On a sort of related note, you ought to look at a <a href="http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html" target="_blank">Catalyst Tweak Guide</a> and see what that gets you.
I don't know much about the Omega drivers. They never seemed to do a thing for me.
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I don't know performance wise were 9000 is in comparison to my 9600 (on my laptop) but the omega drivers certainly increased my frame rates in HL2 and Doom3/Prey. It already runs so fast in HL1 that I can't tell the difference ;P
9000 runs HL2? Wow my 9200 struggled when HL2 first come out as it was on all lowest settings. Upgrade <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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Omega drivers are simply the latest driver version, but then optimised to run more efficient... So it will increase performance, but don't expect it to work miricles <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
on the topic of drivers, I just got my new computer and I'm amazed that the most recent official nvidia drivers are from the beginning of November? aren't there any new drivers out there?
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I don't know much about the Omega drivers. They never seemed to do a thing for me.
Would getting omega drivers, and using tweaking it with the settings, <b>significantly</b> increase the performance of my ATI Radeon 9000?
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No. You would be better off buying a new card.
I don't know performance wise were 9000 is in comparison to my 9600 (on my laptop) but the omega drivers certainly increased my frame rates in HL2 and Doom3/Prey. It already runs so fast in HL1 that I can't tell the difference ;P
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Compared to the lastest catalyst or compared to default old drivers? Drivers make a big difference, but omega drivers aren't usually that far ahead of catalyst performance.