my speeds were still at default. After i did my modest ~340/325 OC i got over 27,800. Which is higher than the unians however w/ the unians i used ATI tray tools to overclock and was at 340/325, and w/ radlinker its like 341.55/324.

Icecream Man · Sep 24, 2004, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Icecream Man, you may need to do the whole Driver Cleaner process, the cards should not appear there, unless the registry got corrupted. Try the cleaning and let me know. As for the readme, is on my site, in the downloads page, as always.

Hmm, I actually ran the new Driver Cleaner before I installed the new Omegas, I'll try again tho.

Danyael · Sep 24, 2004, 03:16 AM

Can somebody explain in detail about all the settings within Radlinker Advanced 3D settings. Most of us (I think?) only used to the usual choice of 2x,4x,6x FSAA and 2x,4x,8x,16x AF. And now with this new OmegaDrivers, there are even more choice low quality, high quality, forced, t2, t3 (temporal AA?). Please help. which settings is the best to choose?

mkk · Sep 24, 2004, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danyael

And now with this new OmegaDrivers, there are even more choice low quality, high quality, forced, t2, t3 (temporal AA?). Please help. which settings is the best to choose?

I'll try. Firstly, in an effort to be very brief and simplified, I say in general don't touch the settings that are really new.

If we start with the Anisotropic Filtering section, the new thing is the "Forced" line of options, wich to the best of my knowledge tries to force trilinear filtering onto applications. The only real use for this that I have seen is with a buggy demo version of FarCry. So ignore this Forced mode for regular use and go with the normal Performance or Quality.

In the AntiAliasing section, the new thing is the T2 and T3 markings. The T2 mode is what you want to be using as it represents regular Temporal AntiAliasing just as had you enabled it in the ATI control panel. (see articles and threads here on this site for more info on what TAA is) The T3 mode takes TAA a step further but for what I've read and seen the performance hit can be much larger with little discernable effect. So keep to the T2 mode times when you want to use Temporal AntiAliasing.

The Texture Preference and MipMap detail sections hold nothing that is really new. All benchmarkings should be run with both at highest values. In many games it might be interesting to lower the Texture Preference one step to Quality, for a speedup with oftenly not too much of image quality degrading.

Z Buffer Depth - Typically don't touch. Default settings are in the middle for the DirectX tab and to the left in OpenGL. (the sliders)

VSync - nothing new.

The big box at the bottom. The settings are for troubleshooting or enabling SmartShader effects. Do not touch these for normal gaming.

See also the RadLinker Guide thread:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-xp-radeon-display-drivers/38087-basic-radlinker-guide.html

Robert McClelland · Sep 24, 2004, 04:19 AM

I still avg scores on my card 11081 and 3717

with out oc

which normal I still think ATI put a slow set for somereason this time around Omega hep my card put my numbers back to normal

qweasd · Sep 24, 2004, 06:54 AM

Can anyone please tell me how I can set the AA to match a game's setting? I get errors when I play KOTOR, and was told that if I set the AA to match the game's setting, it would solve the problem. Thanks.

MindlessOath · Sep 24, 2004, 07:19 AM

@ gweasd... set it to application prefrence. that will fix it.

qweasd · Sep 24, 2004, 08:37 AM

I set it to application preference, but am still encountering the problem.

MindlessOath · Sep 24, 2004, 11:31 AM

@ gweasd, try turning aa and aaf off. see if that works. ... if not then goto the games options, and see what the AA is set to in their, then set the control panel settings to reflect that. .... if u cant do that, then check the KOTOR forums or fansite forums.

Methroix · Sep 24, 2004, 01:32 PM

This is actually my first ever post here, so please bare with me.

Unfortunately it's not really a praise to Omega for his brilliant work...
I have been away from the Omega for a while now, but the latest set looked to be promising so I decided to give it a try.

I did everything the way I've always done things, uninstallation of the previous set, reboot into Safe Mode and use DricverCleaner, reboot and install new ones.
First off these drivers installed two copies of everything (2 primary, 2 secondary), and when I reboot the computer Windows can't find the gfx-board.
So obviously I try to uninstall the drivers, and after few problems I finally get them not to show up in "Add/Remove Programs".
However, they must have done something to my system since now I can't install any gfx-drivers anymore.
If I use the setup file in the driver I get a message saying that I should install the generic VGA driver before installing Catalyst.
But if I use the Device Managaer to update the driver I get either a message saying Access Denied or Software not found.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, or more important, has anyone got a solution for this very problem?

