Benchmark: F3JP Benchmark ATI X1700

[turbogear]

Officially there is no support for x1700 , but with proper changes it is possible to install the mobile catalyst control center 7.1 on x1700 Card!

You can either download the file I prepared from here:
X1700 Catalyst Installation Guide by Turbogear

OR you can do it manually as described below.

This can be done as follows:

(1) Download the Ati driver "Ati Mobile Catalyst 7.1"

(2) Unpack it. That can be done as follows.
Try to install the driver. It will unpack itself into a folder "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-1-mobile_xp_dd_ccc_enu_40212"
Of course it would not be installed since it say that the X1700 is not supported.

Now do the following steps to make the x1700 supported by "Ati Mobile Catalyst 7.1"

Every device has so called Real Device ID and that should be added to the installation routine.
The Mobility x1700 has the ID: 0x71D5 and this should be added to "install.ini" as demonstrated here:

(3) Open the "Install.ini" file with an editor. Usaully it is in folder "Driver" (normally in "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-1-mobile_xp_dd_ccc_enu_40212\Driver".
Look in the section described below and add the x1700 ID there so this section would look as follows:

[WINXP]
Label=R6
R6=DriverPath_R6,0x71D5,0x4966,0x496E,0x5961....

Save the file and exist.
Note: This is the procedure for windows xp. If you want to do it for other version of windows than you would have to edit the approaperiate section.

(4) Do the same procedure with the file "CX_40214.INI" which is also located under the same folder.

The windows xp section in this "CX_40214.INI" file should look like below after adding x1700 ID:

[WINXP]
Label=R6
R6=DriverPath_R6,0x71D5,0x4966,0x496E

(5) Change to the folder "XP_INF" (normally "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-1-mobile_xp_dd_ccc_enu_40212\Driver\XP_INF").

Open the file "CX_40214.inf" with an editor.

Now comes the part where most of work needed to be done

Search inside "CX_40214.inf" file (with ctrl+F) for the entry [ATI.Mfg.NTx86] and add the following two entries to the end of this section:

"ATI Mobility Radeon X1700" = ati2mtag_M66, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71D5&SUBSYS_12421043
"ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 " = ati2mtag_M66, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71D6&SUBSYS_12B21043


(6) Search for the "General installation section"

It consists of blocks of code.
Scroll down to the block with title [ati2mtag_M56].
Copy the whole block and past is again at the end of the current block.
In the block that you have pasted there are two places where M56 appear. First in the title and again within the block.
Rename the title as [ati2mtag_M66] and change the other M56 to M66.

(7) Search for section "Service Installation"

scroll again to the block [ati2mtag_M56.Services]. Copy the block and past it again. Rename the pasted block as [ati2mtag_M66.Services].


(8) Go to section "Software Installation" and search for the Block "[ati2mtag_M56.SoftwareSettings]" -> Copy it,Past it, Rename pasted block as [ati2mtag_M66.SoftwareSettings]
In this Block there is still one more M56 entry rename it also as M66.


(9) Next search for Block:
[ati2mtag_M56_SoftwareDeviceSettings] -> Copy it, Past it, Rename pasted block as [ati2mtag_M66_SoftwareDeviceSettings]


(10) Now search for the last Block:
[ati2mtag_M56.GeneralConfigData]-> Copy it, Past it, Rename pasted block as [ati2mtag_M66.GeneralConfigData]


Please make sure that each time you copy the complete Block otherwise the procedure would not work properly.

That was it!

(11) Uninstall the old driver.

(12) Go to folder "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\7-1-mobile_xp_dd_ccc_enu_40212"
Now install the Catalyst control center by pressing: issetup.exe

Hopefully, this procedure will work for you as it did for me.

[slavens]

This is funny - I'm reading this thread on my spankin new F3JP.

I downloaded 3DMark 05 and 06, and they will only let me view the scores online. Where did you pick up your copies that show the score in the app itself?

I did some baseline benchmarks in XP. Next I'm planning on running the benchmarks with Catalyst 7.1, then hoping to do the same thing again in Vista Business (64 bit).

I plan on doing full benchmarks for posting. When I was trying to decide which laptop I was going to buy, I was looking for benchmarks that compared in XP and 64bit Vista to get a feel for possible performance increases I was REALLY hoping to find comparisons between Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, and Turion X2s...


BTW, out of the box scores for my F3JP:
3D '05 - 4188 here
3D '06 - 1852 here
SuperPi: 1:01

[Exodes]

Okay, I was wondering if it is possible to force Catalyst 7.3 to do the same thing you did with 7.1?

[turbogear]

Originally Posted by Exodes

Okay, I was wondering if it is possible to force Catalyst 7.3 to do the same thing you did with 7.1?

Hi,

It is not necessary to do this with CCC 7.3.

The ASUS Germany support team are already offering a 7.3 WHQL driver on their website which also supports x1700.

Here is the Link:
http://www.asustreiber.de/download.php?list.65

In the download section of this website you can also find Vista drivers for x1700 as well.

[Exodes]

Well thats is just golden.

I think you are my new best friend.

I take it the idea is to instally the 7.1 Cata. Control and then install the 7.3 drivers?

EDIT: Since I have the manufacturer driver finally downloaded I suppose I will just upgrade to this one. Since you have had yours a while, any issues I might run into? If any of these seems painfully basic or stupid. My defense is I havent slept in more than a day =P