The EPIC legacy of the Radeon IGP 320M / 340M / 345M and related chips out there

Sato

Hello my dear warriors with ATI ;]

I have tried a lot of version catalyst and omega drivers, after weak of researching with omega drivers 3.8.221 I got WONDERFUL, really WONDERFUL results.
No problems with movies, and what is more important to me no problems with games.
So this showed to me that my igp 345 can work with games , but after 4 days, something happened, really I didn’t do any install, like some acceleration stopped. In games frames speed about 2f/s

I have try fresh install, with same omega drivers 3.8.221, when loading windows my system crash ;]

And again the same -> I am trying all drivers but nothing ;/ , catalysts 5.9, 5.13 ,,,,,, support direct x but frames 2f/s in games ;/

Now every time I do fresh install, but first when installed omega drivers 3.8.221, I just uninstalled old drivers-> restarted-> installed new

matasvytautas

there is something very interesting about this video card

Randomness

Hello:
The omega drivers 3.8.221 are based on ATi Catalyst 6.2 ;
You may be encountering hardware acceleration issues with "AGP Texture Acceleration" and "Direct3D Acceleration" if your Radeon IGP 345M's AGP BUS (aka ATi GART) driver becomes corrupted. Please refer back in this thread on how to install a fresh copy of the ATi GART.

When you have your movie playback working, could you also verify the type of video rendering you use when watching DVDs and/or other videos. Are you using an "Overlay Mixer" or a "Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)"

Have fun, and take care.

Sato

i have yus installed again drivers omega 3.8.221, result not the same, system is stabil but it seem, like Randomness sad texture acceleration off, in dxdiag all accelerations enabled,

When installing omega drivers you need to choose fast write off/on, i choose off (recomend omega) is it wright?

ps( auto cad is running much better with this omega drivers, and i know that the games was good to but how to set back this thing ;]] )

Sato

Sorry, but i dont know how to atach all dxdiag results file, so i pasted yus begining of it
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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/26/2006, 17:19:58
Machine name: FUMITO
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: Lithuanian)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Pavilion ze5600 (DX719E)
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 382MB RAM
Page File: 232MB used, 787MB 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
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DxDiag Notes
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DirectX Files Tab: The file d3d9d.dll is a debug version, which will run slower than the retail version.
Display Tab 1: The file ati2dvag.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer. DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.
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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
---------------
Display Devices
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Card name: RADEON IGP 34xM (Omega 3.8.221)
Manufacturer:
Chip type: RADEON IGP 340M AGP (0x4337)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4337&SUBSYS_0850103C&REV_00
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic Television
Monitor Max Res: 640,480
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6599 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 1/25/2006 05:52:48, 255488 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
Mini VDD Date: 1/25/2006 05:52:31, 1478656 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-0077-11CF-4B6A-5A28A1C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x4337
SubSys ID: 0x0850103C
Revision ID: 0x0000
Revision ID: 0x0000
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=DeinterlaceTech_BOBLineReplicate
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,UYVY) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YV12,0x32315659) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
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r_e_n_i_a

Hello.I read most of the threads.I have an HP NX9010 with ATI IGP345M.I installed omega drivers version 2.6.75a the latest based on catalyst 6.9 i think as a member suggested before.Well i saw an improvement because the game Call of Duty 2 didn't play well on my computer now playsa little better.But the games still need very low detail to play well.I mean 640x480 or 800x600 the maximum and not for all of them.You think that i can do something better with other drivers or this is the maximum performance i can get from drivers?

Sato

hy renia ,
I don't think that this card would be good to play in max setings, but in normall have to run ;]
For tes i use demo version of the game "Cars" i have played it in 1024*765 resoliution witn no lag, now i have onli 2f/s, and newer more, seems like something don't let to accelarete,

Randomness i misedd your posts, please return, we need you ;]

ps( i think, maybe problem not with grafic drivers, maybi gart or bridge drivers )

Sato

Hello all,
This early morning i drink coffe and think, maybi problem is not there we are looking, this paste is from ati web page
[COLOR=#0000ff]https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894[/COLOR]


Not only do you need display drivers for an AGP graphics card, you also need
drivers for your motherboard which enable AGP functionality for the motherboard
chipset.

