ATI driver or driver by IBM??

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#1 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:44 am

I was wondering if I should download catalyst driver from ATI and update it instead of using the one that came installed by IBM.

Is there any advantages of doing this? Anyone experienced any conflict from doing this?

Thanks.

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shai · #2 Post by **shai** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:10 am

Hi
Install only the driver from IBM . the driver at ati is diffrent.

#3 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:34 am

Oh I see...

gcchatel · #4 Post by **gcchatel** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:35 am

yep,

catalyst = BSOD for me

Gael

Nabeel · #5 Post by **Nabeel** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:54 pm

I use the Omega drivers.

kjarrett · #6 Post by **kjarrett** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:12 pm

Nabeel wrote:I use the Omega drivers.

What are the benefits? Better gaming mostly?

-kj-

strekship · #7 Post by **strekship** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:29 pm

You can choose to get either better performance or better image quality.

#8 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:51 pm

What are omega drivers??

skanky · #9 Post by **skanky** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:01 am

read the post just above yours..

jimg72 · #10 Post by **jimg72** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:20 pm

I use drivers from DNA ( http://www.dna-drivers.nl/ ) since the IBM drivers don't support anything above 1280x1024 on the DVI dock connection. If you don't have a need for the higher resolution via DVI I'd go with IBM, otherwise I recommend DNA.

skanky · #11 Post by **skanky** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:30 pm

did you have to do anything special to get the drivers working with your card? read about that third party drivers dont like the mobility cards.

jimg72 · #12 Post by **jimg72** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:44 pm

The dna drivers I downloaded knew about the FireGL in the inf so there was no special setup as far as I know. I just downloaded and installed.

Nabeel · #13 Post by **Nabeel** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:07 am

Yeah, mostly gaming performance. They're pretty stable and updated everytime the official drivers are updated.

For the official ATI drivers, you need a program called "Mobility Modder" to enable those drivers to be installed for the mobility versions.

RCube · #14 Post by **RCube** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:19 am

I don't know about the DNA drivers.. I had a serious problem when waking up from hibernation once. Like I got this really corrupt looking image...my screen was flickering and stuff with lots of artifacts all over the screen. I had to restart the computer to fix it.

So I am sticking with IBM's drivers.

PaulB · #15 Post by **PaulB** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:21 pm

I must say that I have seen what RCube describes at least once, and I was running the IBM drivers...

lfeagan · #16 Post by **lfeagan** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:23 pm

Yeah, I got that with IBMs drivers too. I am sticking with my Omega drivers. Have been running drivers from this guy for years. As always, if you like them please donate to help hiim continue his work. He does a great job on them and I really appreciate his efforts.

gpvillamil · #17 Post by **gpvillamil** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:54 pm

I use the Omega drivers too, no problems at all. I use them on all my systems - X22, T41p and a Shuttle SFF.

aleung · #18 Post by **aleung** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:45 pm

i used omega driver on T30. But I will go for stable IBM driver instead. ATI driver won't install at all in T30

J.B. · #19 Post by **J.B.** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:20 pm

So omega or DNA drivers provide better speed than IBM's? Does anyone know roughly how much performance gain (in percentage) to expect?

Max · #20 Post by **Max** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:37 pm

I'm running the new DNA drivers, released yesterday, they include the updates specifically for the FireGL T2. My sys is running Half Life 2 superbly!

He-Man · #21 Post by **He-Man** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:28 pm

if it ain't broke don't fix it! i used to update drivers all the time just b/c new ones came out. guess what? unless your running graphics intensive stuff (and even then) it wont make a differene (or a very minor one).

ATI driver or driver by IBM??

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