Driver Heaven Mobility Modder.net Public Beta!

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2007, 12:22 PM

Get it here!
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Today we release our first public beta of Mobility Modder for ATI Vista Driver users. It has taken us quite some work to crack this so we are opening this up for public consumption in beta form.

We had over 2,000,000 downloads for our older XP Modtool so we know there are a lot of guys out there who want the newest ATI drivers on their laptops.

Yes, its still free, and we still support it on our forums.

Hardware supported:

ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2/T2e
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3100
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V3200
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000
ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9500
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9550
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800
ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800 XT
ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
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 X2300
Mobility Radeon X2300 HD
ATI MOBILITY RADEON XPRESS 200
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series

Erroneus · Apr 21, 2007, 01:26 PM

Wow great job, getting a lenovo r60 with an x1300 ati card very soon, looking forward to use this tool.

haani · Apr 21, 2007, 02:41 PM

thankyou so much works fine for me!!!! modified the new 7.4 version, i have mobility x1400 on acer aspire 5672WLMi!!!!!!

ultime · Apr 21, 2007, 02:44 PM

thank for that tool, but i had a problem...

i was able to install all ( dilplay + calatyst + other ), all was detected and installed

when i rebooted, the CCC crash when trying to start, i cant start it

my card in an ATI mobility x1600 on vista ultimate ( acer Aspire 5112WLMI)

detail if that may help...

[COLOR=#0066cc]Description:[/COLOR]
Stopped working
[COLOR=#0066cc]Problem signature:[/COLOR]
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: ccc.exe
Problem Signature 02: 2.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 451d264f
Problem Signature 04: CLI.Component.Runtime
Problem Signature 05: 2.0.2637.38496
Problem Signature 06: 46033a11
Problem Signature 07: cb
Problem Signature 08: 6
Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 4105

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2007, 03:30 PM

did you install over a previous set? if so, which. also did you try reinstalling the CCC?

**Spike** · Apr 21, 2007, 03:30 PM

ultime i will check to see if i can find out why that happens. If there is more info please tell, because it could help.

haani · Apr 21, 2007, 04:36 PM

i upgraded over the old 7.1 version and it worked fine for me!!

Nit3m4re · Apr 21, 2007, 05:02 PM

I've been using these mod tools for XP for a very long time so I am not new to the scene when it comes to installing etc etc, but anyway, moving onto my problem, I still followed the guide on the main page for the Mobility Modder and I still end up with the "Failed to find any installable components" message (Screen shots here) http://www2.simslearning.co.uk/locke...screenshot.jpg
I used the official 7.4 installer from ATi/AMD's website
I have an ATi Mobility Radeon X700 and normally for XP this always works, so I can't understand why on Vista Home Premium it doesn't. Any help would be appreciated

Nit3m4re

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2007, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nit3m4re

I used the official 7.4 installer from ATi/AMD's website

ok just to clarify do you mean the offical 7.4 driver from AMD's site? just to confirm you are using the new net modder and not the old modtool V4 right?

Can you please detail the exact steps you took once you downloaded the driver from AMD's site to your desktop.

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2007, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haani

i upgraded over the old 7.1 version and it worked fine for me!!

excellent, glad to hear you and others have had success.

BlackCat9 · Apr 21, 2007, 05:40 PM

It looks like the drivers more or less installed successfully for me. My laptop is an MSI M-635 with an x700 Mobility chipset running Vista Business x32 and my previous drivers were the Microsoft default drivers for ATI chipsets that Vista ships with. I tested Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, which I'd previously only been able to run windowed, and it now runs fullscreen just fine. The only issue is that I'm unable to get CCC to start (explained below).

Some notes about my particular setup.
I've been having problems with ATI drivers for a long time on this laptop, even back on XP, where certain things like booting with my laptop unplugged or enabling a second display would cause corruption or no display at all except for the mouse cursor, so I'd been stuck using Microsoft's drivers since moving to Vista. The ATI patch notes said that the particular issue I was having was fixed in 7.3 and I'm glad to say that so far, with 7.4, that seems to be true.

The last few times I attempted to install ATI drivers, I had to roll back to Microsoft drivers in Vista safe-mode because I could no longer see the screen when Windows booted. Because ATI's uninstaller doesn't work properly in safe mode, it left a lot of garbage on my system that I couldn't get rid of when using the MS drivers, which is probably the reason that the CCC doesn't want to run. I don't consider it a big deal since I've never liked using it anyway. Just as long as I can play new games, I'm happy.