I'm (obviously) a bit desperate for a solution since now without a driver I can't use anything requiring 3D-acceleration, or set the refreshrate above 43Hz...

mkk · Sep 24, 2004, 01:46 PM

You had some bad luck there Methroix. I don't think it happened at the fault of these drivers but let's try solve it anyway. Begin with uninstalling any display adapters listed in the device manager. Then reboot without trying to install any driver. Then when the system has restarted, let it sit there until it tries to auto-detect the card. Then it may try to find a "standard vga" driver and fail to find one, but that's fine so far because the card will normally still be designated as plain VGA. This is where you install some graphics driver again the normal way, this package or some other by running its installation routine. On an otherwise healthy windows installation this method should always work.

Methroix · Sep 24, 2004, 02:15 PM

mkk:
I've actually tried all that, a couple of times now, and so far it doesn't make any difference at all.
However I choose to install the drivers I end up with either of the two error messages I wrote in the earlier post, mainly the "Access Denied" one.

TraXter · Sep 24, 2004, 03:14 PM

Hi, I've read your posts related to the Radeon Omega Edition. My problem is that i have downloaded a .zip file, extracted it and got a .exe setup file. I run it and follow the installation instructions. after the drivers are installed, 2 error messages regarding JPEG appear (these messages are mentioned before).

Is that RadLinker?

If so, I'm not able to install RadLinker (did a fresh install of Windows before, no RadLinker etc was installed)

You tell to reinstall RadLinker Omega Edition. The second problem now is, HOW? I just got a compressed .exe setup file (can't even decompress it with WinRAR).

Googled the net for a standalone RadLinker Omega Edition download, but didn't find anything. Maybe I'm too stupid to find it or understand what you mean ...

I don't have a CP now to configure my Radeon (AA/AF and so on ...).

Can you help me?

Thnx in advance - TraXter

OxfordDon · Sep 24, 2004, 03:39 PM

TraXter, go Start->All Programs->Radeon Omega Drivers->(Re)Install Radlinker Omega Edition

BlueRaja · Sep 24, 2004, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Methroix

This is actually my first ever post here, so please bare with me.

Unfortunately it's not really a praise to Omega for his brilliant work...
I have been away from the Omega for a while now, but the latest set looked to be promising so I decided to give it a try.

I did everything the way I've always done things, uninstallation of the previous set, reboot into Safe Mode and use DricverCleaner, reboot and install new ones.
First off these drivers installed two copies of everything (2 primary, 2 secondary), and when I reboot the computer Windows can't find the gfx-board.
So obviously I try to uninstall the drivers, and after few problems I finally get them not to show up in "Add/Remove Programs".
However, they must have done something to my system since now I can't install any gfx-drivers anymore.
If I use the setup file in the driver I get a message saying that I should install the generic VGA driver before installing Catalyst.
But if I use the Device Managaer to update the driver I get either a message saying Access Denied or Software not found.

Has anyone else encountered this problem, or more important, has anyone got a solution for this very problem?

I'm (obviously) a bit desperate for a solution since now without a driver I can't use anything requiring 3D-acceleration, or set the refreshrate above 43Hz...

OK, Here is what you need to do. Since this issue is due to the fact that permissions in the registry have somehow gotten gummed up, you need to reset them. Open up regedt32 (regedit doesn't allow you to set permissions), and right mouse click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Then choose permissions, and add yourself and administrators with full permissions. Before you click on apply, click advanced, and make sure you place a check mark in the bottom option to replace permissions on child objects.

This should clear up you issues. Make a snapshot of your system with system restore before trying this, in case you hose your registry while in there.

Good luck, and let me know how you make out.

classic_leon · Sep 24, 2004, 04:21 PM

Thanks! Ω

TraXter · Sep 24, 2004, 04:26 PM

@OxfordDon: hehe thanx for the hint

didn't use the start menu entry before (there was no need to do) and i did not know that there is an option for reinstalling! thank you! vbmenu_register("postmenu_451466", true);

eXtermia · Sep 24, 2004, 09:51 PM

I have a 9600 AIW hoes does this set work with TV functions DNAs Version of drivers totaly hose my AIW install have to go back to the default cats. I am running this on my Mobility 9600 runs great

MindlessOath · Sep 24, 2004, 11:07 PM

ok use periods to make me understand ur sentinces better extermia

ok.. basically never use DNA drivers they mostly cause problems, as u found out.

to get tv functions using omega drivers, install the drivers then the WDM driver on ATI;s website, i think omega might have them for download too, not sure. get the newest ones from ati tho.

