FYI ATi driver 5.12 now available

[Wolfram]

Just upgraded to Omega 2.6.87 (based on 5.12 ATi)

No bloatware these are basic ATi reference beta about 22megs

d-loaded driver package to new folder unzipped them to same.

Control Panel -> add/remove programs -> removed old Omega

Reboot/restart (note got 800x600 resolution, 32bit color on return)

Ignore/Cancel New Hardware and all requests for disks

Disable Norton AV

Go to Driver Cleaner (I have this pre-installed as a separate program)

Set DC to ATi

Cleaned twice (sorry I am obsessive complusive)

Go to executable (Omega 2.6.87 that I had decompressed)

Run (note added Multi Res but did not add to Start nor shortcuts)

Ran driver setup when requested

Ignore warnings of not WHQL (happened twice for me)

When asked to reboot/restart hit No

Enabled AV

Reboot via standard Windows XP method not via request

Reset resolution

Ran defrag (Diskeeper for me)

Ran 1st benchmark (old AquaMark) gained ~900 points or about 9 fps

Will advise other Kaleun of results with SH3 when I play again, confident of success....

This is the short hand version of what I do for drivers - if you read my initial post I have a link for removal tool of ATi reference drivers, have not needed such but maybe useful to others.

So far Omega operational.

g/l

[Sulikate]

I just installed the new driver, works fine with AOEIII, NFSMW, SHIII, so it is good to me

[Wolfram]

Played SH3 with Omega 2.6.87 (5.12 based) and these are without the CCC aka bloatware additions.

Nice very nice IQ for me (IQ btw is image quality)

Also note I install these and rarely make any other adjusts - I use straight out of "box" & for my system it was the right thing.

Again not everyone has the same system and understandbly they may not want to risk changes to their system but if you are confident with your skills it is well worth the trial.

But as always the caveat here - use at your own risk.

g/l All!

[thecaptain]

I must be doing something wrong then. I recently installed the latest Omega drivers after hearing so many people rave about them. The image quality and frame rate did improve for SH3 - for a while. After about 30 minutes the frame rate began to crash into single digits and and then all kinds of graphics anomalies began to appear on screen. I'd like to use these new drivers because everything looks and plays better initially. I've since reverted back to my old Catalyst drivers that originally came with my 9600 XT card, which are at least stable. I guess if it ain't really broke.......

The Captain

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by thecaptain

I must be doing something wrong then. I recently installed the latest Omega drivers after hearing so many people rave about them. The image quality and frame rate did improve for SH3 - for a while. After about 30 minutes the frame rate began to crash into single digits and and then all kinds of graphics anomalies began to appear on screen. I'd like to use these new drivers because everything looks and plays better initially. I've since reverted back to my old Catalyst drivers that originally came with my 9600 XT card, which are at least stable. I guess if it ain't really broke.......

The Captain

Wich one was you using ? and into wich operative system ?

[thecaptain]

I believe it was the Omega drivers based on the latest Catalyst 5.12. I'm running on Windows XP system, P4 2.6 with one gig of RAM. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't do a proper cleaning out of the old drivers. I do remember now that I'd left the ATI launchpad in place, so I could use the ATI DVD launcher. Could that have caused the problem? I did get rid of the ATI driver itself as well as the control panel, though.

The Captain

[perdu]

i guess i prefer the olds 5.11
i'm using a multi monitor environement in windows and with the old drivers, i ould keept SH3 displayed even if i was working on a windows on the second screen ...