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post #1 of 8
9/30/06 at 9:31pm
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I tryed out the new Standard Mobility Ati drivers (6.9) from Ati's webite. Ati sets up a check for there drivers to make sure they are comatible with your laptop or maybe to make sure your compatible with only the manufacturer's ATI supports. Either way I recived a link from Psychotic_UK on this Notebookforums thread:

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread174939.html

Well thank you Psychotic_UK for your help. I've seemed to hit some bad luck however. I installed the driver with no problems, but I restarted and the laptop took way too long to boot up. The windowsXP logo took around 5-7 times longer to load.

Has anybody else tryed these offical drivers on there ACER 5672 with X1600. Did I do something wrong or I it just not wise to install ATI's drivers. I may have to break down and install the OMEGA set. I dont want to because I heard many bad issues with these modified sets. I've heard they were only optimized for x700 cards not the new x1400 or x1600's.

I need some help, because I would like to use some drivers that give me better optimizations for newer games. Company of Heroes does not run to well with the Acer ati drivers.
Happy gaming folks
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post #2 of 8
10/1/06 at 6:53am
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Originally Posted by gman4u2
I tryed out the new Standard Mobility Ati drivers (6.9) from Ati's webite. Ati sets up a check for there drivers to make sure they are comatible with your laptop or maybe to make sure your compatible with only the manufacturer's ATI supports. Either way I recived a link from Psychotic_UK on this Notebookforums thread: http://www.notebookforums.com/thread174939.html Well thank you Psychotic_UK for your help. I've seemed to hit some bad luck however. I installed the driver with no problems, but I restarted and the laptop took way too long to boot up. The windowsXP logo took around 5-7 times longer to load.
before u write this driver off, i would recommend that u try: 1. disable all ATI related services (hotkey, update ..) 2. zap all ati related startup programmes (cli.exe ...) cheers ...
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post #3 of 8
10/1/06 at 1:38pm
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thanks I will see if that helps
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post #4 of 8
10/2/06 at 3:27am
Did it help?
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post #5 of 8
10/5/06 at 3:08am
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Originally Posted by gman4u2
I tryed out the new Standard Mobility Ati drivers (6.9) from Ati's webite. Ati sets up a check for there drivers to make sure they are comatible with your laptop or maybe to make sure your compatible with only the manufacturer's ATI supports. Either way I recived a link from Psychotic_UK on this Notebookforums thread:

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread174939.html

Well thank you Psychotic_UK for your help. I've seemed to hit some bad luck however. I installed the driver with no problems, but I restarted and the laptop took way too long to boot up. The windowsXP logo took around 5-7 times longer to load.

Has anybody else tryed these offical drivers on there ACER 5672 with X1600. Did I do something wrong or I it just not wise to install ATI's drivers. I may have to break down and install the OMEGA set. I dont want to because I heard many bad issues with these modified sets. I've heard they were only optimized for x700 cards not the new x1400 or x1600's.

I need some help, because I would like to use some drivers that give me better optimizations for newer games. Company of Heroes does not run to well with the Acer ati drivers.
Happy gaming folks

I installed those drivers, and it hung up.....but now my systems says I'm using 6.9 drivers? I had to uninstall control center, but everything is running fine, games et all....anyone else?
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post #6 of 8
10/5/06 at 9:38am
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Originally Posted by FerrariZoid
I installed those drivers, and it hung up.....but now my systems says I'm using 6.9 drivers? I had to uninstall control center, but everything is running fine, games et all....anyone else?
i never used ati CCC, so far (since 6.4) so good with the stock ati driver
a godd read:
http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html

cheers ...
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post #7 of 8
10/6/06 at 12:55am
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Originally Posted by qhn
i never used ati CCC, so far (since 6.4) so good with the stock ati driver
a godd read:
http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html

cheers ...

Thanks mate! Looks like a good read....I'm checking it out now.

Chau
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post #8 of 8
10/20/06 at 9:29pm
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Benchmark scores for my Acer 5672 with ATI x1600 (128mb/512 hypermem)

Standard Acer Ati drivers (8.241)
* 3D MARK05 2845
* 3D MARK03 4839

* Company of Heroes (automatic settings)
avg 8.9
max 46.0
min 3.0
*obviously these auto setting are for a desktop version of the x1600 (with high ram frequency and 128-bit memory bus). After setting some stuff to med and high (shadows and reflection on low), and no AF and AA. I get playable framrates.

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Standard ATi Mobility 6.9 drivers (not OMEGA)
* 3D MARK05 2852
* 3D MARK03 4826

* Company of heroes (same settings)
**Blank screen or BSOD, then reset.

Bummer, I was hoping for a better experience with this game, but apparently Ati and Acer blows. Back to the Standard Acer drivers. I hope other have a better experience with there driver upgrade. If it aint broke, dont fix it.

Just to let you know the long loading times I had with the 6.9 before were not there. It was probably from incompatable Realtech sound drivers.

Good luck fellow Acer Gamers.
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