I tried installing these yesterday, and after putting the clock settings back the way they were(390/209 to reduce the heat) and Default for the rest, I played Star Wars Battlefront at 1280X1024 and noticed no improvement whatsoever. If anything, it looked choppier in some places than before.
What I did notice was that the fan was running more often, so I checked the CPU clock just sitting idle on the desktop. With power settings on portable/laptop and BIOS set to max battery, the CPU clock sits at 1.8Ghz about 80% of the time with these Omega Drivers. With the stock 8.0 ATI drivers, idle desktop CPU clock speed would fluctuate between 600 and 800 Mhz.
Can any1 give a sensible explanation for this retardedness? I thought Omega drivers were supposed to improve performance in 3D and leave Desktop/Direct-Draw alone. I thought at first it might be V-Sync, but that is set to 'always off' by default, and I didn't change anything but GPU clock.
Edit: I forgot something else too: The Smartgart utility says I cannot turn on fast writes(it only enables AGP 4X). What would be the consequences on a 3790 of enabling this?
What I did notice was that the fan was running more often, so I checked the CPU clock just sitting idle on the desktop. With power settings on portable/laptop and BIOS set to max battery, the CPU clock sits at 1.8Ghz about 80% of the time with these Omega Drivers. With the stock 8.0 ATI drivers, idle desktop CPU clock speed would fluctuate between 600 and 800 Mhz.
Can any1 give a sensible explanation for this retardedness? I thought Omega drivers were supposed to improve performance in 3D and leave Desktop/Direct-Draw alone. I thought at first it might be V-Sync, but that is set to 'always off' by default, and I didn't change anything but GPU clock.
Edit: I forgot something else too: The Smartgart utility says I cannot turn on fast writes(it only enables AGP 4X). What would be the consequences on a 3790 of enabling this?