next off u must use the software MMC that came with your AIW. you can download updates from ATI.com too.

motion_blur · Sep 24, 2004, 11:23 PM

i've upgraded from 25.67 to 25.76
first i uninstalled ATI-Tool, Radlinker, Omega Driver 25.67 (+ drivercleaner) and the setup files,
then i installed Omega Driver 25.76 with this JPEG-error, twice!
now my D3D und OpenGL tabs are gone!!!
i've reinstalled Radlinker from the start menu und now i've got this "Advanced 3D" tab, but D3D and OpenGL are still gone!
are they now replaced by this Advanced 3D tab???

i am using WinXP with SP1

Shinjikun · Sep 24, 2004, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motion_blur

i've upgraded from 25.67 to 25.76
first i uninstalled ATI-Tool, Radlinker, Omega Driver 25.67 (+ drivercleaner) and the setup files,
then i installed Omega Driver 25.76 with this JPEG-error, twice!
now my D3D und OpenGL tabs are gone!!!
i've reinstalled Radlinker from the start menu und now i've got this "Advanced 3D" tab, but D3D and OpenGL are still gone!
are they now replaced by this Advanced 3D tab???

i am using WinXP with SP1

Motion, those tabs have been REPLACED in this version of the Omega Driver by the Advanced 3D tab. You will find the DirectX and OpenGL settings in there.

motion_blur · Sep 25, 2004, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shinjikun

Motion, those tabs have been REPLACED in this version of the Omega Driver by the Advanced 3D tab. You will find the DirectX and OpenGL settings in there.

OMG, but i don't like it

, there are tooo much switches und stuff
and when i messed up everything, i can't reset them to default or just use the easy slide-bar,
with |- low - medium - high -|quality

BWX · Sep 25, 2004, 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motion_blur

OMG, but i don't like it

, there are tooo much switches und stuff
and when i messed up everything, i can't reset them to default or just use the easy slide-bar,
with |- low - medium - high -|quality

That's a good point- no "default" on some settings.
I never used the "quality or performance" slider bar, but I imagine many people do. I didn't even notice it was missing, but it is..

MindlessOath · Sep 25, 2004, 06:24 AM

to many sliders... lol

i think its perfect. but an easy to use guide to question all of the options is in line for noobs which a wide array of omega users are.

for tempral aa i belive u should actually write out temperal AA 2x etc. isntead of tx2 or whatever it was.

also a help file and a link to the help file on that section would be in line too.

flexy · Sep 25, 2004, 06:42 AM

i think its great...lots of options, very compact, but still everything on one page including overclocing.
I agree however that he maybe should chose better descriptions for some modi, eg.
temporal AA and 'forced AF'.

Otherwise i dont give a **** how it looks since i usually use the control panel ONLY rarely...and functionality is much better than 'design'. (Otherwise i would have ATI CCC installed.) Its a good compromise between 'number of options' and 'easyness to use'...IMHO.

Very good drivers btw.. !

Edit: "per-game" settings is VERY nice, but i have problems getting it to work in ASE (all seeing eye) and MTA (multi theft auto)
no matter what executable i set the custom-options to it doesnt work.
(Ase starts mtaclient.exe and mtaclient.exe starts gta_vc.exe)

Omegadrive · Sep 25, 2004, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flexy

i think its great...lots of options, very compact, but still everything on one page including overclocing.
I agree however that he maybe should chose better descriptions for some modi, eg.
temporal AA and 'forced AF'.

Otherwise i dont give a **** how it looks since i usually use the control panel ONLY rarely...and functionality is much better than 'design'. (Otherwise i would have ATI CCC installed.) Its a good compromise between 'number of options' and 'easyness to use'...IMHO.

Very good drivers btw.. !

Edit: "per-game" settings is VERY nice, but i have problems getting it to work in ASE (all seeing eye) and MTA (multi theft auto)
no matter what executable i set the custom-options to it doesnt work.
(Ase starts mtaclient.exe and mtaclient.exe starts gta_vc.exe)

I always go for funtionality first, then looks

As for your problem with ASE, look here:
http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/faq.htm#how5

And for VC, just create a shortcut the the actual EXE, not the launcher, that will take you directly to the game and apply the options correctly.

Methroix · Sep 25, 2004, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueRaja

OK, Here is what you need to do. Since this issue is due to the fact that permissions in the registry have somehow gotten gummed up, you need to reset them. Open up regedt32 (regedit doesn't allow you to set permissions), and right mouse click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Then choose permissions, and add yourself and administrators with full permissions. Before you click on apply, click advanced, and make sure you place a check mark in the bottom option to replace permissions on child objects.

