Question:
ATI Drivers & You - Installing your Vista drivers
It appears that DriverHeaven have released their Mobility Modder for Vista!
You can grab the file here:
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/
You can always grab the most recent drivers here:
http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/
Make sure that you follow the instructions from the DH website, but I'll paste them here:
Ok, let me have it, how do I use it?:
This is a step by step guide on how to run and use Mobility Modder on Vista, if you follow these instructions carefully in a step by step manner you will be fine. If you don't then you more than likely will end up with a driver that doesnt correctly work so you have been warned ! (Don't panic, even if you don't mod the driver correctly you won't hose your OS, the driver just won't install (like it did before you came to this page - so pay attention!))
BEFORE INSTALLING READ THE STEP BY STEP GUIDE BELOW!
Make sure you are running Vista, if you want XP support use this older application.
Installation step by step guide
1: Download MSXML 4.0 from Microsoft. Install.
2: Make sure UAC control in Vista is turned off. If you don't know how to do this then read this guide (method 4 is the easiest) or click the "disable UAC" in Mobility Modder.net - please note you MUST reboot after disabling UAC. If you don't want it disabled permanently, you can turn it back on after our mobility tool has finished, but it won't mod the drivers correctly with UAC ON.
3: Download the newest drivers.
4: Run the downloaded driver, let it extract into c:/ATI/SUPPORT - but cancel the installation once the driver is extracted.
5: Run Mobility Modder - browse to the driver in C:ATI/SUPPORT/ - an example of Catalyst 7.4 would be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 - hit modify. Wait until driver is modified.
6: In Vista, go to C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985 (Or whatever the driver installation folder was called), and run the SETUP.EXE. Please note you might see a "Driver is not WHQL certified", ignore this, as it is a side effect of the modification.
7: Wait until Install is finished and reboot. Enjoy the new drivers !
I haven't tried it yet, but I'd assume this would work - it essentially just removes what you do manually when we have to modify new drivers. Let's see what we can do to get this stuck up at the top?
Note: I put this in the ASUS forum, but I know there's other ATI users out there.
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Re: ATI Drivers & You - Installing your Vista drivers
good to note that its an open beta
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Re: ATI Drivers & You - Installing your Vista drivers
Thanks guys, I integrated the mod tool into the driver update guide yesterday, anyone wishing to comment please visit that thread here:
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Re: ATI Drivers & You - Installing your Vista drivers
Thank you SOOO much. I finally have the 7.4 Cats on my e1505! :)
By the way, you linked to the XP Mobility ATI drivers which wouldn't be the ones to use. The ones to use would be the Vista Catalyst 7.4 drivers for desktop cards. This program then converts the drivers to be used on a Mobile ATI card.