Laptop ATI (9600 mobility) crash - simple solution: don't use ATI tray tools!
I have had problems with GW on my laptop which has an ATI 9600 mobility - the program starts, I log on, but I can not log my toon into the world without a crash to desktop. There were numerous suggestions I read about, among them to use catalyst 5.5.
Well I am using 5.7 and now it is working perfectly with a 1280 * 800 widescreen resolution:
Solution: Do not start (otherwise quit) ATI Tray Tools (I am using 1.0.3.720). This seems to be the source "of all evil" with GW and my config. NOT the driver version.
Otherwise a good tip, as for any other game with this mobility chip, is to turn off all shading effects (vertex shader - this chip doesn't have one I believe) to get acceptable to good, if not even sometimes great frame rates.