Download Driver For Omega Catalyst 2.3.55

A new Omega Catalyst driver pack is available for all ATi Radeon owners running Windows 2k or XP. The difference between ‘normal’ Catalysts and Omega Catalysts lies in a number of tweaks made to the latter. These tweaks are mainly aimed at improving the image quality that flows out of your video shelf. In brand new version 2.3.55 the following changes have been made:

• Based on the official 6255 ATI drivers.
• DirectX 9.0 support. (that explains the version number change)
• Fixed the Mobility problems. (I hope, not tested)
• This relase is a mix from the 6218 drivers and the 6255 drivers, this was done to fix the stuttering and OpenGL problems introduced in the new catalyst 3.0 drivers, these drivers should NOT have those problems.
• Since they D3D core is based on the Catalyst 3.0 drivers, Dx9 is a MUST to use these drivers.
• Fixed the Alpha Blending Acceleration, now Windows will have full HW Alpha Blending support.
• The SMARTGART control panel is GONE in this release, Why?, because it had no use, that CP was used to troubleshoot problems, not to fix any. Those settings can be adjusted in the computer’s BIOS and FastWrites can be turned OFF in the normal PERFORMACE tab found in Windows (but is better to turn it off in the BIOS).

[break]The new Omega Catalyst is here to download.