Driver Heaven Mobility Modder goes Final! V1.0.0.0

ed_co · May 9, 2008, 07:29 PM

Spike, any luck with firegl v5600?

Phate_cz · May 10, 2008, 07:36 AM

On Catalyst 8.3 and 8.4 doesnt work powerplay in Vista 32bit (not even tried 64bit). 8.2 work fine. Any solutions? Thank you

SSilence · May 13, 2008, 10:41 AM

Thank you so much for the final! I am experiencing no issues with Cat 8.4 on Vista SP1 (x86): the whole runs fine and modding was a bit faster than the previous release. I have to do strange passages to obtain the dual display mode, but that's Catalyst related, as almost all my previous problems were.

Thank you once again!

x_simon · May 14, 2008, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phate_cz

On Catalyst 8.3 and 8.4 doesnt work powerplay in Vista 32bit (not even tried 64bit). 8.2 work fine. Any solutions? Thank you

I have the same problem: the powerplay doesn't recongnize the power configuration of the system and can't decide to maximize battery life or performance. The visualization itself is messed up and also shows a VariBright option that never showed up before with my ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 on Vista Business using previous drivers (i.e. catalyst 8.1). Thanks in advance for any solution.

ed_co · May 15, 2008, 06:53 PM

Hi Spike, any luck for FireGL V5600? Please answer.

Thank you and greetings.

**Spike** · May 15, 2008, 10:06 PM

ed_co still looking at that. I found some differences in like the M58 and M58GL so will look more at that if those differences are FireGL specific orso.

ed_co · May 15, 2008, 11:40 PM

Thank you dude. Keep info.

ed_co · May 19, 2008, 11:28 PM

Keep info Spike. Please

**Spike** · May 20, 2008, 08:56 AM

ed_co when there is more info i will post it.

nManJofo · May 21, 2008, 10:49 AM

Hi all,

I'm running Mobility HD2600 on WinXP Pro (32-bit) right now, but I'm planning to switch to XP Pro X86-64. Is ModTool compatible with that OS?

THX

morphly · May 21, 2008, 10:48 PM

Hi,

just a quick note about Catalyst 8.5(which is officially available now).

I was able to mod Catalyst 8.5(Vista32) with modtool and install it successfully.
So far I didn't notice any missing or buggy functionality

Keep up the great work!

morphly

x_simon · May 22, 2008, 10:23 AM

Same problem as above, also with Catalyst 8.5:

Any Idea?

System64 · May 22, 2008, 12:21 PM

yea, i also have this problem with the powerplay missing.
Windows Vista x64, Catalyst 8.2 modded works fine. But Catalyst 8.3, 8.4 and recently, 8.5 (image below), powerplay is unable to work and no way to control the graphic card's power consumption. I hope the creator of Mobility modder can fix it soon! cheers!

Phate_cz · May 22, 2008, 05:45 PM

Same here 8.2 works fine, 8.3 and later didnt. Thank you for you work!

Vman · May 23, 2008, 03:16 PM

what's up with the hotfix, people. help me please. How do I instatll it, using the modder tool. Do I just have to mod the driver and then instatll thte hotfix. or should I mod the hotfix as well? and then install it. I got X1400 on my Dell inspiron E1505 (6400).

Vman · May 23, 2008, 03:18 PM

I am talking about 8.5 and vista x32. right now I have 7. somethting version installed. 7.5 maybe...

**Spike** · May 23, 2008, 10:06 PM

Most times the ati driver hotfix are full drivers, so you would only need to mod those and install that.

Phate_cz · May 24, 2008, 04:21 PM

2Spike: is there any solution on that 8.3 and later powerplay problem?

eltury · May 25, 2008, 11:09 AM

Spike, what am I doing wrong?...

A year ago I got that dreaded "hardware deadlock and infinite loop" issue with my video, and have been on the net ever since, (running on windows' generic VGA drivers), searching for a solution. I've heard many suggestions and "fixes", but no real fix, so I finally got to you guys at DH and thought "Great!...this sounds like it'll finally work!" but to my not so new surprise, it didn't, so I'm wandering that, although I've followed your step-by-step instructions on your "modder page", I must be doing something wrong, as it sounds like others in the forum have had good luck with it, so here's what I've been doing thus far, step-by-step:

Tried to download the drivers from ATI, but ran their "installation verification software" first, just to find out that they "don't support it", so when I came across your instructions, I downloaded the latest Catalyst from DH.
Downloaded and ran the modder against it, it passed the three "tests", so I thought, "Good!, it looks like this is finally a good fix!".
Waited until the driver was modified.
Installed the modified driver.
Rebooted, then...the deadlock and loop are back!... as if I hadn't done anything!

