ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 Driver Issues...

cruelfeline

Hi all,

I've been trying to install some updated ATI drivers (7.6) onto my Dell 6400 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 card in order to play some Viva Pinata for PC.

Even though the mod tool has worked, and I've apparently installed the drivers, the game still tells me that it can't run properly because the version of ati2dvag.dll is still 6.14.10.6698. My CCC gives me the following info:

Driver Packaging Version 8.383-070613a-048640C-ATI
Catalyst® Version 07.6
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6698
2D Driver File Path System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video/{7CF23FB3-50DF-4410-B6D8-AE6FD4F16A26}/0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0503
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.6479
Catalyst® Control Center Version 2007.0613.1506.25058

Other system info off of dxdiag:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_qfe.070227-2300)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: MM061
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A17
Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 711MB used, 1747MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

Display Devices
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Card name: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7145)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7145&SUBSYS_20031028&REV_00
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 800 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor Max Res:
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6698 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 6/13/2007 14:24:32, 268288 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Mini VDD Date: 6/13/2007 14:24:13, 2155520 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-3205-11CF-B269-0900A1C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x7145
SubSys ID: 0x20031028
Revision ID: 0x0000
Revision ID: 0x0000
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D ModeWMV8_B ModeWMV8_A ModeWMV9_B ModeWMV9_A
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
{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
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: Not run
D3D7 Test Result: Not run
D3D8 Test Result: Not run
D3D9 Test Result: Not run

The Catalyst Version has apparently been successfully updated to 7.6, but my driver... has not? Ever since trying to update my drivers, I've been getting errors involving my laptop switching to 4-bit colors and telling me that ati2dvag.dll stopped working correctly; looking through my event log shows some sort of infinite loop error. It happens when I enter the game despite its warnings.

I'm somewhat new at this, so I'm probably missing something really obvious/idiotic. Help?

Thanks,
CF

temeteus82

Hi there and Welcome to DriverHeaven!

Did you uninstalled the old drivers before installing the new drivers?

cruelfeline

Yea; or, at least, I think I did.

I went through the Control Panel and uninstalled anything with ATI in the name; I got DriverCleaner to clean anything with ATI.

temeteus82

Hmm... if you used DC to clean it should remove all ATI .dll files. Uninstall again ati drivers, but before that get the CAT 7.12 from ATi and mod them... They might solve the issue.

cruelfeline

Tried the modded 7.12; same error, again.

Edit: Went back to Omega drivers; the ATI modded ones were messing with my ingame graphics. The problem's still occuring, though. And I've tried a bunch of stuff: updating BIOS and chipset drivers, updating other drivers, trying different graphics drivers, etc, etc. I can get into Viva Pinata for a few minutes, then some of the non-3D graphics (icons and stationary backgrounds) will suddenly go black, and the game will crash to desktop. Desktop will be in 4-bit colors at a really low resolution, and I have to reboot.

There are so many supposed solutions to this online, and none I've tried have worked for me. Anyone?