Driver Update: Omega Catalyst 2.6.75a

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 @ 7:24 PM – New tweaked Catalyst drivers have just been added to the OmegaDrivers site released. The new version can be recognized by back number 2.6.75 and has its origins in Catalyst 5.10. Angel “Omegadrive” Trinidad has added support for Radeon X1800 video cards in version 2.6.75 and ATi Tray Tools 1.0.4.780 is included as a tweak program. The new Omega Catalyst drivers can be downloaded from our file server. The changes below apply to this version:

What’s New in Omega Drivers 2.6.75?

• Based on the Catalyst 5.10a Beta drivers.
• Added support for x1800 cards.
• Enabled Adaptive AA by default for x1800 cards, disabled for the rest.
• Added 1280×800 resolution for both laptop and desktop cards.
• Reconstructed some tweaks to prevent any future compatibility issues.
• Fixed some minor resolution conflicts for laptops and integrated chipsets.
• Fixed a “Deja-Vu” problem in the installer related to Multires. =D
• Added the option to uninstall ATT, separate from the Omega uninstaller in the Start Menu.

Known issues: Some of the settings for both D3D & OGL will not be synchronized between ATT and the normal ATI CP, you must only use one of them to make changes, the best option is to use ATT since the ATI CP does not support changes to AI and in order to use the advanced D3D/OGL features. Changes made in ATT will work on games and such but the changes will not be reflected in the normal ATI CP since ATI stores the registry values ​​that the CP reads separate from the actual values ​​in the registry.

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.[break]Update: Meanwhile, Angel Trinidad has released new Omega Catalyst drivers in the form of 2.6.75a. These are based on version 5.10a of the original ATi Catalysts. Various mirror servers are equipped with the new Omega Catalyst release, download links can be found at this page. The changelog lists the following changes in the drivers:[/break]2.6.75a

• Updated the OGL driver, this should solve some problems related to Quake IV.
• Updated the FireGL OpenGL driver.
• Updated internal settings for some Desktop, Mobility, Integrated chipsets and FGL cards.
• Added support for TONS of new cards (Desktop, Mobility, Integrated and FGL), including some unreleased ones.
• Fixed installation support for some cards. If you had problems installing the Omega Drivers drivers before (being it laptop or desktop), try now and let me know if something still broken.