Omega drivers

Question

I have a Radeon Mobility 9000 64mb. Dell does not create new updates for this card. Are omega drivers any good?

Pitty_ · Answer

I'm using Omega Drivers for a while now, and I must say it's 100% safe, you get a speed advantage of up to 10% in each release compared to the Catalyst Driver it is based on, a lot more tweaking options, lots more resolution options, and Radlinker (incorporated tool) for overclocking. On top of that, the ATI catalyst drivers don't seem to support the Mobility cards, but Omega drivers do! And Dell's ATI drivers are updated every how often? Current one took them 10 months, and it's already outdated by the new ATI Catalyst 4.10 (4.10 apparently has quite some speed improvements to 4.9) - so I'm waiting for the a new Omega release based on that one, hopefully in the next couple of days.

phillwooller · Answer

I've just started using mobility modder from http://www.driverheaven.net/ on my ATI 9000 ( on my 9600 I've just installed Dell's new drivers which are based on Catalyst 4.9 ).

There are problems with modifying catalyst 4.9 & 4.10 drivers using mobility modder so I'm currently using 4.8.

Hopefully the new version will be out soon so I can put 4.10 drivers on. I'm slightly happier using a program which modifies the inf files to add support than to install the omega drivers, where the code has been modified.

Overclocking isn't something I'm that happy about on a laptop either, although I believe the new Catalyst's allow that on the later chipsets anyway.

Phill

InspironXPS Gam · Answer

Pitty_ said it all. Omega Drivers rock!!! So far, it has fixed the problem I had. My problem was full system hard lock when playing 3d games.

Download from here:

http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

The readme explains the improvements they made.

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