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Lex

Lex

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Omegacorner was forced to stop tweaking the nvidia det's (omega drivers)
http://www.omegacorner.com/ said:
NVIDIA DRIVER NEWS

(07/04/03)


Well, as most of you have heard by now, I will not be releasing any more Omega drivers for nvidia cards. I know this must come as a surprise for many since there are a lot of people who trust my work and know that I'm doing all of this to help people. This is what REALLY happened:
I received an E-Mail from nvidia on June 17, it was from one of their attorneys, and he wanted to speak with me personally on the phone. The mail seemed friendly, but since it was coming from the nvidia law offices, I was worried of some kind of lawsuit because of my work. I called him after reading the mail, and he greeted me in a friendly tone, so my nerves started to calm down as soon as he told me that he only wanted to ask me a few questions. He started by telling me that many people filled complaints at nvidia because my drivers where "damaging" PCs and that people thought my drivers where approved by them since I had the nvidia logo on my page, so I corrected him and told him that I have a very clear statement on my page and in the driver installation that warned users about the drivers, that they where not supported by nvidia in any way and in case of problems contact me directly or through the forums. Then he told me that what I was doing was illegal, that I can't reverse engineer their drivers, because it was in the license agreement, so I explained to him that I never did that, that I use registry tweaks and dll swaps to make the drivers work like I wanted, then I used settings and patch scripts that are freely available in tweakers like RivaTuner, plus I add some others that are of my own creation, like the custom resolutions and DirectX optimizations, and at the end I just packed all that work in one simple installer and distributed it freely on the internet. After my explanation the only thing he had against me was the nvidia logo on my page, so he told me that I must remove it immediately because people would get confused an think that my drivers are official nvidia drivers, so I told him that there is no problem, the logo will go. He thanks me and asks my phone number because they will be contacting me again, so I gave him my number and thank him for his time.
After that I removed the logo and didn't heard from them again, I was gonna continue to make the drivers, but had my doubts...

Then, just a few days ago, I got an E-Mail from Zardon telling me that nvidia E-Mailed him about my drivers, and told him to REMOVE THE DRIVERS FROM DRIVERHEAVEN...
Now that does it! One thing is contacting me about my drivers and asking me to stop working on them, another is to force websites to take down the drivers which they host as a favor to the community.
Right now I'm really pissed of at nvidia for that thing alone, first the cheats, then buying Futuremark's statement and now, Take down 3rd party sets that help them by making their customers happy? What's wrong with them!? They think money can buy anything?
They are in the wrong track, they just want to cover all that bad press that they have been receiving lately by buying trust, but TRUST is not something they can buy, is something they must EARN! Gamers know that, they are no fools, maybe they can convince some old guy sitting in a president chair about it, showing him big numbers in synthetic benchmarks and showing their financial year gains, but they can't fool US:

WE are the ones that buy their cards.
WE are the ones that play the games.
WE are the ones that support each other in forums when something goes wrong.
WE are the ones that make their hardware reviews.
WE are the ones that they should listen.
WE are the ONLY ones, that can make a difference...

See ya! nvidia....

Sorry to all who supported my work, may GOD bless you all...
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but he will continue his work on the ati drivers.
 
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Trotterwatch

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An own goal from Nvidia methinks. I am currently using the Omega drivers for my GF3 thanks to the improved image quality (and slight performance differential) offered.
 
blight

blight

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lame nvidia.... but i think they still make very good hardware and since ATi's linux drivers suck....
 
Tagrineth

Tagrineth

Dragony thingy
pj64er said:
old news...but still stupid. Why the hell would nVidia do this?
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Because, if you'll excuse my language, they're a bunch of fucking assholes who don't give a flying fuck about what the consumer really wants.
 
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My95ZR2

New member
Omega here!

Personally, I never did like Nvidia's drivers. I have a little GF2MX400, and I've had a better time trying to play current games and emulation than I have with any of Nvidia's drivers. Once this poor boy gets some cash, he's gonna build a system with an ATI inside.

Adam
 
pj64er

pj64er

PJ64 Lubba
Tagrineth said:
Because, if you'll excuse my language, they're a bunch of fucking assholes who don't give a flying fuck about what the consumer really wants.
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Lets assume thats correct. If they really dont give a flying fuck, why the hell did they go outta their way to remove something that consumers want?

My95ZR2 said:
Omega here!

Personally, I never did like Nvidia's drivers. I have a little GF2MX400, and I've had a better time trying to play current games and emulation than I have with any of Nvidia's drivers. Once this poor boy gets some cash, he's gonna build a system with an ATI inside.

Adam
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wow, how did omega himself find us? :w00t: Good job with the Radeon drivers, just tried them reciently and me saw improvement :satisfied
 
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My95ZR2

New member
OH CRAP...I didn't mean I was omega, I meant I was running omega drivers here...

*bangs head against wall and mutters* stupid typos

Adam
 
pj64er

pj64er

PJ64 Lubba
My95ZR2 said:
OH CRAP...I didn't mean I was omega, I meant I was running omega drivers here...

*bangs head against wall and mutters* stupid typos

Adam
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ARGGG.... now i kiss ass for no reason :geek: :D
 
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My95ZR2

New member
I wish I did have to time and knowledge to write drivers like that...I'd get this pathetic GF2MX400 to kick some butt!

Adam
 
Dr@mer

Dr@mer

Sex And Drugs And Rock 'n Roll
These fucking Nvidier's. I can't think a purpose of doing a thing like this.
i had much time to check the omegacorner and also the forum and i waited only good news but these news is really giving on my nerves :gunman:

So only one message applies to them :

[size=+3]Fuck You Nvidia[/size]
 
t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
I want to hear more testimonies of you guys, about why Omegacorner's drivers are better tha nvidia's, that's because I'm currently using nvidia's and I want to know more about them...
 
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Lex

Lex

New member
Omega drivers deliver a better image quality then the normal nvidia drivers.
 
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My95ZR2

New member
I can't tell you exactly, cause like I said before, I only have a GF2MX400,. I noticed a little better image quality, but let me explain:

I always have the card turned on performace mode, with no AA or Filtering. Its the only way I can get ~60fps on NFS6. If I do try to turn it on, crap ensues. With the Omega drivers, its like setting it on Balanced or Quality mode instead of Performance, but I don't loose any performance over it. I still can't do any AA or Filtering, but I can at least have decent textures that make a game look beautiful. I never thought NFS6 looked so good till I played it with the new drivers.

Adam
NOTE: My Omega drivers are 44.03, I don't know if he got any more out after that, and if they're any better...
 
Tagrineth

Tagrineth

Dragony thingy
My95ZR2, the Performance - Balanced - Quality settings apply ONLY to AF... ideally.

But.

nVidia disables correct Trilinear Filtering if you aren't in Quality mode.

Try setting Quality mode without enabling AA or AF.
 
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