Thanks so much for the driver modder, DH crew. You have no idea how long I've been pulling my hair out waiting for my laptop to be usable for games again. You guys truly rock.

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2007, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackCat9

Thanks so much for the driver modder, DH crew. You have no idea how long I've been pulling my hair out waiting for my laptop to be usable for games again. You guys truly rock.

Awesome to hear man, really makes this worthwhile.

Shame about the CCC issue you have always seemed to have. if you could email us a DX log file we could look into it and see if we can help you sort that out.

Even if you cant get CCC working, the drivers are set by default to high quality mipmaps and no AA or AF (app/game controlled) which should work well for you with almost everything.

Nit3m4re · Apr 21, 2007, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

ok just to clarify do you mean the offical 7.4 driver from AMD's site? just to confirm you are using the new net modder and not the old modtool V4 right?

Can you please detail the exact steps you took once you downloaded the driver from AMD's site to your desktop.

Yes it is the one from AMD's website. As soon as it downloaded, I downloaded MSXML 4.0 and installed that. I extracted the driver to the default directory and cancelled at the start like the guide says. Ran the modtool and set the directory to the same folder as the extraction was set to. It modified successfully, so I went and opened Setup.exe and as it checks for hardware, the screenshot that I linked earlier comes up and it says failed to install. Thats pretty much it from the steps I took to installing it. That any help?

Nit3m4re

ultime · Apr 21, 2007, 11:06 PM

i had the 7.2 catalyst vista mobility ( their last release for mobility for vista)

i did a full unistall of ATI catalyst install manager,

so i was clean ( ccc removed, and display driver back to widnows default driver)

that all i did,

then folowed instruction to use the vista mobility tools to put 7.4 catalyst drivers

ultime · Apr 21, 2007, 11:25 PM

its working fine now, i tryied again but with driver cleaner before, dunno if that helped, but catalyst dotn die on me anymore

thank for the mobility tool

fleabttn · Apr 21, 2007, 11:45 PM

7.4's downloaded from ATI/AMD and modded with the tool do not support the native resolution of my Uniwill 258KA with the 9600/9700 series radeon (1280 x 800). The highest it's letting me go is 1024 x 768.

***Zardon*** · Apr 22, 2007, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fleabttn

7.4's downloaded from ATI/AMD and modded with the tool do not support the native resolution of my Uniwill 258KA with the 9600/9700 series radeon (1280 x 800). The highest it's letting me go is 1024 x 768.

You can use powerstrip to set a custom resolution.

**Spike** · Apr 22, 2007, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nit3m4re

I've been using these mod tools for XP for a very long time so I am not new to the scene when it comes to installing etc etc, but anyway, moving onto my problem, I still followed the guide on the main page for the Mobility Modder and I still end up with the "Failed to find any installable components" message (Screen shots here) http://www2.simslearning.co.uk/locke...screenshot.jpg
I used the official 7.4 installer from ATi/AMD's website
I have an ATi Mobility Radeon X700 and normally for XP this always works, so I can't understand why on Vista Home Premium it doesn't. Any help would be appreciated

Nit3m4re

I will look into this. It is possible the hardware id of your chipset it not in my list yet.

**Spike** · Apr 22, 2007, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fleabttn

7.4's downloaded from ATI/AMD and modded with the tool do not support the native resolution of my Uniwill 258KA with the 9600/9700 series radeon (1280 x 800). The highest it's letting me go is 1024 x 768.

Hi,

like Zardon says use powerstrip for now. I am trying to add more resolutions to the files and more mobility chipsets.

Nit3m4re · Apr 22, 2007, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

I will look into this. It is possible the hardware id of your chipset it not in my list yet.

Is there anymore information you need on my graphics card? Like a dxdiag dump or anything to help you guys out?

Nit3m4re

**Spike** · Apr 22, 2007, 05:58 AM

Nit3m4re yes a dxdiag dump would help, because the hardware id is in there. Please send that to info@drivercleaner.net

Nit3m4re · Apr 22, 2007, 06:02 AM

fleabttn · Apr 22, 2007, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

Hi,

like Zardon says use powerstrip for now. I am trying to add more resolutions to the files and more mobility chipsets.

Okay, powerstripped it in and the driver works great! Thanks for the tool.