5.7 Omega Cats great in F1C

Just a followup to my whining about the X800XL - Put my 9700Pro back in and installed the Omega version of the 5.7 cats, I got a 13MTri/sec boost from what I was seeing the last time I ran it (45->58, was on 5.4 or 5.5, I think)). Running 1280x960 2xAA/4xAF and everything is great. Kendt

On 2 Aug 2005 10:44:23 -0700, [email hidden] wrote:

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> Just a followup to my whining about the X800XL - > Put my 9700Pro back in and installed the Omega version of the 5.7 cats, > I got a 13MTri/sec boost from what I was seeing the last time I ran it > (45->58, was on 5.4 or 5.5, I think)). Running 1280x960 2xAA/4xAF and > everything is great. > > Kendt >

Thanks for the note, Kendt. Can you tell us if you see any significant FPS improvements within GTR, too? Cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Not that I can notice - 60FPS in car in practice, been too busy w/work to play much. Kendt

On 3 Aug 2005 20:28:20 -0700, [email hidden] wrote: > Not that I can notice - 60FPS in car in practice, been too busy w/work > to play much. > > Kendt > I installed the omega drivers yesterday, and so far all I've seen is a reduction in FPS in most sims. LFS S2 went down from about 100fps to 70, GTR lost about 10-15 fps on most tracks. Is there some setting I am missing? I tried to make sure to use the same settings as before (4x(AA,AF)@32bit 1024x768, optimized for performance not quality). This is on an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. All the best, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I'll test some more myself - Are you comparing ATI 5.7 to Omega 5.7? I haven't been able to play alot recently (all the time eaten up by that X800!) - so I honestly can't remember what driver version I last had running GTR, LFS, etc. Kendt PS - I know I've seen posts here and there complaining about 5.7's in some sims.

On 4 Aug 2005 15:18:48 -0700, [email hidden] wrote:

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> I'll test some more myself - Are you comparing ATI 5.7 to Omega 5.7? > I haven't been able to play alot recently (all the time eaten up by > that X800!) - so I honestly can't remember what driver version I last > had running GTR, LFS, etc. > > Kendt > > PS - I know I've seen posts here and there complaining about 5.7's in > some sims. >

I went from 4.13 std ATI to 5.7 Omega drivers. all the best, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I'll roll back and see what I get - I think some folks at RSC are happier with the older drivers too - I play alot of other games, so the 5's are better in other stuff. Man - like I need another XP install... Kendt

You are correct - just loaded the 4.12a Omega's, and got an extra 10FPS in GTR. I'll have to see if I can live with performance in other games, or make a secondary install for the 5.7's Kendt

As further info - RBR seems slower. I bet true DX9 games are slower on the 4's. Time for another XP install. Kendt

On 5 Aug 2005 20:07:29 -0700, [email hidden] wrote: > I'll roll back and see what I get - I think some folks at RSC are > happier with the older drivers too - I play alot of other games, so the > 5's are better in other stuff. Man - like I need another XP install... > > Kendt > Thanks for your testing, Kendt. Just how easy / difficult is it to downgrade back to the 4.13 series? Just install them on top of the newer ones? All the best, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Just go to the Radeon Omega Drivers start menu item and choose "Uninstall Setup files..." It'll uninstall all the Omega files and utilities - make sure to select to uninstall the drivers, too. Reboot and install any other version. HTH, Kendt

On 6 Aug 2005 14:38:40 -0700, [email hidden] wrote:

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> Just go to the Radeon Omega Drivers start menu item and choose > "Uninstall Setup files..." > It'll uninstall all the Omega files and utilities - make sure to select > to uninstall the drivers, too. Reboot and install any other version. > > HTH, > Kendt >

Thanks for the info. Just went back to ATI 4.12 and regained the > 100 FPS in LFS S2. Cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Uwe =?iso-8859-15?Q?Sch=FCrkamp?= <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Thanks for the info. Just went back to ATI 4.12 and regained the > 100 > FPS in LFS S2. > > Cheers, uwe > Which seems to indicate the feature set of the newer cards contains some heavy processing duties which are not being turned on by the older drivers. dave henrie

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:54:07 -0500, Dave Henrie wrote: > > Which seems to indicate the feature set of the newer cards contains some > heavy processing duties which are not being turned on by the older > drivers. > The new hardware must ge good for something after all, right? ;-) Still wondering though how the 9800 pro still goes for 200 Euros on most HW sites. cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61