These drivers may be referred to using any of the following names:
AGP Driver
AGP Miniport
AGP VXD Driver
Chipset Driver
GART Driver
VGART
Often you will see the name of a motherboard chipset in connection with these
terms. For example:
ALi GART Driver
AMD AGP Miniport
Intel VGART
VIA AGP Driver

r_e_n_i_a

@Sato

Sato thanks for replying.I already have a ALI Fir driver (found it in the add/remove programs) Also which drivers do you use because I face many problems and gaps with mine and i am still playing games at 640x480!!!!If i was able to play satisfying enough at 800x600 i would be greatfull....

Randomness

Hello:

Game preformance:

The Radeon IGP 3xxM series chips will not support any newer game based on Pixel Shader 2.0 or above. With a Core speed of only 160MHz, and limited memory bandwidth (because it shares the same memory bus as the CPU), it is very doubtful this chip can handle any "new" game at high quality.
However it will handle most of the older DirectX 7 and 8.1 games rather will at high quality.

Technical stuff / driver information:

The Radeon IGP 3xxM chip is a Northbridge of your system's chipset. The systems using this chip as a Northbridge will usually use an ALi 1535+ Southbridge to handle USB, Sound, Modem, etc...
You can get the newest drivers for the ULi/ALi 1535+ from Nvidia:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html

I would recommend using 7z to extract the driver files from the IntegratedDriver2.20.exe InstallShield Package. It will allow you to manually install any driver files you may want to try / experiment with.
The only driver i would recommend is the IDE Miniport. But the sound driver is compatible with these systems (but is older than the ConexantAMC drivers fro Microsoft Update).
You DO NOT need the ALi AGP driver because the AGP driver is for a ALI/ULI NORTHBRIDGE. The northbridge in these notebooks is the Radeon IGP 3xxM itself, and hense uses the ATi GART AGP Driver.

The Northbirdge itself need 2 drivers to run properly. The ATi GART, which manages the AGP resources, and the Catalyst driver for the Radeon core itself.

This chip is too old to support Catalyst 6.6 or newer. Using anything based on Catalyst 6.6 or newer will make you system unstable, and possibly leed to BSODs.
I have made drivers based on Catalyst 6.4, which work in Windows XP, and Vista, and you can dowload them from here:

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showpost...&postcount=188

Please pay special attention on how to edit the INF to include the IGP34xM chip to this driver. I forgot to include it when i uploaded the drivers.

If you'd like to use some other Driverset, (Omega, or other modded Catalyst driver) you can get just the AGP GART driver from HP here:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/21127.html

However, i have yet to get proper DVD video playback with these drivers in XP, and sometimes DivX / Xvid / MPEG video files can suffer from playback issues.
The GOOD news is these playback problems are not present in Windows Vista, and you can use upto Catalyster Version 6.5, and still have DVD playback / preformance in some newer games.

Sato:

You DXDIAG post suggests Windows XP might be running low on memory. It looks like you have 512MB of RAM install, and you set the Radeon IGP 3xxM to 128MB. This reduces XP's memory to 384 MB. I would only recommend setting the Radeon's UMA to 128MB if you have more than 512MB of system RAM installed.
try setting the UMA back to 64MB. You will only notice games get faster with 128MB setting if you have enough system RAM for windows as well.

The Omega Drivers also seem to have changed you monitor setting to "generic televison". I have seen this cause gaming problems on other systems. I would recommend uninstalling the Omega drivers, clean your system with DriverCleaner from www.drivercleaner.net and installing the original HP drivers for your system, which you can get here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_CAEN

Once they are installed, you should notice 2 or 3 "Default Monitors" and possibly a "Digital Flat Panel (1024x768)" in Device manager
If not, you will have to re-clean you system, and try again.
If they are there, than you simply need to "Manually" install the Omega drivers, or other modded Catalyst driver by right clicking on the Radeon IGP3xxM under Display adapters, and click Update driver. Choose the "Advanced" option, Choose the "don't search" option, click "Have Disk" and browse to the location of the unpacked Omega Drivers.

