ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 Modded Driver Help

[SlasherIT]

Hello,

I have another older laptop from 2008 I use from time to time. Anyways, it comes with the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 GPU. The Graphics driver it has is version 8.x. Although the latest driver version for ATI GPU's is 11.x. I can't install this version as it is supposedly not supported by ATI. So could anyone help me get or make a modded driver for the GPU so that I could run the 11.x driver.

Thanks,
Slasher

 

[SlasherIT]

Anyone?

 

[stormy13]

That GPU is essentially a Mobility X1350,

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

and as such has been relegated to legacy status, that is why there is no support in the latest drivers for it even when modded. The best you're going to get for it is the last Vista driver,

ATI Catalyst

It has both the 32 bit and 64 bit drivers in a single package, so you're going to have to make sure you mod the correct INF.

 

[SlasherIT]

So it's impossible to install the 11.x drivers on this GPU?

 

[stormy13]

Correct.

 

[SlasherIT]

Are you sure? Because I have heard from some people on internet that a modded driver will work on almost ANY GPU, besides, the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300, is only like 3 years old.

 

[stormy13]

Adding the DevID makes it so the driver can be installed, it doesn't add support in the driver itself. If you think you can still get the latest driver to work with it try using this,

Mod Cat ver. 0.4.0.0 - Installation Notes

which even the guy that made it didn't add support for the older DirectX 9 GPU's in for use with the newer drivers.

 

[SlasherIT]

The Mod Cat won't work for my laptop. Mod Cat ony supports Windows XP 32 bit. The laptop I have is running Windows 7 32 bit.

 

[SlasherIT]

Ok, I am going to install the legacy driver. Although, how do I install the driver without installing Catalyst Control Center, as I have no use for it?

 

[stormy13]

Do a custom install and uncheck it.

 

[SlasherIT]

Ok cool thanks!

 

[SlasherIT]

Hi again.

I just installed the driver. When installing the legacy driver, it seems that my actual GPU (X2300) is not supported, so it would say that it finished installing, but in Device Manager it would show that actually there is no present driver for it. So what I did was in Device Manager use the Have Disk option, and selected the X1300 series (as you said that the X2300 is just a renamed X1350), and it managed to install and works fine. Is there any consequences to doing this, making it think that I am using a different GPU than what actually is present?

 

[SlasherIT]

Anyone?

 

[stormy13]

Won't hurt anything. main thing is the driver is installed and appears to be working properly, or as proper as an unsupported driver with an unsupported video card can be expected too.

 

[SlasherIT]

Ok thanks man. Stupid AMD phasing out GPU's so early, NVIDIA give their GPU's a much longer life, they even still support the 7xxx series.

 

[blackleg]

hey there,

im noobs about this gpu things
where did you download the driver for x1350 which compatible with x2300? and what the driver name?

excuse my noobs

thanks

 

[blackleg]

hai again, i manage to instal 1300 properly(i guess)

before this i was looking a way to increase the resolution, i thought it waould do that but it is not.

so..

what is the different from the previous version?
is there any way i could do increase the resolution above 1280?

 

[SlasherIT]

Hello Blackleg, welcome to Seven Forums.

You can't output a resolution greater than what your display supports. Updated GPU drivers allow the GPU to work better and more efficiently, and may increase compatibility with a certain OS or application, and also may introduce new features.

Slasher