Zardon

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

Anyway we can get this for Nvidia?

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Geminiwave

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

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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?

Zardon

The X1800 is supported yes.

ivan300

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

I used to improve my Dell

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LeanWolf

This is what first brought me to DriverHeaven

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blueice228

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

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

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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?

Zardon

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

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:

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

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

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.