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Offline boxboy28

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« on: December 18, 2003, 08:46:22 AM »
ATI has released the 3.10 driver - im at work so i havent played with it!
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Offline AKCasca

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2003, 09:05:02 AM »
I put them on last night. Not any appreciable difference for most games or apps. The only one I noticed a marked improvement on was COD, able to crank it to full and ran smoother than ever before with no problems.
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Offline bloom25

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2003, 03:54:19 PM »
I'm using them now too.  I can't see any real differences in AH2 with them vs the 3.7s.  Framerates are still very low in AH2.
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Offline mrblack

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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2003, 04:07:56 PM »
Yeah I installed em I was using the Omega drivers.
I found that the Omegas gave a little better pic quality.
But the frame rates are the same.
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Offline 1Duke1

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Omega vs Cat
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2003, 08:39:27 PM »
Historically...which one's have folks found better to use?

And, do you have the link to the Omega drivers?

Thanks
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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2003, 01:39:40 AM »
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Offline skernsk

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2003, 08:32:45 AM »
After installing the 3.7 driver my system went into safe mode and the lowest 'color' settin.  The only way to restore it was to remove the Catalyst driver and go to an older one.
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Offline boxboy28

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2003, 09:46:13 AM »
Mr Black did you have to flash the video card bios to use those Omega drivers?
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Offline 214thCavalier

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2003, 01:20:10 PM »
No flashing required just install them in place of the ATI version.
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Offline acetnt-2nd

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Re: Omega vs Cat
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2003, 02:53:21 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by 1Duke1
Historically...which one's have folks found better to use?

And, do you have the link to the Omega drivers?

Thanks



Omega drivers have generally worked great for me except the one before these. I ran the 3DMark bechmark and was only able to get 350. When I uninstalled and then installed the 3.9Cat Ati original drivers, I got 1221.

I have an ecs L7VMM mb with an XP2000+, Radeon 9000  pro and 512 MB Mem.

This could be specific to my machine only but I dont want to spend the time to install the new omega driver to see if it was :-)

Rgds
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Offline mrblack

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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2003, 07:24:26 PM »
Best to remove anything pertaining to ati from your system before installing the drivers.

There is a utillity on ATIs website I think it's called driver removale utillity or something like that.
it removes evrything even from your registry.
« Last Edit: December 19, 2003, 07:27:51 PM by mrblack »
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Offline mrblack

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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2003, 07:27:19 PM »
go here and down load it it works great for uninstalling cat drivers.

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/misc/catalystutils.html
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Offline Wilbus

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ATI 3.10 driver out
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2003, 05:51:23 AM »
Omega drivers give far worse score in 3DMark. I get 4200 points using Cataclyst 3.9 and 3.10 and a mere 2800 with the Omega drivers. That's 30% difference.

test both drivers with 3DMark your self, see what you get, best way to find the best driver.
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Offline mrblack

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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2003, 01:31:45 PM »
Omega drivers are going to give better picture quality not better FPS.
Also they have more features than the cat drivers .
In reality they are just optimized cat drivers with more features.
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Offline Kaz

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« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2003, 10:57:18 AM »
Got the omega drivers for CAT 3.10 but they didn't work, couldn't get SMARTGART to hold a setting so it was at 0x AGP. Dunno if that was just a bug because I was still able to play the usual games albeit at a lower framerate than the omegas based on CAT 3.9.
So I ditched the omega 3.10s and went back to 3.9 (2.496c). I've heard that the previous versions seem to work better for some people, I started using from 3.9 so maybe I'll try the 3.7s, see if there's an improvement in framerates.
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