Omega Drivers and Powerplay

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ParzanM · #1 Post by **ParzanM** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:48 am

Will omega drivers work with powerplay? I have read that some people are having problems with getting powerplay to work with the omega drivers.

Also is there a point of me getting omega drivers for my 7500 mobility(yes it has powerplay

). will I see a significant preformance increase?

Thanks
Parzan

Gerryn · #2 Post by **Gerryn** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:36 am

I have a Radeon 7500 in my ThinkPad as well. I tried the Omega drivers, but I did not see any performance increase in World of Warcraft, or any other games I play.

Not sure if Powerplay worked or not. Switched back to IBM drivers so I can't check now. I don't think my battery life was any worse though.

If you want to try the Omega Drivers, give it a shot. They should work fine. If they cause problems, you can always switch back to the IBM driver.

cmarti · #3 Post by **cmarti** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:04 am

I am too using the omega drivers, i can't notice any performance improvement with them, battery life sems to be the same.

ParzanM · #4 Post by **ParzanM** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:05 am

If it didnt really increase performance ill just stay with my current drivers since i dont have a problem with them.

I pretty much have the same config as you. how is the 9cell in battery life.....avg usage?? lowest power settings?

OFFTOPIC: does xga give more battery life over high res screens?

agarza · #5 Post by **agarza** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:16 am

Today I just received my laptop with the long fan installed, hopefully it won't overheat again

Should I open my machine and apply Arctic Silver 5 to reduce the GPU temp (which apparently seems to rise above 90° C degress even with the new fan)

Also, I've tried the Omega drivers with no previous video driver installed (No Lenovo), but my screen flickers a lot, so I had to change to the original driver.

Also, since I'm using a fresh (unbranded) Windows XP SP2 version, what is Powerplay??

ParzanM · #6 Post by **ParzanM** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:28 am

Just a basic overview. Im sure many people on the forums can provide a more in depth look at this..

Powerplay works when you are on battery power. It is a power managment software. It lowers power to your graphics to increase battery life. If your laptop is not using graphic intense programs it will lower your graphics power to a minimum. If you start playing a game/ graphics intense program, PowerPlay will increase power to your gpu so you can play the game/use the program. Just as your cpu is clocked lower to save power when its not needed, PowerPlay works for the GPU in the same way.

ParzanM

agarza · #7 Post by **agarza** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:07 am

Where is Powerplay included?
I run my machine using a clean install of XP SP2 Lite Version without the service partition.

ParzanM · #8 Post by **ParzanM** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:16 am

right click on your desktop-> properties-> then settings-> advanced it should be there

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