The following is my system:

HP Pavilion zd8000 Notebook
Pentium4 - 3.5Ghz
2Gb RAM
WindowsXP Professional - 32bit
ATI Mobility Radeon x600 - 256MB Ram
Lots of other "irrelevant" stuff.

Your modder is the best news I've heard so far, and believe me, I've been searching for a long time, so I hope that you can help me out...I want my 3D back, pleeease!

Sorry about the long explanation, and thanks in advance!

Hemilyo · May 26, 2008, 10:04 PM

I got a question, how can i go back to my last config? I have an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2400 and I have intalled this to taste the Age of Conan, but the results have been similars to the old ones and now I think it´s giving mw problems but with others programs (for example, I tried to upgrade Directx but I couldn´t, it have given me Error

) So... is there any way to go back? Thx for all.

eltury · May 27, 2008, 02:19 AM

Hemilyo, if you don't have a system backup, you can always do a System Restore to before you made the changes. If that doesn't fix it, I suggest to go to the Microsoft Forums, there's always someone who has had the same problems, good luck.

sonny2 · May 27, 2008, 11:39 AM

Hello driverheaven forum,

First of all: Great thanks for your effort, it makes working with my mobility radeon much better!

I've got the same problem with powerplay as already mentioned.
But there is additional information. Also the Driver from February (8.2) doesn't work fine. Thou powerplay IS available, the GPU DOES NOT switch in the battery-saver mode!! For this reason all Versions newer than 8.1 are not useful for my notebook

By the way: CCC works fine, the problem is the driver! I’ve now running CCC 8.4 but the driver from 8.1 (I know, it is not recommended) and it works satisfyingly.
I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400.

It would be really great, if this problem could be fixed, because ATI did some important changes for the Vista-Driver in March 2008!

With kind regards,
sonny2

patje · May 27, 2008, 12:03 PM

Congrats Spike,

It does me great pleasure to see someone still taking on this tough challenge!
Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Patje

**Spike** · May 28, 2008, 08:11 AM

eltury, the best you can do is check the hp website and see if there are maybe like a bios update and if so use that. For the rest i don't know why it has that problem. From your story i read that you have it a long time, it could be some hardware problem.

For the powerplay i am still comparing drivers to see what ati changed.

ChrisOTR · May 28, 2008, 10:27 AM

As the others have said, *thank you for your work!*.

I also have the powerplay problem though, FYI - Catalyst 8.5, X1700, Vista, Asus F3JP.

Thanks.

Phate_cz · Jun 1, 2008, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisOTR

As the others have said, *thank you for your work!*.

I also have the powerplay problem though, FYI - Catalyst 8.5, X1700, Vista, Asus F3JP.

Thanks.

i think -> nobody's care about this problem.... :-(

chironex · Jun 4, 2008, 03:59 PM

This tool has fixed everything! Thanks for everything!

**Spike** · Jun 4, 2008, 04:26 PM

Phate_cz, don't say things you don't know.

I am looking into the powerplay problem but can't find any big changes in the inf files that could cause it. So at the moment i have no idea how i could fix it. Also i am only 1 person that works on the program. But i keep looking at it.

If anybody has an idea what could cause it please tell.

Phate_cz · Jun 5, 2008, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

Phate_cz, don't say things you don't know.

I am looking into the powerplay problem but can't find any big changes in the inf files that could cause it. So at the moment i have no idea how i could fix it. Also i am only 1 person that works on the program. But i keep looking at it.

If anybody has an idea what could cause it please tell.

Sorry for that..., i thought you just ignoring that problem. Sorry again...

**Spike** · Jun 5, 2008, 09:33 AM

I never ignore any problems. I hope to make the program that it can help everybody with new drivers. It is just difficult with the changes that the drivers get and finding exactly what causes something.

May 9, 2008, 07:29 PM	#31
ed_co DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Spike, any luck with firegl v5600? Last edited by ed_co; May 9, 2008 at 07:36 PM.

May 13, 2008, 10:41 AM	#33
SSilence DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Thank you so much for the final! I am experiencing no issues with Cat 8.4 on Vista SP1 (x86): the whole runs fine and modding was a bit faster than the previous release. I have to do strange passages to obtain the dual display mode, but that's Catalyst related, as almost all my previous problems were. Thank you once again! __________________ My computers - Laptops 1)Packard Bell Easynote R8770. Centrino@1.8GHz Dothan, 1GB DDR333 ram, 100GB hdd, Ati Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB, Vista Ultimate SP1; 2)Compaq Presario v6131EU. Turion64X2 tl-50@1.6Ghz, 1GB DDR667 ram, 100GB hdd, GeForce Go 6150, XP Media Center. My computers - Desktops 1)AMD Duron@1.0GHz Morgan, 256MB ram, 20GB hdd, MoBo ECS K7VZA, Asus v9400 Magic 128MB, Win 2000 Professional; (Out of order: PSU failure damaged MoBo) 2)Intel Pentium4HT@3.2GHz Prescott, 1GB DDR2 400 ram, hdd1 200GB & hdd2 500GB (both SATA II, 16 MB cache), chipset Ati Xpress200, Nvidia GeForce 6800GS 256MB, Vista Ultimate SP1. (Still resisting to time attacks...)

May 15, 2008, 10:06 PM	#36
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	ed_co still looking at that. I found some differences in like the M58 and M58GL so will look more at that if those differences are FireGL specific orso. __________________

May 20, 2008, 08:56 AM	#39
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	ed_co when there is more info i will post it. __________________ Last edited by Spike; May 20, 2008 at 09:35 AM.

May 22, 2008, 12:21 PM	#43
System64 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Powerplay is not working yea, i also have this problem with the powerplay missing. Windows Vista x64, Catalyst 8.2 modded works fine. But Catalyst 8.3, 8.4 and recently, 8.5 (image below), powerplay is unable to work and no way to control the graphic card's power consumption. I hope the creator of Mobility modder can fix it soon! cheers!

May 10, 2008, 07:36 AM	#32
Phate_cz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	On Catalyst 8.3 and 8.4 doesnt work powerplay in Vista 32bit (not even tried 64bit). 8.2 work fine. Any solutions? Thank you

May 15, 2008, 06:53 PM	#35
ed_co DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Hi Spike, any luck for FireGL V5600? Please answer. Thank you and greetings.

May 15, 2008, 11:40 PM	#37
ed_co DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Thank you dude. Keep info.

May 19, 2008, 11:28 PM	#38
ed_co DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Keep info Spike. Please

May 21, 2008, 10:49 AM	#40
nManJofo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Hi all, I'm running Mobility HD2600 on WinXP Pro (32-bit) right now, but I'm planning to switch to XP Pro X86-64. Is ModTool compatible with that OS? THX

May 21, 2008, 10:48 PM	#41
morphly DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hi, just a quick note about Catalyst 8.5(which is officially available now). I was able to mod Catalyst 8.5(Vista32) with modtool and install it successfully. So far I didn't notice any missing or buggy functionality Keep up the great work! morphly

May 22, 2008, 10:23 AM	#42
x_simon DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Same problem as above, also with Catalyst 8.5: Any Idea?

May 22, 2008, 05:45 PM	#44
Phate_cz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Same here 8.2 works fine, 8.3 and later didnt. Thank you for you work!

May 23, 2008, 03:16 PM	#45
Vman DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	what's up with the hotfix, people. help me please. How do I instatll it, using the modder tool. Do I just have to mod the driver and then instatll thte hotfix. or should I mod the hotfix as well? and then install it. I got X1400 on my Dell inspiron E1505 (6400).

May 23, 2008, 03:18 PM	#46
Vman DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I am talking about 8.5 and vista x32. right now I have 7. somethting version installed. 7.5 maybe...

May 23, 2008, 10:06 PM	#47
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	Most times the ati driver hotfix are full drivers, so you would only need to mod those and install that. __________________

May 24, 2008, 04:21 PM	#48
Phate_cz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	2Spike: is there any solution on that 8.3 and later powerplay problem?

