Drivers

[Boomslang]

New ati 3.8 drivers out on 10-7-03

[ZWarrior]

And the Omega drivers will be out shortly after that!

They are very worth using.  ATI and nVidia both.

http://www.omegacorner.com

[Boomslang]

STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these ATI driver stink!!!!!!!!!!!!! Locked up COD and sent a bug report to ATI. I went back to the omega drivers and the game played fine.I lost 1000 point in 3dmark2001.
Wait for the new omega drivers ....in about two weeks

[Boomslang]

The new omaga 3.8 drivers are out!!
http://www.geeknewz.dk/modules.php?modid=13&action=show&id=32

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Boomslang]

[ZWarrior]

No new nVidia drivers yet, however.

[Boomslang]

Reinstalled the omega 3.8 drivers and working fine

[Boomslang]

Just found this!!!!!!

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00479/
 
"Catalyst 3.8 Drivers . . . ."
Ed Stroligo - 10/20/03


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There are those who believe that ATI's Catalyst 3.8 drivers are blowing up their equipment.

Here's some threads from various forums on the subject:

Short-Media Forums (describes what the problem appears to be and provides links to 3.7 Catalyst drivers). See also here (post #39) where 183 monitors are reported dead or damaged.

IcronticForums

Rage 3D.

AMD Forums

If you've been affected by this, write them here

If you haven't upgraded to 3.8, don't.

If you have, then uninstall the drivers and go to 3.7 pronto.

There's been some rather interesting explanations as to why this might be happening, but for now, the only prudent thing to do is to remove any possibility of damaging your system.

After all, it's just a set of drivers. It's not like using Catalyst drivers save lives or anything. Using 3.7s instead won't kill anybody, not even ATI.

You lose very, very little if you play it safe, even if this proves to be a case of mass hysteria. On the other hand, if there is something to this, and you don't, you might lose your monitor and/or video card.

 
ATI Debunks Hardware-Busting Driver Rumors
Leo Chan - Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 | 10:27AM (PST)


CATALYST 3.8 driver unlikely to fry graphics cards, monitors

Numerous hardware sites and discussion boards like Short-Media and Rage3D have suggested over the past few days that the latest CATALYST driver (ver 3. released by ATI can produce serious overheating issues in certain ATI-based graphics cards.  The reports caution that if the tempurature gains are left unchecked, it COULD lead to damage in hardware (namely the graphics card itself and even your monitor).

Most of you probably took the rumors with a grain of salt, but in you still had doubts ATI itself has taken the opportunity to respond to these claims, and naturally they see no merit to any of them.  AnandTech has more straight from the fish's mouth:


"We have spent a great deal of time trying to reproduce this problem and analyzing our driver code. There is nothing in our driver code that has changed since CAT 3.7 to CAT 3.8 that could possibly cause this behaviour. We believe that our drivers are not causing these alleged problems.

We do not currently believe these stories are valid. We have already confirmed that of the nearly 100 OEM customer programs have asked for and received this driver, we have received no reports on any such problem from the OEMs. We have also run comprehensive QA tests on the driver before releasing it and have had no cases of failed monitors.

Since we announced CATALYST 3.8 on October 8th, we have recorded hundreds of thousands of downloads, and thus far there have been absolutely no reports whatsoever to ATI's Customer Support department to report monitors failing."


Chris Hook of ATI then goes into further technical detail:


"Over last few days I have seen many posts talking about this issue, it seems it is a common theory, picked up from one place and keep being circulated.

"Instead of reading the refresh rates from the PRIMARY display INF files, it is reading the SECONDARY display INF refresh rates. "

In XP and 2K, we don't have access to monitor INF information in our driver component that manages display capability. We have never used monitor information. We rely on EDID data or user override information to determine monitor capability. Even though OS may use the monitor information to expose high refresh rate based on monitor INF content, driver always restricts the actual refresh rate going to the monitor based on EDID or the user override. i.e. user may be able to select from OS controlled monitor page (in advanced property pages) a high refresh rate but internally driver will restrict the refresh rate going to the monitor based on EDID information or user override information. If user set the override information incorrectly then incompatible signals would sent to the monitor.

