AMD's Groundbreaking Omega Driver

[jjnissanpatfan]

I remember not that long ago..messing with a 800xl with all sorts of different drivers. I wanna say NGQ and like one other company that competed with the Omega release's.

 

[The Von Matrices]

Let's hope they don't get put back a month, and then another month, and then another... Such is the case with drivers to fix things these days.

This is AMD. If this report is even true, they'll preview all the features next month but will release them in "stages" over the next year. We won't see all the features in WHQL drivers until 2016, when the cards they were intended to improve have been replaced by new models.

 

[eidairaman1]

you son of a bitch, leave us steves out of this!


also, looking forward to the VSR/resolution scaling.

Lmao

 

[RejZoR]

Why does the first presentation chart comapres Omega driver to the Catalyst 13.12 ? That's 1 year old driver. Ugh? Shouldn't they be comparing it to Cat 14.9 WHQL which is the latest official?

 

[INSTG8R]

Why does the first presentation chart comapres Omega driver to the Catalyst 13.12 ? That's 1 year old driver. Ugh? Shouldn't they be comparing it to Cat 14.9 WHQL which is the latest official?

Because everyone seems to forget every year AMD put out a "super driver" at the end of the year. This one they are just calling Omega for some reason.

 

[the54thvoid]

For those looking at VSR, the slide that discusses it says available for R9 290 & 285 only.
Don't think its for Tahiti based cards. Tonga/Hawaii looks to get it.

 

[RejZoR]

Well, thats shit...

 

[darkangel0504]

HD 7000 isn't supported

 

[Aquinus]

I wasn't even thinking about Linux while writing that post (for a lot of reasons, really). Everything that I said applies only to Catalyst for Windows, since it's the primary product and everything new and gaming-related has historically been put into this branch first.

Well obviously. If AMD starts writing closed source drivers they're probably going to remain closed source. That's like saying haters are going to hate and is rather confusing.

By the way, do you honestly think AMD cares about bringing the Omega series software on *NIX in the nearest future? My guess is that they'll just leave their customers with current FOSS solutions (Radeon SI and R600 those are, I believe).

Considering you didn't even think of Linux, I suspect you once again don't know what you're talking about here. I've kept up with FGLRX drivers in Linux from AMD and they've been kept up to date pretty well thus far. Well enough that featuring in current drivers such as frame pacing do exist in FGLRX (last I checked) so I'm inclined to believe that AMD will let changes ripple out to Linux, but that's a completely different driver. The open source radeon drivers are done by a third party and aren't maintained or written by AMD which is a very different animal.

What guys at Omega did was simple re-configuration (using installation *.INF and *.XML files, which is not something that can make a big difference in regards to 2D/3D/GPGPU performance). This technic is common with OEM, and is basically a way that you can configure your SKU to better support things like eDP Link Training or Non-EDID Mode, stuff that helps with compatibility and not, you know, the compute power.

...and you could do the same thing by adjusting Catalyst yourself. I suspect what AMD is doing here is a little different than what Omega did in the past. I'm expecting driver level (.sys) changes, not mainly configuration (.INF) changes.

 

[SK-1]

Outsourced drivers...cant really blame AMD.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Once again some potentially awesome idea from AMD.......lets hope the idea don't get trounced and watered down by reality. Got some really cheap cards out there i can really have some fun with

 

[vega22]

i recall omega drivers way back when for both sides, green and red.

cant imagine this being anything more than a respin for ccc as it has used that same skin for years now while nvidia have since copied and improved upon it.

i mean if it was one and the same omega i would of thought amd would of made them remove the old site and all traces of omega nvidia drivers. just me?

 

[Steevo]

Thu number of people in this thread who don't or can't read and understand it has nothing to do with the old Omega drivers is too damn high!!

 

[ensabrenoir]

Thu number of people in this thread who don't or can't read and understand it has nothing to do with the old Omega drivers is too damn high!!

Then Amd should have picked a different name......but once again thy're associating their current product with a past awesome product to garner buzz and invoke high expectations.....hmmm just like the FX line....hope this doesn't yeild the same results....

 

[Fluffmeister]

Hey, at least they aren't alpha... although you'll probably find they are still beta, eta soon.

 

[eidairaman1]

Then Amd should have picked a different name......but once again thy're associating their current product with a past awesome product to garner buzz and invoke high expectations.....hmmm just like the FX line....hope this doesn't yeild the same results....

It was never a product. It was free.

 

[ensabrenoir]

It was never a product. It was free.

.......free product ok i get what your saying but its still shady/deceptive association

 

[eidairaman1]

.......free product ok i get what your saying but its still shady/deceptive association

Lol

Only way a word can be claimed as their own is if AMD/are in the name.

I presume omega is just a internal name for them. Amd Catalyst Release 14.12 "Omega" lol

 

[Solaris17]

so did AMD hire the guy that custom made omega driver back in the day?

 

[RejZoR]

If you ask me, all the modded drivers were a load of horse crap and everyone screaming how much better they are, were so blinded by the placebo effect it wasn't even funny anymore. You can't make radical changes through fiddling with pre-existing INI file settings. You just can't. I've tried those drivers and could never ever notice ANYTHING. Even in benchmarks, it was within the margin of error. Not sure why they'd associate themselves with placebo. So, word "Omega" has very little connection with the modded drivers imo. In fact these have as much connection to Omega drivers as the Omega watches have with these drivers. None.

 

[erocker]

so did AMD hire the guy that custom made omega driver back in the day?

Nope. These have nothing to do with those drivers.

 

[eidairaman1]

http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6551


http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=24

A possibility why most mod drivers stopped being produced is how difficult amd/nvidia made them to be tweaked. Plus launching their own tool boxes.

I remember using DNA drivers but i went right back to using vanilla.

 

[Solaris17]

In all honesty im surprised and a little concerned at the numbers they advertise for these. I mean how would they really pull that off? Im not saying the drivers as they stand are well baked by any means. but pulling these kind of numbers and then saying "wide" and not "game specific" makes me wonder exactly how they are getting the performance. maybe looking more closely at D3D calls or something or tuning it to operating systems better. which only makes me wonder why they didnt do it to begin with. I mean granted if the chart is even remotely correct the gains will be pleasing and pleasing to alot of AMD users. but shouldn't something of this quality assuming its accurate be the norm? so that the dev teams need to push harder for improvements?

 

[natr0n]

Long ago they promised a new driver built from ground up. This might be it finally.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Probably be labeled a hater for this but I think with the eminent release of Direct X 12 this is just a diversionary tactic to make everyone forget about mantle and its promises......yes I know they're not the same thing