Fast Writes, On or Off?

[dave87]

Jus installing Omega drivers, wondered what the setting should be

Cheers,

Dave

[dave87]

I installed the drivers with it set to off, seems to have worked. Just wondering whether its gunna make any difference to performance?

[[DW]Cougho]

IIRC it makes hardly any difference and my 9800pro and X800 both hated it with a passion, constant instability with it on.... perfect with it off.

So its a firm vote for OFF from me.

[dave87]

Mines an x1300, (laptop) so I'm guessing the x1k series won't like it much either. Unless anyone wants to prove me wrong?

[aidanjt]

It's worked for me. Never used omega drivers though, don't see the point in using messed up driver distributions.

[djphatic]

used omega drivers and always left it as default IIRC this is set to no. Never had a problem with them but im using official ATI now within Vista

[Agent]

"Back in the day" some chipsets really used to be arsey with this setting. It should be ok to use it now, but in all honesty there is almost no difference.

[kalniel]

Off.

Setting on used to gain a fraction in responsiveness but the decrease in stability is never worth it.

[Rob_B]

I always used to hear 'on' unless it causes crashes in which case 'off'

But as said above the difference is minimal, maybe on an old-old system the difference would be bigger?