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Mobility Radeon Drivers and Support Discuss all matters relating to ATI mobility drivers and hardware.

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Old Nov 15, 2009, 12:37 PM   #1
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Mobile 2600 HD on XP (32bit) - can't change for newer drivers.

Hey. I'll begin from the start. Once I had Vista on my laptop, but wanted to change back to XP. So the problem begins. I use AutoCad a lot. When installed XP, I installed also drivers for Radon from Toshiba (manufacturer of my laptop). Name of installation - display-20071207143025. Link - http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=645795 (from Tohsiba - manufacturer of my laptop). As you can see, they're so old (2007 year). But AutoCad worked and so did game, that I play a lot - Frets on Fire. Recently I installed Dragon Age (new game from BioWare) and had artifacts with those drivers (often screen changes unnaturally colours - pink, green, yellow etc.). So... I downloaded Drivers Catalyst 9.10, used Mobility Modder (of course Windows warns me that drivers are not certified) and - artifacts in Dragon Age are gone. But, when I try to use 3d view in AutoCad, it cracks. When I try to run Frets on Fire there is a hourglass for a moment by a coursor, screen turns blacks and immediately returns to Windows' desktop. Log from this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 85, in <module>
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 374, in run
File "data/PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5-py2.5.egg\OpenGL\error.py", line 92, in __str__
self.shortRepr( value ),
File "data/PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5-py2.5.egg\OpenGL\error.py", line 123, in shortRepr
if isinstance( value, (list,tuple) ) and value and len(repr(value))>=40:
MemoryError

Any ideas? I can't change drivers every time I want to use AutoCad or play DragonAge. Not to mention, that AutoCad is a very demanding program for a graphic card, so such old drivers are no good for it.

Update 1: I've also tried drivers 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.8; 9,9. None of them worked. The same problem as with 9.10.

Update 2: Finally, it works. Thanks to user who wrote this:
"
for mobility hd2600 & winxp x32:

download DESKTOP Radeon HD2600 driver & ccc for winxp (option 2 - Individual Downloads)

extract both, then interrupt installation after extraction is complete

in folder 9_3_xp32_dd/XP_INF, go to the file CX_####.inf

add this line
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9581
to the list under
[ATI.Mfg.NTx86]
save

then either
1. in device manager > update driver (ati card) > point to the .inf file
or
2. add ",0x9581" to the end of the second line (turn off word wrap in notepad!) of the chapter under [WINXP] starting with "R6=DriverPath_R6" of both files
\ATI\SUPPORT\[Current Version]\Driver\Driver\CX_*****.INI
&
\ATI\SUPPORT\[Current Version]\Driver\Driver\INSTALL.INI
then install the dd the regular way (setup.exe)

and install ccc
restart

Read more: ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2600 problems http://www.hardwareheaven.com/driverhe...#ixzz0WwC9RN7H
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Last edited by Kaduk; Nov 15, 2009 at 02:36 PM.
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