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Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: Kaz on February 16, 2005, 04:15:16 PM

Anyone using them?

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: Mak333 on February 16, 2005, 04:17:23 PM

I don't only because it messes with my video ALOT.  It felt like i was on an old radeon 7500 but worse!  Laggy as hell...  Could be my mobo or CPU i'm using though.  I'm stickin with the [previous driver...

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on February 16, 2005, 04:28:22 PM

5.2 is the current driver.  But unless you have a newer video card (x600, x700, x800, etc) no real reason to go beyond 4.12 that I have seen.  No performance increases for older cards.  Lots of bugs in 5.1

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: Kaz on February 16, 2005, 04:40:19 PM

Thanks for the quick replies, just posted on driverheaven and came back here :)
Will stick with the 4.12s, thanks again.

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: TDeacon on February 21, 2005, 07:48:16 PM

I just upgraded to Cat 5.2 last weekend, and my frame rate improved significantly (max is around 85 fps).  Previously I had been using only the Dell-approved ATI drivers.  

Am using a 1-year-old fancy Dell PC, however.  Not sure what older hardware would experience.

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Dell Dimension 8300
Pentium 4 3GHz
256MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 XT (AGP), driver Catalyst 5.2, AA & AF on "sw control"
SoundMax Integrated digital audio, Analog Devices driver 5.12.1.3650, "std" hw accel
1024 MB RAM
Windows XP Pro, regularly updated from MS website.
DirectX 9.0b
Desktop 1024x768 pixels, 32 bit color
Aces High max texture size 512, 1024x768 pixels
Norton Internet Security 2004, all updates
Norton Antivirus 2004, all updates

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: 38ruk on February 21, 2005, 10:30:16 PM

ive ran 4.12 , 5.1 and 5.2's i really couldnt tell much difference between them in AH2 , im running the 4.12 omega betas     38

Title: ATI Catalyst 5.1 based Omega drivers
Post by: Kaz on February 22, 2005, 02:46:57 PM

Thanks TDeacon, 38ruk. TDeacon, I stopped using the official ATI drivers since I started using ATI based Omega drivers a year/2 years ago.  

http://www.omegadrivers.net

38ruk thanks, that's pretty much been my experience with the last 4 or so releases.
Seems ATI is focusing on their newer GFX cards now. Can't blame them, still I like to keep my drivers relatively up to date.