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klifex — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:18:03 +0800

This thread is specially dedicated to all Mobility Radeon Laptop users. Unfortunately, most of the Ati laptop manufacturer tailored their own mobility software/Ati catalyst to suite their laptops. Most the these Laptop Manufacturers doesn't bother much on releasing new drivers. That why, your mobility radeon cannot cope up with the new games and 3D programs.

So, what's happen when your driver is not up to date? what most of the mobility radeon users suffer is that they cannot run new games at all. SOme complaints of artifacts, while some complains of inability to draw certain objects or the 3D objects appear to be null in the gaming process.
This often happens in those Mobility radeon 9000 series(9200,9600,9700), and Ati X00 series (x300, x600, x700, x800) and also some of the X1000 series (x1300, x1400, x1600, and x1700)

Since Ati radeon has let the Laptop manufacturer to tailored their own mobility software, their latest ATI catalyst is no more supporting the older version of these graphic cards. However, some really smart guys has comes out with several alternative drivers to replace the original Ati driver for those outdated Graphic cards. Some says they are better, some says there are some bugs left...but generally, a lot of people still benefit from the driver which was released by these people.

One of these drivers is called Omega driver, however, it has a compatibility issues with some of the older graphic cards (9000series, and x000 series), where the aspect ratio was not able to tune to full screen during game play. Causing double Black Bar screen on the lateral side of LCD because it's running on 4:3 aspect ratio on a wide screen laptop. Some can be fixed by enabling the full screen expansion, but i also received that some ATi X600 doesn't support this features.

So, how to solve this problem?

fortunately, Mobility Modder from driver heaven can solve this problem.

these are the list of graphic cards supported

Windows Vista
ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2/T2e
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V7100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V7200
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9550
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 XL
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1350
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1450
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1800 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1900
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X2300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2400 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X2500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600 XT
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1200 Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1300M

Windows XP
ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2/T2e
ATI MOBILITY FireGL 7800
ATI MOBILITY FireGL 9000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V7100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V7200
ATI MOBILITY IGP 320M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 340M/345M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9000
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9000/9100
ATI MOBILITY RADEON
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9550
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 XL
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1350
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1450
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1800 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1900
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X2300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X2300 HD
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2400 XT
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X2500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600 XT
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1100 Series
ATI RADEON XPRESS 1200 Series

Ok, let me have it, how do I use it?:

This is a step by step guide on how to run and use Mobility Modder on Vista AND XP, if you follow these instructions carefully in a step by step manner you will be fine. If you don't then you more than likely will end up with a driver that doesnt correctly work so you have been warned ! (Don't panic, even if you don't mod the driver correctly you won't hose your OS, the driver just won't install (like it did before you came to this page - so pay attention!))

Installation step by step guide

1: Download MSXML 4.0 from Microsoft. Install.

1: Download the Mobility Modder:
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

Step 2 is VISTA ONLY

2: Make sure UAC control in Vista is turned off. If you don't know how to do this then read this guide (method 4 is the easiest) or click the "disable UAC" in Mobility Modder.net - please note you MUST reboot after disabling UAC. If you don't want it disabled permanently, you can turn it back on after our mobility tool has finished, but it won't mod the drivers correctly with UAC ON.

3: Download the newest desktop drivers from www.ati.com (or get them from Driver Heaven Downloads). If you are using Windows XP make sure to download .net framework from Microsoft (this is built into Windows Vista so there is no need to install it).

4: Run the downloaded driver, let it extract into c:/ATI/SUPPORT - but cancel the installation once the driver is extracted.

5: Run Mobility Modder - browse to the driver in C:ATI/SUPPORT/ - an example of Catalyst 8.2 would be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-2_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm...- hit modify. Wait until driver is modified.

6: In xp, go to C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-2_xp32_dd_ccc_....(Or whatever the driver installation folder was called), and run the SETUP.EXE. Please note you might see a "Driver is not WHQL certified", ignore this, as it is a side effect of the modification.

7: Wait until Install is finished and reboot. Enjoy the new drivers!

TERMS OF USE:

Driver Heaven is not responsible for any issues which might occur due to the use of modified drivers. You modify these drivers at your own risk. You can report bugs with the program or installation in our forum and suggest improvements, but we don't offer support for hardware failure or a wrecked operating system. If you aren't sure then DON'T run this tool, its free.

Mod's note: Please give credit to the original source!
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

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