Driver Heaven Mobility Modder.net Public Beta V 0.8.8.0 - XP and Vista Support!

dark_jackal7 · Feb 23, 2008, 05:58 AM

is anyone here answering to people with problems?
please go to problem with mobility radeon x700

ynaig2k · Feb 24, 2008, 06:57 PM

I congratulate on making such tool available.

I use the Mobility Modder to mod the Vista drivers for Mobility Radeon 9700 and successfully installed on my laptop.

However I see two small problems that keeps bugging me out. I don't see 1280x800 in the resolution list when I try to play games and not even when I want to change the desktop resolution. My laptop screen is 1920x1200. I want 1280x800 because it gives correct scaling at reduced resolution for my laptop screen. Is there any way to add this particular resolution in Vista manually or by another means?

Laptop screen powering off doesn't work at all. I've tried every setting possible and no luck. Is this feature missing in the Vista drivers?

Thank you for trying to answer my questions.
Ynaig

**Spike** · Feb 27, 2008, 04:40 AM

ynaig2k can you tell me what notebook you have? then i can compare screen resolutions and see which i need to add. For the laptop screen not powering off i have no idea, but maybe i can see it by looking at the drivers if you can point me to the original drivers.

bloodangel · Mar 4, 2008, 11:03 AM

hi can u help me?
i have the Compaq Presario R3000 with ATI Mobility Radeo 9000 IGP.
What is the latest driver from ATI that i can use on this and convert using this app so that it will install on my laptop? I just tried the very latest driver from ATI and converted it, but after install all my gfx res is low and colour res is 4bit and i cant change it back.

Thanks in advance
Mark

ynaig2k · Mar 4, 2008, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

ynaig2k can you tell me what notebook you have? then i can compare screen resolutions and see which i need to add. For the laptop screen not powering off i have no idea, but maybe i can see it by looking at the drivers if you can point me to the original drivers.

My laptop is Sager NP3790 (Clevo M37EW for the origin of the manufacturer). The resolution 1280x800 fits in the whole screen without black bars or something like that. There is of course 720x480 which does the same and it's available in Vista, but some games want bigger resolutions than 800x600.

I use the Catalyst 8.2 for Radeon 9700 (not mobility, since AMD/ATI doesn't offer drivers for Mobility 9x00 series).

Ynaig

mkkadi · Mar 6, 2008, 04:07 AM

Hi. I have a laptop with Ati X1700 graphic card and also im using XP. I used to omega drivers but ı want to install catalyst 8.1 or 8.3(new one). I downloaded MobilityDotNET4, Msxmsl 4 and catalyst 8.1 and 8.3. I modified the driver with the program but when ı tried to install them ı get the same message, the setup did not find driver competible with your current hardware... You know that and what am i have to do? Where i was wrong?

kkay · Mar 6, 2008, 04:56 PM

i have an asus F8SA w/ mobility hd 2600. im trying to get the video drivers to work with windows xp but i keep on getting a message that says something like: no ati video card was detected. i've followed all the necessary steps for mobility modder and i've also tried different versions of catalyst. i've even tried omega drivers without success. anyone have a solution for this?

capone007 · Mar 7, 2008, 06:17 PM

Hi!

Have an ASUS X51RL laptop with Radeon X1100 on board and WinXP SP2. When installing modified Catalyst 8.2 it recognises as 200M

any solutions?
thanks!

Agnt47 · Mar 8, 2008, 09:54 PM

Heyas all

I have a ASUS PRO31 JSeries Notebook with ati radeon x2300 video card. I bought it for my son at Christmas who useis it for school and a bit of gaming. We are trying to run games which need opengl, ETQW, SOF2 & BF2.
I have run the modtool and followed all instructions, all seemed to work fine but the games still wont run.

I get the opengl video card compliant error

ASUS tech's tell me it is possible to unlock the card and get opengl working but they wont tell me how..just to google it, but Im not cluey enough to get it working

Can someone please tell me if I am on the right track with this modtool / opengl problem.??

AdyJC · Mar 9, 2008, 12:31 PM

Hi

I have got an toshiba lptop with a ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP graphics chip in it with 64MB memory. The problem is I have been tryong to get it to work with a 22" widescreen external monitor but there is no widescreen resolution available on the settings. I spotted this modder tool which looks just the job but it doesn't list the 7000 card as one it works for. Is my graphics card too old to cope with widescreen ?. My laptop has got a ATI control panel on it but not a CATALYST centre, does this matter ?

