Mobility Drivers - the DH way

***Zardon*** · Nov 11, 2006, 07:18 PM

Hello! We have had many people registering on Driver Heaven lately and I know this site can be a little bewildering as it is not a "normal" tech site. We aren't limited by merely reviewing hardware and games, we also produce our own modded drivers, and we have a team of coders who make some extremely useful applications.

This leads me into the purpose of this post. ATI powered laptops. Most of you know that ATI have improved mobility support, however they are still tied in with OEM restrictions and certain companies such as DELL will not accept the installation drivers from ATI's website.

This is when the Driver Heaven ATI Mobility modder comes into play. this application is a simple click and run tool which will modify the offical ATI drivers to support ANY laptop/ATI powered solution, meaning you can keep up to date with driver fixes and have the best ingame support possible. This can be a godsend for users running high end dell laptops (amongst others), as they are still (with many systems) running their own versions of the 6.6 drivers, 4 revisions behind the latest ATI set.

What is even better is, it is totally free, make sure to check it out - and remember we have our own TOOLS section support forum if you have questions.

Full support for:
ATI MOBILITY RADEON
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7800 GL
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL 9000
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200
ATI MOBILITY IGP 320M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 340M/345M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 7000
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9000
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9100
ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2/T2e
ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5100
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9550
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X200
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 X1400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600

SFOSOK · Nov 11, 2006, 07:46 PM

Anyway we can get this for Nvidia?

Geminiwave · Nov 11, 2006, 09:05 PM

I no longer have an ATI laptop, but when I did, these were godsends.

~~hackerx~~ · Nov 12, 2006, 01:47 AM

will this run the mobility x1800?
i'm buying an alienware soon which has that gpu.Or should i just use the omega drivers?

***Zardon*** · Nov 12, 2006, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hackerx

will this run the mobility x1800?
i'm buying an alienware soon which has that gpu.Or should i just use the omega drivers?

The X1800 is supported yes.

ivan300 · Nov 12, 2006, 04:44 AM

for nvidia laptop drivers go to http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...p?showforum=68

download the driver then you have to donload the modified nv_disp.inf file and ovewrite it

Falstaff · Nov 12, 2006, 08:14 AM

I used to improve my Dell

LeanWolf · Nov 12, 2006, 08:58 AM

This is what first brought me to DriverHeaven

blueice228 · Nov 12, 2006, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeanWolf

This is what first brought me to DriverHeaven

same here but I ended up using the OMEGA driver. Easier to install for me.

Though my laptop is old now, 9700 mobility, so using the latest driver or not doesnt help improving frame rate.

Rawr · Nov 13, 2006, 07:54 PM

Yeah this tool is awesome..worked great on my girlfriends HP laptop.

Karhu · Nov 14, 2006, 08:48 AM

Wow, this looks great and everyone really seems to like it.
I have a Dell 9200 with a 9700 mobility and am very eger to try this out. However, my laptop is still under warnenty and I would not want to void that. Any potential problems there or is it full speed ahead?

***Zardon*** · Nov 14, 2006, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karhu

Wow, this looks great and everyone really seems to like it.
I have a Dell 9200 with a 9700 mobility and am very eger to try this out. However, my laptop is still under warnenty and I would not want to void that. Any potential problems there or is it full speed ahead?

There are no real problems to note, no, however we cant for sure say 100% it will go perfect. hard to cover every eventuality.

If it reassures you, ive just used the tool on a DELL 2010XPS to upgrade to the new offical Cat 6.10 and it has worked perfectly fine.

Karhu · Nov 16, 2006, 09:11 AM

Well, I went ahead and installed the new drivers. The instructions where very easy to follow and the program worked great.

For the most part, everything seems to be running fine. Several graphical errors have occurred though. I do not know whether to associate these with the new drivers or not. For now, I’m going to leave them in and continue testing.

First, when playing the project reality mod for BF2, the game crashed (not that unusual by itself), but several pieces of my desktop would not show up and I had to turn off the power (could not access the start menu) and reboot.

Second, twice now Civ 4 has crashed on me for seemingly no particular reason. I get the following message:

Quote:

Failed to allocate video memory. Please try reducing your graphics settings.
File:\Source\main\Civilization4\SDKs\Gamebryo2_0\C oreLibs\NiDX9Renderer\NiDX9VBManager.cpp,Line:1019

I hit “OK” and then I get a second error message:

Quote:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program: ...raxis Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\Civilization4.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

However, I do recall that when I used to get fairly far in Civ4, where I could see most the world, the game would start to slow down and then crash. This is a little different, as the game just crashes and I’m not quite as far along. After one of the crashes it reset all my civ4 settings to default, that was interesting.

