ATI 4.12 Video Drivers & NFSU2

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Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For Speed:
Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?

Steve

 

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On 14 Dec 2004, Ikaros wrote:

> Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For
> Speed: Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?
>
> Steve
>
>
>

Try Omega's drivers for ATI www.omegadrivers.net
Written for performance without all the bloat of ATI's drivers.


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Alex Devlin

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That was useful.

Q: "Anyone know if HL2 will work on my AMD CPU???"
A: "Buy an Intel. They are more gooder."

sheesh

 

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"Alex Devlin" <Alex@127.0.0.1> wrote
> Try Omega's drivers for ATI www.omegadrivers.net
> Written for performance without all the bloat of ATI's drivers.

Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
for everything. Hallelujah!

Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).

Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
X800 etc.?

 

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On 15 Dec 2004, Aki Peltola wrote:

> "Alex Devlin" <Alex@127.0.0.1> wrote
>> Try Omega's drivers for ATI www.omegadrivers.net
>> Written for performance without all the bloat of ATI's drivers.
>
> Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
> for everything. Hallelujah!
>
> Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
> Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
> drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).
>
> Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
> and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
> benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
> differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
> X800 etc.?
>
>
>

Not saying that Omega drivers are the saviours. I tried them and my games
run faster. The OP wanted to know if there was a performance increase
with the new ATI drivers. I noticed no increase at all with the new ATI
ones but did notice the omega ones were (slightly) faster.

If you don't want to use them then don't use them. Not everyone has heard
of them and with some machines they do give a speed increase.

I run a 9600XT, P42.8E, 1024MB ram and theres a performance increase on
mine.

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"Aki Peltola" <aape@POISTAnic.fi> wrote in message
news:cponf7$sqr$4@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi...
> "Alex Devlin" <Alex@127.0.0.1> wrote
> > Try Omega's drivers for ATI www.omegadrivers.net
> > Written for performance without all the bloat of ATI's drivers.
>
> Oh yeah, Omega is the savior, Omega is the solution
> for everything. Hallelujah!
>
> Ahem. But I've always had the complete opposite feeling,
> Omegas felt too much of a bloat compared to pure ATI-
> drivers (and meaning the control panel-version here).
>
> Not to mention that I noticed zero difference in performance
> and visual quality, so have you Omega-fans actually
> benchmarked the drivers in practical gaming? Or are the
> differences noticeable only with the high-end cards like
> X800 etc.?
>
>

When the ATI 4.10s were out I used those for a while before migrating to
omega' sdrivers (which were based upon 4.10b) and I noticed an increase of
10fps in Doom 3 using the timedemo feature. That's a significant increase,
don't you say? I'm using a 9800 Pro 128MB.

I've been using Omega Drivers since, so can't really compare them to the
latest ATI ones. However, I'm confident that they're better or at least
equal.

 

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Ikaros wrote:
> Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For
> Speed: Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?
>
> Steve


Nobody knows the answer to your question.

But you did start an ATI/Omega argument! <g>

 

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"The Berzerker" <Berzerker@wooooooo.com> wrote
> When the ATI 4.10s were out I used those for a while before migrating to
> omega' sdrivers (which were based upon 4.10b) and I noticed an increase of
> 10fps in Doom 3 using the timedemo feature. That's a significant increase,
> don't you say? I'm using a 9800 Pro 128MB.

Well yes, that's quite a nice boost. I'd be happy to get
even 5fps gain, but I guess the lower-end cards like
9600pro aren't that good of a benefitters what comes
to driver tweaks.

 

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Yep - I'm running 4.12 Catalyst on an ATI 9800Pro up top of an AMD 1800 and
everything is hunky-dorey.

Forgive me, but, I think that a lot of people's problems with NFSU2 is down
to a not-as-god-as-perfection setup rather than the game itself. I'm running
at 1024x768 on my old AMD1800 and the game, by 'n' large is excellent.

Sorry(?)
Skot.


"Ikaros" <snmavronis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For
Speed:
> Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?
>
> Steve
>
>

 

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Ikaros wrote:
> Anyone with an ATI Radeon card try the new 4.12 drivers with Need For Speed:
> Underground 2? Any performance boost or problems?

Just installed the Cat4.12's, no improvement at all that I noticed, with
my Radeon 9800AIW
But no problems either, so I'll probably keep using them..


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