This should clear up you issues. Make a snapshot of your system with system restore before trying this, in case you hose your registry while in there.

Good luck, and let me know how you make out.

IT WORKS!!!
I can't thank you enough for this, you just saved me a reinstallation!
Now I'm a happy camper!

Now all I have to do is decide wether to give 'em a try again...
At least now I know how to right the wrong

muka3D · Sep 25, 2004, 06:42 PM

These latest Omega Drivers have been giving me nothing but problems. I've been using Omega Drivers for a very long time now, been loving them, until this point. I don't know what happened with this release, but they seem to have lost their usual high-quality standard. In any case, I'll describe my problem.

I installed the new drivers from Omega, and got the same error everyone else does at the end of the installer. No problem. I did the install radlinker thing, so that I could access some graphics options in my control panel, since the nice old ones were removed... Unfortunatley.

Later on, I started to play Call of Duty United Offensive. The game was running quite choppy, and after playing for about 30 seconds I was unable to see anything but the massive amounts of artifacts on the screen. There was lines, triangles, and blurry crap all over the place, so I quit the game. I checked the temperature of my 9600XT, and it was at 41 degrees, dropping since I exited the game. The temperature of the card isn't that high, so why am I seeing artifacts? Afterwards, I played UT2004, and the game keeps on freezing after playing for a few minutes.

These 2 events have never happened to me before. I have always been able to play Call of Duty United Offensive on the maximum graphic settings, without any problems. I only started seeing artifacts after installing this new and "improved" version of the Omega Drivers. Same thing happened with UT2004, the game never froze on me before, until this new version.

Does anybody have any idea what is happening here, and how I could fix it? The only solution I have in my mind is to revert back to the previous version of Omega Drivers, since those never gave me any problems.

And no, my card is NOT overclocked, I have NOT changed the settings in RadLinker from Default.

Sep 23, 2004, 11:33 PM	#182
FR4GGL3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	first: glad you are safe - horrible pix that i saw on tv... i also had the "command line blahblah" on install but now everything is fine. i like the new radlinker - great job u2! no performance increases here - but i think it is simply my machine in fact i got a decrease compared to your last set 4.8: aquamark: ~39.050 3dmark03: ~5.250 3dmark01: ~17.600 4.9: aquamark: ~38.960 3dmark03: ~5.240 3dmark01: ~17.500 not a big one - just for the protocol i guess i have to start overclocking my good old 9700pro all in all another good omega - set bye the ad-clicking-FR4GGL3 __________________ [color=Green]Yes Sir, I Can Boogie[/color]

Sep 24, 2004, 03:16 AM	#185
Danyael DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	AF & FSAA Settings in Direct3D & OpenGL Can somebody explain in detail about all the settings within Radlinker Advanced 3D settings. Most of us (I think?) only used to the usual choice of 2x,4x,6x FSAA and 2x,4x,8x,16x AF. And now with this new OmegaDrivers, there are even more choice low quality, high quality, forced, t2, t3 (temporal AA?). Please help. which settings is the best to choose? __________________ " It's torture . . . . but I'm almost there "

Sep 24, 2004, 04:19 AM	#187
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	I still avg scores on my card 11081 and 3717 with out oc which normal I still think ATI put a slow set for somereason this time around Omega hep my card put my numbers back to normal __________________ "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 24, 2004, 07:19 AM	#189
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	@ gweasd... set it to application prefrence. that will fix 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 24, 2004, 11:31 AM	#191
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	@ gweasd, try turning aa and aaf off. see if that works. ... if not then goto the games options, and see what the AA is set to in their, then set the control panel settings to reflect that. .... if u cant do that, then check the KOTOR forums or fansite forums. __________________ 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, 11:31 PM	#181
Arikel DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 225 Rep Power: 0	Yay, I can OC my 9600 non-pro again! Thanks for another great set of drivers, Omega. I'm glad you hear you weathered the hurricanes OK.

Sep 23, 2004, 11:42 PM	#183
Jitter HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 533 Rep Power: 0	I apologize I have to take back the first part of my post. The first time I ran aquamark w/ the omega 4.9's my Overclock didnt take. I went to explore the control panel a bit more and noticed my speeds were still at default. After i did my modest ~340/325 OC i got over 27,800. Which is higher than the unians however w/ the unians i used ATI tray tools to overclock and was at 340/325, and w/ radlinker its like 341.55/324.

