Solved Aero effect doesn't work on my Radeon X1300 :(

[adrian santos]

Please help me, I've been looking for the correct driver to make aero effect on win7 work but i have no luck in doing so. I have posted screen shots of my specs, I own a laptop and I just want it to look nice. Thank you in advance guys!

 

[JaidynM]

Aero should work with that graphics card. You may however need to download and install the Legacy driver from the link below to enable Aero.
ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver

 

[adrian santos]

@JaidynM thankyou for your quick reply. i am downloading the 10.2 version now. will keep you posted

 

[adrian santos]

@JaidynM it doesn't work. tried version 9.8 a while ago, still doesn't work. i found other threads that they made it work using a registry hack, tried that one but still no luck. should i install the default wddm from ms?

 

[adrian santos]

@JaidynM i am currently downloading this ATI Catalyst i hope it will work.

 

[ishmumrhmn]

yes, use the default one from ms. Its good enough

 

[adrian santos]

thankyou ishmumrhmn

 

[ishmumrhmn]

thankyou ishmumrhmn

yeah, no prob, pls reply back if you need any other help
be sure to get CCleaner, its actually extremely helpful/ useful

 

[adrian santos]

@ishmumrhmn i still need help please. i don't know where i can download the wddm 1.1 driver. can you please give me a link? thank you

 

[ishmumrhmn]

@ishmumrhmn i still need help please. i don't know where i can download the wddm 1.1 driver. can you please give me a link? thank you

yup, you can go to control panel>windows update>look out for anything related to graphics cards, download the update, and walla!!

 

[ishmumrhmn]

@ishmumrhmn i still need help please. i don't know where i can download the wddm 1.1 driver. can you please give me a link? thank you

yup, you can go to control panel>windows update>look out for anything related to graphics cards, download the update, and walla!!

poster, you can try my solution, if it didnt work, download This and install. Make sure you uninstall anything related to ati befire installing the one I gave you
its a vista version, but works perfectly with windows 7

 

[adrian santos]

it just says the current driver is up to date

 

[adrian santos]

it says the current driver is up to date

 

[adrian santos]

@ishmumrhmn thankyou. will try to install after downloading. i have a crappy internet connection btw.haha but thankyou!

 

[ishmumrhmn]

it says the current driver is up to date

if it does, hmmm..... try the one I gave, let me know thx

 

[stormy13]

where i can download the wddm 1.1 driver. can you please give me a link? thank you

You can't download one because ATI never made one. Reason being is that anything prior to the HD 2xxx series doesn't support it, they only support up to the WDDM 1.0 driver model.

With that being a laptop and a HP at that, with the age of it the legacy driver also will not install on it as it was made for desktops and doesn't support the legacy laptop/Mobility GPU's. You might be able to get it to install using this (not sure about the success with the 10.2 Legacy),

Mobility Modder - ATI Version, Install the Latest Drivers on your ATI laptop

which will modify the install files so that it should then install.

If none of that works have you tried the Vista driver for it available from HP,

HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC -  ATI Video Driver and Control Panel for Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) - HP Business Support Center

 

[ishmumrhmn]

poster, have you tried my solution yet? the download one?

 

[stormy13]

poster, have you tried my solution yet? the download one?

Guess you missed post #4 where Adrian already tried that and it failed. And it failed for the reasons I stated above.

 

[ishmumrhmn]

poster, have you tried my solution yet? the download one?

Guess you missed post #4 where Adrian already tried that and it failed. And it failed for the reasons I stated above.

oh sorry but I have an ati radeon 200m in my lappy, just used the default drivers for vista and it worked properly.
another thing you can try--- install xp, then install double driver, backup the video card driver for the xp video card. then, on win 7(installing again) force that driver on windows 7.

I have tried this multiple times and they worked all the time

 

[adrian santos]

@stormy13 thank you very very muuuuuuuuuuch!!!!!!!!!!!!! you solved my problem. this one worked out for me HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC*-* ATI Video Driver and Control Panel for Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) - HP Business Support Center. thank you thank you thank you!! for the guys who also tried to help me, thank you!! age of the geek baby! :devil: