Omega Radeon drivers and window drawing


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I just installed the newest Omega drivers for my Radeon 9800XT, and it's running horribly in Windows. I think for some reason Windows isn't using my graphics card to draw things. When I right click for a menu to fade in, it's like a slideshow of five frames. Any window that needs to draw constantly takes up a lot of CPU, especially Task Manager.

Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks.

i have the 9800XT and well i was running the ATI drivers that were lagging on loading any new windows.... then i switched over to the

Omega drivers.. 4.11 based on the beta.. and they work way better then ATIs drivers... i wouldnt go back!

Only thing is you have to fully uninstall ATI drivers and then install the omega drivers...

On the website expect new omega drivers this week.. based on the 4.12 drivers

I just installed the official 4.11 drivers and it's still doing the same thing. Do you think this could be a conflict between my ATI TV Wonder and my graphics card?

Edit: I was trying to uninstall the drivers for my ATI TV Wonder, but I can't find it in the Device Manager. I physically removed the card from my machine a month ago because I wanted to put it in another computer, so I don't know if the drivers are just hidden or if Windows automatically uninstalled them.

Omega's 4.12b will be released sometime this week, as he says on his site.

My guess would be that the drivers are hidden, because when I pulled out my NIC without unistalling the driver, I got all sorts of errors on the next boot, and i had to manually remove them. Might be different for a vid card, though.

right click 'my computer' > properties > hardware > device manager

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You're kidding, right? :blink:

Anyway, you don't need to uninstall the drivers. They aren't being used because the device is gone. They don't even apply to the Radeon, so I don't see how they would be conflicted... I've heard of some Driver Cleaner software, but I've never used any, so I don't know what to get...

I just installed the newest Omega drivers for my Radeon 9800XT, and it's running horribly in Windows.  I think for some reason Windows isn't using my graphics card to draw things.  When I right click for a menu to fade in, it's like a slideshow of five frames.  Any window that needs to draw constantly takes up a lot of CPU, especially Task Manager.

Does anyone have a solution for this?  Thanks.

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Start>Run "dxdiag"

click on the "Display" tab and make sure under "DirectX Features" all three options are enabled.

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