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Helpful Input

Thanks to GSFerrari, Oberhammer, and TDD for your, as always
helpful assist.

You are right... They posted the 3.2 drivers but reverted back to the 2002/11 ones quickly. I deleted the 3.2 ones from my laptop and cannot get them anymore

Hey dpelchat - I dont quite understand...

You mean Sager had the modded 3.2's and then reverted to the older 6178 or whatever drivers?? This will be consistent with my observation because the Sager M9 drivers that I have are certainly NOT the catalyst 3.2...

Lemme run another driver install just to make sure...

sheesh Thats the 4th time in as many days that im changing drivers. I was just playing around with some really old ones (read OLD ) just to draw a comparison. Honestly - they all feel the same even as far as games are concerned...

I am firm in my statement that benchmark scores have little or nothing to do with your overall gaming experience - use what driver works for your games...

The last time I downloaded them they were 6218 which is the 2002/11 driver that came on my CD.

UPDATED: They still are the 2002/11 drivers... I just downloaded them again.

That's exactly what happened... The 3.2 were on the site very briefly on the week of April 7 (my friend still has those drivers) but they went back to the 2002/11 version on April 14.

ALl of these drivers offer similar performance, but the Cat32 fixed some problems for me personnally (crashes in Indiana Jones demo, UT2003 to name two).

I even installed 3.4 this afternoon and couldn't find any performance improvement so I went back to 3.2 (and I don't have to live with the 640*480 problem )

Has anyone tried this for the Sager 3.4's?

CLICK HERE

Nope, not touching DX9 with a barge pole.


....and Oberhammer, can you kinda lighen up on the matrix mini vids, they arent exactly to kind to us stuck on narowband (IE: 56k)......

I guess I should get rid of my little videos then. I thought everyone had broadband. Bummer.

I am just not ready to do direct X 9.0a with HT enabled. Does not make me a bad person does it?

One or 2 is ok, but 4 was kinda overkill for a 56k...

no, but i'm still reluctant due to the fact that i've never realy had many suscessfull dx upgrades, 90% of them allways had something up with the downloaded or cd based files and usualy created conflicts with about half my programs (only Non MS programs)....

Gah I tried that link I posted and does NOT solved the screen resolution prob :-(

To dynamically change the 640x480 res to your preference on reboot\signon:

1. Get the Cat3.4 drivers download from http://www.omegacorner.com.
2. Extract the drivers and\or start the install but abort it before it finishes (assuming you don't want to use these drivers).
3. Go to C:\Program Files\Radeon Omega Drivers v2.4.43\MultiRes and install the MultiRes utility.
4. MultiRes is a SysTray app from which you can do a quick change, like the ATI app or many others, BUT.....
5. MultiRes also has a res change command line capability, and, since it's in the registry to run on start up .....
6. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
7. Set MultiRest to look like this: "MultiRes"="C:\\Program Files\\MultiRes\\MultiRes.exe /1600,1200,32", or whatever your res preference is.
8. There's a MultiRes help file in Start\Programs for further info.
9. The PC will reboot to 640x480, then after signon and running the app from the registry it will dynamically change to your preference.


The Omega Cat3.4's had a few hiccups, but they work fine. You may want to use the original ATI 3.4 drivers.
1. The RadClocker (overclocker) utility doesn't install and gives error message boxes when you open the Settings\Display control panel, so deselect it during install.
2. The Control Panel is practically non-existent, plain vanilla XP, so I installed the new ATI Control Panel. It has a rotation feature that is really weird.
3. I used the driverheaven/patje Mobility Modder to add the M9 to the Cat3.4's, and it apparently did it's job.

As for the original 3.4 problem resetting to 640x480, there are a slew of DefaultSettings.XResolution (and YResolution) entries throughout the registry. You'll find that most are set to your preferred resolution, but that at least one is set to 640x480, and apparently gets reset on reboot even if you alter it. Ah, there lies the rub. Whoever is doing this should be sent to DLL Hell, though it could be an EXE or a SYS too. Welcome to the New Millenia, Stardate 2003 or something. Methinks we've taken a few steps backward. Freelancer has finally stopped freezing, for now, but there are still a lot of pauses, some more pregnant than others. Luvly.

i would try it but i am tired of uninstalling and re-installing again....

Just extract the Omega's driver setup, abort the driver install, and go to the MultiRes folder to setup the Multires utility.

I just found MultiRes is done by the makers of Powerstrip and can be obtained independently from here .

Woe is me. I uninstalled the Omegacorner 3.4 drivers because my DirectX AGP Texture options had been disabled and grayed out, not even an option anymore. I installed the plain vanilla ATI3.4, suitably modded, and now Freelancer is freezing again, even with AGP Texture disabled. Also, I uninstalled and reinstalled the ATI Control Panel . The Rotation feature went away, SMARTGART became a tab (never had it before) and the Color tab (gamma settings etc.) changed format. These drivers are a dog and Freelancer is a pig! Welcome to the animal farm! I'm not that fond of Freelancer anyway. More like an arcade game thinly disguised as an RPG. "Go search for so-and-so and kill him" means go shoot a ship. Borrrrring.