Windows 7, 32-bit ATI X1400 driver

[ajkula66]

Is this the W7 driver from WU or the one from Lenovo's site?

[sentabrina]

Hello Brothers.

Who is still using their T60 with ATI X1400 in 2024? I use for old games sagas as Fallout, Diablo, Carmageddon, StarCraft, Warcraft 3 (DoTA online), Need for Speed and etc.
I used @600X's method of cooling with W500 heatsink. This machine is just a marvel.

About drivers:
Modding Vista drivers pack does only half of the job. After few days of struggling I have finally found a bulletproof solution of installing it on 32BIT Win7.

If anyone is interested, quote me

[RBEmerson]

Not using a T60 now but interesting to see your question come around ten years on.

[sentabrina]

Yeah, I have two T60 and one T601p Frank.

One is just the museum piece in all it's glory usied only as VAG COM, second is for my mom to play some arcades and listen to internet radio and the 3rd is for me to play old games.

[RBEmerson]

I have an old Samsung which pretty follow's your mother's use: it's fine for firing up a VPN to get into watching German TV (mainly soccer). Not a lot of horsepower needed, just good functionality.

My wife has à later Dell which came with Win 7 and, truth told, for most situations I much prefer it over Win 11 on this Lenovo Legion.

[sentabrina]

I pretty much agree with you that new Legions are just a slight shadow on the new market and on it's level it can not compete with what IBM ThinkPad was capable of 18 years back...

To be honest I have bought i9 Razer Blade 17 in late 2022 and it is rarely used. Hell of the machine and too much overpowered for my everyday usage.

[RBEmerson]

Between flight sim (X-Plane 12) and photo work (mainly DxO PhotoLab and Topaz AI), there's enough to get the fans wound up pretty good. OTOH my novels would be just fine on a Thinkpad T60. There's only room for one machine on my desk, so the Legion spends a lot of time loafing along, waiting while I come up with just the right word for describing what my characters are up to.

[sentabrina]

Okay, you are writer. That means you used ur T60 quite a lot before.

[RBEmerson]

Yes, "way back when", but I moved on to other machines. I still like the T60 appearance and design. Modern design, once described as looking like a melted bar of soap, doesn't appeal to me. But then, one of our cars is 2002 3-Series BMW, and we have a 1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia. I guess our design sense is stuck in the past, eh. At least the Legion's design is reasonably simple and isn't plagued with mindless curves that do nothing but hurt usability.

[sentabrina]

Yeah, T60 has the best design

[RBEmerson]

No disagreement there!

[dr_st]

Yeah, T60 has the best design

No disagreement there!

Count me in as well.
The cleanest, most symmetric (OCD detected!) design of classic Thinkpads. (CS05 and older)

[sentabrina]

Count me in as well.
The cleanest, most symmetric (OCD detected!) design of classic Thinkpads. (CS05 and older)

Yes

[600X]

If anyone needs it, I still have the full 32bit Win 7 driver package for T60 with ATI, including the modded driver for Win 7 compatibility.

The T60 is up there for me too. I've thought about getting a T60p or something as a retro gaming machine again, mainly because of the 4:3 display. But with 3:2 4k monitors kicking around today, it has been a much better experience playing classics on my main Win 11 desktop in 4k. Thanks to 3:2, rendering stuff in 4:3 is not an issue anymore. No widescreen mod needed. And 4k on some of these old games is glorious.

[Shredder11]

If anyone needs it, I still have the full 32bit Win 7 driver package for T60 with ATI, including the modded driver for Win 7 compatibility.

The T60 is up there for me too. I've thought about getting a T60p or something as a retro gaming machine again, mainly because of the 4:3 display. But with 3:2 4k monitors kicking around today, it has been a much better experience playing classics on my main Win 11 desktop in 4k. Thanks to 3:2, rendering stuff in 4:3 is not an issue anymore. No widescreen mod needed. And 4k on some of these old games is glorious.

Many years ago I attempted to get those Catalyst drivers working on my Z61p with ATi 5200 GPU. I probably did something wrong or used the wrong files, so I would appreciate those if you could please.

[sentabrina]

Many years ago I attempted to get those Catalyst drivers working on my Z61p with ATi 5200 GPU. I probably did something wrong or used the wrong files, so I would appreciate those if you could please.

V5200 has no problems with compatibily as far as I remember. Though it is intelligent to use Mobility Modder to add Chipname in the Driver manifesto.
You can find the drivers collection in @600x's post about runnin T60 cool and quiet.
Though if you have problems with catalyst control centre, let me know.