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Video Drivers: WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING?
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So I need to reinstall the video drivers for my laptop. It's an Acer Travelmate 8204. Below is the option I picked for download.
Upon unzipping there are multiple install programs none of which have actually installed new video drivers, only display drivers.
Am I just missing the most obvious shit or something?
And for reference the 8210 only offers drivers for Vista as does the v8.332.
Upon unzipping there are multiple install programs none of which have actually installed new video drivers, only display drivers.
Am I just missing the most obvious shit or something?
And for reference the 8210 only offers drivers for Vista as does the v8.332.
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According to my research, you have an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 in there, which is a low-power/notebook version of the Radeon. It used to be that ATI's universal driver suite (Catalyst) did not support Mobility Radeons and that you were required to get all driver updates from your notebook manufacturer. Hacks worked around this in certain cases. I believe this may have changed for some notebooks. I can't understand why ATI would not "allow" you to download the Catalyst drivers, anybody can download them.
You just go here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Click your platform, select "Mobility Radeon X1600" and go to town. Of course, my research may have been wrong and you may have a slightly different graphics card in that laptop so double check of course.
The mismatched versions don't necessarily mean something bad - often, the version number assigned by a laptop vendor won't match the Catalyst version, which in turn won't perfectly match the version timestamped into the various driver .dlls that show up in Windows' Device Manager (although for the latter there's usually a correlation, like the Catalyst version number will be in the .dll version number somewhere).
So you installed the drivers, and now you have drivers installed. What exactly is the problem you're having (and why didn't you download the newer 8.332 version listed on your screenshot?)
Essentially I'm just trying to get Team Fortress 2 to work on my computer again. It worked fine before I had to replace my hard drive but now it says my drivers are old. If I start it anyway it's unplayable.
After downloading the drivers from acer I get a folder filled with multiple install programs. I've picked the one that says in the install that it installs the display drivers, but they're still considered old and TF2 still does not work.
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=1937458#post1937458