Sep 24, 2004, 06:54 AM	#188
qweasd DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Can anyone please tell me how I can set the AA to match a game's setting? I get errors when I play KOTOR, and was told that if I set the AA to match the game's setting, it would solve the problem. Thanks.

Sep 24, 2004, 08:37 AM	#190
qweasd DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I set it to application preference, but am still encountering the problem.

Sep 24, 2004, 01:32 PM	#192
Methroix DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	This is actually my first ever post here, so please bare with me. Unfortunately it's not really a praise to Omega for his brilliant work... I have been away from the Omega for a while now, but the latest set looked to be promising so I decided to give it a try. I did everything the way I've always done things, uninstallation of the previous set, reboot into Safe Mode and use DricverCleaner, reboot and install new ones. First off these drivers installed two copies of everything (2 primary, 2 secondary), and when I reboot the computer Windows can't find the gfx-board. So obviously I try to uninstall the drivers, and after few problems I finally get them not to show up in "Add/Remove Programs". However, they must have done something to my system since now I can't install any gfx-drivers anymore. If I use the setup file in the driver I get a message saying that I should install the generic VGA driver before installing Catalyst. But if I use the Device Managaer to update the driver I get either a message saying Access Denied or Software not found. Has anyone else encountered this problem, or more important, has anyone got a solution for this very problem? I'm (obviously) a bit desperate for a solution since now without a driver I can't use anything requiring 3D-acceleration, or set the refreshrate above 43Hz... __________________ [color=black]:[CPU: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]AMD64 3500+[/color][color=black]]:[RAM: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]2x512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000[/color][color=black]]:[MOBO: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum[/color][color=black]]:[GFX: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]Gainward GeForce 8800 GTS[/color][color=black]]:[HDD: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]Maxtor D-10 160GB[/color][color=black]]:[SOUND: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]SB Audigy2 ZS[/color][color=black]]:[OS: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]WinXP Pro SP2[/color][color=black]]:[/color]

Sep 24, 2004, 01:46 PM	#193
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,384 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	You had some bad luck there Methroix. I don't think it happened at the fault of these drivers but let's try solve it anyway. Begin with uninstalling any display adapters listed in the device manager. Then reboot without trying to install any driver. Then when the system has restarted, let it sit there until it tries to auto-detect the card. Then it may try to find a "standard vga" driver and fail to find one, but that's fine so far because the card will normally still be designated as plain VGA. This is where you install some graphics driver again the normal way, this package or some other by running its installation routine. On an otherwise healthy windows installation this method should always work.

Sep 24, 2004, 02:15 PM	#194
Methroix DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	mkk: I've actually tried all that, a couple of times now, and so far it doesn't make any difference at all. However I choose to install the drivers I end up with either of the two error messages I wrote in the earlier post, mainly the "Access Denied" one. __________________ [color=black]:[CPU: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]AMD64 3500+[/color][color=black]]:[RAM: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]2x512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000[/color][color=black]]:[MOBO: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum[/color][color=black]]:[GFX: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]Gainward GeForce 8800 GTS[/color][color=black]]:[HDD: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]Maxtor D-10 160GB[/color][color=black]]:[SOUND: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]SB Audigy2 ZS[/color][color=black]]:[OS: [/color][color=DarkSlateGray]WinXP Pro SP2[/color][color=black]]:[/color]

Sep 24, 2004, 03:14 PM	#195
TraXter DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	No CP! Hi, I've read your posts related to the Radeon Omega Edition. My problem is that i have downloaded a .zip file, extracted it and got a .exe setup file. I run it and follow the installation instructions. after the drivers are installed, 2 error messages regarding JPEG appear (these messages are mentioned before). Is that RadLinker? If so, I'm not able to install RadLinker (did a fresh install of Windows before, no RadLinker etc was installed) You tell to reinstall RadLinker Omega Edition. The second problem now is, HOW? I just got a compressed .exe setup file (can't even decompress it with WinRAR). Googled the net for a standalone RadLinker Omega Edition download, but didn't find anything. Maybe I'm too stupid to find it or understand what you mean ... I don't have a CP now to configure my Radeon (AA/AF and so on ...). Can you help me? Thnx in advance - TraXter

Sep 24, 2004, 03:39 PM	#196
OxfordDon DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0	TraXter, go Start->All Programs->Radeon Omega Drivers->(Re)Install Radlinker Omega Edition __________________ [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]

Sep 24, 2004, 04:21 PM	#198
classic_leon HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wu Han, Hu Bei, P.R.China Posts: 1,238 Rep Power: 0	Thanks! Ω __________________ Fashion keeps us alive. YouP-PAX Please visit http://www.A-PAX.co.uk to discuss the computer mods. The latest YouP PAX modded drivers are provided on the site.

