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    Warning about omega drivers for C90 8600gt

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by themanwithsauce, Mar 2, 2008.

  1. themanwithsauce

    themanwithsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    I tried the modified omega drivers from www.omegadrivers.net on my C90. These drivers are supposedly optimized for gaming. I noticed poor video playback before trying any games at all. Now none of my games will launch. I don't know if these drivers are simply not eant for mobile cards (although I have heard from another thread about people using these in dell inspirons) but for the 8600gt 512mb in the C90 I can not recommend them over the other drivers currently available. Perhaps a moddified INF is needed but I have never needed one for official drivers before. I will try finding a modified INF but until I can find one and report that it works I am saying to stay away from these if you own a C90 and to proceed with caution for other notebooks.
     
    themanwithsauce, Mar 2, 2008
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  2. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    I think that's why most of us get our drivers from LaptopVideo2go.com. :)
     
    ScifiMike12, Mar 2, 2008
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  3. klok99ah

    klok99ah Notebook Consultant

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    Omega Drivers are more for ati.
     
    klok99ah, Mar 2, 2008
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  4. Firecrak

    Firecrak Notebook Guru

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    Omega drivers have always been some of the best hacked drivers for ATI...I would steer clear for Nvidia, especially in a laptop
     
    Firecrak, Mar 3, 2008
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  5. themanwithsauce

    themanwithsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah I gave up on them 100% and switched to the new official drivers. I know I saw a thread about some people using them for the dell inspiron 8600gt and getting good performance but it doesn't seem worth the hassle.
     
    themanwithsauce, Mar 3, 2008
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  6. stamar

    stamar Notebook Prophet

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    omega stopped making new nvidia drivers some years ago.

    updating to whatever is on there now would not be intelligent.
     
    stamar, Mar 3, 2008
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  7. themanwithsauce

    themanwithsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    well 12/27/07 is not really some years ago in my book...
     
    themanwithsauce, Mar 3, 2008
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  8. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Copy that!
     
    theZoid, Mar 3, 2008
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  9. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    As the 2nd poster said, use laptopvideo2go for nvidia.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 4, 2008
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