T60 windows 7 64 bit video driver ATI X1400

[woodpusherghd]

When I did a clean install of win 7 64 bit I noticed that there was no catalyst control center, which I had used to set anti-aliasing for some games I play. Installing the 64 bit driver from Lenovo didn't install this configuration utility so I was left with the less than optimal solution of using a legacy 64 bit Vista driver from Lenovo. (I did try Mobilitymodder with latest the AMD driver, but that just let me with a BSOD.)

The legacy Vista driver installed with the control center, but I occasionally will get a BSOD, usually after I leave the computer on overnight.

Anyone else miss the CCC? Is there a way to configure the X1400 with the Windows 7 64 bit driver without the CCC that I'm missing? Thanks.

[emeraldgirl08]

Try right-clicking on desktop and choosing screen resolution. There should be an advanced tab there. Click on that and you will have several options which may be what you are looking for. I'm on XP Pro right now but do have W7 installed on another comp here at home.

[GomJabbar]

You can try this guide to get CCC.

http://www.bayareatechpros.com/2009/05/ ... ty-radeon/

[tgr]

Sorry for necroposting, but perhaps someone will find this useful.

Here's my experience so far with the X1400 in a T60 on Windows 7 x64:

The default W7 driver is unusable. Hardly surprising, since it's a generic VGA driver with no support for acceleration and X1400-specific features.

There are legacy Vista drivers available on AMD's website (support.amd.com), but following the links from the main page you can only get to the 32-bit versions (here). However, if you replace "32" with "64" in that URL, you can get to the 64-bit builds.

For some obscure reason we, mere customers, are not meant to grasp, these drivers officially support the X1300 and the X1550, but not the X1400.

This is where the "Mobility Modder" comes in. Since the X1400 is simply a beefed up version of the X1300, it is supported by the legacy Vista driver. What the modder tool does is it simply adds some definitions to the *.inf files, namely that the X1400's PCI ID (vendor 0x1002 and device 0x7145) should be recognized as the "ati2mtag_M54" architecture (internal chip name?). It also adds relevant sections for the M54 chip with settings like the number of shaders, clock data, etc.

The latest available legacy version is 10.2. Previous versions are also available - here.

This is the Catalyst version to driver version translation table:

9.1 = 2009-01-13 8.573.0.0

9.2 = 2009-02-03 8.582.0.0

9.3 = 2009-02-25 8.591.0.0

The link to 64-bit 9.3.1 is broken and the files are actually available here.
9.3.1 = 2009-04-27 8.593.100.0 (build 090427a-080419C-ATI)

10.2 = 2010-02-10 8.593.100.0 (build 100210a-095951E-ATI)

The only version with semi-official Windows 7 support is 9.3 (not 9.3.1). I found this version to be quite stable. I don't play games, so I tested 2D stability with 1080p video and made some quick 3D stability checks with Google Earth.

10.2 works with 2D, but crashes after a few minutes with 3D ("Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"). 9.3 works fine. It's also the only version that doesn't show the "Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software" warning during installation (though it does say "Digital Signer: Not digitally signed" in Device Manager).

The installation procedure is simple:

1. download the full driver package with CCC (Catalyst Control Center)

2. run it and cancel the installation after it extracts the files to C:\ATI\Support

3. use the Modder to modify the files

4. run C:\ATI\Support\9_3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu/Driver/Setup.exe and proceed with the installation. It will request a reboot and should boot up with the correct driver. You'll also have CCC and PowerPlay just like on WinXP.

You don't have to do anything else (e.g. some sites recommend modifying the *.inf files by hand and changing ATI.Mfg.NTamd64.6.0 to ATI.Mfg.NTamd64.6.1 - it's unnecessary).

If you need to upgrade the driver, you can do it without uninstalling the previous version, but you'll need to uninstall to downgrade.

Overall, the X1400 is working fine on 64-bit Win7 with the usual 2D desktop apps, video playing, web browsing and an occasional 3D app.

There's one unresolved bug, though, in all driver versions up to and including 10.2: seeking in Flash videos (like YouTube) may cause a BSOD related to atikmdag.sys. The only workaround is to disable hardware scaling in Flash Player (right click on a video, select settings, uncheck hardware acceleration). By doing that, you switch to software scaling, which may result in poor quality video (jagged edges) in full screen mode. However, you can temporarily enable hardware acceleration when watching in full screen and as long as you don't seek you'll be fine.
AFAIK it's a common problem with all ATI GPUs.