In 9x, we can access  monitor INF information but due to issues with how OS maps the INF to a monitor, we had disabled reading the monitor INF via registry. Unless someone changes the registry setting for this in 9x, they would not run into any monitor INF related issues."

So while the slightly higher tempuratures may have been noticed by many users, the hardware-frying scare may be nothing more than a false alarm.

 

 


[Edited on 10-22-2003 by Boomslang]

[Edited on 10-22-2003 by Boomslang]

[Fraggster]

good thing i dont use ati cards:rolling:crash:

[Boomslang]

Originally posted by ZWarrior
And the Omega drivers will be out shortly after that!

They are very worth using.  ATI and nVidia both.

http://www.omegacorner.com

new updated drivers for ati are out

[Boomslang]

If you are using the 3.8 drivers ati or omega you might want to turn off VPU recover. When starting a game you might go back to the desk top. To turn this off it found in your ati control panel.

[Zeet]

I'm with Fraggster... I'm glad I don't use ATI cards!

nVidia!!!!!

:compute::compute::compute::compute::compute:

[Boomslang]

ya, you always did like using second rate stuff. The new 5950 is out an still will not beat ati 9800 xt

Standalone GPUs Trend: NVIDIA Leads, ATI Catches Up

NVIDIA Corporation continued to loose the ground in the total standalone graphics processors market – includes desktop and mobile GPUs and VPUs – in the third quarter of the year by declining 1% to 53% sequentially. Markham, Ontario-based ATI Technologies, on the other hand, gained solid 3% and reached 40% milestone. Shares of companies like SiS and Matrox Graphics were 3% per each with SiS leading in terms of unit sales.

In general, ATI is very strong in mobile and high-performance markets these days. This may ignite future design wins as well as market increases eventually.

Desktop Standalone Graphics Chips – ATI Gaining Momentum, NVIDIA Fighting Strong

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA managed to maintain its Number One position in the desktop standalone graphics chip business, but also saw a sequential decline of 2% in terms of share, down to 62%. The rivaling ATI Technologies boosted its share by 4% to 32% during the Q3 2003. SiS and Matrox stayed flat with 3% each


[Edited on 10-30-2003 by Boomslang]

[ZWarrior]

Originally posted by Boomslang
Desktop Standalone Graphics Chips – ATI Gaining Momentum, NVIDIA Fighting Strong

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA managed to maintain its Number One position in the desktop standalone graphics chip business, but also saw a sequential decline of 2% in terms of share, down to 62%. The rivaling ATI Technologies boosted its share by 4% to 32% during the Q3 2003. SiS and Matrox stayed flat with 3% each.

You did read that before you posted right?

Yes, nVidia lost some market share, 2%,  but that meant that they only had 63% of the market versus the 32% that ATI has. Yes, they lost, but they still have the lions share.

[Edited on 10-30-2003 by ZWarrior]

[Boomslang]

Nvidia drivers cause catastrophic failure
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12363

glad I don't have one:lol

[Boomslang]

New drivers out 3.9 for ati -fix for home world two.

[Boomslang]

http://www.omegacorner.com

New Omega 3.9 drivers out. Brother needs help please go to his site and help support him.

[Boomslang]

New ATI 3.10 drivers out fixes COD. I did know it needed fixed.

[n1c]

is that the omaga drivers? They are the only ones i wory about getting.......

[Boomslang]

no omega should be out soon I'll let you know

[n1c]

k thanks!!!!

[snauzberries]

Ok heres the deal:
Nvidiariva Tnt

nebody no were i could find som drivers to get it to work better

I know its old but so is the main computer i use

[Boomslang]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20031219145731.html

Note this will not work with H/T cpu's. oh I forgot you guys don't have that

Maxtor to Boost HDD Performance by 60%
MaxBoost Software Does Wonders
by Anton Shilov
12/19/2003 | 02:58 PM
Maxtor Corporation – a well-known maker of hard disk drives – has announced its new software driver that may boost performance of HDDs produced by the company by stunning 60%, according to some reports

Can anyone say MaxRaptor:eek:

[Edited on 12-19-2003 by Boomslang]:;(::;(:

[Edited on 12-20-2003 by Boomslang]

[Boomslang]