According to the DXDIAG Post, you have a ze5618EA
If you haven't already done so, try updating your BIOS as well:
Version: KH.F.25
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_CAEN

r_e_n_i_a:

The best preformance i have come accoss with this chipset is if you have 1GB of RAM, and set you IGP 3xxM to use UMA at 128MB, and using Catalyst version 5.9. Set the OpenGL and Direct3D settings to "Preformance" or "Optimal Preformance" in the ATi Control Panel. You could use Patje's mod tool to make your own Catalyst 5.9 or find a Omega Driver version based on Catalyst 5.9.

Good luck, take care, and have fun.

- Randomness

chiefkawasaki

yea ive been playin around with the settings of vlc and wmp 11 for a long time xD if i turn off overlays then the playback has "screen-tearing". with overlays on the movie plays very slowly, and sumtimes the whole pc freezes (depends how new the drivers are). if only i could find a way to get rid of this it would be so sweet but i doubt there is a way, but feh im gonna prolly get a new pc in the next few months so i dun care that much anymore prolly gonna give this one to my mom

PlayNice

I'm basically at that point where Im about to lose my mind. You know? Sitting right there on the edge...

Ive read through this thread, I've used a random assortment of recomendations and nothing seems to work consistantly. I have a Emachines M5309, AMD 2500+, 512mb ram and a ATI320M.

I just want to play wow, i know how to get the video to work, just make my games run properly .



(also, it should be known that, i used to be able to play WoW, but now after a reformat, i have been unable to find the old drivers i used to use, and the two best success's was a slow choppy, or artifacted WoW so far)

LurkerPatrol

Hi,

I've read thru a lot of this thread and tried different drivers for my IGP 345M. I already know that it is not capable of running the newest games at high resolutions, but it used to be able to run GTA: San Andreas at 640x480. It could also run Vice city, and other games at low res's. One thing I DO know very well is that it could run counterstrike without any hassles. I'm not talking about CS:Source, but regular plain old counterstrike. Recently I tried to play CS and I got fps spikes galore with my avg fps looking something around 20s and less. I know for sure I could play CS with AT LEAST 50 fps, so I was wondering what happened. I tried various drivers but they all gave the same results. I began to notice that it wasn't just with playing CS but also with viewing videos online with flash, and sometimes there was lag with watching avis. I got so tired of my computer and my vid card running so slowly that I reformatted everything, wiped out and cleaned, and reinstalled drivers from Sony. After trying out CS again, I notice that the lag was good at around 60-80 fps, but at times would drop to 5-20 fps. I was shaking my mouse around a little bit and noticed this happening. This was on a server that I had created myself, so there were no other players, and no internet problems really. I am still pre-loading cs from steam so that could be a tiny issue, but really I see it as vid card issues when I load up the frame rate displayer. I have no idea what to do anymore. I have set my settings for ATI at high performance, everything was cut down to lowest settings, and yet still I get spikes.

I'm about ready to give up on this old turtle and see if I can get my dad to give me that spare desktop he has in his workplace. Until then I'm stuck.

Here are the specs of my computer:

Sony Vaio PCG-K25
2.8 GHz P4
1 GB of RAM (128 MB of which is allocated to the vid card - reducing this to the 896 MB)
SP2.
Radeon IGP 345M
I have no idea what my mobo is, but if you need any other info let me know.

HELP! Is there anything I can do?

-LP

PlayNice

I would just like to thank Randomness. The drives you made that are linked in the post at the top of this page worked great!
THANKS ALOT!

Hatchman

Could you be a little more descriptive on how to add the Device codes? Thanks!

PocketInuYasha

Hey LukerPatrol, I had the same problem you do, what I did was download the drivers Randomness linked on this forum and search on google for ati radeon 5.13b drivers. Then I took randomness's drivers and only installed the "gart" driver by using the update driver feature on the "PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI Bridge" or "ATi A3/U1 Accelerated Graphics Port". Then, I restarted my notebook and installed the ati radeon 5.13b drivers. After that, I dont have problems w/ CS nor playing .avi files and dvd's.