In the end I just don’t think I have enough ram (only One gig) and that updating drivers just can’t compensate for a lack of ram...

Anyways, great site and like I said, I plan to leave in the new drives unless you guys advise otherwise.

DjOLE008 · Jan 17, 2007, 07:51 AM

Well,my laptop isn't Dell, orAlienware so it's not so "strong".It's still under warranty.I already have some omega drivers (3.8.273),but they are not very efficient.
What are the improvements in these Modder drivers from this site?
I tried downloadin original Catalyst 7.1,even though it said on the ATI site that Fujitsu-Siemens was supported,their verification software "said" that my laptop isn't supported!?!

What's the difference between CATALYST 7.1 and the drivers mentioned on this site???
Are they better,worse,safer,or not???

***Zardon*** · Jan 17, 2007, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DjOLE008

What are the improvements in these Modder drivers from this site?

They aren't modded drivers, this is actually a tool to let you install the Offical ATI drivers from their own site. So you don't get any tweaks. This might aid some people if they have issues or don't want to use modded drivers.

jasperchc · Jan 27, 2007, 02:05 PM

what happened to the DHzer0point driver? i checked the link at the left and there's no more link to the DHzer0point driver? only the omega driver

MrSpock2002 · Jan 28, 2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jasperchc

what happened to the DHzer0point driver? i checked the link at the left and there's no more link to the DHzer0point driver? only the omega driver

These drivers were stopped. The team that did them has stopped developing them due to personal/work etc reasons.

I reccomend using the DH Mobility mod tool. Download the tool from this site, go to ati.com and download the newest drivers. When you get to the ati site driver page, click on "multiple downloads" this way you can download the driver, and cc panel seperatly. Now, click the driver exe, once it's all unpacked to the ati folder, stop the instalation, then use the DHM tool, follow the onscreen instructions, next it will say "go mobile" click yes, then install the drivers, next install the cc panel.

Before doing all this make sure you uninstall any ati software, and drivers.

ronhaha108 · Mar 2, 2007, 11:54 PM

Any chance the Mod Tool works with the Windows Vista Catalyst? I've got a Radeon Mobility 9000.

Thanks!

dexterav · Mar 9, 2007, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

Full support for:
ATI MOBILITY RADEON
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7800 GL
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL 9000
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200
ATI MOBILITY IGP 320M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 340M/345M
ATI MOBILITY IGP 7000
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9000
ATI MOBILITY IGP 9100
ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2/T2e
ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5100
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9550
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X200
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 X1400
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600

very nice!
but missing X1450...

this mod not work with this card

Zeatrix · Apr 5, 2007, 03:43 AM

Please add Vista support!

Pretty please?

Sinner1 · Apr 5, 2007, 02:50 PM

An update to mod the latest catalyst 7.3 would also be nice. =) I couldn't get it to work with 7.2 (bsod after modded driver install) and the modder wouldn't recognize/touch the 7.3 drivers at all if I remember correctly. I have a faithful Dell 9100 with a 9700 128mb card.

Thanx for a great program!

papillion · Apr 12, 2007, 10:32 AM

Quick question. Which chipset does the Mobility Radeon AGP (0x459) (16mg), in a Thinkpad x31 correspond to? After upgrading to Vista have been pragued with BSOD page faults in .ati3duag.dll. Enjoyed your comment. I think what you are sensing is that between ATI/IBM/Lenovo/Microsoft there are huge problems in supporting the embedded ATI chipsets under Vista.

So people like myself, who only want to get the pc working start to do very specific google searches, e.g. 'ati3duag.dll' point us to sites like this one. A desperate need for support. Ati passed me to IBM/Lenovo, who passed me to Microsoft, who sent me back to ATI (they do in fact write the drivers). The Apple commercial is looking very appealing, the one where when upgrading the IBM PC nervously says, 'i am about to have my innerds replaced'. cheers,

***Zardon*** · Apr 22, 2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeatrix

Please add Vista support!

Pretty please?

Driver Heaven Mobility Modder.net Public Beta!

Zigoto · Apr 23, 2007, 03:29 PM

But, Mobility Modder (Windows Vista Version) will not support ati mobility radeon 9000?

Regards!!

***Zardon*** · Apr 23, 2007, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zigoto

But, Mobility Modder (Windows Vista Version) will not support ati mobility radeon 9000?

Regards!!

if you post in the thread link above your post, we can get it added. we will need info from you.

Sinner1 · Apr 23, 2007, 04:53 PM

Any chance of an update of Patjes v4 modtool to work with the latest Catalysts for XP?