**RECOMMENDED** Enhanced Drivers for your Video Card (ATI, nVIDIA, 3Dfx)
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So which of these drivers would work best on my PCI VisionTek Radeon 9200 w/256mb of vRAM? I'm about to get Doom 3, and since I have a pci video card, Im gona do all those advanced tweaking options and read all the tweaking tuts, and of course decompress the pak files... So which of these drivers are the fastest/best and would get me a double digit fps on doom 3? (on lowest settings of course at 640x480)
i use the omega drivers, they are great and radlinker is a great program that comes bundled with it
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for ati's and doom 3's i recommend the latest omega's great for domm 3 and you should disable the extra 256 of ram to get some speed increase, it is useless with your card
because the video card isnt fast enough to take advantage of the extra memory, trust me, try it, you have nothing to lose, my buddy did it with his 9600xt and got an extra 5-10 average fps
Try physically disconnecting the non-important onboard ram that all textures get used from and see how fast that goes!!!
Obligatory 'yes i'm being sarky' comment
I took all the RAM out of my computer once and it ran fast as SH*T. All that unbridled power from the processor just spinning in place doing absolutely nothing as fast as it possibly could... It even used hyper-threading so it could do nothing twice at the same time! Damn, it was a sight to see. 
I used to have the Omega drivers. Wasn't impressed. Saw absolutely no difference whatsoever, and to top it off, every so often, all the tabs under the advanced display properties would disappear. I'm back on official Catalysts now. I also tossed around the thought of overclocking my GPU, mainly because the little application that was running and testing my FPS reported a 40+ increase, but I was too wussy to do something like that with the current state of my case and cooling.
I used to have the Omega drivers. Wasn't impressed. Saw absolutely no difference whatsoever, and to top it off, every so often, all the tabs under the advanced display properties would disappear. I'm back on official Catalysts now. I also tossed around the thought of overclocking my GPU, mainly because the little application that was running and testing my FPS reported a 40+ increase, but I was too wussy to do something like that with the current state of my case and cooling.