How to install

What's New in Omega Drivers?
v2.6.42

* Based on the Catalyst 5.6 Official drivers.

- Removed a lot of obsolete tweaks.

- Removed RadLinker from package.

+ Now ATI Tray Tools is included as default tweaker.

+ Re-enabled the default 3D and Color panels in the ATI Control Panel.

+ Added a desktop shortcut for the ATI CP and for ATT (both optional).

+ Included a few new OGL Smart Shaders.

Note: Since these drivers include a non-standard version of ATT, I would recommend that if you have any previous version of ATT installed, please uninstall it before installing these drivers, not doing so may cause unknown problems.

Note2: Please don't e-mail telling me there are a few references about the old CP on the site, I'm aware of this and will update as soon as I can.


What's new for ATI Tray Tools?
v1.0.2.705

+ Added Shell Context menu for executable files. Now you can easily create/edit and delete game profiles associated with selected executable file. Just click right mouse button and select apropriate menu item from "ATI Tray Tools" menu. ATT must reside in memory to be able to do this job.

+ Added option to add offset (by X and Y) for OSD position in game profile.

+ Added option to show temperatrure in Fahrenheit. (FAN Speed table use only values in Celsius)

+ Added new button in Game Profiles. "Detect 3D API Type". Using this button you can check what 3D API type is used in the selected profile. ATT will not be able to detect API type if the selected executable doesn't link directly to known 3D API library files like opengl32.dll, d3d8.dll, d3d9.dll.

* Updated Overlay Theater Mode. Now you can set separate settings for Clone and Extended Desktop Modes.

* Now TV settings accessible in Exntended Desktop mode too.

* Reenabled menu item to launch Windows Display Properties.

* Updated installation procedure. Now if installation procedure unable to overwrite some files, it replace these files after restart. You must restart your computer in this case.

* Fixed wrong file name creation in ScreenShot module.

* Fixed some errors with Game Profiles in Control Center mode.

* Fixed bug when ATT unable to start on system with Dual Monitors.


What was in previous Omega Drivers?
v2.6.25a

* Fixed custom resolutions.

* Fixed soft mods.

* Fixed PCI-e support and some of the new AGP cards based on the new x800 chipsets.

*** Note: Always say YES to overwrite newer files when prompted. ***

v2.6.25

* Based on the Catalyst 5.4 Official drivers.

* Updated a lot of the internal tweaks for Mobility 9200 cards.

* Updated some other tweaks for all cards.

* Removed some redundant files from package.

* Added new option to installer: now you can select between installing with or without Radlinker, in case some of you can't use Radlinker for some reason or use another 3rd party tweaker.


Other Important Notes:

1. Well, at last, the fix for the dreaded overlay video on some laptops bug has been found. The cause IS NOT the ATI drivers or any of my settings, the cause is a hardware bug, more specifically a BIOS bug. In the testing, many people already updated their Sager notebooks with a new BIOS provided by Sager and the video problem is GONE! So I encourage you to go to your manufacturer's web page and see if a new bios update has been issued for your laptop, and if not, e-mail the manufacturer so they can rush out a fix for this.

2. CCC will work with the Omega Drivers, but is NOT recommended that you install it, all the functions found in CCC are already included with RadLinker Omega Edition or will be included in a near future as this new CP project develops.

