ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

[Barbara Langenberger]

Hello,

I have an Amilo 1630 Fujitsu Siemens Notebook and I'm running Vista 5308 on
it. But the ATI driver isn't working. I can't change anything (resolution
etc.) and I can't see any glass effect. Does anyone know why?
Thanks
Babsi

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

You have to ensure that your card has a supported WDDM (Windows Driver
Display Model) minimum 64-MBs, with support for Direct X 9, with support for
Shader 2.0
Pixel technologies.

Have you contacted ATI about this to find out if it will be fixed in a
future build of Vista?
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[Josh]

Sounds like you are using the standard VGA adapter.

the ATI driver for 5308 posted here

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

says it has support for the 9700....

Product series supported:
a.. Radeon® 9500, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800,
X850
b.. Radeon® X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900 series
c.. MobilityT Radeon® 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800
d.. MobilityT Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800
e.. Radeon® Xpress 200, 200M
f.. FireGLT V7350, V7300, V7100, V5100, V5000, V3200, V3100
g.. MobilityT FireGL® V5200, V5000, V3200, V3100
h.. FireMVT 2200 PCIE, FireMVT 2400 PCIE

Josh
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[Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe]

Hello,

I have an Amilo 1630 Fujitsu Siemens Notebook and I'm running Vista 5308
on it. But the ATI driver isn't working. I can't change anything
(resolution etc.) and I can't see any glass effect. Does anyone know why?
Thanks
Babsi

Maybe it's not the card but the card's BIOS? I saw
5270, 5308 and 5342 running on a notebook with
SXGA+-screen (1400x1050) and an ATi 9600
with 64 MB. Glass was working "out of the box"
(read: without downloading the driver provided by
ATi) . Funny enough, the ATi-driver messed up Glass
at least once (AFAIR).

BTW: almost every other site says that 128 MB
of graphics RAM were required for resolutions
above SXGA.

<http://www.chip.de/artikel/c1_artikelunterseite_19456969.html?tid1=&tid2=>

Seems either not to be true for the Betas or the RAM
doesn't necessarily to be available locally (on the card)
but can be taken form the systems RAM via the AGP-
bus?

Regards,

Kai-Uwe