Thanks

adi_g_s · Mar 10, 2008, 04:48 AM

Hello guys,

I have a Benq P52 laptop with ati card x1600, AMD Turion x2 TL-52, Vista Home Premium SP1. I managed to install the 8.3 display driver with the help of the mobility modder, works well.
But I have 2 issues:
- Starting Media Center crashes Vista SP1 in black screen. After uninstall driver 8.3 and use the embedded vista driver, Media Center works well.
- i don't know how to install the Catalyst Control Center. Even if i use the full driver package with ccc, i don't have the option to install ccc.

SSilence · Mar 11, 2008, 06:45 PM

This time everything is really perfect: no refresh rate issues, no missing components in CCC, no stuttering in games (even OpenGL ones)... A little incompatibility persists between ATi's PowerPlay and Ati Tray Tools, but that's an old ATT problem affecting many laptop owners. I just have to remember to exit ATT before going standby on battery to avoid the system to hang at resume. But this has nothing to do with the Mobility Modder, which always makes an excellent work for me. The problems I experienced in the past varied from a Cat version to another, so the Catalyst were the source of the matters, not the great MM.

Once again, thank you for your effort & results!

adi_g_s · Mar 13, 2008, 03:42 AM

SSilence, do you have any issues with Vista Media Center? for me Vista crashes everytime i put Media Center in full screen mode.
I have tried 8.2, 8.3 modded catalyst versions and is the same situation.
only the default Vista WDM display driver works.

apicia · Mar 15, 2008, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sHARD>>

Hey guys, I had the same brightness issue when I upgraded as well. The reason is because the ATI drivers now have two color modes. One muted and low contrast, for standard computer use, and one vibrant with whiter whites, for "media center use". I find the vibrant settings more attractive and true to life even without media center use, so I found a way to change it back (it's easy).

Open the Catalyst Control Center, go to the Color area, scroll to the bottom of the panel, and change it from "PC Standard white and black levels" to "Microsoft MCE black and white levels". That'll change it to the vibrancy you are used to. Not sure why the newer drivers change this back to PC Standard, but I think you'll find this will fix it right up for you.

This is my current problem. Where did this option go? Is there another way to bring back the brightness?

frg · Mar 15, 2008, 09:31 PM

thank you for this great tool, i just modded catalyst 8.3 for my mobility x1900 and it works fine

my comp:

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1554 here. Vista user.
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2 GHz 2MB
2048 MB, DDR2 533 MHz
ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 - 256 MB
1920x1200 pixel, WUXGA CrystalView

fiish · Mar 16, 2008, 09:33 AM

Firstly, this is an excellent tool, kudos to the makers! I'm using Catalyst 8.2 on my X1700 on Vista32 Business with no problems; 8.3 has problems with CCC's PowerPlay page and screen blinking, though, but given 8.2 has no problems I suspect it's the driver's issue.

A question on the tool: if I don't turn UAC off but instead run the Modder Tool as Administrator (even while I'm in my admin account) will it malfunction while still pronouncing a successful modification?

ynaig2k · Mar 20, 2008, 09:36 AM

I might have a suspicion regarding to my issues. Here on my laptop (NP3790) the monitor (laptop screen) is shown as a red X mark meaning it is not recognized properly and as a result Vista uses a more restrictive mode for graphics driver. It would also explain the inability of Windows Media Player to show any streamed videos from internet. Of course I can show them easily with VideoLAN, but that's all I can suspect.

Ynaig

HentPT · Mar 25, 2008, 10:21 PM

Hello, first of all thank you for your great project! This helps alot of people that wants to keep their drivers up2date.
I have a problem while using the Mob Modder to be able to instal CCC 8.3.. that i will explain right now,
When I try the DirectX Diagnostics (dxdiag), and go to the graphics test, i can test DirectDraw and everything turns out okay, but then, I cannot test the Direct3D version, and it tells me that Direct3D is not available. So i went to Catalyst Control Center, and i Found out that in Graphics Software section it tells me that Direct3D Version is 6.14.10.0567.
I tryed to run a game that I usually runned before (FlyFF), and it tells me this error:
"WARNING: Nothing will be rendered.
The reference rending device has been selected, but your computer only has a reduced funcionality reference device installed. Install the DirectX SDK to get the full reference device."
I press OK, and it shows:
"Generic application error" and it closes. With older CCC drivers dxdiag detected direct3D. why doesnt it detects now? Do I need to download the full SDK? will it make any difference?

