New Omegas 2597 (4.12b) out, Comparison with others

[priyajeet]

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<A HREF="http://www.onlinegamers.org.uk/forums/article.php?a=13" target="_new">ATI 4.12 Drivers – Catalyst, Omega and DNA go head to head</A>

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 12/04/04 02:23 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[priyajeet]

Doom 3
Ultra Q
1280*1024
Vsync OFF
AA 4x
Everthing else Enabled
FPS: 51.3

Half-Life 2
apparently after the steam update, we cant bench any of those demo files anymore !!

3dmark05
5645

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 12/04/04 00:14 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[eden]

So whatever happened to the 256MB card fix?

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<font color=blue>Ede</font color=blue>

 

[Vapor]

It's now built into every driver after 8.07; 4.12bs are 8.08.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[mopeygoth]

how did it hold up in benchmarks, the 256mb fix, that is?

Abit IC7 Max II Adv.- P4E3.0@3.6 - CNPS7000B-CU - i875P - 1024mb dual ddr400 3-2-2-5 - Leadtek 6800 128mb@380/850 - 600W dualfan(front/rear) PowerTek Psu - maxtor 4K080H4 & 6Y120P0 - samsung sm-352b

 

[priyajeet]

Apparently those Omega drivers still show the driver version to be 4.11. This was posted by omegadrive:

"To make clear some points:
1. The 4.11 tag is only showing for people who selected FW off during installation, it is a TYPO, sorry, just ignore it.
2. I disabled WMV (Windows Media Video) acceleration by default because some laptops and some low end cards doesn't support this feature correctly, but I left the user the choice to turn it on.
3. Remember these are based on the beta 4.12 drivers from ATI, some of the bugs on that release may show up in my drivers too.
4. The drivers should support ALL cards that where supported on last release since I haven't changed/removed/added any more cards or the values needed for the drivers to recognize them.
5. I will do a quick update of the drivers if the Radlinker issues are too much, but right now seems only a few had problems with the new version, I'll have to speak with ChrisW about it."

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue:

 

[priyajeet]

ATI 4.12 Drivers – Catalyst, Omega and DNA go head to head
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:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue:

 

[Vapor]

It added 1-60% performance gains in card equipped with 256MB in CERTAIN games compared to an otherwise IDENTICAL 128MB version on a 4x AGP bus.

My tests were done with an BBA 128MB 9800XT and an ASUS 256MB 9800XT. The biggest performance gain I saw was in GT1 of 3DMark05. I forget FPS, but the last frame used to be frame 950 or so, now it's 1502 and the framerate never dipped into single digits, IIRC. Doom 3 performance went up about 12-15%, HL2 went up SLIGHTLY (at 10x7, didn't test my max playable: 12x9 w/ 2xAA, 8xAF). EQ2 went up as well. 3DMark03 went up slightly as well with improvements in GT3 and 4. Far Cry went up about 7%.

Again, this is not the jump from 8.06 to 8.07 on a 256MB card, but rather the jump from a 128MB card to a 256MB card using 8.08 (4.12b) on both.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[mopeygoth]

That is definately a nice tune-up! It's also kinda embarresing isn't it? I mean; the 256mb cards have been around for ages. I, like most others, went nutz when reading of whole 256mb videoram so overkill, but the driveracrhitecture back then didn't justify the 1-2fps gain.

I am glad it's all sorted out and the add. 7% in farcry is definately up the right alley. I am completing that game for the fourth time along with doom3 on veteran and HL2 on normal, for now

Abit IC7 Max II Adv.- P4E3.0@3.6 - CNPS7000B-CU - i875P - 1024mb dual ddr400 3-2-2-5 - Leadtek 6800 128mb@380/850 - 600W dualfan(front/rear) PowerTek Psu - maxtor 4K080H4 & 6Y120P0 - samsung sm-352b

 

[priyajeet]

Got 3 demo files. Courtsey of macatak at steam forums. Everybody/anybody can upload anything to this server - including p0rn

FTP1.ATI.COM
Userid - beta0098
Password - 3WWWWvxp

with omegas - I dont like this perf.

HL2 https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/phora/web/HL2_demos/settings.JPG

AI medium
canals.dem: 51.6
doggy.dem: 42.8
flies.dem: 45.7

AI High
doggy.dem: 60.3
flies.dem: 54.9
canals.dem: 36


:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 12/07/04 03:43 AM.</EM></FONT></P>