3. The Omega Drivers use a special ATI Tray Tools version with the following features:

> Use very little resources.
> Doesn't require .NET to work.
> Lots of new settings for both D3D and OGL.
> Automatic Per-application profiles.
> Trilinear filtering can be forced for Anisotropic filtering.
> Catalyst AI support.
> Support for ATI Control Center.
> Support for TV Out and displays with profiles.
> Options to change Theater mode together with TV Out.
> Overclocking with templates including FAN Control.
> Automatic overclocking when application required 3D mode.
> Temperature monitoring.
> Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and Memory.
> Game profiles with desktop shortcut creation.
> Direct3D settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu.
> OpenGL settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu.
> Hardware low level color correction.
> Hardware tweaks. Setting PCI latency timer.
> Radeon Information Show information about memory type, active rendering pipe lines and more.
> System wide Hot Keys. (Load profiles any profiles/work with colors/run any application)
> Refresh Lock system with ability to set separate refresh rates for each resolution.
> Tweak for overriding Pixel and Vertex Shaders.
> Speed improvement tweaks for Anisotropic/Trilinear Filtering. Support for Catalyst A.I.
> Unique OSD system. Displays FPS, GPU/Memory speed and temperatures, FAN speed.
> Support for system options, VPU Recover, DMA Copy and so on.
> Support Display Rotation.
> Support for MMC applications.
> Support for HYDRAVISION applications.
> Monitoring Graphs. (GPU/Env temperature. GPU/Mem speed, Main CPU Usage).
> A lot of useful things. Like Save/Restore Desktop icon positions and more.
> Audio Recorder.
> Screenshots system.
> Powerful Plug-Ins support.
> PCI Register Set. Allow to program any registers in any PCI device at start up time. (For advanced users only!)

The drivers where made in conjunction with Ray Adams, maker of ATI Tray Tools, as an exclusive feature for the Omega Drivers and we will keep adding features in future releases.

4. Since ATT is a vital part of the Omega Drivers, it will not be an option to select during setup, any previous versions should be uninstalled before installing a new driver set.

REMINDERS:
A- If you have the normal ATI drivers installed, uninstall the ATI Control Panel or CCC BEFORE upgrading to these drivers, the Omega Drivers already have the CP integrated and another CP will cause conflicts or other problems.

B- There is no need to uninstall ANY previous drivers (ATI or OMEGA) when installing these, the new ones will overwrite any previous settings, but if you still want to uninstall them completely, is ok.

C- In Windows 2k/XP, ALWAYS disable DDC in the ATI "Displays/Monitor" CP after installing drivers to be able to use ALL the refresh rates and resolutions your monitor supports, also this is the best way to avoid the 60Hz RR bug.

D- The WDM drivers for VIVO and AIW cards are not included, but they can be downloaded separately from a link in my drivers page.

E- The Radeon cards do support FastWrites and they will work with it on (on some machines), but it is not recommended, there is NO SPEED gain when using FW, and this option will affect your PC's stability a LOT, most game crashes and problems are because FW is enabled. The only time I recommend using FW on is with Radeon 9600 cards that doesn't work properly with FW off or for Athlon64 system with any Radeon AGP card.

F- Install the included Multires utility to have access to ALL the available resolutions in the Omega Drivers, standard Windows doesn't show all of them.

G- After installing the new drivers and rebooting, if your desktop is SLOW and games won't run, is because AGP acceleration has been disabled by Windows, in order to fix this you MUST re-install the latest AGP chipset drivers for your Mother Board (this also includes laptops). After rebooting check the Advanced SmartGart Options in the Omega Start Menu and see if at least AGP/PCI read are both ENABLED, if all of them are enabled, the better, but some MBs doesn't support AGP/PCI write functions, if all still disabled, just click on "Retest All" and press OK to restart.

H- If you are using an Omega soft-mod and you are experiencing crashes, black screens, artifacts or the "check board effect" during game play, run the new included Driver Swapper utility and select the Normal driver, the reason is that your card is not accepting the soft-mod due to broken/incompatible hardware.

I- See Omega FAQ for further questions.


Extra info:

I don't recommend the use of ANY external tweakers with my drivers (like Rage3D Tweaker or ATITool), as they override my special settings and will make my work useless. The only time I recommend a tweaker is when you have a specific problem with a specific tweak and need to change it in order to make the drivers work correctly. Also if you use a tweaker for overclocking, FSAA, Gamma or Aniso settings, is just fine, but you'll be better off using the integrated ATI CP/RadLinker for that (which is ok if you change any setting in it).

If you have any problems with this drivers please go to my webpage and look in the ATI help section for answers. If still have problems look for the drivers thread in DriverHeaven.net forums and let me know what is going on.

IMPORTANT: Don't bother ATI about these drivers as they are unsupported by them!