Sep 24, 2004, 04:26 PM	#199
TraXter DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	@OxfordDon: hehe thanx for the hint didn't use the start menu entry before (there was no need to do) and i did not know that there is an option for reinstalling! thank you! vbmenu_register("postmenu_451466", true);

Sep 24, 2004, 09:51 PM	#200
eXtermia DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 22 Rep Power: 0	I have a 9600 AIW hoes does this set work with TV functions DNAs Version of drivers totaly hose my AIW install have to go back to the default cats. I am running this on my Mobility 9600 runs great

Sep 24, 2004, 11:07 PM	#201
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	ok use periods to make me understand ur sentinces better extermia ok.. basically never use DNA drivers they mostly cause problems, as u found out. to get tv functions using omega drivers, install the drivers then the WDM driver on ATI;s website, i think omega might have them for download too, not sure. get the newest ones from ati tho. next off u must use the software MMC that came with your AIW. you can download updates from ATI.com too. __________________ 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 24, 2004, 11:23 PM	#202
motion_blur DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	i've upgraded from 25.67 to 25.76 first i uninstalled ATI-Tool, Radlinker, Omega Driver 25.67 (+ drivercleaner) and the setup files, then i installed Omega Driver 25.76 with this JPEG-error, twice! now my D3D und OpenGL tabs are gone!!! i've reinstalled Radlinker from the start menu und now i've got this "Advanced 3D" tab, but D3D and OpenGL are still gone! are they now replaced by this Advanced 3D tab??? i am using WinXP with SP1

Sep 25, 2004, 06:24 AM	#206
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	to many sliders... lol i think its perfect. but an easy to use guide to question all of the options is in line for noobs which a wide array of omega users are. for tempral aa i belive u should actually write out temperal AA 2x etc. isntead of tx2 or whatever it was. also a help file and a link to the help file on that section would be in line too. __________________ 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 25, 2004, 06:42 AM	#207
flexy DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: TN Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	i think its great...lots of options, very compact, but still everything on one page including overclocing. I agree however that he maybe should chose better descriptions for some modi, eg. temporal AA and 'forced AF'. Otherwise i dont give a **** how it looks since i usually use the control panel ONLY rarely...and functionality is much better than 'design'. (Otherwise i would have ATI CCC installed.) Its a good compromise between 'number of options' and 'easyness to use'...IMHO. Very good drivers btw.. ! Edit: "per-game" settings is VERY nice, but i have problems getting it to work in ASE (all seeing eye) and MTA (multi theft auto) no matter what executable i set the custom-options to it doesnt work. (Ase starts mtaclient.exe and mtaclient.exe starts gta_vc.exe)

Sep 25, 2004, 06:42 PM	#210
muka3D DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Serious Problems with the New Drivers These latest Omega Drivers have been giving me nothing but problems. I've been using Omega Drivers for a very long time now, been loving them, until this point. I don't know what happened with this release, but they seem to have lost their usual high-quality standard. In any case, I'll describe my problem. I installed the new drivers from Omega, and got the same error everyone else does at the end of the installer. No problem. I did the install radlinker thing, so that I could access some graphics options in my control panel, since the nice old ones were removed... Unfortunatley. Later on, I started to play Call of Duty United Offensive. The game was running quite choppy, and after playing for about 30 seconds I was unable to see anything but the massive amounts of artifacts on the screen. There was lines, triangles, and blurry crap all over the place, so I quit the game. I checked the temperature of my 9600XT, and it was at 41 degrees, dropping since I exited the game. The temperature of the card isn't that high, so why am I seeing artifacts? Afterwards, I played UT2004, and the game keeps on freezing after playing for a few minutes. These 2 events have never happened to me before. I have always been able to play Call of Duty United Offensive on the maximum graphic settings, without any problems. I only started seeing artifacts after installing this new and "improved" version of the Omega Drivers. Same thing happened with UT2004, the game never froze on me before, until this new version. Does anybody have any idea what is happening here, and how I could fix it? The only solution I have in my mind is to revert back to the previous version of Omega Drivers, since those never gave me any problems. And no, my card is NOT overclocked, I have NOT changed the settings in RadLinker from Default.