I hope this help people out, if anyone has a problem or is confused on what I've written, they can email me at jcfox6@netzero.net or PocketInuYasha@comcast.net
John aka PocketInuYasha

Randomness

Hello Hatchman:

Open the 320M.inf file with notepad. You should see this:
Edit where I have indicated:
;-----------------------------------------------
; ATI Display Information file : ATIIXPAG.INF
; Installation INF for the ATI display driver.
; Copyright(C) 1998-2004 ATI Technologies Inc.
; Windows XP
; Base INF Last Updated 2005/07/12
[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Provider=%ATI%
ClassGUID={4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Class=Display
DriverVer=04/12/2006,8.241
;;LayoutFile=Layout.inf
[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 11
ati2mtag.Miniport = 12 ; drivers
ati2mtag.Display = 11 ; system32
[ControlFlags]
ExcludeFromSelect=*
;
; Driver information
;
[Manufacturer]
%ATI% = ATI.Mfg, NTx86

; [ATI.Mfg.NTx86] IS THE LABEL to put the IGP34x/IGP35x device ID codes under:

[ATI.Mfg.NTx86]

"RADEON IGP 320M w/OpenGL(MS-XDDM)" = ati2mtag_U1, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4336

; ADD DEVICE CODE HERE:
"RADEON IGP 340M/345M/350M w/OpenGL (MS-XDDM)" = ati2mtag_U1, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4337

;
; General installation section
;
[ati2mtag_default]
; don't need to worry about any other part of the INF.


Good luck, and take care.
-Randomness

Randomness

Hello LukerPatrol:

If you are experiencing unstable fps in those games,
and changing the ATi Radeon Driver and GART driver doesn't fix it, it is possible your system has one or more of the following:

1) Overheating issue
2) A Background program is causing intermittent low resources
3) Potential Virus or other malware is using up resources.

I would suggest clearing out any un-needd startup programs, and defragmenting your system.
Sony VIAO laptops are known to have quite a few background programs running with the included software from Sony.

Goto www.systerinternals.com and download "Autoruns". This program will allow you to easily enable/disable or even delete start-up items under the "Logon" Tab in the program.

Good luck, and take care
- Randomness

LurkerPatrol

Hi Randomness,

Thank you for your advice. I have actually cleaned out my system (reformatted) and I had no known viruses from before, so I knew that wasn't the issue. I used the win xp pro cd to reinstall windows (since sony doesnt give one) and that installs just XP pro sans the Sony junk. So now I have few processes running in the bg.

I tried PocketInuYasha's method and installed the GART from HP (which you referenced on page 17) and I looked for ATI Radeon 5.13b drivers and installed those after installing GART. I found no lag in cs (my comp fan still runs REALLY high though), but I maintain a steady 40-50 fps with no spikes or hiccups. However I'm still finding trouble when viewing flash media off of allfg.org let's say. I was watching simpsons episodes, and I keep getting lag (with video freezing while audio still running) when my viewing window has been reduced from full screen.

I don't know how to fix this problem, or if there is even a solution for this problem, but apparently PIY's method and your drivers seemed to work, so I tip my hat to you both. *tips*.

Thanks for all your help, I will continue to update if I notice any problems or miracles.

LP

Edit: Actually I'm noticing a huge problem here. When I right click anything, I have the ATI catalyst control center in my selection group. If I click on it, I get an error

cli.exe - Application Error

(BIG RED X) The application failed to initialize properly (oxc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Huh?

Randomness

Hello again,

1) CLI.exe,is the main executable for the ATI CCC (Catalyst Control Panel)
The ATI CCC is not very compatible with the Radeon IGP 3xxM, and most people run into trouble with it when the install it with a modded Catalyst driver.

Your can unistall it specially (i.e. not the driver as well) through Add/Remove programs in Windows Control Panel. If the uninstall entry is not available, download DriverCleaner Pro, from www.drivercleaner.net, and use the ATI CCC filter ONLY. if you use any other ATI filter, you will risk deleting the installed display driver as well.