ATI 3.10

Fixed in this driver:
Intermittent detection of DDC monitors no longer fails when connected to a RADEON™ 9100 IGP
Connecting a CRT and FPD to an ATI RADEON™ 9600 series under Windows XP no longer results in the driver failing to keep the CRT and FPD enabled once the system is rebooted
Setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024 and connecting a TV as a secondary device with panning mode enabled no longer results in the system failing to respond when moving the mouse pointer around the desktop
An error message indicating that the DVD can only be played back at 480p or 480i on component output is no longer displayed when stopping the ATI DVD player for 3 to 5 seconds
Starting the TV in desktop mode, followed by enabling the Hide Controls and the Hide Controls and Frame no longer results in the TV not being restored properly when exiting 10ft mode
Setting the colour depth to 16bpp under Windows 2000 and having the system enter the 3D screen saver no longer results in a memory leak
Setting the AGP speed to off no longer results in the AGP speed still being shown as enabled to 4x in the SMARTGART tab
Connecting a TV as the primary device followed by enabling clone mode and setting the desktop resolution to 1280x1024 no longer results in the Overlay Theater Mode not updating when moving the mouse to pan the display
Clicking the default button found in the ATI 3D tab now updates the maximum resolution for SMOOTHVISION after applying a custom profile setting
Setting the secondary CRT display to 1024x768 32bpp with extended desktop enabled no longer results in not being able to swap between the primary and secondary displays
Connecting an HDTV and setting the display to 640x480 32bpp 30Hz followed by attempting to change the display to 800x600 32bpp 30Hz no longer results in an error message being displayed
The Optimal Performance Direct 3D setting is now correct for an ATI RADEON™ 7000 series with 32Mb of memory
The display driver version is now displayed in the the option page found in the display properties
Display corruption is no longer seen when setting the 3D screen saver to initialize after one minute of idle time
Toggling between expansion and non-expansion mode no longer produces overlay and display corruption
Hot plugging a DVI monitor no longer results in the display resolution changing to 800x600 for both the DVI and the LCD
Setting the CRT to 1024x768 or both the CRT and LCD to 1920x1200 no longer results in the display resolution reverting back to 800x600
Connecting a TV and enable clone mode, followed by setting the desktop to 1280x1024 and enabling Overlay Theater Mode no longer results in the system rebooting when doing multiple device switching between the CRT and the TV
Enabling extended desktop no longer results in the display not being visible when hot-unplugging the DVI while a 3D screen saver is active
Setting the desktop resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by connecting a CRT no longer results in the LCD panel automatically being assigned as changed to the secondary display adapter
The Compatibility Settings tab now reflects the correct settings whenever a 3D profile is applied
The video image is no longer overscanned when enabling component out
Display corruption is no longer seen when choosing fullscreen video and 16:9 (widescreen) under Theater mode settings
The Philips capture driver now installs successfully under Windows 2000
Texture corruption is no longer seen when playing EA Sports' Madden 2004
Enabling Sharpen, Emboss, Contrast, and Etch in the OpenGL 3D tab followed by playing Quake 3 or Serious Sam 2 no longer results in the OpenGL SMARTSHADER effect not working correctly
Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by playing Blade of Darkness with the game set to 1027x768 16bpp, and texture resolution set to max, no longer results in a flickering horizontal line of display corruption
Playing the game Battle Field 1942 under Windows XP results in the Haze effect appearing incorrectly
Playing the game Call of Duty no longer results in the operating system failing to respond
Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 followed by starting a new flight no longer results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin
Choppy gameplay is no longer noticed with attempting to play the game Homworld 2
The game Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy no longer fails to respond when enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x or 6x
Setting the texture preference bar to any setting lower than High Quality in the game Formula 1 2002 no longer results in the 2D game menu being displayed when maximizing the replay screen
Poor game performance is no longer noticed when playing the game Lord of the Realms 3 under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9200 series installed
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the demo game 4x4 Evolution under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9600 series installed
Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game Indiana Jones at its default mode of 640x480 32bpp
Playing the game Morrowind with Truform enabled no longer results in the game failing to respond
Configuring the game Halo Combat Evolved (demo) to 1024x768 followed by selecting a normal campaign no longer results in the operating system failing to respond

[Boomslang]

http://www.accesscable.net/%7Esruxton/drivers/rad_w2kxp_omega_2514.exe

New Omega drivers 4.1