New ATI Drivers

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:58 pm

The latest ATI and OMEGAdrivers are out. Just ran the Omega's on my 9500Pro with the 9700Pro Soft Mod.

355.78 Descent3 v1.4
265 Min
591 Max
304 Second 1
348 Second 2
591 Second 3
470 Second 4
265 Second 5
320 Second 6
311 Second 7
334 Second 8
336 Second 9

Never seen numbers like this before. WOOT

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:20 pm

Are the omega ones REALLY that much better?

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:34 pm

What's your resolution ? I get that w/ 1280x1024 @ 8xAF & 4xAA..

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:04 pm

D3 is all well and good. How does it handle ut2k4?

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:08 pm

That's at 1024X768 with no AF or AA and the card clocked at 360/310.

Merlin, I don't know. I've been running Omega drivers and never seen better than about 220/450 with 11 to 12 second time tests. He has added some tweaks though that you don't get with CAT drivers.

Woodchip, I'm not a groundpounder. I only play D3.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:46 pm

omega drivers have only registry tweeks. He doesn't do any actual driver engineering.

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:51 pm

True, but he does provide a couple of utilities that are useful. One affect using OpenGL in older games.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:58 pm

At those settings I've done that on a 'vanilla' Geforce3, must be your CPU holding you back.

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:16 pm

Well, I'm running a 2600+ Barton on an nForce2 board, so you tell me.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:40 am

dude.. UT2k4 absolutely SMOKES on the 9800pros