You can replace the ATI CCC with and older, more friendlier ATI Control Panel from Catalyst 5.11 from ATi's website. You can find it by going to the download section, expand the "RADEON" entry under Windows XP, and clicking on "Previous Drivers and Software"

2) I would recommend cleaning your notebook's vents, fans and heatsinks with a can of compressed air. If you fell confidient enough, i would also recommend replacing the thermal pads/thermal compound between you heat sinks and CPU, and other system components. However i would not recommend this unless you have a good service manual or guide explaining how to disassemble your notebook. DO NOT attempt this if you still have a warranty. And you do so under your own risk.

3) If the Direct3D and the DirectDraw tests in the DXDIAG tool are successful, than it is unlikely that the flash media issues are driver related.
If the Flash media is dependent on OpenGL: it is possible that your ATI OpenGL driver module got corrupted or wasn't installed correctly, i would recommend "OpenGL Extenion View" from http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/
to confirm that you are using the ATI OpenGL render and not the built in GDI render.
Please reference back in this post regarding how to fix this problem. However if you installed this using the pre-modded Catalyst 5.13b from station-drivers.com, than you shouldn't normally get this problem.

4) Video playback (DVD, DivX, XVid, MPEG) becomes very problematic when using a modded driver newer than Catalyst 4.10 ; The best work around would be to make sure that all your codecs / video acceleration options in your programs are set (where possible) to use VMR 7 or VMR 9 ( i recommend 7) (VMR = Video Mixing Renderer).
Any video playback dependent on an "Overlay Mixer" will generally hang the system, or have poor playback fram rates.

Good luck, have fun, and take care.

- Randomness

skeene85

To my knowledge my HP Pavilion ze5700 has the ATI RS200M. I know for a fact it only has 64 MB of video memory.

Installed Vista RC2, and Windows has me listed as having the Radeon IGP 320M, which seems to be using a driver manufactured by MS.

I've had a few STOP (blue screen of death) errors referring to ati2dvag.dll, and I'm wondering I should attempt updating to the Vista beta catylist listed on ATI's site, but I don't know if that's correct for me or not.


- skeene
shawn.keene@gmail.com

Randomness

Hello:

The Pavilion ze5700 uses a ATI Radeon IGP 3xxM series. The RS200M is generally HP's way off declaring it has a IGP 34x series for an Intel Processor.

Its memory is based on available installed RAM, and the UMA setting in the BIOS. In some cases the UMA options may be limited to 64MB or less, or even not be availabe at all if there is insufficient installed system RAM, or BIOS update is required for the particular notebook model.


In any case, the IGP 3xxM series all use the same graphics drivers.

The Vista Beta Catalyst is based on the WDDM, which is incompatible with any Radeon core older than the Radeon 9500 series. Attempting to use these drivers (via modding) may make your system unstable.

The older Radeons need to use what Vista has coined XDDM drivers, or XP Display Drivers. Using any normally compatible XP drivers for the Radeon IGP 3xxM in Vista will work.

With regards to your BSOD, could you please be specific about when it happens ( possible triggers), and may help narrow down if it is a corrupted, or incorrectly installed driver, or something more serious with the HAL configuration.

I would recommend installing the drivers i have posted earlier in this thread. They are based on Catalyst 6.4 from Vista RC1.

In all likely-hood, it is possible the "Microsoft" drivers in RC2 may be based on Version 6.5, or even 6.6 and above. If it is based on Version 6.6+ , than the Radeon IGP 3xxM will cause BSODs, because ATI dropped support for all Radeons below the Radeon 9500 series.

The "Microsoft" Drivers are regular ATi Catalyst drivers that have been streamlines, and exclude OpenGL driver modules.


Good luck, and take care,

- Randomness

Randomness

Hello All:

By popular request, I have added the Device code for the Intel-processor model of the Radeon IGP 3xxM series (DEV_4337) to my Catalyst 6.4 driver & GART (AGP Bus driver) pack.

You can download the file from here:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ca6954/

Click on the "Download for free with FileFactory Basic" link between the ads to download the file.

This does not correct the DVD playback issues Windows XP. Use VMR rendering as a workaround.

This driver is intended to add OpenGL support for Windows VIsta (Where DVD Playback works fine)
or for people who want to play newer games (such as WoW) in Windows XP, and don't need to worry about DVD Movie Playback.

