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Omega Catalyst Drivers will provide gamers with an alternate set of drivers, ones that have more options and features than the original sets. The drivers contain optimizations, extra features (like OC capabilities), more resolutions and internal tweaks that can give them the edge in a gaming enviroment over the normal drivers, which are often tailored for synthetic benchmarks. All Omega driver sets are tested to ensure maximum compatibility and reliability.

Latest Changes:

Based on the Catalyst 4.12 Official drivers

Fixed the version typo from previous release

Forced some wide screen resolutions that didn’t worked on previous set

Fixed the FireGL OGL problems

Changed readme to html style instead of text

Added a new section to readme to include RadLinker specific changes and fixes

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ATI has released a new set of Catalysts for their Radeon based cards. As with previous releases, a beta version was released just after 4.11 was released. Perhaps 5.1 will be released in a day or two eh? Here is things that make me go woo!in this release:

NEW: Problem Report Wizard for the CATALYST脙垄芒鈧久偮?CONTROL CENTER

NEW: OVERDRIVE脙垄芒鈧久偮?Version 3.0

- Driver efficiency has improved considerably for both Direct3D and OpenGL.

- 3DMark05 show improvements as large as 15% on some products.

In OpenGL, several game titles show improvements in the lower settings. Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, for instance, shows gains as large as 15% in low resolution (driver-bound) cases. Doom III performance improves 5-10% at low settings. Call of Duty improves 5-6%.

- Half-Life 2 performance also improves as much as 20% over Catalyst 4.11 in certain sections of the game.

There are also alot of bug fixes for games like Half-life 2, Counter-strike: Source, Doom3, Medal of Honor and the original Knights of the Old Republic. All in all, a very cool release and the last ever Catalyst 4.x release, which were damn fine in my opinion.

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Download Cataylst 4.12 For WindowsXP

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Cataylst 4.12 For Other Operating Systems

Today Omega Release his new mod ATI Drivers (2k/XP 2.5.97) based on official version 4.12 beta

Read More for whar’s new……

From Omega:

Well, sorry for the delay, but here they are!

What’s New? (2k/XP 2.5.97)

* Based on the Catalyst 4.12 Beta drivers.

* New Radlinker installation method, now it should install correctly every time.

* Fixed gamma issues with color control panel.

* WMV acceleration is now off by default, you can turn it on in the Options panel.

* New quick shortcut for Radlinker, just right click your desktop and go directly to all the Advanced 3D settings.

* Fixed Standby/Suspend/Hibernation bug.

* Added a lot of new resolutions for wide screen monitor/dfp users.

* Fixed the Forced Anisotropic settings, now they should not reset to Performance mode.

* Removed the special Counter Strike OpenGL from the package, now that CS:S is available, this is no longer necessary.

* Fixed some uninstall issues, now the drivers should completely be removed if you select to do so.

Enjoy!

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Random hanging has been observed with certain games on certain systems when using the PunkBuster server.

To resolve this issue, please download CATALYST 4.12 Beta Release which resolves the majority of cases of this hang.

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These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers. The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI!

* Based on the offical Catalyst 4.11beta (8.07b2)

* Two OpenGL drivers for your selection

* New OpenGL/DirectX tweaks

* Incredible performance under OpenGL games

* ATI’s new AI feature

* New Installer with GUI

* Doom III Bugfix (use Normal OGL for D3)

* 16bit corruption has been fixed!

* New tools

[Important notes]

* Old OpenGL driver is not supporting X800/700/300 series

* use this driver by your own risk

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These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers. The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI!

[ ATI Optimized Driver v1.6b - 25 / 10 / 2004 ] by REGENERATION

* Based on the offical Catalyst 4.11beta (8.07b2)

* Two OpenGL drivers for your selection

* New OpenGL/DirectX tweaks

* Incredible performance under OpenGL games

* ATI’s new AI feature

* New Installer with GUI

* Doom III Bugfix (use Normal OGL for D3)

[ Known Issues ]

* Old OGL (OpenGL) has corruption under 16bit color quality mode in few cards

Workaround: Setup your OpenGL games to use 32bit color quality deep BEFORE installation (-32bpp in Counter-Strike

command-line will force 32bit)

* Use this driver by your own risk

This Driver is not supported by ATI Corporation.

* X800 unsupported with Old OGL (OpenGL)

Workaround: Use “Normal OGL”

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Since future OmegaDrivers will not include few builds of OpenGL drivers and there is few incompatibles

with the new ATI drivers and CCC. but The NGO Group wont leave you behind!Introducing new version of the fastest ATI modified driver around:

Based on the offical Catalyst 4.10

Four OpenGL drivers for your selection

New OpenGL/DirectX tweaks

Incredible performance under OpenGL games

ATI’s new AI feature

Known issues:

Fastest OpenGL Driver (Option #3) has corruption under 16bit color quality mode

Workaround: Setup your OpenGL games to use 32bit color quality deep BEFORE installation (-32bpp in Counter-Strike command-line will force 32bit) or use OpenGL Driver Option #2

Download ATI Optimized Driver 1.6 | Mirror - [9Down]

More Info…

RECENTLY, graphic games are getting more and more intensive and in that light we have some WHQL scores that we can trust. An Nvidia WHQL FUD document against Catalyst claimed that after Catalyst 4.8 driver, ATI will need to remove their optimisations or it will lose its WHQL stamp.

The Catalyst 4.9 driver is out and ATI still has WHQL, meaning that its driver is fine from Microsoft WHQL test point of view. When we talked with Microsoft we learned that there is a set of tests that you can run in order to see if your driver is WHQL material or not. In other words, you test in house, see whether you can pass the tests and then later submit your driver for certification and get the stamp in less then 24 hours after submitting.

Microsoft can confirm this said us before that all of their nine drivers introduced in 2004 are WHQL and all of their drivers will remain WHQL certified. Nvidia facts are not so bright, they had four partially WHQL while their latest publicly available 61.77 is not WHQL at all.

Our snitch sent us complete report on WHQL test finished at Nvidiai Geforce 5950 card with 61.77. they are failing each and part of WHQL test. They are failing in all fourteen tests including, D3Dlines, Multisampling, Non power 2 conditional RenderTarget, Pixel Shader Precision, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.1, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.2, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.3, Pixel Shader Ver. 1.4, Pixel Shader Ver. 2.0, Point Sprites, Texture address, Texture stage, Update surface and YUV Bit test.

We are not sure what is going on with 6X00 cards and how are they performing but learning from the fact that Nvidia still doesn脙垄芒鈥毬⑩€灺 have WHQL drivers on its web page speaks for itself.

Nvidia promised us WHQL drivers a few times already in the last few months since the launch but never released anything yet. What’s going on Nvidia?

News Source : theinquirer.net

ATI has released a new Catalyst driver version 4.91. This one fixes the problems with Psychotoxic. Attempting to start a new game of Psychotoxic may result in the game failing to respond or producing a VPU recover error. Users who are experiencing this issue are advised to download and install this driver hotfix. A future CATALYST release is expected to address this issue. Further information will appear on this page as it becomes available.

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Omega Drivers is a “optimized” drivers for the ATI Radeon family of video cards,this release is based on the official Catalyst 4.8 drivers,with new added support for some new Radeon cards,and Updated the DX Control Panel to Dx9.0c,and more.

“Important Notes”

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