Omega Drivers fixes ATI black map & cheshsire faces

[lostproc99]

I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with a Mobility Radeon 7800 (FireGL) w/ 64MB of RAM. After trying all the fixes on 2KGames, and approrpirate dirvers and BIOS updates I still had the black-map and cheshire-grins problems. I loaded the Omega ATI drivers version 2.6.75.a and now Civ IV works fine! I play at 1280x1024 and settings at medium for graphics options. No problems after 2 50+ turn games so far. Other mobility radeon users may want to try this as well.

My system is:
IBM ThinkPad A31p
Mobility Radeon 7800 w/64MB
Pentium 4m 2.0GHz
1 GB RAM
Win XP, SP2

Hope this helps others.

Update:
I left the settings for the Omega drivers on default and set my DirectX options to default as well.. I had tried changing some of the DirectX driver settings {AGP Texture Acceleration, Direct3D Acceleration} to disabled as suggested in other threads, and that didn't help. I have all DirectX video features enabled and Direct Sound at Standard Acceleration.

 

[zerokarma]

Can anyone confirm if this works for the 7500 series cards?

 

[Ron2112]

This didn't work on my Mobility 7500.

Peace,
Ron

 

[asmodee]

I'll try on my x300, thx

 

[asmodee]

So, installing the drivers and all worked, but the game is the same as before. Very slow movements, fps near 0, cannot play game.