You use these drivers at your down risk.
I did not have time, nor the hardware to fully test the Radeon IGP 34xM / 350M INF codes for full compatibility, but they should work.

Read the included "HOW2INSTALL.TXT" for step-by-step instructions to manually install the GART and the Radeon Driver through Windows Device Manager. Or you can also references past post in this thread for more detailed instructions on manually installing modded drivers.


Have fun, and take care.
- Randomness

envmyz

Hello all,
I have tried to do all the steps in the this post with no success. What I am getting is a code 12 error like everyone else. The UMV (I think that's what it is called) is at 64mb in my bios. The conflicking device is called VgaSave, if I disable this.. the screen will come up blank after a restart. When I check out the resources of this device it says conflicting

Input/Output Range 03B0 - 03BB used by:
ATI RADEON IGP 320/320M Accelerated Graphics Port
Input/Output Range 03C0 - 03DF used by:
ATI RADEON IGP 320/320M Accelerated Graphics Port
Memory Range 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by:
ATI RADEON IGP 320/320M Accelerated Graphics Port

Does anyone have a solution yet for this video card on the emachine computers?

Please help me out.
Thanks to all that reply

headcrash

Hi!
Excellent thread!
Thanx Randomness & driverheaven community ))

I've installed Randomness's drivers (see page 13 of this thread) and Catalyst Control Center.

Now I can play CS Source with 20-25 FPS (Res:640x480, but it's enougth for me).

Befor installation I have 2 -5 FPS in CSS with standart ATI pack drivers.

Thanx!!!!!

Randomness

Hello:
I would suggest using Catalyst Control Panel instead of ATI CCC. The Radeon IGP 3xxM chips aren't very compatible with ATI CCC.

Most notebook's using the IGP 3xxM chips have a "UMA" setting to allocate more or less system memory to the Graphics core. If you have more than 512MB (i.e. 768MB, or 1GB) of system ram installed, i would recommend setting the UMA to 128MB.

I would also suggest setting all option in ATI CCC, or ATI Catalyst Control Panel to "Preformance" or "Optimal Preformance" to get a little more FPS from these older cores.

I would also recommend changing color depth to 16-bit instead of 32-bit, which will reduce the amount of framebuffer memory usage by half, that should also help with FPS as well.

Thank you for the support, good luck, have fun, and happy gaming.

- Randomness

nerothos

Randomness, thank you so much for all the great work you are doing. I am logging in daily to read your posts. You are a great person; if there were more than you the net would be a great place. You are doing all the support that none of the companies that we paid our money to get their product is doing, since it s been some years thats around. My techical knowledge is limited so I dont know what I can do to in return for all the help you are offering us, but you are welcome to visit beautiful Greece anytime !

ps : If you guys come across a wandering mage named Nerothia in the lands of Azeroth, say a ''hi'' to her. She might have something useful

belek

I had fresh system and then I installed your 6.4 driver (bridge -> update -> GART & graphic adapter -> update -> GART, is it OK? should I use 3xxM file or just GART like I did?).
but now I don't have Catalyst Control Panel. is there any chance to install just CCP? for example catalyst 5.11 doesn't see my 340M....

Randomness

Hello,

The GART.inf is intended for you AGP Bus, which is usually listed as
"PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI Bridge" on a freshly installed system. This device is listed under System Devices in Device Manager.

The 3xxM.inf is intended for you Radeon IGP display adapter. It is under the Display adapters in Device Manager.

You need to install the GART first, normally, and then the Radeon Driver.

To check if everything is working properly, open DirectX Diagnostic using Start menu --> Run --> DXDIAG
Under the Display tab, make sure DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration are all Enabled in the "DirectX Features" box.

For ATI Control Panel, you will need to extract the "CPanel" folder from a regular Catalyst package from version 5.11 or older, and run the "setup.exe" inside the "CPanel" folder to install the control panel without causing issues with the currently installed driver.

Take care, have fun, good luck,

- Randomness

belek

thank you very very much rando - now everything is just perfect!!! even backgroud in movies subtitles is now transparent (never was before)! dxdiag passes all tests - games run faster and smoother... once again thanks and all the best!