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RE: Bugs
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:10 am
by Grouchy1812
I have noticed the flickering on v. 4.0. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro 4.6 Cats. It seems to happen more often in the menu screens. Great game by the way. Still going through the training scenarios, but I am already in love. Between this and WitP the next few months are pretty well booked gaming-wise [:D] Milo -- Thanks for the superb game!
RE: Bugs
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:12 pm
by piperone
Tommi,
I would recalibrate. If it's a USB SW2 digital, it should not be jumpy like that. My old sidewinders attached to the gameport always were jumpy. Guess what, I'm using my old SW1 via gameport and it works great - go figure.
For the best laptop ATI drivers, use Omega drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
I have a Sager 8886 notebook for music and was able to update to 4.6 Cat via Omega. Runs solid, stable and fast. OGL is well implemented as well. I sometimes wonder if I want to swap out the real Cat drivers for this set on my 9800 Pro. Problem with laptop support driver support is the OEM constantly upgrades models, and laptop drivers get old and never updated. Omega is the answer.
piperone
RE: Bugs
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:59 am
by Kuokkanen
Note: Omega drivers are unofficial. It can be used to overclock Radeons, but if Radeon gets broken and Omega is used, warranty or anything like that don't help you out.
RE: Bugs
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:56 pm
by piperone
ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen
Note: Omega drivers are unofficial. It can be used to overclock Radeons, but if Radeon gets broken and Omega is used, warranty or anything like that don't help you out.
Yes they're unofficial, just as all the "leaked" nVidia drivers on 3dguru are "unoffical" - from nVidia! ATI has nothing to do with them but they work as well as the "official" Cats.
And quite honestly, as soon as you turn the screws on any part of your computer for overclocking you can throw out any hope for manufacturer replacement - regardless of driver. If I fry my current 9800 with Cat 4.6 drivers from ATI, they'll laugh when I ask for warranty service or replacement.
But that wasn't the point of my post to begin with. Rather for those that have laptops and old ATI OEM drivers (all laptop drivers are specialized drivers) you have recourse if your favorite game has 2 frames per second: case in point Star Wars: KOTR ran just like that on my 2.8P4 1G laptop. Enter Omega. Problem fixed.
piperone