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Omega Drivers ROCK!
My system specs are as follows
Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind. I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will. Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the omega's . Heh,heh,heh Dave |
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GeeZer wrote:
My system specs are as follows Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind. I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will. Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the omega's . Heh,heh,heh Dave best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it |
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On 10/12/2003 5:30 PM John befouled our nation with:
GeeZer wrote: My system specs are as follows Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind. I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will. Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the omega's . Heh,heh,heh Dave best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it Fast writes is probably useless, but there are a couple of games I have that crash when its not enabled... NWN, SFC3, NOLF2, you can get around this by disabling hardware mouse but its easier for me to just leave fast writes enabled. -- Can I trade my happiness for some money? Steve [Inglo] |
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"GeeZer" wrote:
My system specs are as follows Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. 3.8 based Omegas are latest anymore, Omega realeased saturday new ones: "Surprise!!! New Omega Drivers release!!! NO, these are NOT the Catalyst 3.8 based drivers that I released on 10/08, this is an entire new version of the drivers (newer than the Cat 3.8), but they are NOT the Catalyst 3.9. As usual, go to the ATI download's page to grab these and make sure you read the readme to see what's new in them." -- ---------------------------------- Matti Wartiainen. Kouvola.Suomi.Finland. ----------------------------------- |
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Guess I'll try NWN with it enabled... maybe it'l stop the crashing? (I'm
willing to try anything) bye, Rick "Inglo" wrote in message y.com... On 10/12/2003 5:30 PM John befouled our nation with: GeeZer wrote: My system specs are as follows Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind. I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will. Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the omega's . Heh,heh,heh Dave best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it Fast writes is probably useless, but there are a couple of games I have that crash when its not enabled... NWN, SFC3, NOLF2, you can get around this by disabling hardware mouse but its easier for me to just leave fast writes enabled. -- Can I trade my happiness for some money? Steve [Inglo] |
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Matti Wartiainen wrote:
I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. 3.8 based Omegas are latest anymore, Omega realeased saturday new ones: And here's the change log: What's New? (2.4.96) * Based on the leaked Dell drivers (I'm sure almost nobody heard about these, it was a small leak and it was controlled in time by ATI). (2k/XP) * New Control Panel option, the WMV hardware support. (2k/XP) * More Smartshaders effects for OpenGL. (2k/XP) * Fixed the TV out problems, now the monitor is no longer locked at 60Hz with TV enabled. (2k/XP) * Fixed the mutiple monitor problems in the device manager and ATI CP. (2k/XP) * Fixed the "Soft-Mods", some games should no longer crash. (2k/XP) * Enabled Overclocking support in the normal and soft-moded drivers for ALL CARDS based on the following chipsets, even if they are locked: RV250/RV280/R300/RV350. (2k/XP) * Removed rTool from the driver package as it is no longer needed. (2k/XP) * Added the ATI Software uninstaller. (2k/XP) Thomas |
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what is 'soft mod' ?
"Thomas Engler" wrote in message ... Matti Wartiainen wrote: I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. 3.8 based Omegas are latest anymore, Omega realeased saturday new ones: And here's the change log: What's New? (2.4.96) * Based on the leaked Dell drivers (I'm sure almost nobody heard about these, it was a small leak and it was controlled in time by ATI). (2k/XP) * New Control Panel option, the WMV hardware support. (2k/XP) * More Smartshaders effects for OpenGL. (2k/XP) * Fixed the TV out problems, now the monitor is no longer locked at 60Hz with TV enabled. (2k/XP) * Fixed the mutiple monitor problems in the device manager and ATI CP. (2k/XP) * Fixed the "Soft-Mods", some games should no longer crash. (2k/XP) * Enabled Overclocking support in the normal and soft-moded drivers for ALL CARDS based on the following chipsets, even if they are locked: RV250/RV280/R300/RV350. (2k/XP) * Removed rTool from the driver package as it is no longer needed. (2k/XP) * Added the ATI Software uninstaller. (2k/XP) Thomas |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:30:18 GMT, "zlo" wrote:
what is 'soft mod' ? To make a card behave like another card purely by the use of drivers. 9500s to 9700s, 9700s and 9800SEs to 9800pro etc. There's no guarantee that it will work but the Omega drivers have the facility to try in a user friendly manner. My 9800Se is bust and being replaced under warranty so I'll have to wait and see. -- Julian Richards XP Home L7S7A2 motherboard 1 GB RAM 10 GB + 80 GB HDs CD+DVD/CDRW drives |
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"Rick" wrote in message news Guess I'll try NWN with it enabled... maybe it'l stop the crashing? (I'm willing to try anything) bye, Rick "Inglo" wrote in message y.com... On 10/12/2003 5:30 PM John befouled our nation with: GeeZer wrote: My system specs are as follows Athlon xp 2400@ 2177 Epox 8k3ae Mobo ATI Radeon 9700NP OEM 512 ddr2100 WinXP w/sp 1 I have been running the Latest ATI drivers (3.8) and radclocker. The best overclock I could benchmark at was 320/285 then after closing the benchmark it would freeze up. So I installed the 3.8 Omega (Hacked) Drivers and WOW!!! Now my card runs at 380/300 stock cooling with no artifacts of problems of any kind. I'm kind of afraid to push it any more. But I probably will. Now time to go experiment with the wife's 8500LE on her computer with the omega's . Heh,heh,heh Dave best drivers available for radeons, also of interest is the authors opinion that fast write is useless, and does not recommend it Fast writes is probably useless, but there are a couple of games I have that crash when its not enabled... NWN, SFC3, NOLF2, you can get around this by disabling hardware mouse but its easier for me to just leave fast writes enabled. -- Can I trade my happiness for some money? Steve [Inglo] What i find interesting is that I have fast writes disabled in CMOS, but the ATi drivers show it enabled...and have never had any crashes with NWN... Kris |
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What i find interesting is that I have fast writes disabled in CMOS, but the ATi drivers show it enabled...and have never had any crashes with NWN... Kris I have it enabled in BIOS, and ATI drivers won't enable it. :0 |
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