Dec 09, 2006, 06:11 PM // 18:11
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Louisiana
Profession: E/Mo
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Sounds like you are running a laptop atm. Go to the manufacturers website and get the latest video drivers from them. The reason is they tweek the components within their products to use only their drivers and ill not work with other drivers even the manufacturers. This happens mostly with laptops but certian mainstream computer manufacturers (Dell Apple and a couple others) do this so you must go through them to get upgrades for their computers. Most of the time the omega drivers will not even run on a laptop (I tried them on mine and had terrible problems), although there are a few that will run them. I also have a laptop which I use while at work to play Guild Wars. It is a HP DV8315nr, which has an ATI radeon Ezpress 200M with 128 megs of dedicated memort. It plays the game quite well although I have had to turn the graphics settings down to get good framerates and playability form it. If that video card is one of the few that can be upgraded, contact the manufacturer and see if they have a video card that you can purchase that Guild Wars does support. That is the only alternative other than putting up with a bit of slow down due to the video card.
Mega Mouse
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To that I would say, that sounds like an oh so great answer until you examine the fact that manufacturers rarely if ever update device drivers after the release of a product. This is Why projects like the omega driver set, the DHZero set, the Laptopmod set,and the Mobility modder project exists and are quite popular.Its not just for the fact that they provide performance booost, but they very often add support. The unified driver architectures that both ati and nvidia use have full support for even OEM cards out of the box in most cases. The problem is that since neither officially support the OEM cards, the unified driver releases lack the information in the ini required to identify the card and place the correct registry information into the system. The modding utility and other modded drivers simply insert the correct registry and system information required to add support for the device. In a perfect world your OEM would do their job and update drivers but that just doesn't happen for the majority.
A radeon 7500 mobility is a fully compliant card that should be supported by guildwars. I had a machine for over 2 years with it and modded drivers, guildwars was peachy. My suggestion would be to try getting a version of the modded drivers a revision or two lower then the most up to date versions. You should be fully capable of using the Ati official drivers with the Mobility Modder. My suggestion would be that either the drivers are not cleanly installing themselves or the current release has a bug in them.
I would suggest that you grab the Offical Ati release, Go and Grab the Mobility Modder from Driver Heaven, and Grab the Driver Cleaner.
Make suer you have a working version of the driver to return to should you need to. Uninstall your ati graphic drivers and reboot. Then go ahead and run the Driver Cleaner and select the correct information in it to clean up your system and remove the older drivers. Then Follow the directions for the mobility modder. Run the ati installer, let it extract the installer to the ati support folder let fail. Then run the Mobility modder and start the installation again from the ati support folder on your root drive. You can allow it to so on its own, or you can do it yourself by find the installation that has been modded usually found in C:\ATI. Reboot. Hopefully everything is peachy and your drivers are cleanly and correctly installed then try giving guildwars the old boot to the head.
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