Omega Drivers vs. Regular Drivers

[aimeeandbeatles]

Has anybody else used the Omega drivers?

They're supposed to be more stable than regular ones (as in not requiring a 6-hour reinstall every two weeks), and I'm gonna try using them for my ATI Radeon Xpress 200 (the crummy integrated) series.

I'll install them after school today.

 

[Zelig]

Used to use them, they haven't had much of an edge over the stock drivers in a couple years now.

Regular drivers from both NVidia and AMD are plenty stable, if you need to reinstall them every two weeks, something else is wrong with your computer.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

yes, such as my mom keeps hitting the reset button (too lazy to shutdown properly) and that messes up the drivers and I have to reinstall.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

They're good for older GPU's. For new GPU's you want to use official drivers, especially for something like nVidia ( I dont know how good CUDA and PhysX support is with Omega drivers).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I know mine's not a new one. It's at least from 2006.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Depending on which model of the X200 IGP it is, its from either 2004 or 2005. The only differences between the 3 IGP's are that two are 130nm fab's while the other one is 110nm. One of the 130nm's can support max 256mb memory, while the other two are max 128mb.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm not quite sure how you'd measure that.
HWiNFO32 (the hardware thingy I use) says this:
Video Chipset: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 (RS482)
Video Memory: 32 MBytes

Video Card: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200/1100/1150 (RS482/RS485) - Video Adapter [ECS EliteGroup Computer]

It also says the video bus is PCI.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Thats the newest IGP. RS482 came out in June 2005, RS400 was March 2005 and RS480 was Nov 2004.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thank you.