Well I have done a lot to try to get the temps down such as taking off the heatsink and putting arctic silver 5 on it as well as taking off the air intake grills. Also leaving the fans intake COVERED helps with overall system temps. I also have a 7200rpm hard drive installed which throws a lot of heat but it still gets warm (i.e. palms sweat) around the hard drive. temps are usually round 50 idle and 60 underload. All these things have helped a ton with temps. I can play WoW for like 4 hours with no problems. The fan will be going full blast most of the time but it did before these changes So I can safely overclock it. Also install notebook hardware control for dynamic cpu clocking and temp watching. And believe me the x1600 is gimped compared to the 256mb versions. I have studied this almost religiously as to why the acer x1600 sucks and I keep coming up with the acer x1600's being slower than normal x1600's most likely due to the 128mb ram and underclocking. There is nothing that I know of that can be done about source but when I had the regular drivers from acer installed atleast i didnt get it to freeze it just didnt run as fast with those drivers.

To Cybermind - hey no big deal. We are all friends on this forum!

In that case... you rock. ttyl

Maybe the next release will include support...?
http://www.ngohq.com/showthread.php?t=8109&page=2&pp=10
Can you wait that long??!

I don't have much choice. Somehow I doubt they'll be stable.

I emailed the guy who makes the Omega drivers about the stability issues they caused but he didn't even bother to email me back.

I have the NGOHQ drivers installed for my nvidia 7600 go, and they are pretty stable. Anyway, I posted that message in hope for you..I can't actually understand now whether there will be support for the X1600. anyway good luck too you. And with the .inf modding thing!!
Spotted this thread...
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=122821
check it out??

Yeah, I tried that before, same stability issues. :/

Well Guys this certainly is an interesting topic.
I have an X1400 256mb 5672wlmi, and have recently started getting crashes in Source Games
this is due to me downloading the demo of Roboblitz, (managed to blue screen the laptop by ignoring its "It might be a good idea to update your graphics driver" messages )
anyway I updated to a new version of Omega Driver (my last update was from around July last year can't remember the version because I deleted the files)
anyway up until now the laptop has been totally stable
I see lots of people on here saying there is an issue with source games so I reckon its down to the base ATI driver. which will no doubt get an update/fix,
in the mean time increase stability by installing an older version

and to those that are debating the merits of the x1600, the x1600 in my works 8204 laptop rocks.
its blasts through games, and allows HDR lighting without the framrate dropping thorugh the floor.

I get nice settings on HL2 as long as I dont enable HDR.
FEAR runs a little dodgy, I have to down that to 800x600 and reduce some effects, which is a shame.
strangely the FEAR demo runs better than the FULL Game go figure

there is also a comment in previous posts about the x1600 only having a 64bit memory bus, this only applies to the acer laptops and very cheap x1600 cards. the memory bus is very important to performance, but looking around there are plenty of pc addin cards with 128mbit memory bus
256mbit being really the preferred bandwith, as actual ram of the graphics card is fine at 256mb these days.

I am surprised that the memory bus is limited on the acers, as its the biggest bottleneck ever

I remember buying Nvidia 5200 cards for my pc, the difference between a budget 5200 geforce with128mb ram and 128mbit bus and the same card with a 64bit bus is Phenominal
the Geforce MX440 with a 128mbit bus Beats the 5200 in EVERY benchmark.

I wonder if the onboard graphics processor can be modified like some of the graphics cards to enable more memory channels?
anyone have any ideas?
and a fix for source problems?

Cheers guys

Acer is not going to update their drivers. I contacted the BBB and am trying to get it to happen through that but they're still heavily resisting. Bastards.

edit: Does anyone have or know where I can find the release notes for Catalyst Mobility versions 6.1-6.9?

Here:

Too late now.

I contacted the Better Business Bureau, which finally got Acer's attention. A representative spoke to me like 15 times and every single time he never did ANYTHING but say "we'll post the drivers on the website if they become available" which means "we'll never do anything". And the BBB somehow decided that was a reasonable attempt to solve the problem.