Omega drivers?

Quattro

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Hey,

What are these drivers and are they safe?

 

Goateh

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Just a repacked version of the catalyst drivers, they are very safe and are supposed to be better for performance and IQ etc. But personally I didn't see and gian increase in my scores so I just switched back to the normal drivers

 

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What about game performance for example, farcry.

No difference?

 

Goateh

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I didn't really see any, but I didn't play it for an extended amount of time. Not to mention the fact I couldn't figure out how to turn on the fps counter

 

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Quattro

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I use Fraps to show FPS.

I usually get around 60fps in single player and about 100fps in multiplayer.

Not bad...

 

ColtIce

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what drivers are you useing now?I'm useing the first 4.7betas and they seem to rock.normally I use the omega drivers but these just feel smoother to me.

 

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I'm using 4.6 I think...
How do I check?

Sorry first time owning an ATI.

 

Tebore

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• Jul 1, 2004

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ATI's Drivers have gotten really good that improvements can't really be made anymore so the omegas don't show a big improvement. Back in the 3.x and to about 4.4 you can see a difference in performance and IQ in the shaders. But the newer >4.6 Cats leave very little room for improvement on the R360/350/RV350/360 cores. It's been 2 years of course they'd get all the bugs out and performance up.

 

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Quattro

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Is the beta 4.7 any good?

 

Goateh

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I too would not mind trying these 4.7 beta drivers

 

ColtIce

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http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=802

 

lilxvietxboi

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far cry fps counter =

Press `(~) for console to go down
\r_displayinfo 1

it shows min/max n avg fps.

 

russm

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• Jul 1, 2004

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Omega drivers helped me hit over 6000 in 3dmark2003, i was getting 5900's before with cats

 

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Quattro

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I might as well try them then.
I use FRAPS for measuring fps.

 

Goateh

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Cool, cheers for the link

I wish I could hit 5900 in 3dmark03, my highest is about 4500

 

meionm

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I ran 3dmark on omega drives and catalyst 4.6 the ati catalyst came out faster by 20, not much difference

 

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hemidude

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I prefer the quality of omega's. And the integrated Radlinker.

 

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RedScare

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i tried the cat 4.6 and the new omegas today on my 9600 pro. my only test was playing a game and measuring average fps. i played a map with the cat4.6s and then unistalled those and installed the omegas and played the same map. my average fps went up 10fps so that was all the convincing i needed to go with the omegas.

 

Enablingwolf

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Quattro said:

I'm using 4.6 I think...
How do I check?

Sorry first time owning an ATI.

Click to expand...

Using Xp....Go to display properties,advanced. Then navigate to the "options" tab it should show there.