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ATI Omega Drivers question

  • 12-04-2007 10:12AM
    #1
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭


    Anybody used these on a laptop?
    I've an Inspiron 6400 with the ATI x1400 graphics card. Would the Omega
    drivers affect battery life at all? And has anybody had a noticable increase
    in performance with them? I've just installed it but I haven't been able to
    test them out yet, all my games are at home.


Comments

  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    The Omega drivers are nothing more than slightly tweaked drivers for marginally better image quality and supports mobile GPU's.

    There isn't much point in using them for a Mobile X1400 vs the regular drivers.

    The modtool will add support for mobility cards to the regular ATI drivers.

    If you are not a fan of the CCC I would recommend ATI Tray Tools as a control panel instead just download the display driver only on ATI's site run the modtool on it and install the driver. The install Tray Tools which will act as the control panel.


  • #3
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    Ah its just that Dell are extremely slow at releasing new drivers for their
    graphics cards, I figured I might get better performance outta the
    omega drivers. But if it didn't have as good battery saving features,
    I was gonna leave it.

    I've tried the modtool before, and it worked but I didn't get any noticable
    difference.


  • #4
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    All modtool does is add unsupported GPU's into the normal ATI drivers nothing more nothing less.

    ATI do offer mobile drivers on their site but they limit the driver support to select vendors & Dell is usually not supported.


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