9500 soft mod driver help

locomaaan · Dec 13, 2004, 10:22 PM

i am using a 9500 non-pro. i have installed the brand spankin new omega driver with the soft mod upgrade. when i launch counter strike i see a bunch of checkered pattern things all over the walls and stuff. please forgive my ignorance, i am new at this. can anyone please help???

mkk · Dec 14, 2004, 12:37 AM

Make sure to read the 'Omega Drivers Readme' found in the driver section of www.omegadrivers.net, as there are a lot of important information in it.

Some kind of visual anomalies are common when using softmod on these cards and the degree of the anomalies and when they appear can vary in between individual cards. You will have to decide whether the performance increase is worth it.

Welcome to the forum.

Mithinco · Dec 14, 2004, 03:39 AM

You may have got the checkerboard effect which means that your unlocked pixel pipelines are already broken, so you may be out of luck. If you get the checkerboard effect for some textures in certain games, then it may be alright if you can bear with it. It sounds bad in your case, so I don't think its possible for you to softmod unless you can find a solution. There may be some workarounds you can do over at OCFaq.

I also have a 9500 non-pro softmodded to a 9700. I get a checkerboard effect on tiles within certain maps in Half-Life 1, but I think that's a driver issue. It works fine with everything else, so i'm happy.

locomaaan · Dec 14, 2004, 06:12 PM

i uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and it made a big improvement. i only have checkers on some tiles in a few maps of CS Source. i dont seem to have a problem with older versions of half life though. anybody know why???i am getting a wikid FPS though. im my core is clocked to 335mhz and the memeory to 315mhz and im getting a 60-70 fps. again thanks for your replies

Mithinco · Dec 14, 2004, 09:54 PM

Nice, i'm also getting around 60-70 fps too so that's good to hear. CS:S works fine for me, so I don't know what's up with that. It only happens with the old HL.

locomaaan · Dec 14, 2004, 11:43 PM

ya it seems as though it only happens with CS:S and Doom3, im pretty sure it is driver related though. I can sacrifice for the boost in performance for now. If anybody has ne ideas, please keep me posted. thanks for ur help!

MAL75 · Jan 9, 2005, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by locomaaan

i uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and it made a big improvement. i only have checkers on some tiles in a few maps of CS Source. i dont seem to have a problem with older versions of half life though. anybody know why???i am getting a wikid FPS though. im my core is clocked to 335mhz and the memeory to 315mhz and im getting a 60-70 fps. again thanks for your replies

Hello there, check this post, hope it helps:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-xp-radeon-display-drivers/65622-image-corruption-omega-drivers-3dmark05-sapphire-9500np.html

MindlessOath · Jan 9, 2005, 08:48 AM

well, your pipes are sorta cripled it seems, mabe its the omegas, who knows, but at the link above OCfaq you should find a do it yourself softmod, try those out instead, see if it works for you, mabe try a previous driver and check your games with it, mabe its the driver... dunno.

Dec 13, 2004, 10:22 PM	#1
locomaaan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	9500 soft mod driver help i am using a 9500 non-pro. i have installed the brand spankin new omega driver with the soft mod upgrade. when i launch counter strike i see a bunch of checkered pattern things all over the walls and stuff. please forgive my ignorance, i am new at this. can anyone please help???

Dec 14, 2004, 06:12 PM	Thread Starter #4
locomaaan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	thanks so far i uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and it made a big improvement. i only have checkers on some tiles in a few maps of CS Source. i dont seem to have a problem with older versions of half life though. anybody know why???i am getting a wikid FPS though. im my core is clocked to 335mhz and the memeory to 315mhz and im getting a 60-70 fps. again thanks for your replies

Jan 9, 2005, 08:48 AM	#8
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	well, your pipes are sorta cripled it seems, mabe its the omegas, who knows, but at the link above OCfaq you should find a do it yourself softmod, try those out instead, see if it works for you, mabe try a previous driver and check your games with it, mabe its the driver... dunno. __________________ 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

Dec 14, 2004, 12:37 AM	#2
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,495 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Make sure to read the 'Omega Drivers Readme' found in the driver section of www.omegadrivers.net, as there are a lot of important information in it. Some kind of visual anomalies are common when using softmod on these cards and the degree of the anomalies and when they appear can vary in between individual cards. You will have to decide whether the performance increase is worth it. Welcome to the forum.

Dec 14, 2004, 03:39 AM	#3
Mithinco DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	You may have got the checkerboard effect which means that your unlocked pixel pipelines are already broken, so you may be out of luck. If you get the checkerboard effect for some textures in certain games, then it may be alright if you can bear with it. It sounds bad in your case, so I don't think its possible for you to softmod unless you can find a solution. There may be some workarounds you can do over at OCFaq. I also have a 9500 non-pro softmodded to a 9700. I get a checkerboard effect on tiles within certain maps in Half-Life 1, but I think that's a driver issue. It works fine with everything else, so i'm happy.

Dec 14, 2004, 09:54 PM	#5
Mithinco DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Nice, i'm also getting around 60-70 fps too so that's good to hear. CS:S works fine for me, so I don't know what's up with that. It only happens with the old HL.

Dec 14, 2004, 11:43 PM	Thread Starter #6
locomaaan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	ya it seems as though it only happens with CS:S and Doom3, im pretty sure it is driver related though. I can sacrifice for the boost in performance for now. If anybody has ne ideas, please keep me posted. thanks for ur help!