May 25, 2008, 11:09 AM	#49
eltury DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Problem with ATI Mobility x600 on HP Notebook Spike, what am I doing wrong?... A year ago I got that dreaded "hardware deadlock and infinite loop" issue with my video, and have been on the net ever since, (running on windows' generic VGA drivers), searching for a solution. I've heard many suggestions and "fixes", but no real fix, so I finally got to you guys at DH and thought "Great!...this sounds like it'll finally work!" but to my not so new surprise, it didn't, so I'm wandering that, although I've followed your step-by-step instructions on your "modder page", I must be doing something wrong, as it sounds like others in the forum have had good luck with it, so here's what I've been doing thus far, step-by-step: Tried to download the drivers from ATI, but ran their "installation verification software" first, just to find out that they "don't support it", so when I came across your instructions, I downloaded the latest Catalyst from DH. Downloaded and ran the modder against it, it passed the three "tests", so I thought, "Good!, it looks like this is finally a good fix!". Waited until the driver was modified. Installed the modified driver. Rebooted, then...the deadlock and loop are back!... as if I hadn't done anything! The following is my system: HP Pavilion zd8000 Notebook Pentium4 - 3.5Ghz 2Gb RAM WindowsXP Professional - 32bit ATI Mobility Radeon x600 - 256MB Ram Lots of other "irrelevant" stuff. Your modder is the best news I've heard so far, and believe me, I've been searching for a long time, so I hope that you can help me out...I want my 3D back, pleeease! Sorry about the long explanation, and thanks in advance!

May 26, 2008, 10:04 PM	#50
Hemilyo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I got a question, how can i go back to my last config? I have an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2400 and I have intalled this to taste the Age of Conan, but the results have been similars to the old ones and now I think it´s giving mw problems but with others programs (for example, I tried to upgrade Directx but I couldn´t, it have given me Error ) So... is there any way to go back? Thx for all.

May 27, 2008, 02:19 AM	#51
eltury DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hemilyo, if you don't have a system backup, you can always do a System Restore to before you made the changes. If that doesn't fix it, I suggest to go to the Microsoft Forums, there's always someone who has had the same problems, good luck.

May 27, 2008, 11:39 AM	#52
sonny2 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hello driverheaven forum, First of all: Great thanks for your effort, it makes working with my mobility radeon much better! I've got the same problem with powerplay as already mentioned. But there is additional information. Also the Driver from February (8.2) doesn't work fine. Thou powerplay IS available, the GPU DOES NOT switch in the battery-saver mode!! For this reason all Versions newer than 8.1 are not useful for my notebook By the way: CCC works fine, the problem is the driver! I’ve now running CCC 8.4 but the driver from 8.1 (I know, it is not recommended) and it works satisfyingly. I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400. It would be really great, if this problem could be fixed, because ATI did some important changes for the Vista-Driver in March 2008! With kind regards, sonny2

May 27, 2008, 12:03 PM	#53
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 64	Congrats Spike, It does me great pleasure to see someone still taking on this tough challenge! Keep up the good work! Regards, Patje __________________

May 28, 2008, 08:11 AM	#54
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	eltury, the best you can do is check the hp website and see if there are maybe like a bios update and if so use that. For the rest i don't know why it has that problem. From your story i read that you have it a long time, it could be some hardware problem. For the powerplay i am still comparing drivers to see what ati changed. __________________

May 28, 2008, 10:27 AM	#55
ChrisOTR DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	As the others have said, *thank you for your work!*. I also have the powerplay problem though, FYI - Catalyst 8.5, X1700, Vista, Asus F3JP. Thanks.

Jun 4, 2008, 03:59 PM	#57
chironex DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	This tool has fixed everything! Thanks for everything!

Jun 4, 2008, 04:26 PM	#58
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	Phate_cz, don't say things you don't know. I am looking into the powerplay problem but can't find any big changes in the inf files that could cause it. So at the moment i have no idea how i could fix it. Also i am only 1 person that works on the program. But i keep looking at it. If anybody has an idea what could cause it please tell. __________________

Jun 5, 2008, 09:33 AM	#60
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	I never ignore any problems. I hope to make the program that it can help everybody with new drivers. It is just difficult with the changes that the drivers get and finding exactly what causes something. __________________