I have the last DirectX, and i'm on a Compac Presario 2800, with windows XP, and my graphic card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 1.6ghz and 256ram. what could it be due to?

p.s: (here is the full graphics hardware section showing in CCC):

Code:

Graphics Card Manufacturer    Powered by ATI    
Graphics Chipset    ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500    
Device ID    4C57    
Vendor    1002    
    
Subsystem ID    004A    
Subsystem Vendor ID    0E11    
    
Bus Type    AGP    
Current Bus Setting    AGP 4X    
    
BIOS Version    006.001.006.007    
BIOS Part Number    BK6.0.0 VR006.001.006.007.002.001.001.001 j    
BIOS Date    2002/05/17    
    
Memory Size    32 MB    
Memory Type    DDR SGRAM / SDRAM    
    
Core Clock in MHz    261 MHz    
Memory Clock in MHz    176 MHz    
    
Primary Display    Yes

idea: Should I try CCC 8.2?!

**Spike** · Mar 26, 2008, 03:14 AM

I still can't find out why by some people when the driver is modded there is no direct3d. I am still looking at this. So if anybody has suggestions or know how it happens please tell.

HentPT · Mar 26, 2008, 09:03 AM

hum.. thank you spike. but you think that if i try to install CCC 8.2 Direct3D could re-appear? or is it generic to MobMod?!

p.s: With CCC 8.1 happens the same mistake. any ideas? Spike do you think installing DirectX SDK would help?

**Spike** · Mar 26, 2008, 04:00 PM

You could try installing the sdk and see if that works.

The CCC doesn't make a difference in the Direct 3D. It is just a control panel to change teh settings.

It is also possible that the new drivers don't have the direct3d code in it for those older cards, those older cards are like directx 7 and maybe that is not in the new drivers anymore.

**Spike** · Mar 26, 2008, 04:03 PM

@fiish if you run the tool in administrator mode and the modding did go ok then it is good. Turning of the UAC is just an advice we give, but it is not needed.

micsimms · Apr 1, 2008, 05:04 PM

There is a known issue with recent Catalyst drivers and AGP Bus based GPUs. It may be affecting some mobility platforms too, causing the Direct3D/DirectX issues mentioned of late in this thread. I don't know if running the hotfix will work on mobility based systems but it is available here from Sapphire:

32-bit VISTA: http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/driverfiles/409.zip
64-bit VISTA: http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/driverfiles/411.zip
32-bit XP: http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/driverfiles/407.zip
64-bit XP: http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/driverfiles/413.zip

Thanks for the excellent modding tool though. Works a treat on my new notebook the ASUS F3Sr-AP725C with Mobility Radeon HD2400 GPU, keep up the excellent work!

foutiti67 · Apr 1, 2008, 05:34 PM

Hello !
Please could you help me !?
I have bought a xi 2550 with a HD2700 inside.
The original driver is very bad (made by fujitsu siemens).
This is the code in dxdiag

Thanks to you !

ps : sorry for my bad english

Code:

---------------
Display Devices
---------------
        Card name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700
     Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
        Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9583)
         DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
       Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9583&SUBSYS_11071734&REV_00
   Display Memory: 1012 MB
 Dedicated Memory: 245 MB
    Shared Memory: 767 MB
     Current Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (59Hz)
          Monitor: Moniteur Plug-and-Play générique
      Driver Name: atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.dat,atitmmxx.dll
   Driver Version: 7.14.0010.0549 (English)
      DDI Version: 10
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
 Driver Date/Size: 12/4/2007 22:43:54, 3117568 bytes
      WHQL Logo'd: n/a
  WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-D6C3-11CF-A176-0D31A1C2CA35}
        Vendor ID: 0x1002
        Device ID: 0x9583
        SubSys ID: 0x11071734
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C 
 Deinterlace Caps: {6E8329FF-B642-418B-BCF0-BCB6591E255F}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive 
                   {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch 
                   {5A54A0C9-C7EC-4BD9-8EDE-F3C75DC4393B}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY 
                   {6E8329FF-B642-418B-BCF0-BCB6591E255F}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,UYVY) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive 
                   {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,UYVY) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch 
                   {5A54A0C9-C7EC-4BD9-8EDE-F3C75DC4393B}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,UYVY) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY 
                   {3C5323C1-6FB7-44F5-9081-056BF2EE449D}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,2) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive 
                   {552C0DAD-CCBC-420B-83C8-74943CF9F1A6}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,2) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive 
                   {6E8329FF-B642-418B-BCF0-BCB6591E255F}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive 
                   {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch 
                   {5A54A0C9-C7EC-4BD9-8EDE-F3C75DC4393B}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY 
     DDraw Status: Enabled
       D3D Status: Enabled
       AGP Status: Enabled

**Spike** · Apr 2, 2008, 02:57 AM

That 2700 and some newer ones will be in the new version. I hope to release that asap.